About the Authors
- Heidi Albert
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* E-mail: heidi.albert@finddiagnostics.org
Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda
- Yukari Manabe
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
- George Lukyamuzi
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda
- Patrick Ademun
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda
- Sheena Mukkada
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda
- Barnabas Nyesiga
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Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda
- Moses Joloba
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Affiliation National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Wandegeya, Kampala, Uganda
- C. N. Paramasivan
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland
- Mark D. Perkins
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Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
HA, GL, PA, SM, BN, CNP, MDP: FIND is a not-for-profit Swiss foundation which partners with a number of commercial organisations for the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tools, including Carl Zeiss for the Primostar iLED microscope. FIND is currently undertaking large scale demonstration projects of the use of LED FM in peripheral laboratories in disease endemic settings. YM, MJ have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HA YM MJ CNP MDP. Performed the experiments: HA GL PA SM BN. Analyzed the data: HA MDP. Wrote the paper: HA MDP.