Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Nitika Pant Pai; Caroline Vadnais; Claudia Denkinger; Nora Engel; Madhukar Pai

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001306

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Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Nitika Pant Pai,

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Caroline Vadnais,

Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology & Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Canada
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Claudia Denkinger,

Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology & Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Nora Engel,

Affiliation Department of Health, Ethics and Society/Caphri, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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Madhukar Pai

* E-mail: madhukar.pai@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology & Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Canada, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Nitika Pant Pai,
Caroline Vadnais,
Claudia Denkinger,
Nora Engel,
Madhukar Pai

Published: September 4, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001306

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