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Connected diagnostics systems: The future of disease control in Africa

Noah Fongwen, Debi Boeras, Rosanna W. Peeling, Timothy Amukele
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 9, No 2 | a1365 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v9i2.1365 | © 2020 Noah Fongwen, Debi Boeras, Rosanna W. Peeling, Timothy Amukele | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 20 August 2020 | Published: 21 December 2020

About the author(s)

Noah Fongwen, International Diagnostics Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Debi Boeras, Global Health Impact Group, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Rosanna W. Peeling, International Diagnostics Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Timothy Amukele, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Keywords

disease control; Africa; future of diagnostics

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