Opinion Paper

The role of connected diagnostics in strengthening regional, national and continental African disease surveillance

Natasha M. Gous, Philip C Onyebujoh, Alash'le Abimiku, Chris Macek, Jeff Takle
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 7, No 2 | a775 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v7i2.775 | © 2018 Natasha Myrna Gous, Philip C Onyebujoh, Alash'le Abimiku, Chris Macek, Jeff Takle | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 January 2018 | Published: 06 December 2018

About the author(s)

Natasha M. Gous, SystemOne, LLC, Johannesburg, South Africa; and, SystemOne, LLC, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Philip C Onyebujoh, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Alash'le Abimiku, International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria
Chris Macek, SystemOne, LLC, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jeff Takle, SystemOne, LLC, Johannesburg, South Africa

Abstract

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Keywords

Connected diagnostics; Disease surveillance; Antimicrobial Monitoring

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