A Portable Test Identifies Populations Vulnerable to Infectious Diseases in Remote Settings (IMAGE)

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A Portable Test Identifies Populations Vulnerable to Infectious Diseases in Remote Settings

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Picture (L-R) of University of Toronto researchers Ryan Fobel, Alphonsus Ng, Julian Lamanna, Aimee Summers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and bus driver from the International Rescue Committee, at the beginning of a day of field work in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 April, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.H.C. Ng at University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada; and colleagues was titled, " A digital microfluidic system for serological immunoassays in remote settings."

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Christian Fobel, University of Toronto

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