Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Neglected Infectious Diseases: Case Study Highlights Need for Customer Awareness and Postmarket Surveillance
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1 Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, 3 B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Science, Dharan, Nepal, 4 Department of Infectious Diseases, Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 5 Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 6 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 7 Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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