Mobile-phone and handheld microscopy for neglected tropical diseases
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1 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2 Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 3 Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 4 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 5 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 7 Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 8 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 9 Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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