Abstract:Accurate and timely diagnosis is usually an important step towards appropriate disease management. In resource-limited settings, healthcare workers lack proper facilities to perform vital tests, and the diagnosis of disease is often determined by non-specific, physiological symptoms alone. Simple and rapid tests are needed as pre-requisite tools for patient care and must conform to the criteria set out by the World Health Organization (WHO). Such tests should be affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, … Show more
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