Enabling the Development and Deployment of Next Generation Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Alberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁴ Diagnostics For All, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unites States of America; Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁵ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America.
⁷ International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸ Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹¹ Departments of Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
¹² Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

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¹ Department of Chemistry and Alberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁴ Diagnostics For All, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Unites States of America; Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁵ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America.
⁷ International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸ Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹¹ Departments of Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
¹² Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

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Correction: Enabling the Development and Deployment of Next Generation Point-of-Care Diagnostics.
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Jun 15;9(6):e0003857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003857. eCollection 2015 Jun. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015. PMID: 26076442 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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