Title: Mobile phone based clinical microscopy for global health applications

Authors: Breslauer, David N.

Place: [San Francisco, CA etc.

Publisher: Public library of science medicine]

Year: 2009

Journal: PLoS one

Volume: Vol. 4, No. 7

PAGE: --

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, scientific apparatus and instruments, communicable diseases, disease control, rural health, developing countries

Abstract: A study on the clinical use of a mobile phone-mounted light microscope to take images for the remote diagnosis and screening of hematologic and infectious diseases. It is expected to serve as a tool for disease diagnosis and screening, particularly in the developing world and rural areas.

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