Mobile-phone and handheld microscopy for neglected tropical diseases

Jason Rajchgot; Jean T Coulibaly; Jennifer Keiser; Jürg Utzinger; Nathan C Lo; Michael K Mondry; Jason R Andrews; Isaac I Bogoch

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005550

Mobile-phone and handheld microscopy for neglected tropical diseases

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jul 6;11(7):e0005550. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005550. eCollection 2017 Jul.

Authors

Jason Rajchgot¹, Jean T Coulibaly^{2

3

4

5}, Jennifer Keiser^{4

5}, Jürg Utzinger^{4

5}, Nathan C Lo^{6

7}, Michael K Mondry⁸, Jason R Andrews⁶, Isaac I Bogoch^{1

9}

Affiliations

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.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cell Phone*
Developing Countries
Humans
Microscopy / instrumentation*
Neglected Diseases / diagnosis*
Tropical Medicine

Grants and funding

IIB is supported by Grand Challenges Canada 0631-01-10 (www.grandchallenges.ca) and a grant from the MSH UHN AMO Innovation Fund. JTC is supported by the Programme d’Appui Stratégique à la Recherche Scientifique (PASRES), Côte d’Ivoire (project no. 113). NCL is supported by the National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.