Ensuring quality and access for malaria diagnosis: how can it be achieved?

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Published in Nat Rev Microbiol on September 01, 2006

Authors

David Bell1, Chansuda Wongsrichanalai, John W Barnwell

Author Affiliations

1: Malaria, and other Vector-borne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, P.O. Box 2932, Manila, Philippines. belld@wpro.who.int

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