The good, the bad, and the unknown: quality of clinical laboratories in Kampala, Uganda.

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Published in PLoS One on May 30, 2013

Authors

Ali M Elbireer1, J Brooks Jackson, Hakim Sendagire, Alex Opio, Danstan Bagenda, Timothy K Amukele

Author Affiliations

1: Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Core Laboratory at Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala Uganda. aelbireer@idi.co.ug

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