Nature Biotechnology
- 24, 919 - 921 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nbt0806-919
Partnering for better microbial diagnosticsMark D Perkins1 & Peter M Small21
Mark D. Perkins is at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), 71 avenue Louis Casai, 1216 Cointrin, Switzerland
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Peter M. Small is at the Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 1551 Eastlake Ave. East, Seattle, Washington 98102, USA. peter.small@gatesfoundation.org
Tests for identifying the world's most important microbial pathogens are antiquated, inaccurate and inadequate. Innovative public-private partnership is needed to develop and produce new infectious disease diagnostics that are more rapid and of greater accuracy and sensitivity.
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