The remote diagnosis of malaria using telemedicine or e-mailed images.
We determined the ability of blinded remote expert microscopy to identify malaria parasites through transmission of malaria smear images via telemedicine and as e-mail attachments. Protocols for malaria smear transmission included: (1) transmission of sender-selected televised smears at various band...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 171; no. 12; pp. 1167 - 1172 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2006
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