Comparison of LED and conventional fluorescence microscopy for detection of acid fast bacilli in a low-incidence setting.

Light emitting diode fluorescence microscopes have many practical advantages over conventional mercury vapour fluorescence microscopes, which would make them the preferred choice for laboratories in both low- and high-resource settings, provided performance is equivalent.In a nested case-control stu...

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Main Authors: Jessica Minion, Madhukar Pai, Andrew Ramsay, Dick Menzies, Christina Greenaway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3141065?pdf=render