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Diagnostics for the developing world and resource-limited settings, where access, decentralisation and cost decide impact.

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Global South

49 studies
AI System Diagnoses Acute Aortic Syndrome From Non-Contrast CT, Cutting Time to Diagnosis by 70% Nature medicine 2025 Landmark-class WHO 5th Edition: Genomics-Driven Reclassification of Myeloid Neoplasms Journal of clinical pathology 2025 Landmark-class AI-Guided Screening with Digital Stethoscope Doubles Detection of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Nature medicine 2024 Landmark-class Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Shows 81.6% Efficacy in Phase 3 Nepal Trial The New England journal of medicine 2019 Landmark-class Lancet Series Calls for National Lab Plans and 4% Health Spending on Pathology in LMICs Lancet (London, England) 2018 Landmark-class Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps Cut Childhood Malaria Incidence by 66% in Ugandan RCT The New England journal of medicine 2025 Landmark-class PanEcho: AI System Achieves Complete Echocardiography Interpretation Across 39 Measurements JAMA 2025 Landmark-class DeepGEM: Deep Learning Predicts Gene Mutations from Routine Histology Slides in Lung Cancer The Lancet. Oncology 2024 Landmark-class Neonatal Sepsis: A Lancet Seminar on Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Urgent Need for Better Diagnostics Lancet (London, England) 2024 Landmark-class Lancet Prostate Cancer Commission: Projected Case Surge Demands Diagnostic Capacity Scale-Up Lancet (London, England) 2024 Landmark-class Lancet Roadmap: Fixing Pathology and Lab Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Lancet (London, England) 2018 Landmark-class Fingerstick Hepatitis B DNA Testing with Xpert Assay Enables Decentralised Viral Load Monitoring Journal of clinical microbiology 2026 Significance 7/10 Antimicrobial Resistance in 2025: Global Landscape, New Antibiotics, and the Promise of AI-Enabled Stewardship BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2025 Significance 7/10 Integrated Biomedical Innovations in HIV and STI Prevention, Diagnostics, and Service Delivery Lancet (London, England) 2025 Significance 7/10 EFLM Conference Maps New Frontiers in Preanalytical Quality -- From AI to Liquid Biopsy Challenges Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2025 Significance 7/10 Urine-Based HPV Testing by Real-Time PCR Achieves 82% Sensitivity in Meta-Analysis of 15 Studies Journal of clinical microbiology 2025 Significance 7/10 IFCC Consensus: Recommendations for Managing Point-of-Care Testing Outside Hospitals Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2023 Significance 7/10 Lancet RCT: Intravenous Ferric Carboxymaltose Did Not Reduce Anaemia at 36 Weeks in Malawian Pregnancies Lancet (London, England) 2023 Significance 7/10 AI-Powered Point-of-Care Testing: Transforming Lateral Flow, Microscopy, and Haematology Annals of laboratory medicine 2023 Significance 7/10 Commercially Available Typhoid Rapid Tests Fall Short of Diagnostic Accuracy Requirements Journal of clinical microbiology 2022 Significance 7/10 Whole-Genome Sequencing Transforms AMR Surveillance From Local Outbreaks to Global Strategy Genome medicine 2022 Significance 7/10 Ultrasensitive Diagnostics Target the Hidden Reservoir of Asymptomatic Malaria Journal of clinical microbiology 2021 Significance 7/10 AI and Global Health: From Tuberculosis Diagnostics to Disease Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings Lancet (London, England) 2020 Significance 7/10 Rapid Immunochromatographic Test Detects and Serogroups N. meningitidis from CSF in Under 15 Minutes Journal of clinical microbiology 2020 Significance 7/10 Laboratory Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis: Culture, Serology, and Molecular Methods Compared Clinical microbiology reviews 2019 Significance 7/10
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Point-of-Care HIV Viral Load Testing: Essential for Sustainable Global Treatment Targets Clinical microbiology reviews 2019 Significance 7/10 Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay Enables Pre-Symptomatic Screening in HIV Patients Journal of clinical microbiology 2019 Significance 7/10 HIV Diagnostics: From Serologic Assays to Molecular POC Testing for Epidemic Control Clinical microbiology reviews 2018 Significance 7/10 Hcp1-Based Rapid Immunochromatography Test Offers Improved Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Melioidosis Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Significance 7/10 CRISPR-Cas Systems as Rapid Nucleic Acid Detection Tools for Pathogen Diagnostics Genome medicine 2018 Significance 7/10 TaqMan Array Card Tests CSF for 21 Meningitis Pathogens in a Single 2.5-Hour Run Journal of clinical microbiology 2017 Significance 7/10 Point-of-Care Microbiology Labs: Bringing Rapid PCR Diagnostics Closer to Patients Clinical microbiology reviews 2016 Significance 7/10 Biomarker-Based POC Tests for Preeclampsia Could Transform Maternal Care in Low-Resource Settings Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2016 Significance 7/10 Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Patient Self-Testing and Near-Patient Diagnostics Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2024 Significance 6/10 Molecular Diagnostics Offer Faster H. pylori Detection and Resistance Prediction Than Culture Clinical chemistry 2023 Significance 6/10 High-Throughput Whole-Slide Scanning: Strategies for Building Large-Scale Digital Pathology Repositories The Journal of pathology 2022 Significance 6/10 Nanopore Sequencing for Tuberculosis: Promise and Gaps in Current Evidence Journal of clinical microbiology 2021 Significance 6/10 CRISPR-Based SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics: Rapid Alternatives to RT-qPCR Clinical biochemistry 2021 Significance 6/10 Multiplex PCR for Shigella flexneri Serotyping Validated Across Seven International Laboratories Journal of clinical microbiology 2019 Significance 6/10 POC Diagnostics for Infectious Disease: From Lateral Flow to Molecular Platforms Journal of clinical microbiology 2017 Significance 6/10 SYBR Green qPCR on Noninvasive Swabs Matches Biopsy Accuracy for Leishmaniasis Diagnosis Journal of clinical microbiology 2016 Significance 6/10 Persistent Diarrhoea: How Multiplex PCR Is Changing Diagnostic Workup JAMA 2016 Significance 6/10 Dried Blood Spot Analysis by Mass Spectrometry for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Clinical biochemistry 2016 Significance 6/10 IHC4+C Breast Cancer Recurrence Score Robust to Staining and Scoring Variation Journal of clinical pathology 2015 Significance 6/10 Radiotherapy Innovation for Low-Income Settings: AI, Deep Phenotyping, and Real-Time Targeting The Lancet. Oncology 2024 Significance 5/10 Adopting AI-Enabled Digital Pathology in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practical Framework for Developing Countries Diagnostic pathology 2023 Significance 5/10 Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Diagnosing Ocular Infections Clinical microbiology reviews 2021 Significance 5/10 Six-Year Review of Rickettsial Isolation from Blood Using Mammalian Cell Culture in Laos Journal of clinical microbiology 2020 Significance 5/10 Real-Time PCR for Tuberculous Meningitis: High Specificity but Limited Sensitivity in CSF Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2019 Significance 5/10