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| iPhone Microscope Helps Detect Parasitic Worm Eggs Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:40 AM PDT  Smartphones have become a popular tool among physicians for looking up clinical information and other tasks, but the devices are starting to be used more often for diagnostics as well. Because they’re becoming ubiquitous the world over, smartphones promise to bring cheap medical care to remote regions of the world. To that end, an international team of researchers has reported in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that a very simple microscope they built using an iPhone, an $8 lens, and some sticky tape, was used successfully to detect the eggs of soil-transmitted parasitic worms (helminths). They compared their cheapo solution to a proper microscope while diagnosing children in rural Tanzania and have shown that, at least for some nematodes, the iPhone microscope was sufficient in detecting worm eggs; while for others not so. |
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