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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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1. Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), 71 avenue Louis Casai, Cointrin, 1216, Switzerland
   Mark D Perkins
2. Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 1551 Eastlake Ave. East, Seattle, 98102, Washington, USA
   Peter M Small

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Perkins, M., Small, P. Partnering for better microbial diagnostics.Nat Biotechnol 24, 919–921 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0806-919

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