PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Kankanet: An artificial neural network-based object detection smartphone application and mobile microscope as a point-of-care diagnostic aid for soil-transmitted helminthiases

Publishing date: 2019-08-05 Published on: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases summary: None authors: Ariel Yang, Nahid Bakhtari, Liana Langdon-Embry, Emile Redwood, Simon Grandjean Lapierre, Patricia Rakotomanga, Armand Rafalimanantsoa, Juan De Dios Santos, Inès Vigan-Womas, Astrid M.

Viridot: An automated virus plaque (immunofocus) counter for the measurement of serological neutralizing responses with application to dengue virus

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES summary: Although the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is an important assay for measuring neutralizing antibody responses against many viruses, no free, open-source programs specifically designed for virus plaque counting and neutralizing antibody titer estimation are available.