“…In these reports, dried blood spots are used for the therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of e.g. benzodiazepines [1], anti-malarial agents [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], anti-epileptics [10,11], immunosuppressants [12][13][14][15][16], antibiotics [17][18][19], bacteriostatics [20], analgesics [21][22][23][24], bronchodilators [25] and antiretroviral drugs [26,27]. Dried blood spot samples are obtained from a finger prick with an automatic lancet.…”