Laboratory surge capacity and pandemic influenza
- PMID: 20031064
- PMCID: PMC2874389
- DOI: 10.3201/eid1601.091741
Laboratory surge capacity and pandemic influenza
Abstract
In this issue, Crawford et al. describe their experiences running a clinical diagnostic laboratory during the first 3 weeks of the influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak (1). During the early weeks of the outbreak, their laboratory, which serves 15 hospitals and affiliated physician practices in the greater New York City metropolitan area, experienced an approximately 8x increase in respiratory virus testing, reaching a maximum of about 900 samples processed in 1 day.
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Laboratory surge response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, New York City metropolitan area, USA.Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Jan;16(1):8-13. doi: 10.3201/eid1601.091167. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010. PMID: 20031036 Free PMC article.
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