Ebola Virus Diagnostics: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Sierra Leone, August 2014 to March 2015
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- DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv361
Ebola Virus Diagnostics: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Sierra Leone, August 2014 to March 2015
Abstract
In August 2014, the Viral Special Pathogens Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established a field laboratory in Sierra Leone in response to the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak. Through March 2015, this laboratory tested >12 000 specimens from throughout Sierra Leone. We describe the organization and procedures of the laboratory located in Bo, Sierra Leone.
Keywords: Ebola; diagnostics; field laboratory.
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2015. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.
Comment in
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Deployment of the French Military Field Laboratory Dedicated to Ebola Virus Infected Patients in Guinea, January-July 2015.J Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 1;213(7):1208-9. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiv554. Epub 2015 Nov 23. J Infect Dis. 2016. PMID: 26597257 No abstract available.
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