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. 2016 Sep;7(9):621-3.
doi: 10.1007/s13238-016-0305-2.

On the ground in Western Africa: from the outbreak to the elapse of Ebola

William J Liu  1
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On the ground in Western Africa: from the outbreak to the elapse of Ebola

William J Liu. Protein Cell. 2016 Sep.
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Training of the local health workers in Guinea to use the freely offered sanitary and biological protection supplies from China
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The Deputy Director-General of the China CDC, Dr. George F. Gao, worked in Sierra Leone as the co-team leader of the first team of the mobile laboratory from September to November, 2014
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Ebola virus genomes were assembled and analyzed by the Chinese deep sequencing platform in Freetown. The lead of the second team, Professor Yuelong Shu was discussing the sequencing project with the colleagues
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Photograph of Dr. George F. Gao (middle) with Dr. Abdul Kamara (left) and myself (right) during Dr. Gao’s second journey to Sierra Leone
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The fourth Ebola test team from China working in the fixed P3 lab together with their Sierra Leonian colleagues
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