External quality assessment of national public health laboratories in Africa, 2002-2009;Evaluación externa de la calidad de los laboratorios nacionales de la sanidad pública en áfrica, 2002-2009

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Frean, John ^a   Perovic, Olga ^a   Fensham, Vivian ^a   Mccarthy, Kerrigan ^a   von Gottberg, Anne ^a   de Gouveia, Linda ^a   Poonsamy, Bhavani ^a   Dini, Leigh ^a   Rossouw, Jenny ^a   Keddy, Karen ^a   Wondimagegnehu, Alemu ^b   Yahaya, Ali ^b   Pierson, Antoine ^b   Dolmazon, Virginie ^b   Cognat, Sébastien ^b   Ndihokubwayo, Jean Bosco ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EPIDEMIC; MALARIA; MENINGITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; LABORATORY; MALARIA; MENINGITIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLAGUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; TUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AFRICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALARIA; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PLAGUE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84857811500     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.091876     Document Type: Article

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