Laboratory preparedness to face infectious outbreaks. Ebola and beyond

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1681-1684

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Mattiuzzi, Camilla ^c   Plebani, Mario ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Civic Hospital of Trento   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; epidemics; laboratory; outbreak; safety

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BIOSAFETY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FACE MASK; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; LIBERIA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHLEBOTOMIST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SIERRA LEONE; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL GOWN; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORIES; MEDICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84910119576     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0960     Document Type: Editorial

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