Successes and short comings in four years of an international external quality assurance program for animal influenza surveillance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Spackman, Erica ^a   Cardona, Carol ^b   Muñoz Aguayo, Jeannette ^b   Fleming, Susan ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELISA KIT; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LEGHORN CHICKEN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEROLOGY; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; BIRD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNATIONALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84992744143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164261     Document Type: Article

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