Rapid deployment of a mobile biosafety level-3 laboratory in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Gong, Yan ^b   Wang, Chengyu ^a   Liu, Wensen ^a   Wang, Zhongyi ^a   Xia, Zhiping ^a   Bu, Zhaoyang ^a   Lu, Huijun ^a   Sun, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xiaoguang ^c   Cao, Yuxi ^c   Yang, Fan ^d   Su, Haoxiang ^d   Hu, Yi ^e   Deng, Yongqiang ^e   Zhou, Bo ^a   Zhao, Zongzheng ^a   Fu, Yingying ^a   Kargbo, David ^f   Dafae, Foday ^f   Kargbo, Brima ^f   Kanu, Alex ^g   Liu, Linna ^a   Qian, Jun ^a   Guo, Zhendong ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PATHOGEN BIOLOGY   (China)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^f Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Sierra Leone)

^g Sierra Leone China Friendship Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; DISINFECTION; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA EXTRACTION; SIERRA LEONE; VENTILATOR; WATER FLOW; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LABORATORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARDS; WORKFLOW;

VIRUS RNA;

CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; RNA, VIRAL; SAFETY; SIERRA LEONE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85020450676     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005622     Document Type: Article

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