Development of Mobile Laboratory for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Detection in Africa

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 218, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1622-1630

  Weidmann, Manfred ^a   Faye, Ousmane ^b   Faye, Oumar ^b   Abd El Wahed, Ahmed ^c,d   Patel, Pranav ^e   Batejat, Christophe ^f   Manugerra, Jean Claude ^f   Adjami, Aimee ^g   Niedrig, Matthias ^h   Hufert, Frank T ⁱ   Sall, Amadou A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e TIB MOLBIOL Syntheselabor GmbH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g WHO Multi Disease Surveillance Centre   (Burkina Faso)

^h ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

ⁱ BRANDENBURG MEDICAL SCHOOL THEODOR FONTANE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ebola virus disease; laboratory suitcase; mobile laboratory; point of care; viral hemorragic fever virus.

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AFRICA; BLOOD; DEVICES; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR TYPING; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 85054457836     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy362     Document Type: Article

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