Laboratory readiness and response for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in expert laboratories in 30 EU/EEA countries, January 2020

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2020, Pages

  Reusken, Chantal B E M ^a,b   Broberg, Eeva K ^c   Haagmans, Bart ^b   Meijer, Adam ^a   Corman, Victor M ^d,e   Papa, Anna ^f   Charrel, Remi ^g   Drosten, Christian ^d,e   Koopmans, Marion ^b   Leitmeyer, Katrin ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^g INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; CLASSIFICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COVID-19; VIRUS RNA;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85080843760     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.6.2000082     Document Type: Review

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