1. Ebola Virus Diagnostics: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Sierra Leone, August 2014 to March 2015
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Michael D. Bowen, Christina F. Spiropoulou, Robyn A. Stoddard, Scott W. Bearden, Shelley Campbell, Galina E. Zemtsova, Kimberly A. Dodd, Eric Bergeron, Martin Steinau, David Wang, R. Ryan Lash, Ayan K. Chakrabarti, Brandy J. Russell, Amy J. Schuh, Lisa Wiggleton Guerrero, Aaron C. Brault, Celine H. Taboy, Brian H. Bird, Dianna M. Blau, Alison Jane Basile, Jessica A. Belser, Jonathan S. Towner, Rachael A. Priestley, Angela J. Sanchez, James L.B. Massally, Johanna S. Salzer, Molly M. Freeman, Brian R. Amman, Gbetuwa Momoh, Christopher D. Paddock, Michael K. Lo, Aridth Gibbons, Maryann Turnsek, Augustine Goba, Mike Flint, John D. Klena, Bobbie R. Erickson, Marko Zivcec, Stuart T. Nichol, Christin H. Goodman, Tara K. Sealy, Mark A. Rayfield, Meredith Pyle, Ute Ströher, and Laura K. McMullan
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Ebola virus ,business.industry ,viruses ,Outbreak ,medicine.disease_cause ,Disease control ,Virology ,Sierra leone ,Infectious Diseases ,Family medicine ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,business - Abstract
In August 2014, the Viral Special Pathogens Branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established a field laboratory in Sierra Leone in response to the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak. Through March 2015, this laboratory tested >12 000 specimens from throughout Sierra Leone. We describe the organization and procedures of the laboratory located in Bo, Sierra Leone.
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- 2015
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