Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa.

• Main Authors: Joseph R Fauver (Author), James Weger-Lucarelli (Author), Lawrence S Fakoli (Author), Kpehe Bolay (Author), Fatorma K Bolay (Author), Joseph W Diclaro (Author), Doug E Brackney (Author), Brian D Foy (Author), Mark D Stenglein (Author), Gregory D Ebel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Novel surveillance strategies are needed to detect the rapid and continuous emergence of infectious disease agents. Ideally, new sampling strategies should be simple to implement, technologically uncomplicated, and applicable to areas where emergence events are known to occur. To this end, xenosurve...