South African Ebola diagnostic response in Sierra Leone: A modular high biosafety field laboratory.

• Main Authors: Janusz T Paweska (Author), Petrus Jansen van Vuren (Author), Gunther H Meier (Author), Chantel le Roux (Author), Ousman S Conteh (Author), Alan Kemp (Author), Cardia Fourie (Author), Prabha Naidoo (Author), Serisha Naicker (Author), Phumza Ohaebosim (Author), Nadia Storm (Author), Orienka Hellferscee (Author), Lisa K Ming Sun (Author), Busisiwe Mogodi (Author), Nishi Prabdial-Sing (Author), Desiree du Plessis (Author), Deidre Greyling (Author), Shayne Loubser (Author), Mark Goosen (Author), Stewart D McCulloch (Author), Terence P Scott (Author), Alexandra Moerdyk (Author), Wesley Dlamini (Author), Kelfala Konneh (Author), Idrissa L Kamara (Author), Dauda Sowa (Author), Samuel Sorie (Author), Brima Kargbo (Author), Shabir A Madhi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>In August 2014, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa established a modular high-biosafety field Ebola diagnostic laboratory (SA FEDL) near Freetown, Sierra Leone in response to the rapidly increasing number of Ebola virus disease (EVD...