Paris / Portland / Mark D / Hamburg / Denver / Geneva / Shanghai / Sunnyvale / Seoul / Cambridge / Lausanne / /
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Alere / Chembio Diagnostics / Orasure / Ebola / M M E N TA R Y / The New York Times / IgG / Cepheid / Jennings L.C. / GeneXpert / SD Q Line Ebola Zaire Ag / /
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Europe / Africa / /
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Switzerland / Senegal / France / Uganda / Korea / Liberia / China / Germany / Gabon / Sudan / Guinea / United States / Democratic Republic of Congo / Sierra Leone / /
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USD / cent / / /
Event
Environmental Issue / /
Facility
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases / Ebola laboratory / /
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wireless connectivity / case management / purchase systems / batch processing / sample processing / simplified molecular-testing systems / outbreak management / clinical tools / strengthened health systems / diagnostic tools / inpatient health services / manual systems / Wireless electronic / healthcare / auxiliary equipment / diagnostic systems / real-time versions / molecular systems / large manufacturing capacity / extraction protocols / healthcare workers / manufacturing quality indicators / laboratory network / automated processing / Weak health systems / care of endemic diseases / Media coverage / /
World Health Organization / WHO PQ / PQ EA / US Department of Defense / US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases / FDA / Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics / Taliban / Atomic Energy Commission / World Bank / FDA EUA / /
Person
Mark D Perkins / Jim Kim / Mark Kessel / /
Position
president / RT / Priest / /
PublishedMedium
The New York Times / PLoS ONE / /
Region
West Africa / Middle East / /
Technology
in vitro diagnostics / antibodies / BIOTECHNOLOGY / thermography / RNA extraction protocols / pdf / /
C O M M E N TA R Y What Ebola tells us about outbreak diagnostic readiness Mark D Perkins & Mark Kessel Healthcare priorities all too often ignore the importance of diagnostics for disease control and case management. T