What Ebola tells us about outbreak diagnostic readiness

Healthcare priorities all too often ignore the importance of diagnostics for disease control and case management.

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2015
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Health
Authors:
Perkins, M.D., Kessel, M.

Abstract

Healthcare priorities all too often ignore the importance of diagnostics for disease control and case management. The Ebola epidemic illustrates the folly of this attitude when few therapeutic or prophylactic interventions are available.

Citation

Perkins, M.D.; Kessel, M. What Ebola tells us about outbreak diagnostic readiness. Nature Biotechnology (2015) 33 (5) 464-469. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3215]

Published 1 January 2015
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