Microbiology






Immediate Shared Diagnostics Approach Recommended for Ebola Outbreak
A NIH scientist has emphasized the need for an immediate, "real-time" global data sharing and regional diagnostic approach to improve the world's response to the recent Ebolavirus outbreak underway among the peoples of West Africa. More...20 May 2014

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