Preparing for the next pandemic: Lessons from rapid scale-up of SARS-CoV-2 testing in a South African high-throughput automated HIV molecular laboratory

Preparing for the next pandemic: Lessons from rapid scale-up of SARS-CoV-2 testing in a South African high-throughput automated HIV molecular laboratory

Africa’s readiness to respond to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic was tested due to reliance on rapid turn-around-time of polymerase chain reaction results for clinical management, isolation and quarantine decisions. The NHLS HIV Molecular Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa, is one of the largest autom...

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Main Authors: Lucia Hans, Kim Steegen, Irene Ketseoglou, Zukiswa Mahlumba, Naseem Cassim, Tracey Wiggill, W.D. Francois Venter, Wendy Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
Diagnostics
Molecular
Automated
Scale-up
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221005087

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