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hls-4800	Shrivastava, Saurabh R.; Shrivastava, Prateek S.; Ramasamy, Jegadeesh	Fight against Ebola disease: strengthening laboratory framework in low resource settings	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1270	64	50	[page 59] Fight against Ebola disease: strengthening laboratory framework in low resource settings Saurabh R. Shrivastava, Prateek S. Shrivastava, Jegadeesh Ramasamy Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Kancheepuram, India The 2014 outbreak of Ebola disease has uncovered bitter facts about the prevalent health indicators pertaining to people living in low resource settings.1 Although, the enemy – Ebola virus – was not new, public health authorities have failed miserably in all the affected regions (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Senegal).1,2 infection control in health care settings, community education, and avoiding contact with reservoir species), have been proposed to interrupt the chain of trans- mission and thus the progression of the dis- ease.3,4,6,7,10 Exhaustive case and contact finding remains the most crucial step in reducing the incidence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, and thus ensuring availability of easily acces- sible diagnostic services in low-resource set- ting remains the major cause of public health concern.11 In fact, the World Health Organization has strictly advocated for all the unaffected nations to designate laboratories and build a team of trained personnel to per- form laboratory activities efficiently.12 These designated laboratories are bio-safety level (BSL)4/BSL3 facilities, in which competent medical staff are employed to safely collect the appropriate specimens from the patients or ensure safe handling of dead bodies or human remains for post-mortem examination.9,13	cache/hls-4800.pdf	txt/hls-4800.txt