Editorial
Building laboratory capacity to combat disease outbreaks in Africa
Submitted: 05 October 2016 | Published: 31 October 2016
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Trevor Peter, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Gaborone, BotswanaMah-Sere Keita, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
John Nkengasong, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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