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Africa CDC: Establishing Integrated Surveillance and Laboratory Networks for Rapid Disease Detection and Response, Control, Prevention, and Clinical Care in Africa

Timothy Amukele
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 6, No 1 | a638 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v6i1.638 | © 2017 Timothy Amukele | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 19 April 2017 | Published: 21 June 2017

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Timothy Amukele, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

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