Sufficient laboratory capacity is essential to effective infectious disease surveillance and control. This is recognized in the current International Health Regulations (IHR), which identify laboratory services as a category of core capacities that all the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States are expected to develop and maintain ( 1 ). IHR Core Capacity 8 requires laboratory services for every phase of real-time event management (i.e., detection, investigation, and response), with sample analysis being performed either domestically or through collaboration centers ( 2 ). (Published: 25 January 2013) Citation: Emerg Health Threats J 2013, 6 : 19960 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.19960
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