Establishing an international laboratory network for neglected tropical diseases: Understanding existing capacity in five WHO regions.

ABSTRACT: Background. Limited laboratory capacity is a significant bottleneck in meeting global targets for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTD). Laboratories are essential for providing clinical data and monitoring data about the status and changes in NTD prevalence, and for detecting early drug resistance. Currently NTD laboratory networks are informal and specialist laboratory expertise is not well publicised, making it difficult to share global expertise and provide training, supervision, and quality assurance for NTD diagnosis and research. This study aimed to identify laboratories within five World Health Organisation regions (South-East Asia, Eastern Mediterranean, Americas, Western Pacific and Europe) that provide NTD services and could be regarded as natio

SUBMITTER: Dean L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6509956 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature