ArticleTropical medicine and health2017
The capacity of diagnostic laboratories in Kenya for detecting infectious diseases.
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- Evaluating the gap in rapid diagnostic testing: insights from subnational Kenyan routine health data.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Antibiotic Resistant diarrheagenicEthiopian journal of health sciences · 2020Article
- Readiness for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Pakistan; a model for laboratory strengthening.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of this study is to present data of the diagnostic capacity of Kenyan laboratories to diagnose a number of human pathogens. The study is based on the data obtained from a biosecurity survey conducted in Kenya in 2014/2015 and data from the Statistical Abstract of Kenya for 2015. The biosecurity survey has previously been published; however, the survey also included information on laboratory capacity to handle a number of pathogens, which have not been published.
methodsData were retrieved from the survey on 86 laboratory facilities. The data include information from relevant categories such as training laboratories, human diagnostic laboratories, veterinary diagnostic laboratories, and research laboratories.
resultsThe disease incidence in Kenya ranges widely from malaria and diarrhea with an incidence rate of around 10.000 per year to diseases such as cholera and yellow fever with an incidence rate of 1 per year or less for all age groups. The data showed that diseases with the highest number of diagnostic facilities were mainly malaria-, HIV-, tuberculosis-, and diarrhea-related infectious diseases.
conclusionThe study generally shows that the laboratory facilities have the capacity of detecting the infectious diseases with the highest incidence rates. Furthermore, it seems that the number of facilities able to detect a particular disease is related to the incidence rate of the disease.
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