ArticleJournal of public health in Africa2023
The East African Community mobile laboratory network prepares for monkeypox outbreaks.
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- The role, challenges, and solutions of laboratories in disaster medicine: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Harnessing genomic and bioinformatics for surveillance of pathogens in Africa: a scoping review of existing training and gaps in training.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Mpox Outbreak in the East Africa Region: Current Status, Containment Measures, Challenges, and Future Direction.Public health challenges · 2026Review
- Real-Time Use of Monkeypox Virus Genomic Surveillance, King County, Washington, USA, 2022-2024.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Rapid regional mobile laboratory response and genomic monkeypox virus (MPXV) surveillance in seven East African Community partner states, August 2024: preparedness activities for the ongoing outbreak.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Article
- Assessment of the pathogen genomics landscape highlights disparities and challenges for effective AMR Surveillance and outbreak response in the East African community.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
In response to the largest recorded monkeypox virus outbreak outside of endemic Central and Western Africa, the East African Community (EAC), in cooperation with the Bernhard-Nocht- Institute for Tropical Medicine, coordinated an emergency monkeypox diagnostic training for the East African Region. As of June 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo reported a steady increase of suspected monkeypox cases, increasing the risk of spill-over into the remaining six EAC Partner States. Within the existing EAC Mobile Laboratories project, laboratory experts of the National Public Health Laboratories of the remaining six EAC Partner States (Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and South Sudan) participated in the workshop and were trained in the reception of suspect samples, DNA extraction and diagnosis using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The EAC region is now equipped with the tools to prepare and rapidly respond to any emerging monkeypox outbreak.
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