Summary of current WHO recommendations and guidance on programmatic approaches
Any individual that meets the suspected case definition of monkeypox should be offered testing in appropriately equipped laboratories by staff trained in the relevant technical and safety procedures. Confirmation of monkeypox virus infection is based on nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT), usi...ng real-time or conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for detection of unique sequences of viral DNA. PCR can be used alone, or in combination with sequencing. The recommended specimen type for laboratory confirmation of monkeypox is skin lesion material, including swabs of lesion surface and/or exudate, roofs from more than one lesion, or lesion crusts.
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Part of the CBM Prevention Toolkit on Cerebral Palsy
Rreport of a WHO Consultative Meeting Kolkata India 2012
This chapter is concerned primarily with situations where there are large numbers of deaths following a disaster, requiring organized services for handling the dead.
Including Therapeutic Food, Dietary Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation - 2nd edition
Technical Brief
HIV patient monitoring and case surveillance
WHO/HIV/2017.14
Tuberculosis treatment failure results in increased risk of morbidity, drug resistance, transmission and mortality. There are few data about tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Burkina Faso. The current study investigated the factors associated with tuberculosis treatment failure in the central east ...health region of Burkina Faso.
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ALTER Revue Européene de Recherche sur le handicap 2 (2008) 32-43
COVID-19: Travel, Points of Entry and Border Health