How Iran responded to expanding need for laboratory services for COVID-19?
Health Policy Technol
; 10(2): 100506, 2021 Jun.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1188592
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After the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020 in Iran, the rapid response team of Pasteur Institute of Iran was the first lab starting detection and report of suspected human samples. This article is a short summery of all actions from the preparedness for detecting the first cases of COVID-19, expanding the nationwide laboratory service, choosing the suitable laboratory tests and other challenges in laboratory detection during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Iran.
AUMS, Arak University of Medical Sciences; CLN, COVID-19 laboratory network; COVID-19; EVAg, European Virus Archive GLOBAL; HKU, Hong Kong University; Iran; PII, Pasteur Institute of Iran; QUMS, Qom University of Medical Sciences; RdRp, RNA dependent RNA polymerase; Real time PCR; SARS-CoV-2; SBUMS, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; TIB, TIB MOLBIOL Company; TUMS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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