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How Iran responded to expanding need for laboratory services for COVID-19?
Mostafa Salehi-Vaziri1, Arash Arashkia1, Ehsan Mostafavi1
1Rapid Response Team, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Iran.
Health Policy and Technology
|April 21, 2021
Abstract:
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.
Keywords:
AUMS, Arak University of Medical SciencesCLN, COVID-19 laboratory networkCOVID-19EVAg, European Virus Archive – GLOBALHKU, Hong Kong UniversityIranPII, Pasteur Institute of IranQUMS, Qom University of Medical SciencesRdRp, RNA dependent RNA polymeraseReal time PCRSARS-CoV-2SBUMS, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesTIB, TIB MOLBIOL CompanyTUMS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
