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External quality assessment of bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing in African national public health laboratories, 2011–2016

2019-08-20

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<h4>Background</h4> In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a regional microbiology external quality assessment (EQA) programme for national public health laboratories in the African region, initially targeting priority epidemic-prone bacterial diseases, and later including other common bacterial pathogens. <h4>Objectives</h4> The aim of this study was to analyse the efficacy of an EQA programme as...

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