The East African Community's mobile laboratory network's rapid response during the first 2 weeks of the Ebola Sudan virus disease (SVD) outbreak in Uganda and pandemic preparedness activities in South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya

BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Dec;7(12):e011073. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011073.

Florian Gehre^#^{1

2}, Hakim Lagu^#¹, Emmanuel Achol^#¹, Neema Omari^{1

2}, Grace Ochido^{1

2}, Sophie Duraffour^{3

4}, Julia Hinzmann^{3

4}, Eric Kezakarayagwa⁵, Francine Kabatesi⁵, Anatole Nkeshimana⁵, Joseph Nyandwi⁵, Donald Duku Samson⁶, Gwokpan Awin Nykwec⁶, Michael Lasuba Lokore⁶, Lul Lojok Deng⁶, Maria Ezekielly Kelly^{2

7

8}, Peter Bernard Mtesigwa Mkama^{7

8}, Alex Magesa⁸, Medard Beyanga⁸, Abdi Roba⁹, Millicent Ndia⁹, Peter Lokamar⁹, John Kiiru⁹, Alice Kabanda¹⁰, Isabelle Mukagatare¹⁰, Emmanuel Kabalisa¹⁰, Robert Rutayisire¹⁰, Isaac Sewanyana¹¹, Eunice Jennifer Nambozo¹¹, Tonny Muyigi¹¹, Godfrey Pimundu^#¹¹, Jürgen May^{2

12}, Michael Katende¹, Susan Nabadda^#¹¹, Eric Nzeyimana^#¹, Muna Affara^#^{13

2}

¹ Health Department, East African Community, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of.
² Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany.
³ Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany.
⁴ German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg, Germany.
⁵ Medical Biology Department, National Reference Laboratory, Bujumbura, Burundi.
⁶ Department of Molecular Virology, Public Health Laboratory and National Blood Transfusion Centre, Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan.
⁷ Department of Diagnostic Services, Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic of.
⁸ Department of Diagnostic Services, National Public Health Laboratory, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of.
⁹ Department of Laboratory Services, National Public Health Laboratory, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰ Biomedical Services Department, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, National Reference Laboratory, Kigali, Rwanda.
¹¹ National Health Laboratory and Diagnostic Services (NHLDS), Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
¹² Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg, Germany.
¹³ Health Department, East African Community, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of affara@bnitm.de.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Arboviruses; Public Health.

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