Journal of Medical Diagnostic Methods
Open Access

Department of Microbial Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Biography

"Abrham T. Bika currently working at Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Center for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia field of interest is mainly in laboratory practices, diagnostic testing"

Publications

• Review   
  Quality Rapid Diagnostic Laboratory Test: A Way for Curving COVID-19 Global Inferno
  Author(s): Abay S. Misganaw*, Abrham T. Bika and Adey F. Desta
  
  Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is caused by a virus that belongs to coronaviridae family and have a severe respiratory disease, first reported in December 2019 from Wuhan China and became global public health emergency with high escalation rate throughout the world and insidious global threat. Within short period of time it reached all over the world as a global inferno. Hence, in order to curve the pandemic, quality assured laboratory with good networking diagnostic capacities have an indispensable role. Governments and stakeholders should invest in it, especially availing rapid diagnostic tests to manage this global crisis proactively. We have to stop this global menace. Even though there was lots of information. Indeed, still there are increasing demands for quality rapid diagnostics for the novel pathogen to control. Thus, considering the paucity of diagnostic based data on.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9784.2020.9.292

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