The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. A cornerstone of successful containment is rapid and reliable diagnostics. The intensified molecular surveillance of hepatitis and rotavirus infections with a network of sentinel sites distributed across Nigeria can serve as the basis for a rapidly available, functioning surveillance system…
Olusola Anouluwapo Akanbi is a guest researcher from Nigeria, she will spend 5 months 1 June – 31 October 2020 at the RKI in Unit 15 (Gastroenteritis and Hepatitis Pathogens and Enteroviruses). She has previously worked on molecular characterisation of hepatitis viruses in Nigeria and is currently doing more in-depth…
The NiCaDe project supports the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in capacity building to prevent and manage infectious diseases and outbreaks. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak response measures such as restrictions on national and international travel, many of the originally planned project activities, e.g. on-site trainings and workshops, could…