COVID-19 laboratory preparedness and response in the Americas Region: Lessons learned

• Juliana Almeida Leite,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-114X

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• Lionel Gresh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2333-1748

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• Andrea Vicari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Jean Marc Gabastou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Enrique Perez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7730-899X

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• Sylvain Aldighieri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• SARINET laboratories Network ,

  ¶Membership of the SARINET laboratories Network is Provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Jairo Mendez-Rico

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ricoj@paho.org

  Affiliation Health Emergencies Department, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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