Table 1.
Overview of provided instruments.
Table 2.
Overview of required members of staff and their tasks.
Table 3.
Sample types per Volunteer.
Table 4.
Result of requirement analysis for rooms.
Figure 1.
General layout and concept of the mobile epidemiologic laboratory (epiLab).
Three motoric driven expansion units provide a reception and counseling area (14.5 m2) and an examination room (21.1 m2). The laboratory block (15.5 m2) has three rooms (personnel lock, BSL-2 lab and sample repository) with individual pressure levels for secure operation.
Figure 2.
Mobile epiLab at first mission.
A: The expandable unit. B: View to the examination room. C: BSL-2 area in the mobile epiLab with urine processing area (background) and blood processing area (foreground).
Table 5.
Different workplaces and instruments in the laboratory block.
Figure 3.
Sample workflow and pre-analytics in the mobile epiLab.
Urine and blood samples are processed at the same time and aliquots are stored in the mobile cryo-repository and prepared for off-site analytics. Urine and plasma samples are also analyzed on-site.
Figure 4.
Schematic workflow for the processing of urine (yellow), blood (red) and plasma (pink) samples in the mobile epiLab.
Three volunteers per 20 min are assumed for the optimum throughput shown here. The starting delay for the blood processing is caused by the on-site blood draw.
Table 6.
Overview of acquired and actual participants in 2012 and 2013.
Table 7.
Distances of mission locations from headquarter (Sulzbach/Saar) and repository (Muenster).