title: Zika virus outbreak and the case for building effective and sustainable rapid diagnostics laboratory capacity globally.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCLHospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: a.i.zumla@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Alimuddin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zumla
authors.affiliation: Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge UK and School of Public Health, University of Makeni, Sierra Leone. Electronic address: ig299@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Goodfellow
authors.affiliation: Country and Inter-country Support, Office of the Regional Director, WHO- AFRO, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Electronic address: kasolof@who.int.
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kasolo
authors.affiliation: Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale and University Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, and Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: fntoumi@fcrm-congo.com.
authors.forename: Francine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ntoumi
authors.affiliation: GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, R&D Asia-Pacific, Gateway West, Singapore. Electronic address: philippe.x.buchy@gsk.com.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buchy
authors.affiliation: UNZA-UCLMS Research and Training Project, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. Electronic address: matthew.bates@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.affiliation: Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Centre, and Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: eazhar@kau.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Esam I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Azhar
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: mc13@sanger.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cotten
authors.affiliation: University of Aarhus, Denmark and The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman. Electronic address: eskildp@dadlnet.dk.
authors.forename: Eskild
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petersen
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D014944:World Health Organization; D000071243:Zika Virus Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Emerging pathogens; Zika virus; diagnostics; laboratory; public health; surveillance