Lateral flow devices can fast-track rabies virus genomic surveillance
Viral genomic data can resolve rabies transmission and guide outbreak response, but surveillance is often limited less by sequencing capacity than by getting suitable specimens from remote collection sites to a laboratory, a process that can take months. Here, we show that lateral flow devices (LFDs) used for rabies diagnosis can also serve as genomic specimens, integrating diagnosis and genomic…
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