Biosafety Level-4 Laboratories in Europe: Opportunities for Public Health, Diagnostics, and Research
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1 ‘‘L. Spallanzani’’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy, 2 French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, Lyon, France, 3 Health Protection Agency, Salisbury, United Kingdom, 4 Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom, 5 University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 6 Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, 7 Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, 8 Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America
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