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- Title
Support of Far-Forward Disease Surveillance Operations with Deployable, Real-Time Vector-Borne Disease Agent Analytic Capability.
- Authors
Swaby, James A.; McAvin, James C.
- Abstract
The article offers information on Vector Surveillance Analytic System (VSAS) which is a portable, field-durable and field-sustainable arthropod-borne agent operations at far forward locations. VSAS was developed to establish a Department of Defense (DoD) deployable methodology for dengue virus detection wherein it was redirected to support the Leishmaniasis Control Program (LCP). In addition, it operates as an extension of other deployable assets such as the U.S. Army Area Medical Laboratory.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SURVEILLANCE detection; ARBOVIRUS diseases; LEISHMANIASIS; MILITARY hygiene; UNITED States. Dept. of Defense; PREVENTION
- Publication
U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, 2008, p21
- ISSN
1524-0436
- Publication type
Article