International Journal of Infectious Diseases
April 2016 Volume 45, In Progress
http://www.ijidonline.com/current

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Editorial
Zika virus outbreak and the case for building effective and sustainable rapid diagnostics laboratory capacity globally
Alimuddin Zumla, Ian Goodfellow, Francis Kasolo, Francine Ntoumi, Philippe Buchy, Matthew Bates, Esam I Azhar, Matthew Cotten, Eskild Petersen
p92–94
Published online: March 4 2016
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New and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic potential have threatened global health security for the past century.1 As with the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, the Zika Virus (ZIKV) outbreak has yet again surprised and overwhelmed the international health community with an unexpected event for which it might have been better prepared.

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Editorial
Engaging high and low burden countries in the “TB end game”
B.J. Marais, A.C. Outhred, A. Zumla
p100–102
Published online: March 19 2016
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Tuberculosis (TB) is now the single biggest infectious disease killer in the world, surpassing malaria and HIV/AIDS. In 2014, there were an estimated 9.6 million incident TB cases and 1.5 million deaths.1 It is not widely appreciated that TB is also a major cause of disease and death in young children.2,3 New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) are that 1 million children developed TB during 2014.1 This is disconcerting because children have poor access to TB services in most resource-limited settings and paediatric cases provide an accurate reflection of uncontrolled TB transmission within communities.