PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR

DESCRIPTION

Dengue has emerged in the past 50 years to become the most important arboviral disease of humans, infecting an estimated 400 million persons annually in 124 countries. It is a mild to moderately severe acute febrile viral illness transmitted through a bite from an infected mosquito of the Aedes species. Dengue viruses (DENV) are flaviviruses and include four serotypes. With its global distribution in mostly urban and semi-urban areas and the lack of specific treatment for the disease, early laboratory detection is crucial to identifying outbreaks early and instituting appropriate mitigation strategies. The webinar will provide an overview of Dengue disease and educate the participant on the epidemiology, clinical and laboratory diagnosis, prevention and control, and the importance of laboratory testing and public health laboratories in detecting and responding to Dengue virus cases and outbreaks.

OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of the program, the participant will be able to:

Summarize Dengue’s causative agents.
Describe which techniques are used for laboratory confirmation of clinical diagnosis.
Identify methods of prevention and control
Summarize the importance of laboratory testing in the detection of Dengue.

FACULTY

Duane J Gubler, ScD, FAAS, FIDSA, FASTMH
Emeritus Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
Chair, Global Dengue and Aedes-Transmitted Diseases Consortium

AUDIENCE

This program is intended for clinical and public health laboratory staff, microbiology students, microbiology laboratory workers, epidemiologists and research scientists.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program, Florida and CPH-recertification. P.A.C.E.® is accepted by all licensure states except Florida. This webinar will provide 1.0 contact hour for participants who successfully complete this training until April 30, 2021. After this date, you can no longer obtain P.A.C.E.® for this webinar.

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