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Sauli attends measles detection workshop

Sauli Bebes reports on his trip to Port Moresby to attend the Measles Dection Workshop.

Mr Sauli Bebes

The purpose of my trip to Port Moresby was to attend the hand-on training workshop on detection of Measles Specific IgM and IgG in Dried Blood Serum (DBS).

The supervisor for the training at the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) was Dr Michaela Riddell from Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratories who developed the method on Dried Blood Serum (DBS). Six CPHL staffs attended the workshop and me from PNGIMR.

The training workshop was funded by the Burnet Institute and facilitated by the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) in Port Moresby from 13th – 16th August 2007.

At the workshop, we had a hands on training for detection of specific IgM and IgG for measles using Dade Behring Enzygnost Anti-Measles IgG and IgM Enzyme Immunoassay.

Training at CPHL was mostly focused on measles specific IgM.

The CPHL will do the diagnostic testing on measles using measles specific IgM while PNGIMR will do the measles surveillance, detecting specific measles IgG from patient suspected with measles.

The Burnet Institute paid for my travel and accommodation. The training was completed on the 16th August and I returned back to Goroka on the 17th August 2007.