Rapid Influenza Testing in an Austere Setting, Mongolia

Chuluunbaatar Maisetseg; Daramragchaa Ulziimaa; Alexandra Sack; Gonchigoo Battsetseg; Baigalmaa Bekh-Ochir; Myagmarsukh Yondon; Gregory C Gray

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx238

Rapid Influenza Testing in an Austere Setting, Mongolia

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017 Oct 26;4(4):ofx238. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx238. eCollection 2017 Fall.

Authors

Chuluunbaatar Maisetseg¹, Daramragchaa Ulziimaa¹, Alexandra Sack^{1

2

3}, Gonchigoo Battsetseg¹, Baigalmaa Bekh-Ochir⁴, Myagmarsukh Yondon^{1

2}, Gregory C Gray^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁴ The National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Abstract

In 2015-2017, we helped rural Mongolian clinicians with poor infrastructure adopt rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs). In their hands, the Quidel Sofia Influenza A Test was both sensitive (75%) and specific (100%). If made widely available, such RIDTs would have the potential to markedly reduce influenza morbidity and mortality in Mongolia.

Keywords: Mongolia; RIDT; influenza.

Grants and funding

D43 TW009373/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States