HCM City inaugurates serum bank
(VOVWORLD) - The Ho Chi Minh City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) on Thursday put into operation a serum bank that aims to provide a toolkit to assess the burden of infectious disease in the community and guide medical decisions in public healthcare centres.
 A staff member tests samples at a serum center.(Photo: VNA) |
The serum bank now can handle 4,000-4,500 samples and is expected to increase the storage capacity in the near future.
Director of HCDC Dr. Nguyen Hong Tam said that the serum bank will collect, preserve, and supply samples for testing of infectious diseases for prediction or early detection of outbreaks, assessment of herd immunity, evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions, and investigation of the silent circulation of the pathogen.