Citation: Wertheim HFL, Puthavathana P, Nghiem NM, van Doorn HR, Nguyen TV, et al. (2010) Laboratory Capacity Building in Asia for Infectious Disease Research: Experiences from the South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SEAICRN). PLoS Med 7(4): e1000231. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000231

Published: April 6, 2010

Copyright: © 2010 Wertheim et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Funding: This work was undertaken as part of the the South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (www.seaicrn.org). The SEAICRN is supported by the National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK), and the national authorities of Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The funders had no role in the decision to submit the article or in its preparation.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Abbreviations: GCLP, good clinical laboratory practice; MDL, molecular diagnostic laboratory; pH1N1, influenza A (H1N1); RT-PCR, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; SEAICRN, South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network; SOP, standard operating procedure