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Bolstering Africa’s coronavirus detection efforts

Molecular biologist Christian Happi is working around the clock to get testing available throughout the continent.
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Christian Happi photographed at his lab.

Christian Happi is a molecular biologist at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Redeemer’s University in Ede, Nigeria. Credit: ACEGID

I study microbial diseases such as COVID-19, Lassa fever and Ebola. My research team at Redeemer’s University in Ede, Nigeria, focuses on detecting and characterizing pathogens, so that we can identify the aetiology of previously inexplicable fevers in west Africa. The coronavirus pandemic fits neatly into the scope of my work, and our priority has shifted to COVID-19.

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Nature 582, 140 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01607-y

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