How the Lab Without Walls team will shrink their lab-in-a-box for National Science Week 2012
The Road Less Travelled
Lab Without Walls has a team travelling from Broome to Kununurra during National Science Week, taking a molecular field lab with them. They will test mashed mosquitoes for Australian regional arboviruses an soils for the bacterial cause of melioidosis. In doing so, the team will understand how to get PCR methods going to support improvements in regional pathology services.
Around the traps
Lab Without Walls digs the red dirt collecting mosquito traps and testing for arboviruses in the Kimberley
More mosquito-borne disease
the arbovirus infection unit in our Clinical Tropical Medicine series