An Introduction to the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory

Lecture by Professor Janie Olver

The Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL) at Porton Down specialises in the diagnosis and management of rare, unusual, and high-consequence infectious diseases occurring in, or imported into, the UK. These include imported febrile illnesses, arthropod-borne infections such as dengue, West Nile virus and hantavirus infections, and bacterial diseases including Q fever, leptospirosis, and Lyme borreliosis.

In this talk, Professor Janie Olver will introduce RIPL’s role in public health and present a case study describing her work to update the estimate of Lyme disease incidence in England.

This talk is part of the Essential Medical Statistics course on the Evidence-Based Health Care programme.