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Deployable Laboratory Response to Influenza Pandemic; PCR Assay Field Trials and Comparison with Reference Methods 1,2,3 1,3 1 2,4 2,5 Timothy J. J. Inglis *, Adam J. Merritt , Avram Levy , Patricia Vietheer , Richard Bradbury , Adam 6,7 1 1,3 Scholler , Glenys Chidlow , David W. Smith 1 Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, 2 3 Health Support Battalion, 17 Combat Support Services Brigade, Australian Army, Keswick, South Australia, Australia, 3 School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Science, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, 4 Viral Fusion Laboratory, Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 6 2 Health Support Battalion, 17 Combat Support Services Brigade, Australian Army, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia, 7 Pathology Laboratory, Rockhampton Base Hospital, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Abstract Background: The influenza A/H1N1/09 pandemic spread quickly during the Southern Hemisphere winter in 2009 and reached epidemic proportions within weeks of the official WHO alert. Vulnerable population groups included indigenous Australians and remote northern population centres visited by international travellers. At the height of the Australian epidemic a large number of troops converged on a training area in northern Australia for an international exercise, raising concerns about their potential exposure to the emerging influenza threat before, during and imm