EURL rabies
Collection of samples, techniques, validation and interpretation of the diagnostic methods for the purposes of rabies surveillance are presented here.
Diagnostic methods considered compliant are presented in the WOAH rabies manual. A list of procedures inspired by the WOAH official methods is also proposed.
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Annual inter-laboratory test for rabies diagnosis - Year 2015
♦ 04 May 2015 ♦
A panel of 9 brain samples will be sent to all laboratories on the same day and under the same conditions. Date of shipment is 1st June 2015. Laboratories which have sent all documents (import permit when needed, and unilateral commitment fully initialled, signed and stamped) before this date will receive the panel. In order to respect the time schedule and to have all results included in the final report, the test will have to be undertaken in the course of June and results will have to be sent back to the EURL for rabies on 1st July at the latest, along with the answers given on the online questionnaires. As usual, there will be one questionnaire for each technique. Participants will be invited to fill one questionnaire per each tested technique. The final report should be issued in early Autumn 2015.
Less than one month before 7th workshop for rabies for EU NRLs!
♦ 30 April 2015 ♦
The rabies EURL annual meeting will gather 55 people. This meeting will bring together National Reference Labs from Member States and from third countries bordering EU, including those from North Africa. On the first half-day, presentations will focus on the techniques relative to oral vaccination control and rabies update from several participating countries. On the second half-day, European (EFSA) and Global Institutions (WHO, IAEA) will present their activities before the diagnostic and the molecular biology sessions. The last update of the agenda can be found here.
Technical Report for 2014
♦ 30 April 2015 ♦
Each year, the EURL is in charge of elaborating a technical report detailing all rabies activities undertaken and their outputs in the frame of the regulations No 737/2008 and 415/2013. The document is available for members of the EURL network (need to use your login and password to open the restricted access of the website).
Inter-laboratory aptitude test for rabies serology - Year 2015
♦ 1st April 2015 ♦
In the frame of its mandate of EURL for rabies serology (Council Decision 2000/258/EC), the Anses-Nancy laboratory for rabies and wildlife, France, organizes each year inter-laboratory aptitude tests for the purposes of Member States or third countries authorization to carry out the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of the anti-rabies vaccination. A favourable result of the appraisal of the applicant laboratory documented by the ANSES-Nancy laboratory is a pre-requisite for the appraisal.
This year, 67 laboratories will participate to the inter-laboratory aptitude test for rabies serology. Sending of the panels will be proceeded around the end of April 2015.
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