Multi-centre Collaborative Network: Laboratories testing for SARS
22 April 2003
The following members of the WHO network laboratories have agreed to test samples of suspected or probable SARS patients from countries who may not have the laboratory capacity (PCR technology and biosafety level 3). WHO encourages each country to designate a laboratory at national level for investigation and shipment of specimens from possible SARS patients. Guidelines on sample handling of suspected or probable SARS patients, can be found in WHO biosafety guidelines for handling of SARS specimens.
The following laboratories should be contacted BEFORE any shipment is made.
- Bernhard Nocht Institut for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74
Hamburg, D-20359
Germany
(in collaboration with the Institutes for Virology, University Frankfurt and University Marburg)
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Schmitz
Fax 49 40 42 818 400
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
National Centers for Infectious Diseases
1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop G16
Bldg 7, Room 111
Atlanta, Georgia 30333
United States
Contact person: Betty Robertson
Fax: 1 404 639 3039
- Erasmus Universiteit, National Influenza Centre
Dr Molewaterplein 50, P. O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Contact person: Albert Osterhaus
Fax: 31 10 408 9485
- Institut Pasteur
Head of Unit, Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires
National Influenza Center (Northern-France),
25 rue du Docteur Roux
Cedex 15 F-75724 Paris
France
Contact Person: Sylvie van der Werf
Fax: 33 1 40 61 32 41
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Department of Viral Diseases and Vaccine Control
Gakuen 4-7-1
Musashi-Murayama-shi
Tokyo
JP-208 0011
Japan
Contact Person: Masato Tashiro
Fax: 81 42 565 2498
- Public Health Laboratory Service
Central Public Health Laboratory
61 Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5HT
United Kingdom
Contact Person: Maria Zambon
Fax: 44 (20) 8200 1569