Management of health facilities: Laboratory services
Programme lab manuals
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Polio laboratory manual
2004, WHO/IVB/04.10
HTML version of the manual for quick access - click the links in the left column - role of laboratory; quality assurance; cell culture techniques; cell sensivity; specimen processing; polio virus; data management;
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National Polio Laboratory Check List for Annual WHO Accreditation
2003, WHO
7 criteria for accreditation; designed for laboratories in countries that perform AFP surveillance
(12 pages, pdf 185kb)
Supplemental Checklist -
Laboratory Services in Tuberculosis Control: Part I Organization and Management
Isabel Narvaiz de Kantor, et al., 1998, WHO/TB/98.258
Organisation of services; training, supervision and motivation of staff; administration and record-keeping; hygiene and safety; waste disposal; quality control, quality improvement and proficiency testing; worker health monitoring
(65 pages, pdf 58kb) -
Essential list of laboratory equipment and supplies for HIV testing
2004, WHO Regional Office for Africa
The first part lists all the equipment, reagents, and supplies necessary to run an HIV laboratory and has sections on VCT/PMCT, Surveillance, Diagnosis and Blood Screening, and Antiretroviral therapy treatment and monitoring. The second part gives a list and specifications for all the equipment, reagents, and supplies necessary to run an HIV, HBV, HCV, and Syphilis testing laboratories.
(17 pages, pdf 162kb) -
Recommended laboratory tests to identify influenza A/H5 virus in specimens from patients with an influenza-like illness
2004, WHO
GOLDEN RULE. Clinical specimens from humans and from swine or birds should never be processed in the same laboratory. Procedures for influenza diagnosis; Identification of influenza A/H5; interpretation of results; laboratory confirmation
(7 pages, pdf 46kb) -
WHO laboratory biosafety guidelines for handling specimens suspected of containing
avian influenza A virus
WHO website -
Use of laboratory methods for SARS diagnosis
WHO website
Recommendations on interpretation of laboratory results, and
Recommendations for laboratories testing for SARS -
Dengue haemorrhagic fever: Laboratory diagnosis
Chapter 4 from: Dengue haemorrhagic fever: diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control. 2nd edition. Geneva, WHO, 1997 ( See website with all book chapters )
Collection and handling of specimens; diagnostic approach; virus detection versus serology; laboratory safety; technical aspects of available assays.
(Chapter 4 is 14 pages, pdf 117kb)