SGDIA: Veterinary and Public Health Standardisation Group
The Veterinary and Public Health Test Standardisation Group was set up by SGDIA to harmonise, and where possible to standardise, test methodologies used in diagnostic and surveillance laboratories in the UK. The Group has representatives from the three major public sector veterinary laboratory organisations in the UK (VLA, SAC and VSD-Stormont) together with the Health Protection Agency, the Food Standards Agency and NIBSC.
National Reference Methods will be published on this website as they are developed and agreed.
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Working programme
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National Guidelines for Laboratories
Recommendations for procedures where we do not provide a fully detailed Reference Method.
- NGL101: Antimicrobial
resistance testing - general principles
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- NGL102: Beta-lactamase
resistance testing in gram negative
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National Reference Methods for Laboratory Tests
- NRM001: E.coli 0157, Detection/Isolation and Presumptive Identification (Revised October 2007) (330 KB);
- NRM002: Cryptosporidium: Detection and Identification in Faeces (Revised June 2006) (329 KB;
- NRM003: West Nile Virus: Detection of viral RNA by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. (94 KB);
- NRM004: Brucella: Primary isolation
from tissues and fluids (Revised June 2008) (395 KB);
- NRM005: Classical Swine Fever:
Laboratory Procedures for Diagnosis and Surveillance (227 KB) (Revised July 2007);
- NRM006: E Coli 026,
0103, 0111 and 0145 : Isolation by Immuno-magnetic Separation and Presumptive
Identification (327 KB) (Revised July 2007);
- NRM007: Culture and Identification
of Bacillus Anthracis from field cases in animals (264 KB) (Revised July 2007)
- NRM 008: Isolation
of Salmonella for surveillance purposes (323 KB) (Revised July 2007)
- NRM 009: Salmonella and Escherichia coli 0157: H7 - Pulsed field gel electrophoresis for molecular fingerprinting (500 KB)
- NRM 010: West Nile Virus:
Titration of sera using the Plaque Reduction Neutralisation Test (PRNT)
(284 KB)
- NRM 011: European Bat Lyssavirus (EBLV-1 or EBLV2): Modified fluorescent antibody virus neutralisation assay (mFAVN) for determining specific serum antibodies (801 KB)
- NRM 012: Foot and Mouth Disease : Detection of structural protein antibodies by solid-phase c-ELISA (400 KB)
- NRM013: Foot and Mouth Disease : Detection of Antibodies against non-structural viral proteins (278 KB).
SGDIA Secretariat
Defra
Area 4A
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
Tel: +44(0) 20 7238 5435
Fax: +44(0) 20 7238 6729
Email: vetsurveillance@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Page last modified:
June 12, 2008