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Reference laboratory status

The VLA has close collaborative links with research institutes, universities and commercial companies and acts as a reference laboratory for a wide range of infectious and non-infectious diseases in farm animals.

• National Reference Laboratory
• European Community
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization
• World Health Organization
• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

National Reference Laboratory

VLA is certified to carry out national survey and diagnostic work as part of EC Directives and other European activities for the following:

• Anthrax

• Antimicrobial resistance (animal samples)

• Aujeszky's disease

• Avian influenza

• Brucellosis

• Campylobacter

• Classical swine fever

• Enzootic bovine leukosis

• Equine encephalomyelitis

• Equine infectious anaemia

• Newcastle disease

• Salmonella

• Teschen disease (porcine viral encephalomyelitis)

• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

• Trichinella

European Community

Community reference laboratory for:

• Avian influenza

• Newcastle disease

• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Reference centre for:

• Avian influenza

• Brucellosis

• Newcastle disease

• Poultry diseases

World Health Organization

Collaborative centre for:

• Reference and research on brucellosis

• Characterisation of rabies and rabies-related viruses

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

Reference laboratory for:

• Antimicrobial resistance (animal samples)

• Avian influenza

• Bovine tuberculosis

• Bovine viral diarrhoea

• Brucellosis

• Classical swine fever

• Contagious agalactia

• Contagious equine metritis

• Enzootic bovine leukosis

• Equine viral arteritis

• Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

• Newcastle disease

• Rabies

• Salmonellosis

• Scrapie and BSE