Reference laboratories
National reference centres
The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie is currently the Italian National reference centres for:
The various national reference centre operating at the IZSVe perform the following activities planned at the governmental level: confirming diagnoses made by other laboratories, implementing the standardization of methods, conducting the appropriate “ring tests” (inter-laboratory controls), preparing intervention plans, collaborating with other EU or international reference centers, providing specialised assistance and information to the Ministry of Health.
International reference laboratories
The IZSVe has been appointed as:
- FAO reference centre for rabies
- OIE collaborating centre for diseases at the animal/human interface
- OIE collaborating centre for epidemiology, training and control of emerging avian diseases
- OIE reference laboratory / FAO reference centre for animal influenza and Newcastle disease
- OIE reference laboratory for salmonellosis
- OIE reference laboratory for viral encephalopathy and retinopathy of marine fish
These laboratories are responsible for facing the various scientific and technical problems associated with the diseases included in the OIE lists, and are centers of excellence which in addition to conducting research on a specific disease also work towards the standardization of diagnostic techniques.
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