Czech Republic National Reference Laboratory for Rabies

♦ 27 July 2015 ♦

The Laboratory for Rabies is one of the three laboratories in Czech Republic.

Since July 2007 the Laboratory is recognized as a National Reference Laboratory for Rabies. The laboratory is also an EU approved laboratory for serological testing regarding rabies in dogs, cats and ferrets in the frame of pets travel since 2005. Main laboratory routine activities are connected with rabies surveillance and rabies monitoring programmes. The monitoring programme in Czech Republic is conducted as a part of the oral vaccination campaigns which has been finished in autumn 2009.

The equipment is sufficient for routine diagnostic procedures (FAT and MIT).

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