Welcome to the Animal Botulism website
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ANSES TEAM
The laboratory of Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort is in charge of the French National Reference Laboratory mandate for avian botulism. The Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig products Unit and the Epidemiology, Health and Welfare Unit are involved in reference and research activities conducted on animal botulism. The team contributes to the development of diagnostic and typing methods, to the diagnosis and detection of Clostridium botulinum in various matrices and to epidemiological investigations in case of suspicions and outbreaks. The team also provides expertise, consultation and training at a national level. To provide quality diagnostic services the team leads its activities under quality assurance and is accredited according to ISO 17025. The reference activities are supported by applied and fundamental research based on the “One Health” concept in the fields of a) diagnosis, b) prevalence, risk factors and epidemiology, c) the host-pathogen relationship; and d) control measures.
ISS TEAM
The National Reference Centre for Botulism (CNRB) was established by the Italian Ministry of Health in 1986 to support hospitals and public health authorities in the laboratory diagnosis of botulism cases and outbreaks. To date, the CNRB is one of the national reference laboratories belonging to the Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health of Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS).
The CNRB carry out the ISS mission primarily by providing laboratory diagnosis of human and animal botulism cases/outbreaks, collecting and analysing epidemiological data, developing diagnostic methods, affording advice and support to the public health authorities in critical issues related to the management of botulism in humans and animals, and through the coordination and participation to national and international research projects in botulism and BoNT-producing clostridia field.