activities of reference laboratories & collaborating centres:In?uenza – an example of successful networking and intersectoral collaboration

摘要

OIE Reference Laboratories make up a truly global network, exchanging knowledge, reference materials and expertise to support all OIE Member Countries. Laboratory networking reaps many global bene?ts, including accurate and early disease detection needed for effective disease control; free and rapid exchange of technical data, disease information and reference materials; harmonisation of expert opinion;ready availability of validated biological reference materials; trust, and strong technical relationships where politics may have failed. These bene?ts are further increased when laboratory networking extends to partners and sectors outside the animal health sector. This underpins effective disease surveillance and control and, in the case of many food-borne zoonoses, food safety.