TY - JOUR
T1 - Status, quality and specific needs of Zika virus (ZIKV) diagnostic capacity and capability in National Reference Laboratories for arboviruses in 30 EU/EEA countries, MAY 2016
AU - Mögling, R.
AU - Zeller, H.
AU - Revez, J.
AU - Koopmans, M.
AU - Reusken, Chantal
AU - ZIKV Reference Laboratory Group
AU - Storozenko, Jelena
A2 - Aberle, Stephan
A2 - Van Esbroeck, Marjan
A2 - Christova, Iva
A2 - Vilibic-Cavlek, Tatjana
A2 - Richter, Jan
A2 - Zelena, Hana
A2 - Fomsgaard, Anders
A2 - Jaaskelainen, Anne J.
A2 - Brichler, Segolene
A2 - Illiaquer, Marina
A2 - Gonfrier, Geraldine
A2 - Leparc-Goffart, Isabelle
A2 - Poveda, Jean Dominique
A2 - Hober, D.
A2 - Fleury, H.
A2 - Fafi-Kremer, Samira
A2 - Foulongne, V.
A2 - Henquell, Cecile
A2 - Leveque, Nicolas
A2 - Carles, Marie Josee
A2 - Mansuy, J. M.
A2 - Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
A2 - Nitsche, Andreas
A2 - Papa, Anna
A2 - Mentis, Andreas
A2 - Takacs, Maria
A2 - Love, Arthur
A2 - Connell, Jeff
A2 - Venturi, Giulietta
A2 - Griskevicius, Algirdas
A2 - Opp, Matthias
A2 - Barbara, Christopher
A2 - Reimerink, Johan
A2 - Dudman, Susanne Gjeruldsen
A2 - Pancer, Katarzyna
A2 - Alves, Maria Joao
A2 - Ceianu, Cornelia S.
A2 - Ticha, Elena
A2 - Županc, Tatjana Avšič
A2 - Sanchez-Seco, Maria Paz
A2 - Tolfvenstam, Thomas
A2 - Aarons, Emma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/9/7
Y1 - 2017/9/7
N2 - With international travel, Zika virus (ZIKV) is introduced to Europe regularly. A country’s ability to robustly detect ZIKV introduction and local transmission is important to minimise the risk for a ZIKV outbreak. Therefore, sufficient expertise and diagnostic capacity and capability are required in European laboratories. To assess the capacity, quality, operational specifics (guidelines and algorithms), technical and interpretation issues and other possible difficulties that were related to ZIKV diagnostics in European countries, a questionnaire was conducted among national reference laboratories in 30 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in May 2016. While the coverage and capacity of ZIKV diagnostics in the EU/EEA national reference laboratories were found to be adequate, the assessment of the quality and needs indicated several crucial points of improvement that will need support at national and EU/EEA level to improve ZIKV preparedness, response and EU/EEA ZIKV surveillance activities.
AB - With international travel, Zika virus (ZIKV) is introduced to Europe regularly. A country’s ability to robustly detect ZIKV introduction and local transmission is important to minimise the risk for a ZIKV outbreak. Therefore, sufficient expertise and diagnostic capacity and capability are required in European laboratories. To assess the capacity, quality, operational specifics (guidelines and algorithms), technical and interpretation issues and other possible difficulties that were related to ZIKV diagnostics in European countries, a questionnaire was conducted among national reference laboratories in 30 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in May 2016. While the coverage and capacity of ZIKV diagnostics in the EU/EEA national reference laboratories were found to be adequate, the assessment of the quality and needs indicated several crucial points of improvement that will need support at national and EU/EEA level to improve ZIKV preparedness, response and EU/EEA ZIKV surveillance activities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029858093&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.36.30609
DO - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.36.30609
M3 - Article
C2 - 28920574
AN - SCOPUS:85029858093
SN - 1025-496X
VL - 22
SP - 18
EP - 26
JO - EUROSURVEILLANCE
JF - EUROSURVEILLANCE
IS - 36
M1 - 30609
ER -
