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LIST OF NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS Belgium Institut National de Recherche Vétérinaire (INRV), Groeselenberg 99, 1180 Bruxelles Nationaal Instituut voor Diergeneeskundig Onderzoek (NIDO), Groeselenbergstraat 99, 1180 Brussel Denmark Statens Veterinaere Institut for Virusforskning, Lindholm, 4771 Kalvehave Germany Bundesforschungsanstalt fuer Viruskrankheiten der Tiere, Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse, 7400 Tuebingen France Laboratoire Central de Recherches Vétérinaires, 22, rue Pierre Curie, BP 67, 94703 Maisons Alfort Cedex Greece Institut de fièvre aphteuse et des maladies exotiques du Centre des Instituts Vétérinaires d'Athènes, Rue Neapoleos 25, KA 15 310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens Ireland Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Food, Abbotstown, Castleknock, Dublin Italy Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise, Via Campo Boario, Teramo Luxembourg Laboratoire de Médecine Vétérinaire de l'État, 54, Avenue Gaston Diderich, L-Luxembourg Netherlands Centraal Diergeneeskundig Instituut, Lelystad Portugal Laboratório Nacional de Investigaçao Veterinária, Estrada de Benfica No 102, Lisboa Spain Laboratorio de sanidad y producción animal, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, 28110 Algete, Madrid United Kingdom Institute of Animal Health, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU 24 ONF FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS The national laboratories for African horse sickness are responsible for coordinating the standards and diagnostic methods laid down in each diagnostic laboratory of the Member State, for the use of reagents and for the testing of vaccines. To this end, they: may provide diagnostic reagents to diagnostic laboratories requesting them; will control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in that Member State; will arrange comparative tests periodically; will hold isolates of African horse sickness virus from cases confirmed in that Member State; will ensure the confirmation of positive results obtained in regional diagnostic laboratories.

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