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close this bookEpidemiologic Surveillance after Natural Disaster (PAHO - OPS; 1982; 105 pages) [FR] [ES]
close this folderPart 2 : Annexes
View the documentAnnex 1 : List of key epidemiologic contacts in the western hemisphere
View the documentAnnex 2 : Pan American health organization country offices and centers
View the documentAnnex 3 : PAHO/WHO collaborating centers and reference laboratories for selected communicable diseases of public health importance
View the documentAnnex 4 : Summary of sanitation requirements during disasters
View the documentAnnex 5 : Factors to be considered in relation to vaccination in emergencies
View the documentAnnex 6 : References

Annex 3 : PAHO/WHO collaborating centers and reference laboratories for selected communicable diseases of public health importance

Brazil

• Adolfo Lutz Institute, Sao Paulo
- Arbovirus diseases
- Food contamination monitoring

• Centro de Pesquisas "Rene Rachou," M.S. - Fiocruz-lneru, Belo Horizonte
- Trypanosomiasis

Canada

• Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ontario
- Food contamination monitoring
- Virus diseases, general

Costa Rica

• The Carlos Saenz Herrera National Children's Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica (non-official PAHO center)
- Diarrheal diseases

France

• Institut Alfred-Fournier, Paris
- Venereal infections and Treponematoses

• Institut de Médicine Tropicale, Service de Santé des Arm‚es, Marseille-Armées
- Meningococcal infections

• Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Arbovirus diseases
- Enteric infections, bacterial
- Leptospirosis
- Rabies

• Laboratoire National de la Sante Publique, Paris
- Poxvirus

• Universit‚ Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de Virologie, Lyon
-Virus diseases, general

Guatamala

• INCAP, Guatemala (non-official PAHO center)
- Rotarvirus (latex toxigenic E. coli)

• INCAP, Unified Food Control Laboratory, (Guatemala City
- Food contamination monitoring

Jamaica

• Bustamante Children's Hospital, Kingston (non-official PAHO center)
- Diarrheal disease

• University of the West Indies, Department of Microbiology, Kingston
- Virus diseases, general

Mexico

• Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia , Subsecretaría de Mejoramiento del Ambiente, M‚xico, D.F.
- Food contamination

Peru

• Institutos Nacionales de Salud, Lima (non-official PAHO center)
- Enteric microbiology

United Kingdom

• Central Public Health Laboratory, London
- Enteric infections, bacterial - Influenza Virus diseases, general

• Centre for Overseas Pest Research, Division of Chemical Control Research, Porton Down, Salisbury
- Vector biology and control

• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool
- Malaria

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
- Filariasis
- Leishmaniasis
- Malaria
- Trypanosomiasis
- Vector biology and control
- Viral hepatitis

• Medical Research Council Laboratories, Toxicology Research [Unit, Carshalton
- Vector biology and control

• Medical Research Council, Harrow
- Virus diseases, general

• Medical Research Council, National Institute for Medical Research, London
- Influenza
- Leprosy
- Tuberculosis

• Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London
- Food contamination monitoring

• Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Diseases of Breeding Department, Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge
- Brucellosis

• Public Health Laboratory Service, Leptospirosis Reference Laboratory, London
- Leptospirosis

• Public Health Laboratory Service, Centre for Applied Microbiology nd Research, Special Pathogens Unit, Salisbury
- Virus diseases (special pathogens)

• University of Edinburg, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburg
- Malaria

• University of London, Institute of Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, London
- Trachoma and other Chlamydial infections

• University of London, Overseas Spraying Machinery Centre, Imperial College Field Station, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Ascot
- Vector biology and control

• Weight-Fleming Institute of Microbiology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London, London
- Smallpox

• Zoological Society of London, Nuffield Laboratories of Comparative Medicine, London
- Malaria

United States of America

• Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington
- Filariasis

• Baylor University, College of Medicine, Department of Virology and Epidemiology, Houston, Texas
- Virus diseases, general

• Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia
- Enteric infections, bacterial
- Enterovirus diseases
- Influenza
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Rickettsiosis
- Smallpox
- Vector biology and control
- Venereal infections and Treponematoses
- Virus diseases, general
- Virus diseases, special pathogens

• Center for Disease Control, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Arbovirus diseases

• Center for Disease Control, Lawrenceville, Georgia
- Rabies

• Center for Disease Control, Phoenix Laboratories, Phoenix, Arizona
- Viral hepatitis

• Francis 1. Proctor Foundation for Research in Opthalmology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California
- Trachoma

• The George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California
- Chlamydia
- Venereal infections and Treponematoses

• Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland
- Treponematoses

• National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland
- Mycoplasmas
- Virus diseases, general

• National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana
- Rickettsioses

• Ohio State University, Department of Entomology, College of Biological Sciences, Columbus, Ohio
- Vector biology and control

• St. Jude's Children Research Hospital, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
- Influenza (in animals)

• United States Department of Agriculture, Insects Affecting Man and Animals Research Laboratory, Gainesville Florida
- Vector biology and control

• United States Department of Agriculture, Gulf Coast Mosquito Research Laboratory, Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Vector biology and control

• United States Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Food, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Food contamination monitoring

• United States Public Health Services Hospital, Laboratory Research Branch, Carville, Louisiana
- Leprosy

• University of California, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Davis, California
- Vector biology and control

• University of California, Department of Entomology, Riverside, California
- Vector biology and control

• University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Entomology, Urbana, Illinois
- Vector biology and control

• University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland
- Rickettsioses

• University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Vector biology and control

• University of Texas, South Western Medical School, Department of Pathology, Dallas, Texas
- Vector biology and control

• The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Rubies

• Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, New Haven Connecticut
- Arbovirus diseases

Venezuela

• Instituto Nacional de Tuberculosis, Caracas
- Tuberculosis

• Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social, Departamento Central de Vectores y Reservorios, Division de Endemias Rurales, Maracay
- Vector biology and control

• Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Caracas
- Leprosy

• National Institute of Dermatology, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
- Leprosy

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