Arboviral testing capacity by country

Testing capacity by virus and assay type (ref Q17)

Country

CHIKV

DENV

YFV

ZIKV

Albania

Armenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Malta

Monaco

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Slovenia

Spain

Switzerland

Turkey



Additional resources most needed for your country to perform adequate testing for arboviral diseases

Additional resources required for adequate arboviral disease testing (ref Q18)

Country

Additional personnel needed

Additional training needed

Additional laboratory equipment needed

Other capacity needs

Albania

Training on molecular method of sequencing and for detecting of the virus in the vectors.

Homogenisator, refrigerator, freeze -20 degree, - 80 oC, biosafety cabinet BSC 2, reagents for serology and molecular technique.

Real time PCR .

Armenia

Reagents

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

16 Full-time/part-time staff

France

Georgia

Diagnostic kits are needed.

Germany

3, technical staff , increasing the capacity for NGS and neutralization assays

Greece

3

Further training on specific specialised laboratory investigation methods (for laboratories other than the National Reference Laboratory)

Hungary

Italy

Malta

1

Monaco

Portugal

Romania

4 persons

to perform RT PCR and genome sequencing

BSL3, equipment for RT-PCR, sometime reagents

San Marino

Slovenia

At least 3 additional 3 FTE trained epidemiologists knowledgeable in arboviral surveillance and response.

Upgrading existing knowledge needed.

Spain

6 a nivel nacional y muchos más en el local

metagenómica

Switzerland

Turkey

Bioinformatic training