WHO Manual on Animal Influenza Diagnosis and Surveillance
WHO Manual on Animal Influenza Diagnosis and Surveillance
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2002
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This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization (WHO), and all rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may, however, be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced and translated, in part or in whole, but not for sale nor for use in conjunction with commercial purposes. For authorization to reproduce or translate the work in full, and for any use by commercial entities, applications enquiries should be addressed to the Global Influenza Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, which will be glad to provide the latest information on any changes made to the text, plans for new editions and the reprints, regional adaptions and translations that are already available. The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors. Each member was assigned one or more chapters for revision. The introduction and background information on surveillance for animal influenza orients the trainee in these areas and sets out the overall goals of the proposed WHO Animal Influenza Network. The laboratory procedures for the isolation and antigenic characterization of influenza viruses from humans and lower animals are essentially the same and the present manual reflects these similarities. However, there are a significant number of differences in sampling and field strategies. The chapters on the neuraminidase assay and neuramini-dase inhibition assay that were not previously included in the Human Influenza Manual were developed specifically for this Animal Influenza Training Manual. The chapters on the identification of influenza viruses by Reverse Transcriptase – Polymerase Chain Reaction, the intravenous pathogenicity tests for influenza viruses and Newcastle Disease Virus were developed for this manual as was the chapter on the agar gel precipitation tests for the detection of antibodies for avian influenza. This is the second edition of the WHO Animal Influenza Training Manual and it must be emphasized that the work was done on a voluntary basis and the manual should be considered a work in progress. We fully acknowledge that there is room for improvement and that errors may be present. We request that any omissions and errors be brought to the attention of members of the Animal Influenza Network.