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APPENDIX E

LIST OF LABS IDENTIFIED IN LOW-RESOURCE COUNTRIES

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
Afghanistan	BSL-2, no known BSAT	CPHL		Unknown	PCR, ELISA, microbiology
Armenia	BSL-2?, no known BSAT	MDC (Govt/Military?, Academic)	INTAS (India 2006), ISTC (2014) CRDF (2011)	Operational	General and applied research, maintains strain collection
Bangladesh	(2) BSL-2, Modular Work with Nipah for US CDC; works with B. anthracis human outbreaks	One locally built) (Min Health) IEDCR (one modular from TechComp—China	US CDC	Locally built is operational Modular likely in use but BAS-HVAC malfunctions	Microbiology, serology, ELISA
	BSL-2 No known BSAT	icddr,b (nonprofit, Health)	Gates Foundation, DFID (UK), DFATD (CA), Sida (SWE), USAID, others	BSL-2 operational, BSL-3 decommissioned 2016; new BSL-3 in construction	Microbiology, serology, ELISA; PCR, sequencing (Nipah, CCHF) TB, influenza, NIPAH for US CDC, V. cholera
	BSL-2	BLRI, Min Ag	OIE	Operational	ELISA, PCR, DNA sequencing, vaccine

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	possible BSAT	(veterinary reference lab)			development, basic research
	BSL-2 Isolates BSAT- B. abortus, Brucella ssp	CDIL Min Ag (veterinary reference lab)	USAID, OIE	Operational	PCR, serology, histopathology ELISA, HPAI preparedness
Burkina Faso	BSL-3 Container Lab	Centre Muraz	Several sources	Operational	Arbovirus (yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, zika) and VHF (RVF, CCHF) research and diagnostics; serology/PCR; limited sequencing capacity
Cambodia	BSL-3 Work with BSAT, XDR TB, emerging influenza	IP, C Min Health	Funds: INSERM, ANRS, IRD, Fondation Mérieux and Institut Pasteur WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Center	Operational	Research and diagnostics: virology, bacteriology, FACS, gene sequencer, multiplex assays
Cambodia	BSL-2 BSAT unknown	NaVRI	OIE	Operational	Diagnostics, HPAI, unknown capability

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
		Veterinary Reference Lab
Cameroon	BSL-3 No known BSAT	PC, C Min Health,	Institut Pasteur (?), WHO National Reference Center for Avian Flu	Operational	Diagnostics, epidemiology, research on local disease
Congo (Dem. Rep)	BSL-3 BSAT include Ebola, Marburg	INRB Min Health, (WHO Natl Ref Lab for measles and other disease)	Presidents Malaria Initiative (USA) 2016 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 2017	Operational	Human diagnostics, ELISA, research
Cote d’Ivoire	BSL-3 BSAT (Lassa Fever Virus)	IP, Cd’I Commercial	Unknown	Operational	Regional AI reference lab, human diagnostic tests
Djibouti	BSL-3 No known BSAT	Natl TB Lab Min Health,	AFD (Agence Française de Développement) 2010	Operational	Located at Hôpital Paul Faure—human TB diagnosis
Egypt	BSL? 2 BSAT	MIRCEN Cairo, Academic	UNESCO; Ain Shams University	Operational	Collecting, identifying and preserving microbial strains located at Ain

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	BSL-3 No known BSAT	U.S. Navy Medical Research Unit-3; Govt/MIL	Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, 2006	Operational (no longer operational?)	Shams University. Surveillance sample testing mainly on RT-PCR methodology
Ethiopia	BSL-3 Possesses agricultural BSAT	National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Center; Min Health	?	Operational	National reference laboratory, coordinates national surveillance programs for transborder animal diseases
	BSL-3 (mobile?) Crossover and animal BSAT	Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre of the African Union; Academic	?	Operational	Produce and distribute animal vaccines
	BSL-3 No BSAT	Armauer Hansen Research Institute; Min Health	Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (current); Norwegian Agency for Development	Operational	Biomedical research, basic (immunology and molecular biology), epidemiological, and translational research

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
			Cooperation (current); Ethiopian Government (current)
	BSL-3 No BSAT	Ethiopian Public Health Institute; Min Health	World Bank, 2015 ($49M)	Operational	Many US, NGO, and other country collaborations
	BSL-3 No BSAT	TB Reference Laboratory	PEPFAR, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, USAID Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (?)	Operational	At St. Peter’s Hospital-advanced diagnostics for TB and MTB
Georgia	BSL-3 BSAT-ASF virus and CCHF virus 8 BSL-3—no info	Central Public Health Reference Laboratory; Min Health, Min Ag	USG—$100M in 2011	Operational	Human and animal disease surveillance and research

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
Ghana	BSL-3 BSAT- Nipah virus	Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Academic	Unknown	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, research on tropical diseases
	BSL-3 No BSAT	Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Academic	25+ funding sources listed with no date or confirming info	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, antiviral research, molecular epidemiology of polioviruses, enteroviruses, HIV, and others
	3 other BSL-3, 2 with BSAT, B. anthracis	Located in Accra, Takoradi, and Tamale	Global Affairs Canada GPP program	Operational	Government veterinary services labs, human and animal disease surveillance (B. anthracis and avian influenza)

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
Guatemala	BSL-3 1 BSAT- B. abortus	National Health Laboratory; Min Health	?	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection
Guinea	BSL-3 2BSAT- EBOV, Lassa	Virology Lab, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases; Academic	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, (?); European Union (?)	Operational	At Donka Hospital; viral hemorrhagic fever research, many outside collaborators listed (no date)
Guinea	BSL-3	Institute of Microbiology, University of Conakry; Academic	Several EU and corporate funders listed (no date/$)	Operational	Best-equipped lab for VHF and YF diagnostics in this part of West Africa
Haiti	BSL-3 3 BSAT: Y. pestis, C. botulinum, B. anthracis	Tuberculosis Laboratory, University of Florida Public Health Research Center; Haiti; Academic	Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (US); NIH (US)	Operational	TB, cholera, and viral disease epidemiology and diagnostics
	BSL-3 No BSAT	GHESKIO; Min Health	4 funders listed (no data), includes	Operational	HIV, STD, and TB diagnostics, treatment, and research

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
		(2 campuses with another? BSL-3 complete 2010)	USAID and UNITAID
	BSL-3 No BSAT	National Public Health Laboratory; Min Health	Numerous engagers; Funders: US CDC Foundation; GE Foundation (US); Kaiser Permanente; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Operational	Virology, bacteriology, immunology, epidemiology, has US CDC onsite
India	44 BSL-3 collected—Many with BSAT	Mix of private vaccine/drug manufacturers, MIL, academic, hospital labs, human and animal	In general, no data on funders	Operational	Virology, bacteriology, diagnostics, vaccine production, epidemiology, etc.
India	BSL-4	National Institute of Virology; Pune (Min Health, possible MIL)	WHO Arbovirus Collaborating Center	Operational	‘Biodefense lab’, virus epidemiology (Influenza, Nipah, CCHF, KFD, SARS, etc.
Indonesia	22 listed as BSL-3 (3 seen—confirm)	MIL, academic, hospital labs, Min Health, Min Ag	Funded by Indonesia Govt; Vet labs have received significant	22 operational 10 unknown	Diagnose human and animal virus, bacteria, parasite infection (rabies

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	7 w/ BSAT, another 10 unknown, 8 RVDLs not listed (BSL-2); 2 RVDL have BSL-3 donated by Japan		contributions of equipment, reagents, PPE and i.e. BSC certification—repair from OIE, FAO, JICA for HPAI and some USAID training	8 vet labs operational at BSL-2; 2 Japanese donated BSL-3 container labs at RVDL are not functional (no funding for power; airflow not working)	is a big problem), epidemiology, HIV research, etc.
Kenya	9 BSL-3 7 listed as possessing BSAT	Min Health, Min Ag, MIL	Generally no discussion but mention of Wellcome Trust, U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya	9 operational, 3 in construction or planning	Diagnosis and research on human and animal virus, bacteria, infection; collection and repository; vaccine–drug production
Kyrgyz Republic	BSL-3 (modular-German built) No BSAT	National Reference Laboratory; Min Health	German Development Bank (2013); Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2003-2009)	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection; TB treatment, diagnostics, prevention
Lao, PDR	BSL-3 1 BSAT- B. pseudomallei	National Tuberculosis	Wellcome Trust, WHO	Operational	At Central Mahosot Hospital; Reference Lab/Culture Collection

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
		Reference Center; Min Health, MIL			and research on epidemiology, treatment of malaria, typhoid, typhus, and other community acquired pathogens.
	BSL-2 BSAT- Unknown	National Animal Health Center; Min Ag	Staff are affiliated with Oxford Univ & Wellcome Trust	Operational- upgrade status unknown	Diagnosis of animal disease
Liberia	BSL-2 BSAT – EBOV strains	Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research; Min Health, MIL	During EBOV outbreak 2014 received staffing, reagents, equipment from US CDC, USMRIID, USAID, US NIH	Operational	National lab for diagnosis of hep B, malaria, cholera, and in 2014 ebola; limited Lassa fever PCR capacity
Madagascar	BSL-3 2 BSAT- RVF virus and Y. Pestis	Institut Pasteur in Madagascar, Min Health, commercial	Institut Pastuer (Paris)—2017 providing staff and RT-PCR equipment – reagents. 14 funders (most NGOs some	Operational	national reference lab; studies malaria entomology, plague, mycobacteria, experimental bacteriology, immunology

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
			commercial) listed with no $ or year WHO Collaborating Center for Plague; WHO Reference Laboratory for Polio, Measles and Influenza
Malawi	BSL-3 No BSAT	Tuberculosis Central Reference Laboratory, USAID?, MIL/Govt	USAID	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, TB, MDR-TB epidemiology and diagnosis
Mali	BSL-3 No BSAT	FMPOS; Min Health	NIAID, 2002 and 2010 (infrastructure for BSL-3)	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection
Moldova	BSL-3 No BSAT	National Center for Public Health, Min Health	???	Operational	Develops legislative, regulatory public health, health promotion, and noncommunicable disease surveillance
Morocco	6 BSL-3 listed with BSAT (RVFV,	Human and animal health; Min Health, Min Ag	Institut Pasteur in Morocco Casablanca	6 operational	Collection, research, disease diagnosis,

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	AHS virus); 3 BSL-3 planned.		is established, no recent funding		veterinary vaccine production
Mozambique	BSL-3 2 BSAT- B. anthracis, Newcastle virus	Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique, Min Ag	None listed	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection
Myanmar	BSL-3 No BSAT	National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory; Min Health, UNITAID	UNITAID $87.6M but no date	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection; TB MDR TB diagnosis
	BSL-3 No BSAT	No. 2 Defence Service General Hospital; Govt/MIL?	No info	Operational	Hospital/clinic with full diagnostic capability
	BSL-3 No BSAT	NTRL Regional Laboratory, Min Health, UNITAID, FIND	Lists several NGOs but no date/amount	Operational	TB Reference Lab/Culture Collection
	BSL-2 BSAT unknown	YNRL, Min Ag	BSCs donated 2008 and 2011 OIE and JICA	Operational	Animal health diagnostic lab

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	BSL-2 BSAT unknown	MVDL, Min Ag	BSCs donated 2011 OIE and JICA	Operational	Animal health diagnostic lab, bird flu, rabies, etc.
Nepal	BSL-2 BSAT likely	Central Veterinary Laboratory, Min Ag	OIE donated HPAI reagents and equipment (BSC, PCR, RT PCR), PPE and lab equipment (approx. 2010).	Operational Located in Kathmandu	Lab tests for HPAI, rabies, Newcastle, peste des petites ruminants, Infectious bursar disease, bacteria, etc.
Nicaragua	BSL-3 No BSAT	Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Min Ag	Sources from US, EU, El Salvador but no date/amount	Operational	Analysis and diagnosis of veterinary and food products
Nigeria	10 BSL-3 with numerous endemic BSAT (e.g., Ebola, Lassa)	Institutes are academic, Min Ag, Lagos State Min Health, Mainland Hospital	Global Affairs Canada GPP program and numerous other engagements and possible funders	Operational, one just completed	WHO National Influenza Center, WHO reference center for arboviruses; human and animal virus epidemiology, surveillance, isolation, diagnostics, characterization, and research. Capacity to handle unknown pathogens; PCR, sequencing; reference

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
					lab/culture collection (TB/HIV), biobank
	BSL-2	Min Ag, Lagos State Min Health	Global Affairs Canada GPP program	Just completed	Human and animal disease surveillance and diagnostics
Pakistan	5 BSL-3, 2 with BSAT (B. anthracis); 6 BSL-3 unknown	Academic, commercial, medical, Min Ag, Min Health, MIL?	WHO Collaborative Centre for Research and Training in Viral Diagnostics; No info on funding or engagements	5 operational 6 unknown, or in planning/construction	Research on antimicrobial resistance and emerging viral and bacterial infections; culture collection; human and animal clinical diagnosis; TB Reference Laboratory
Philippines	3 BSL-3, 1 w/BSAT (B. melitensis) 6 unknown	Academic, Govt/MIL, Min Health	Funding info is largely blank; Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Japan, 2011)	3 operational 6 unknown BSL, in construction or not collected	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, human disease diagnosis.
Philippines	BSL-2	Philippines Animal Health Center, Min Ag	UNDP/FAO equipment provided 2007-2009	Operational	Veterinary Reference Lab Quezon City
Senegal	BSL-3 BSAT Unknown	Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Min Health	WHO Collaborating Centre for	Operational (2016)	Diagnosis, treatment, and vaccination of

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
			arboviruses and VHFs; WHO National Lab for flu, measles and polio. Funding from French Govt and EU ERDF program; Unknown funding from Pasteur Inst, WHO		arboviruses, VHF, and enteroviruses; Reference Lab/Culture Collection
Sierra Leone	BSL-3 2 BSAT (EBOV spp, Lassa)	Kenema Government Hospital, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory	Significant collaboration with US CDC, USAMRIID, universitites and companies; UK foundations. Recent funding unknown	Operational	Diagnosis and treatment of Lassa fever and other diseases
	BSL-3 No BSAT	Central Public Health Reference Laboratory	Amount/year of funding unknown	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection for HIV and other
	BSL-3 BSAT unknown	Chinese Mobile Container BSL-3 Lab (3 containers)	???	Operational	VHF diagnosis

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
Sri Lanka	BSL-3 1 BSAT (Y. pestis) 3 other entries w/no data	Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Min Health	None listed	Unclear website states both not operational and operating	Unknown
Syria	BSL-3 1 BSAT (B. abortus)	Atomic Energy Commission of Syria; Govt/MIL	Amount/year of funding unknown	Operational in Damascus	Work on Brucella bacteria
Tajikistan	BSL-3 No BSAT	National Public Health Reference Laboratory; Min Health	Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2013)	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection Molecular and culture testing for viral and bacterial diseases
Tajikistan	BSL-3 No BSAT	National TB Reference Laboratory; Min Health	No funding described	Operational	At Machiton Hospital; Reference Lab/Culture Collection diagnostics of TB, HIV, malaria, etc.
Tanzania	8 BSL-3 2 w/BSAT (RVF virus, Y. pestis, B. anthracis, Rinderpest)	Min Health, Min Ag, Hospital, Commercial,	Amount/year of funding unknown	7 operational 1 planned (has BSAT)	Reference Lab/Culture Collection; Surveillance of Rift Valley fever, H1N1, and dengue, diagnosis of human and animal diseases

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
Uganda	BSL-2	Makerere University Infectious Disease Institute, Academic	Amount/year of funding unknown	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, HIV/TB diagnosis
	BSL-3 No BSAT	UVRI; Med Research Council	Amount/year of funding unknown; CDC	Operational	Hospital; HIV/AIDS; VHF program (serology, PCR, limited sequencing)
	6 BSL-3 No BSAT	Min Ag, Min Health	Some funders listed: USAID, Global Fund, UK Medical Research Council, Gates Foundation	Unknown, construction, not collected	Reference lab, hospital, culture collection
Ukraine	4 BSL-3 4 w/ BSAT (B. anthracis, Y. pestis, F. tularensis, B. abortus, Guanarito virus)	(Some part of FSU weapons program). Min Health	No funding described	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, bacteriologic and arbovirus research, surveillance of ‘plague’ diseases
Vietnam	BSL-3 No BSAT	National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Min Health	JICA (2008), WHO, The Global Fund	Operational	Reference Lab/Culture Collection, human disease prevention and control

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	BSL-3 and SAPO 4 Likely BSAT	Virology Reference Laboratory, Min Health	Wellcome Trust, Canada PHAC & US HHS provide staff	Operational	At Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; diagnosis/research planned on TB, influenza, rabies, FMD, TBE virus, CHIKV, bat corona viruses
	3 others (1 BSL-3 w/ BSAT- Y. pestis)	Min Health, Academia, unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	BSL-2 BSAT unknown	Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Min Ag	OIE	Operational	At Hanoi Agriculture University; reference and diagnostic lab for animal health
West Bank aka Palestine	BSL-3 No BSAT	PCPHL; Min Health (may have MIL ties, work on Rad Protection)	Agence Francaise de Developpement (2011)	Operational	Human diagnostics of highly pathogenic organisms (i.e., TB)
Zambia	6 BSL-3 1 with BSAT (B. anthracis, Y. pestis,	Institutes are academic, veterinary school, and hospital/clinic	Container labs ‘managed’ by The Zambia AIDS Related	Operational 4 of 6 are modular 40 ft container labs (ZamLab)	Surveillance and diagnosis of hemorrhagic fever viruses, TB, plague bacillus, trypanosome;

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Country	# of BSL-2/3/4^a	Type of Lab^b	Funder^c	Status^d	Capability
	C. burnetii, Ebola Zaire)		Tuberculosis Project, affiliated with University of Zambia’s School of Medicine and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; no mention of funding		Reference Lab/Culture Collection
Zimbabwe	1 BSL-3 No known BSAT 3 possible BSL-3 (no details)	National TB Reference Laboratory, Min Health	No funding described	Operational	National Reference Lab/Culture Collection, works with MDR/XDR TB, HIV

^a BSL indicates BSL-2 is included if there is no known BSL-3.

^b Names of lab(s) and affiliation (academic, commercial, agriculture, military, hospital)

^c Donor paying for lab/operations, last date of funds; specialties (WHO center TB, Polio, flu, etc.)

^d Status: operational, not operational, unknown.

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NOTES: Although information is available on laboratory programs in several other countries that are not listed as low-income or lower- to middle-income countries by the World Bank, such as Jordan and Trinidad and Tobago, it was decided to limit the scope of this illustrative list.

Abbreviations:

BLRI, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute

BSAT, Biological Select Agents and Toxins

CDIL, Central Disease Investigation Laboratory, Dhaka Bangladesh

CPHL, Central Public Health Laboratories

FMPOS, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Odonto-Stomatology

GHESKIO, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health, Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections

icddr,b, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

IEDCR, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research, Bangladesh

INRB, National Institute of Biomedical Research

IP, C, Institut Pasteur in Cambodia

IP, Cd’I, Institut Pasteur in Côte d’Ivoire

MDC, Microbial Depository Center

MIRCEN, Egypt Microbial Culture Collection, Cairo Microbiological Resources Centre

MVDL, Mandalay Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

NaVRI, National Veterinary Research Institute

PC,C, Pasteur Center, Cameroon

PCPHL, Palestinian Central Public Health Laboratory

UVRI, Uganda Virus Research Institute

YNRL, Yangon National Reference Laboratory.

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