Diagnostics in Germany

   
Viruses IFA EIA NT PCR SEQ VI WB EM Contact
Chikungunya           Philipps-Universität Marburg
Institute for Virology

Dr. Markus Eickmann
Prof. Stephan Becker

Marburg
Germany
Address

CL for Filoviruses

Staff: 2 scientists

Equipment: BSL-2 BSL-3 BSL-4
Cowpox            
Crimean Congo HF          
Dengue 1-4      
Filoviruses: Ebola, Marburg  
Hanta Puumala        
Hepatitis D/Hepatitis E              
Influenza A H5/N1      
Japanese Encephalitis            
Lassa        
Monkeypox        
New World Arenaviruses          
Nipah    
Orthopoxviridae        
Parapox        
Phleboviridae          
Polio 1-3      
Rabies          
Rift Valley          
SARS-CoV      
Tick-Borne Encephalitits        
Variola        
West Nile            
Yellow Fever          



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Chikungunya             Robert Koch-Institut Centre for Biological Safety - Virology

Prof. Matthias Niedrig;
Berlin
Germany

Address

NCL for Tick-borne Encephalitis

Staff: 8 scientists, 2 technicians

Equipment: BSL-2 BSL-3
Cowpox        
Dengue 1-4          
Dobrava        
Ebola              
Hanta New World (Sin Nombre, Andes)          
Hantaviridae          
Herpes (HSV, VZV, EBV,
CMV, HHV, Herpes B)
             
Influenza A/H5N1              
Japanese Encephalitis            
Lassa              
Marburg              
Monkeypox          
Orthopoxviridae              
Parapox              
Phleboviridae            
Polio              
Puumala          
Rabies              
Rift Valley              
Saarema          
Sandfly virus
(Toscana, Naples, Cyprus, Sicilian)
             
SARS CoV          
Tick-Borne Encephalitis      
Tula            
Usutu              
Variola              
Venezuelean Equine Encephalitis              
West Nile        
Yatapox              
Yellow Fever        



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Alphaviruses   Bernhard-Nocht-Institut
Department of Virology

Dr. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
PD Dr. Stephan Günter

Hamburg
Germany

Address

NRC and WHO RC for Tropical Infectious Diseases

Staff: 4 scientists, 2 technicians

Equipment: BSL-2 BSL-3; BSL-4
Barmah Forest        
Chikungunya        
Equine Encephalitis (EEE, VEE, WEE)        
Mayaro        
O'nyong nyong        
Ross River        
Semliki Forest        
Sindbis        
Arenaviruses  
Guanarito        
Junin        
Lassa        
LCMV        
Machupo        
Bunyaviruses  
Batai        
Bunyamwera        
California Encephalitis        
Crimean-Congo HF        
Guaroa        
Hantavirus (Hantaan, Puumala, Seoul )      
Hantavirus (Andes, Sin Nombre, Tula)        
Inkoo        
La Crosse        
Madrid virus        
Ngari virus        
Oropouche virus        
Punta Toro        
Rift Valley        
Sandfly fever (Cyprus, Naples Sicilia, Toscana)        
Snowshoe hare virus        
Enteroviruses          
Filoviruses  
Ebola, Marburg        
Flaviviruses  
Dengue (1-4)      
Japanese Encephalitis        
Murray Valley Encephalitis        
St. Louis Encephalitis        
Tick-borne Encephalitis        
Usutu        
West Nile virus        
Yellow fever        
Zika        
Hepeviruses  
Hepatitis E virus (1-4)          
Retroviruses  
HTLV-1          
Rhabdoviruses  
Rabies          
Simplexviruses  
Herpes B          
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Barmah Forest ‡     Institut für Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr

PD Dr. Sandra Essbauer
Dr. Sabine Schmoldt,
Dr. Roman Wölfel

München
Germany

Address

CL for Tularemia

Staff: 2 scientists, 4 technicians

Equipment: BSL-2 BSL-3
24/7 on-cal duty service for diagnostic support

Additional:
Rapidly deployable bio lab with 24/7 on-call diagnostic support service for field use
Staff: 3 scientists, 6 technicians

California Encephalitis ‡          
Crimean Congo HF          
Chikungunya      
Dengue 1-4      
Dobrava      
Ebola              
Equine Encephalitis (EEE, VEE, WEE)      
Hantaan    
Influenza            
Japanese Encephalitis      
La Crosse ‡          
Lassa              
Louping Ill ‡      
Marburg HF              
Mayaro ‡      
Murray Valley Encephalitis ‡        
Puumala    
Rift Valley Fever      
Ross River Fever ‡    
Sandfly Fever Naples      
Sandfly Fever Sicilian      
Seoul      
Sindbis ‡      
St. Louis Encephalitis ‡        
Tick borne Encephalitis    
Toscana    
Wesselsbron ‡      
West Nile    
Yellow fever      
Zika ‡      
                 
Camelpox     Dr. Hermann Meyer
Dr. Sabine Schmoldt


München
Germany

Address
Cowpox    
Monkeypox    
Mousepox    
Parapoxvirus              
Tanapoxvirus              
Vacciniavirus    
Variola (inact.)      


‡ diagnostic assays are offered on a research base



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Bunyaviruses   Manfred Weidmann
Göttingen
Germany

Address
Batai            
Bunyamwera            
California Encephalitis            
Germiston            
Inkoo            
Jamestown Canyon            
La Crosse            
Oropouche virus            
Snowshoe hare            
Tahyna            
Coronaviruses  
SARS CoV              
Filoviruses  
Ebola (Zaire & Sudan)              
Marburg              
Flaviviruses  
Dengue (1-4)            
Japanese Encephalitis            
Murray Valley Encephalitis            
St. Louis Encephalitis            
Tick-borne Encephalitis            
West Nile virus            
Yellow fever            
Hantaviruses  
Andes virus              
Cano Delgadito virus              
Dobrava              
Hantaan              
Khabarowsk              
Puumala              
Seoul              
Sin Nombre              
Nairoviruses  
Crimean Congo HF              
Phleboviruses  
Rift Valley Fever          
Sandfly Fever Naples,
Sicillian, Turkey
         
Toscana          
Togaviruses (Alphaviruses)  
Chikungunya            
Equine Encephalitis
(EEE, VEE)
           
O'nyong-nyong            
Semliki Forest            
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Crimean Congo HF         Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Martin Groschup
Rainer Ulrich (Hanta)

Isle of Riems
Germany
Address

NRC for:
Hanta, WNV, Jap. Encephalitis, RVF, CCHF,
American Equine Encephalitis,
Ebola, Marburg, Hendra, Nipah
in animals

Staff: 7 scientists, 6 technicians

Equipment: BSL-2, BSL-3, (BSL-4 planned)
24/7 on-call duty service for diagnostic support.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis        
Hanta      
Japanese Encephalitis        
Prions        
Rift Valley Fever        
Usutu        
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis        
Western Equine Encephalitis        
West Nile Virus    

Abbreviations: IFA=Immunofluorescence Assay, EIA=Enzyme Immuno Assay, NT=Neutralization Test, PCR=Polymerase Chain Reaction, SEQ=Sequencing, VI=Virus Isolation, WB=Western Blot, HIA=Haemagglutination Inhibition Assay, EM=Electron Microscopy, RT=Rapid Test

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