High Security Infectious Disease Units
in Europe
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Austria |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
None |
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| Contact persons | |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
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| Diagnostic capabilities | see here |
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Belgium |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
None |
| Facility status | Not operational |
| Contact persons | Dr. M. Van Esbroeck Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Centraal Laboratorium voor Klinische Biologie Kronenburgstraat 43/3 B-2000 Antwerpen Tel. 32-(0)3/247.64.44 Fax. 32-(0)3/247.64.40 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
No, under construction |
| Diagnostic capabilities | To be installed. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
No |
| Facility status | - |
| Contact persons | Dr. M. Hukic Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo Institute of Microbiology. 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina T: 00 38 7 440 447 F: 00 38 7 440 447 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
No |
| Diagnostic capabilities | Hantavirus |
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Denmark |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Department of Infectious Diseases Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej 9 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark |
| Facility status | Operational |
| Contact persons | Prof. Peter Skinhøj Department of Infectious Diseases Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej 9 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark Telephone: 45 - 3545 3545. |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
No |
| Diagnostic capabilities | None |
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Finland |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Auroral Hospital Helsinki University Hospital Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases P.O.Box 348 FIN-00029 HYKS Finland |
| Facility status | Operational |
| Contact persons | Dr. Heli Siikamäki, MD Aurora Hospital, building 5., 3rd floor Helsinki University Hospital Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases P.O.Box 348 FIN-00029 HYKS Finland Telephone +358-9-4711 Fax +358-9-47175900 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
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| Diagnostic capabilities | Hantaviruses, flaviviruses, alphaviruses, Rift Valley Fever |
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France |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
One unit in Paris (Service de Maladies Infectiouses et Tropical) |
| Facility status | |
| Contact persons | Dr.Marie-Claude Georges-Courbot / Dr. Hervé Zeller Laboratoire Jean Mérieux (BSL4) 21 avenue Tony Garnier 69365 Lyon cedex 07 Tel.: +33 (0)4 4276 8293 / Dr. Hugues Tolou / Dr. Jean-Paul Durand Institut de Medecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées Le pharo B.P. 46 13998 Marseille Armées France Tel.: +33 (0)4 9115 0100 Fax.: +33 (0)4 9115 0118 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
BSL3 in Marseille; J-P. Durand BSL4 in Lyon; C. Georges-Courbot |
| Diagnostic capabilities | see here |
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Germany |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Bernhard Nocht Institut (BNI) Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74 D-20359 Hamburg Berlin Charite / Rudolf Virchow Charité, HU-Berlin Med. Klinik m.S. Infektiologie Augustenburger Platz 1 D-13353 Berlin Städtische Kliniken Schwabing Krankenhaus München-Schwabing IV. Med.Abt. Kölner Platz 1 D- 80804 München Saxonian Center of Exellence for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine - Special Isolation Unit (ward 7/E) - 2. Clinic for Internal Medicine Klinikum St. Georg Delitzscher Strasse 141 D-04129 Leipzig |
| Facility status | Bernhard Nocht Institut : Operational Charite / Rudolf Virchow : Operational Städtische Kliniken Schwabing : Operational Klinikum St. Georg : Operational |
| Contact persons | Hamburg: Prof. Dr. Gerd-Dieter Burchard Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74 D-20359 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42818 2390 Fax: +49 (0)40 42818 2394 mail: Berlin: Prof.Dr. Norbert Suttorp Tel.: +49 (0)30 450 55-30 51/31 22 Fax: +49 (0)30 450 55-39 06/39 72 mail: Munich: Prof. Dr. Dieter Eichenlaub Tel.: +49 (0)89 3068 2601 Fax: +49 (0)89 3068 3910 Leipzig: Dr. Thomas Grünewald/ Dr. Bernhard R. Ruf Tel.: +49 (0)341 909 4005 Fax: +49 (0)341 909 2630 e-mail: 24 hr-service: 0170 7618244 Fankfurt: Center of Competence (24 h) Tel.: +49 (0)69 441 033 Office hours Dr René Gottschalk/Dr. Oswald Bellinger Tel.: +49 (0)69 212 36252 Fax: +49 (0) 212 31498 mail: Clinical requests (24 h) PD Dr. H.R. Brodt/ PD Dr. G Just Nübling Tel.: +49 (0)69 6301 7410 Fax: +49 (0)89 3068 3910 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
Hamburg: BSL-4 facility available |
| Diagnostic capabilities | Berlin: BSL-3 facility available Leipzig: BSL-3 facility available |
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Greece |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Isolation facilities are available |
| Facility status | operational |
| Contact persons | Prof. A. Antoniadis / Dr. A. Papa Department of Microbiology School of Medicine Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki 54006 Thessaloniki Tel.: +30 31 999 081 / 159 Fax:Tel.: +30 31 999 149 |
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Ireland |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Isolation units in Dublin |
| Facility status | Not operational |
| Contact persons | Dr. W.W. Hall |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
Under construction |
| Diagnostic capabilities | None UK facilities for diagnostics |
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Italy |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Rome (Spallanzani Hospital) Pavia (San Matteo Hospital) |
| Facility status | Operational |
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Lithuania |
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Portugal |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
BSL3 in Lisbon BSL2 at CEVDI/INSA / Dr. Maria Joao Alves |
| Facility status | |
| Contact persons | National Institute of Health Av. Padre Cruz 1600 Lisboa Tel.: +351 2175 19200 Fax.: +351 2175 90441 Dr. Maria Joao Alves Center for Infectious Disease Research/ National Institute of health Av. da Liberdade 5 2965 Águas de Moura Tel.: +351 265 912 222 Fax.: +351 265 912 155 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
Dr. Maria Joao Alves |
| Diagnostic capabilities |
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Slovenia |
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Sweden |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
One Unit in Linköping (Infektionskliniken) |
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Switzerland |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
All university hospitals (Zurich, Basel, Geneva,Lausanne Fibourg) as well as the hospital in St. Gall have negative pressure rooms for isolation purposes. |
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The Netherlands |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
8 hospitals serve as referral centers for patients with suspicion on viral haemorrhagic fever. No isolation facilities |
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United Kingdom |
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| High Security Infectious Disease Units and Patient Management |
Coppetts Wood Hospital North London Newcastle General Hospital Newcastle |
| Facility status | Operational |
| Contact persons | Dr Barbara Bannister Department of Infectious and Tropical Medicine Newcastle General Hospital Coppetts Wood Hospital Tel: +44 (0) 181 830 2648 (direct line) Fax: +44(0) 181 444 3207 Dr Ong Newcastle Coppetts Road Muswell Hill London N10 1JN Tel:+44(0)191738811(direct line) Fax:+44(0)191 2730900 |
| High Security Infectious Disease Viral Diagnostic Laboratories |
Dr Graham Lloyd Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR) Porton Down, Salisbury Wiltshire, SP4 0JG Tel : +44 (0) 1980 612100 (Main) Tel : +44 (0) 1980 612224 (Direct) Fax: +44 (0) 1980 611310 e-mail: Dr David Brown PHLS Virus Reference Division Central Public Health Laboratory Colindale Avenue London NW9 5HT Tel: +44 (0) 181 200 4400 (Main) Tel: +44 (0) 181 200 4400 ext 3016 FAX: +44 (0) 208 205 8195 e-mail: |
| Diagnostic capabilities |
Both laboratories can investigate for VHF (Lassa, Ebola (strains), Marburg, CCHF) Additional investigations used in providing differential laboratory diagnosis.
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| Last Update: 20 November 2003 |