2005 Virology Contract Laboratory

There have been several outbreaks of viral diseases in Taiwan these years. Laboratory diagnosis for viral infection would not only provide valuable information for disease management and treatment but important for control and monitor viral outbreaks. The virology laboratory in Taiwanese CDC has been carrying out virus isolation and identification in the past and now. However, The laboratory in CDC cannot tolerate the high working load during the outbreaks in which too many specimens should be identified. Clinical Virology Center in Ghang-Gung Memorial Hospital , Lin-kou medical center？HHHH]Lin-Kou CGMH？HHHH^ helps to do virus isolation and identification. The specimens would be from middle north of Taiwan near Taoyuan area. All of the results have been transmitted to CDC for surveillance of viral diseases. The project of this year also focus on enteroviruses and influenza viruses. Besides, for the construction of the infectious agent genetic database, we also provide CDC the amplifed viral stock for further sequence analysis. In 2005, there were 2024 specimens sent to the virology laboratory of Lin-Kou CGMH for virus isolation, and about 817 specimens were sent to the lab for identification of SARS-CoV or Influenzavirus by real-time PCR from January to November. The achievement rate reached 115.67 % this year.

Project ID:PG9412-0095
External Project ID:CDC94-RM-005