Laboratory Resources
United States
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)external icon Report a problem with a product
- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
(formerly National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards [NCCLS]) - American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)external icon
Reference strain collection - The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)external icon
Association of U.S. public health laboratories in all 50 states and six territories
International-Multinational
- International Collaboration on Gonococci ( formerly http://www.icgngo.ca/ )
An international collaboration on laboratory issues related to antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, quality control and quality assurance; Sampling methods; Strain typing; Diagnostics, Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms.
For more information or to be added to the electronic mailing list, please contact: Prof J.W. Tapsall, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for STD and HIV, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia 2031
telephone + 61 2 9382 9079; telefax + 61 2 9398 4275; e-mail j.tapsall@unsw.edu.au - World Health Organization
- Manual for the laboratory identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens of public health concern in the developing worldexternal icon
A manual to guide decision-making regarding antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens including N. gonorrhoeae (English, Chapter VI [PDF, 290 k]) - WHO Western Pacific Region Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Programme (GASP) Annual Reportsexternal icon
Annual reports of the WHO Western Pacific Region Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Programme (GASP): 1996 – 2002 - Situational Analysis on Antimicrobial Resistance in the South-East Asia Regionpdf iconexternal icon – A 2016 report detailing the Region’s progress in developing and implementing national action plans.
- Manual for the laboratory identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens of public health concern in the developing worldexternal icon
- Australia
- Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual reports: Communicable Diseases Intelligenceexternal icon
Annual reports of the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Program: 1995 – 2003
- Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual reports: Communicable Diseases Intelligenceexternal icon
- Canada
- National Microbiology Laboratory
Website of the National Microbiology Laboratory
- National Microbiology Laboratory
- United Kingdom
- Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory (STBRL)external icon
Website of the Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory - National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC)external icon
Reference strain collection
- Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory (STBRL)external icon
Page last reviewed: December 10, 2013