World Health OrganizationEmerging and other Communicable Diseases,Surveillance and Control

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It was recognition of our vital role that spurred the global community to launch, in 2001, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, GAVI, which currently supports

• to detect and control epidemics of meningococcal disease as early as possible, especially in areas such as developing countries where epidemic meningitis raises

To these ends, ARM programme activities include a WHO pilot External Quality Assurance Programme in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (a collaboration with the Centers for

To overcome the insufficiencies of parenteral immunization, dog accessibility to oral vaccination, safety and efficacy of oral vaccine candidates, bait acceptance and delivery

A standardized test method for determining dog bait preferences and efficacious vaccine delivery to the oral cavity of dogs should be developed and used, where possible, to provide

The Working Group proposed that the industry would favour collaboration with a WHO/FAO/OIE working group to define research and data needed in order to make an assessment of the

In 1997/1998, WHO Laboratory Training Courses on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Resistance Monitoring were conducted in countries in five WHO Regions (African