National Reference Laboratory for Salmonella
26 June 2024 | Ondřej Daniel, M.Sc.
The National Reference Laboratory for Salmonella is accredited as a medical laboratory (ČSN EN ISO 15189).
Head: Monika Havlíčková, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Deputy Head: Ondřej Daniel, M.Sc.
The NRL activities are:
- to identify pathogenic Salmonella strains and strains that cause enteric fever (commonly imported cases) from medical laboratories, using phenotyping and genotyping methods
- to confirm Salmonella strains mainly from medical laboratories
- to perform typing for the epidemiological needs (e.g. outbreaks) using conventional and genotyping methods (e.g., serotyping, MLVA, WGS)
- to collect rare Salmonella strains and analyse their phenotypic and genotypic characteristic
- to actively participate in the national salmonellosis surveillance program (Regulation No. 389/2023)
- to cooperate with the Accreditation Department of the Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology to evaluate the national external quality assessment schemes (EQAS) organized by the National Institute of Public Health
- to participate in data reporting to the European Surveillance System (TEESy) and the European surveillance portal for infectious diseases (EpiPulse)