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Table 2. Leishmaniasis Reference Diagnostic Laboratories
in North America
Laboratory
a
Testing available
Submitting
samples
b
Point of Contact
McGill
University,
Montreal,
CANADA
• Culture
• PCR (conventional
and real time)
• Species determination
(DNA sequencing,
DNA probes)
• Antibody detection
(DAT, rK39, ELISA
Crude Antigen)
Shipment instructions
provided on request.
Shipment preferred
using McGill
transport medium.
In most cases,
specimens should
be sent to the
relevant provincial
public health
laboratory, which will
forward samples as
appropriate.
Momar Ndao, DVM, MSc,
PhD
National Reference Centre
for Parasitolog y Research
Institute of the McGill
University Health Centre
Room E03
5375 1001 Décarie Blvd
Montreal, QC H4A 3J1
Tel: 514-934-8347
Fax: 514-934-8261
Email: momar.ndao@mcgill.ca
https://www.mcgill.ca/
tropmed/nrcp
Centers
for Disease
Control and
Prevention
(CDC),
Atlanta, GA,
USA
• Microscopic
evaluation
• Culture
• PCR (conventional
and real time)
• Species determination
(DNA sequencing
analysis; also
cellulose acetate
electrophoresis)
• Antibody detection
(rK39 Rapid Test)
Shipment instructions
provided on request.
Shipment preferred
using CDC transport
medium.
Marcos E. de Almeida, PhD
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Division of
Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
1600 Clion Road NE,
Mailstop D-64 Building 23,
9th Floor, Room 439
Atlanta, GA 30329-4027
Tel: 404-718-4175/718-4126
Fax: 404-718-4191
Email: bnz0@cdc.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/
parasites/leishmaniasis/
health_professionals
Walter Reed
Army Institute
of Research
(WRAIR),
USA
• Microscopic
evaluation
• Culture
• PCR (real time)
• Species determination
(Cellulose acetate
electrophoresis)
• Xenodiagnosis (mice
and hamsters)
• Antibody detection
(rK39)
Shipment instructions
provided on request.
Shipment preferred
using WRAIR
transport medium.
Services restricted
to samples from U.S.
military beneficiaries
and DoD civilian
workers.
Sheila A. Peel, MSPH, PhD
Leishmania Diagnostic
Laboratory Walter Reed
Army Institute of Research
503 Robert Grant Avenue
Silver Spring, MD
20910-7500
Tel: 240-595-7353
Email: usarmy.detrick.
medcom-wrair.mbx.
leishmania-diagnostic@
mail.mil
http://www.wrair.army.mil/
OtherServices_LDL.aspx
Note: Please visit http://apps.who.int/whocc/List.aspx?cc_subject=Leishmaniasis& to access
additional laboratories that are World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers,
http://www.who.int/leishmaniasis/collaborating_centres/en/
a
Additional WHO leishmaniasis laboratories are listed in WHO Technical Report Series 949
"Control of the leishmaniasis" pages 162–3 — whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/WHO_TRS_949_eng.pdf.
b
Recommend contact with reference laboratories in advance for instructions to optimize specimen
collection and shipping. Tests performed in the above laboratories are provided free of charge.
