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National Reference Center for tuberculosis and mycobacteria [1]

Health and disease monitoring   [2]
January 1, 1990
Project with no end date

Financial Source

National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (INAMI-RIZIV) [3]

Service(s) working on this project

Bacterial diseases [4]

Sciensano's project investigator(s):

Vanessa Mathys [5]

Partners

In short

The National Reference Center (NRC) for tuberculosis and mycobacteria [6] is a laboratory specialized in the microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis and mycobacterioses, and in the molecular monitoring of tuberculosis.

Request for analyses [7]

 

Project summary

Our objectives are :

  • to diagnose mycobacterial infections and identify clinical strains (up to species level) using molecular techniques;
  • to confirm, upon request, the diagnosis made by peripheral clinical laboratories;
  • to conduct drug-sensitivity tests (molecular and bacteriological methods) for M. tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria;
  • to determine susceptibility to second-line antibiotics of multi-drug resistant M. tuberculosis strains;
  • to detect thepresence of latent tuberculosis in patients ;
  • to determine genetic fingerprintings to identify epidemics and transmission pathways of tuberculosis;
  • to organize annual quality control for the network of Belgian laboratories that perform mycobacterial diagnoses.

Associated Health Topics

Tuberculosis [8]

Source URL: https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/national-reference-center-tuberculosis-and-mycobacteria

Links
[1] https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/national-reference-center-tuberculosis-and-mycobacteria
[2] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/health-and-disease-monitoring
[3] http://www.inami.fgov.be/
[4] https://www.sciensano.be/en/about-sciensano/sciensanos-organogram/bacterial-diseases
[5] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/vanessa-mathys
[6] https://www.sciensano.be/fr/a-propos-de-sciensano/organigramme-de-sciensano/maladies-bacteriennes/tuberculose-et-mycobacteries
[7] https://nrchm.wiv-isp.be/fr/centres_ref_labo/mycobacterium_spp/default.aspx
[8] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/tuberculosis