Supplementary material to manuscript by Pas SD et al, “First international external quality assessment of molecular diagnostics for MERS-CoV”.

Supplementary Table 1 MERS-CoV EQA 2014 responding laboratories

Country / Institute
Albania / Virology Laboratory Institute of Public Health
Algeria / National Influenza Centre Pasteur Institute of Algeria
Argentina / Instituto Nacional de EnfermedadesInfecciosas – ANLIS “Carlos G. Malbrán”
Australia / Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Austria / Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna
Austria / Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Belgium / Service Viral Diseases Scientific Institute of Public Health
Bulgaria / National Laboratory "Influenza and ARD", National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Virology
Canada / Influenza and Respiratory Viruses, National Microbiology Laboratory
Canada / Special Pathogens Program, NationalMicrobiology Laboratory CSCHAH
Chile / Instituto de SaludPublica de Chile, Seccion Virus Respiratorios
Denmark / Statens Serum Institut, Department of Microbliological Diagnostics & Virology
Egypt / Central public health lab, MOH ,Virology Department
Estonia / HB Laboratory of Communicable Diseases
Ethiopia / Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Finland / National Institute for Health and Welfare
Finland / HUSLAB Virologian ja Immunologianosasto
France / Unité de GénétiqueMoléculaire des Virus à ARN Centre National de Référence des Virus Influenzae (Région Nord) Institut Pasteur
France / CNR Virus Influenza, CBPE – Institut de Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Virologie
French Guiana / Laboratoire de Virologie InstitutPasteur de la Guyane
Georgia / National Center for Diease Control and Public Health
Germany / Altona Diagnostics GmbH
Germany / NiedersächsischesLandesgesundheitsamt (NLGA), Virologie/Parasitologie
Germany / Institutfür Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr, InstMikroBioBw/ZentralbereichDiagnostik,Medizinische B-Aufklärung & Verifikation
Germany / Bernhard NochtInstitut
Germany / Department of Virology, Bonn
Germany / Robert Koch-Institut
Germany / Institut für Virologie Philipps-Universität Marburg
Germany / Landesgesundheitsamt Baden-Wuerttemberg,AllgemeineHygieneundInfektionsschutz
Germany / TIB MOLBIOL, Syntheselabor GmbH
Germany / Robert Koch-Institut, NRZ-Influenza
Germany / Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, INNT
Germany / InstitutfürVirologie
Germany / Virology Department UMC Georg-August-UniversitätGöttingen
Ghana / Virology Department Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
Greece / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine A' Department of Microbiology
Greece / Hellenic Pasteur Institut
Hongkong / Public Health Laboratory Centre
Hungary / National Center for Epidemiology virologické odd.
Iceland / Department of Virology, Landspitali, National University Hospital
Ireland / National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin
Israel / National Center for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses Central Virology Laboratory Sheba Medical Center
Italy / IstitutoSuperiore di Sanità Centro Nazionale OMS per l'Influenza, DipartimentoMalattieInfettiveParassitarie e Immunomediate
Italy / Molecular Biology Unit Microbiology and Virology laboratory OspedaleAmedeo di Savoia
Italy / Dipartimento di Istologia, Microbiologia e BiotecnologiemedicheUniversità di Padova
Italy / Laboratory of Virology National Institute for Infectious Diseases "L Spallanzani"
Italy / University of Bologna St. Orsola-Malpighi Univ. Hospital - CRREM
Japan / Department Virology III Nat. Inst. Of Infect. Diseases
Jordan / Laboratory Directorate /Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL)
Kazakhstan / Scientific and practical centre of sanitary epidemiological assessments and monitoring National reference laboratory for the control of viral infections
Kingdom of Bahrain / Public Health Laboratory Building 738
Laos PDR / Vongphrachanh National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology (Ministry of Health)
Latvia / RiganEas University Hospital Latvian Centre of Infectious Diseases NMRL
Lebanon / Department of laboratory medicine,Rafik Hariri University hospital
Lithuania / National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory
Luxemburg / Laboratoire national de Santé
Madagascar / InstitutPasteurMadagascar, Unité de Virologie
Malta / Pathology Department Molecular Diagnostics Mater Dei Hospital
Mauritius / Department of Mol. Biol and Virology, Central Health Laboratory
Mexico DF / Inst. of Epidemiological Diagnosis & Reference Department of Virology
Netherlands / Erasmus MC, Department of Viroscience
Netherlands / Department Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Division Virology Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Diagnostics and Screening (IDS), RijksInstituutVolksgezondheidenMilieu
New Zeeland / Clinical Virology Laboratory (ESR) - (NCBID)
Nigeria / National Influenza Reference Laboratory
Norway
Oman / Norwegian Institute of Public Health Div. of Infectious Disease Control
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
Pakistan / Department of Virology National Institute of Health
Palestine / CPHL Director/ MoH/ PNA
Philippines / Molecular Biology Laboratory Research Institute for Tropical Medicine Department of Health
Poland / National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene
Portugal / National Institute of Health
Qatar / Lawenaina Camel Hospital
Qatar / Biotechnology Unit, Vet. Labs section,Dept. Animal Resources Ministry of Environment
Qatar / Virology & Molecular Biology Section, Dept. Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation
Rep. of Korea / Osong Health Technology Administration Complex,
Romania / INCDMI “Cantacuzino”
Russia / Central Research Institute of Epidemiology (CRIE)
Russia / FBRI State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR
Saudi Arabia / Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Med. Res. Center, King Abdulaziz University
Singapore / DSO National Laboratories
Singapore / National Public Health Laboratory, CDC,Tan Tock Seng Hospital Pte Ltd
Slovenia / University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology
Slovenia / Laboratory for Virology NLZOH
South Africa / National Institute for Communicable Diseases Center for Repiratory Diseases - Section Virology
Spain / CReSA (Centre de RecercaenSanitat Animal), Campus UAB ,edificiCReSA
Spain / National Influenza Centre, Centro Nacional de MicrobiologiaInstituto de Salud Carlos III
Spain / Departamento de Microbiología, Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona
Sweden / Public Health Agency of Sweden
Switzerland / Diagnostics & Development University of Zürich Institute of Medical Virology
Switzerland / Laboratory of Virology University Hospitals of Geneva
Switzerland / Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz Virology, Spiez Laboratory
Thailand / National Institute of Health Department of Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health
Tunisia / Laboratoire de microbiologie N°49,EPS CharlesNicolle
Turkey / Virology Dep. Public Health Institutions of Turkey
U.S.A / Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Infectious Diseases, CDC
UK / Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Dept, Public Health England
UK / Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology, Cardiff University Hospital of Wales
UK / Regional Virus Laboratory Royal Victoria Hospital
Uzbekistan / Research Institute of Virology