Title of the centre:
WHO collaborating centre for plague
Director / Head:
Dr Bakyt Atshabar
Institution:
Aikimbayev's Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases
Address:
14 Kapalskaya
050054
Town:
Almaty
Country:
KAZAKHSTAN
Region:
EURO
Phone:
7 3272 510 293
Fax:
7 3272 570 641
Date of Designation:
15/Oct/2009
Last Redesignation:
15/Oct/2009
Expiry:
15/Oct/2013
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- To provide laboratory diagnostic support in confirming & characterizing Yersinia pestis isolates, including antibiotic resistance, at national levels or, through WHO, at international levels.
- To maintain a regional bank of strains.
- To provide Member States with free reference tests at the request of WHO and to provide WHO with the corresponding validation documentation.
- Through WHO to provide consultation on surveillance, control programmes and strategy development for prevention of plague at regional and global levels.
- To train national health workers at regional or global levels in laboratory diagnosis, surveillance and control of human and zoonotic plague.
- To assist WHO in providing support in plague outbreak/epidemic situations at global level and in Central Asia.
- To prepare reports on any plague event as well as annual reports on the epidemiological & epizoological situation of plague in Central Asia. To submit these reports to WHO.
- To submit an annual activity report to WHO.
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Subjects:
- Bacterial diseases other than those specifically mentioned
- Zoonoses
- Communicable diseases other than those specifically mentioned
Types of activity:
- Collection; collation and dissemination of information
- Providing technical advise to WHO
- Development and application of appropriate technology
WHO organization wide expected result:
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1.7 - Member States and the international community equipped to detect, assess, respond to and cope with major epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases (e.g. influenza, meningitis, yellow fever, haemorrhagic fevers, plague and smallpox) through the development and implementation of tools, methodologies, practices, networks and partnerships for prevention, detection, preparedness and intervention. |
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Responsible Officer:
BERTHERAT Eric Gerard Georges
Phone:
+41 22 79 14608
Technical Counterpart:
GAVRILIN Evgeniy
Phone:
+45 39171574
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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