How to search the database?

All laboratories are ...read mode

All laboratories are included in a table sorted by country.
You can access both administrative and expertise details for each laboratory by clicking on its name. You can also access detailed information on individual expertise by clicking on each line displayed in ‘expertise’.
You can immediately visualize additional information concerning laboratories, such as whether it has a quality programme, whether it is accredited or offers training.
You can refine your selection of laboratories by clicking, for example, on ‘quality programme’ or any other criteria appearing the right-hand columns of the table.

All experts are ...read mode

All experts are included in a table sorted by Latin names of organisms diagnosed.
To search the ‘Expertise List’, you can use different criteria and combine them as you wish:
- names of organisms in alphabetical order (simply choose a letter);
- levels of expertise: select ‘species’ if you want to find the experts who can diagnose a given species, and similarly select genus to find experts who can diagnose most species within a genus, family (most species within a family) or order (most species within an order);
- types of methods used by the experts (morphological serological molecular, bioassay, fatty acids or classical microbiology).
Finally, by clicking on the expert names you will obtain a description of their expertise and a link to the address and administrative details of their laboratories.