"This suffered from a lack of primary diagnosis, and that's crucial because no one is looking for it," said Dr. Flemming Scheutz, the Copenhagen-based head of a World Health Organization collaborating center that specializes in E. coli.
Brazil has experienced 37 disastrous floods since 2000, said Debarati Guha Sapir, a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels who heads a World Health Organization collaborating center on disasters.
All participating laboratories are reference centers for CCHF laboratory diagnosis and surveillance in their respective countries, and some are World Health Organization collaborating centers.
Diagnostic delays can be avoided by use of M. ulcerans specific PCR, a test available from World Health Organization collaborating laboratories, which enables rapid confirmation of diagnosis of BU.
As for ATC code, the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System uses it, which is controlled by the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Drug Statistics Methodology, to classify drugs into five different groups according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic and chemical characteristics [12, 20].
The World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity (available from: ; it is formerly the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Technology Assessment) at the University of Ottawa developed a Needs-Based Toolkit for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in collaboration with international colleagues.
A professor at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology in Moscow, he is also director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Zoonoses, diseases passed from animals to people.
NSF is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Food and Water Safety and Indoor Environment and was founded from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
The ability to quickly recognize emerging genetic changes is "essential" for robust public health surveillance, notes a statement from the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Influenza Reference and Research at CDC, which will maintain and update the inventory.
As a World Health Organization Collaborating Center, CDC has received H5N1 samples from several affected countries, but it cannot on its own decide to release those data as well; it needs the countries' permission.
The International Collaboration on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Prognosis performed a comprehensive search and critical review of the literature from 2001 to 2012 to update the 2002 best-evidence synthesis conducted by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Neurotrauma, Prevention, Management and Rehabilitation Task Force on the prognosis of MTBI.
