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Since its creation in 1924, the OIE has become stronger and had gathered more Members. The full list of OIE Members can be consulted here. Find below the countries that have recently joined the Organisation, as well as more information about them.

The global network of OIE Reference Centres is the core of the OIE’s scientific expertise and excellence. An OIE Reference Centre is designated either as a Reference Laboratory or as a Collaborating Centre. Discover on this page the OIE Reference Centres designated by the World Assembly of Delegates at the last General Session (May 2019). View the comprehensive list of OIE Reference Laboratories and OIE Collaborating Centres.

• New OIE Reference Laboratories

  Brucellosis (Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis)

  Prof. Jiabo Ding
  National Reference Laboratory for Animal Brucellosis (NRLAB)
  Department of Diagnostic Technology
  China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control (IVDC)
  No.8 Zhongguancun South Street
  Haidian District
  Beijing 100081
  PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
  Tel. +86 10 61 25 53 27
  E-mail: dingjiabo@126.com

  This new OIE Reference Laboratory for brucellosis is the first animal brucellosis laboratory to be established in China. The laboratory undertakes national and international research projects, focusing on epidemiological surveillance and analysis, basic research, and integrated prevention and control technologies for brucellosis. A set of new methods has been developed for molecular and serological detection of brucellosis, five of which have been officially licensed. The laboratory has accumulated extensive experience in the development of technologies for brucellosis diagnosis and control. It provides technical assistance and training for veterinary diagnostic laboratories in China each year and will share its results and technologies with other OIE Member Countries.

  Cysticercosis

  Prof. Xuepeng Cai
  Helminthosis Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  1 Xujiaping
  Yanchangbu, Lanzhou 730046
  Gansu Province
  PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
  Tel. +86 931 834 27 16
  E-mail: caixp@vip.163.com; luoxuenong@caas.cn

  This new OIE Reference Laboratory engages in the study of porcine and cattle cysticercosis, including epidemiology, diagnosis, vaccine development and scientific consultancy. At present, the laboratory has a large number of standard serum samples, of adult worms and larvae samples, and genomic DNA of Taenia solium, T. saginatus and T. asiatica. The laboratory undertakes indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), dot-ABC-ELISA and differential diagnosis based on the polymerase chain reaction for cysticercosis. The TSOL18 vaccine and the related method for immunological antibody detection have also been developed.

  Glanders

  Dr Karine Laroucau
  Anses Maisons-Alfort
  Animal Health Laboratory
  Bacterial Zoonoses Unit
  14 rue Pierre et Marie Curie
  94701 Maisons-Alfort Cedex
  FRANCE
  Tel. +33 1 49 77 13 00
  E-mail: karine.laroucau@anses.fr

  This new OIE Reference Laboratory, which is the European Union reference laboratory for equine diseases (including glanders), develops and validates new direct and indirect methods for the diagnosis and typing of Burkholderia mallei infections. The laboratory also organises inter-laboratory testing (serology, PCR) and holds training sessions.

  Equine infectious anaemia

  Dr Maria Teresa Scicluna
  Division for the Diagnosis of Viral Diseases and Leptospirosis
  Istituto Zooprofillatico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana (IZSLT)
  Via Appia Nuova 1411
  00178 Roma
  ITALY
  Tel. +39 06 79 09 93 15
  E-mail: teresa.scicluna@izslt.it

  This new OIE Reference Laboratory operates according to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard with accreditation and validation of the serological methods (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, agar gel immunodiffusion and immunoblotting) for the diagnosis of equine infectious anaemia (EIA), which it produces and that are available on request. It organises regular interlaboratory trials and provides services for the standardisation and validation of EIA serological diagnostic kits. In addition, the laboratory provides scientific and technical support, as well as training in EIA diagnosis. The laboratory also offers, at the international level, high quality diagnostic services using serological, molecular and virological methods. The laboratory conducts studies on the phylogenesis of EIA virus and the immunological response of the hosts. Support is also available for the development of surveillance plans for the eradication and control of the infection.

  Rabies

  Dr Vlad Vuta
  National Reference Laboratory for Rabies
  Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health
  Dr Nicolae Staicovici Street, No. 63, Sector 5
  București 050557
  ROMANIA
  Tel. +40 374 32 20 00
  E-mail: vlad.vuta@idah.ro

  This new OIE Reference Laboratory focuses on diagnosis, epidemiology, research, surveillance, monitoring, elimination and other activities relating to rabies. The laboratory has extensive experience in rabies diagnostics, including sequencing to distinguish between wild and vaccination strains, and molecular epidemiology studies. All methods are accredited by the Romanian Accreditation Body (RENAR), based on the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. The Reference Laboratory also provides proficiency tests (ring trials) for rabies, being accredited to the ISO 17043:2010 standard. The laboratory provides scientific and technical assistance and training to personnel from diagnostic laboratories in Romania and it is ready to provide its services to other OIE Member Countries.

  Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum, M. synoviae)
  Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia

  Dr Ümit Özdemir
  Pendik Veterinary Control Institute
  Batı mahallesi
  Erol Kaya caddesi 1
  34890 İstanbul
  TURKEY
  Tel. +90 216 390 12 80
  E-mail: uozdemir@outlook.com

  These new OIE Reference Laboratories have extensive experience in the diagnosis of Mycoplasma diseases and vaccine production against Mycoplasma agents. The institution is also the National Reference Laboratory for contagious agalactia, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP), contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum, M. synoviae). It provides technical support to six Veterinary Control Institutes in Turkey and to neighbouring countries. For CCPP, the laboratory develops plans for its control and eradication, and is involved in the development of vaccines against the disease. The laboratory also develops plans for control of avian mycoplasmosis and produces avian mycoplasmosis plate test antigens used in the national control programme. Both Reference Laboratories develop new test methods for the molecular and serological detection of CCPP and avian mycoplasmosis and conduct national proficiency tests (ring trials) for quality assurance procedures for Mycoplasma diseases.
  These OIE Reference Laboratories have been accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard by the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK).

• New OIE Collaborating Centres

  Detection and Identification in Humans of Emerging Animal Pathogens and Development of Tools for their Diagnoses

  Institut Pasteur
  25–28 rue du Docteur Roux
  75724 Paris Cedex 15
  France
  Tel. +33 1 45 68 80 00
  E-mail: jean-claude.manuguerra@pasteur.fr
  Website: www.pasteur.fr

  The Institut Pasteur, Paris, is a non-profit foundation, recognised by the French state. The Institut Pasteur is a biomedical research institute housing 14 national reference centres for infectious human pathologies and 5 WHO Collaborating Centres, as well as 2 OIE Reference Laboratories.The Institut Pasteur is at the heart of an international network of 32 institutes in 25 countries on all continents. This particular centre specialises in the detection and identification of emerging animal pathogens in humans and the development of the associated diagnostic tools. Although it focuses mainly on human health, the centre has adopted a ‘One Health’ approach and collaborates with animal health institutions through joint projects and complementary networks.

  Health of Marine Mammals

  This new OIE Collaborating Centre consists of two institutions:

  Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta (IZSPLV)
  Italian National Reference Centre for Diagnostic Activities in Stranded Marine Mammals (C.Re.Di.Ma.)
  Via Bologna 148
  10154 Torino
  Italy
  Tel. +39-11 26 86 296
  E-mail: cristina.casalone@izsto.it 
  Website: www.izsto.it

  University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  University Research Institute of Animal Health and Food Safety (IUSA-ULPGC)
  Atlantic Center for Cetacean Research (ACCR)
  Campus de Cardones Trasmontaña s/n 35416
  Arucas Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Spain
  Tel. +34-928 45 97.11/12
  E-mail: direccion_iusa@ulpgc.es
  Website: www.iusa.eu

  The Centre (consortium) offers extensive experience in marine mammal health, especially in veterinary diagnosis (including forensic pathology) and control of diseases of marine mammals, with an international task force group for emergency diagnoses. It is prepared to promote the application of standardised procedures for post-mortem examination, sampling and diagnostic investigations, to provide scientific and technical assistance in diagnostics, to undertake research activities and capacity building programmes (at different levels, from basic courses to postgraduate studies, in situ and ex situ) in collaboration with OIE Member Countries and to place expert consultants at the disposal of the OIE.
  The consortium coordination rotates every two years, starting with IZSPLV from 2019 to 2020 and then moving to IUSA–ULPGC from 2021 to 2022, and so on.

  Animal Welfare

  This new OIE Collaborating Centre consists of two institutions:

  Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise (IZSAM)
  Via Campo Boario
  64100 Teramo
  Italy
  Tel. +39 0861 33 22 05
  E-mail: g.migliorati@izs.it 
  Website: www.izs.it

  Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare (SCAW)
  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 
  Box 7053
  750 07 Uppsala
  Sweden
  Tel. +46 18 67 21 50
  E-mail: viveka.hillegaart@slu.se
  Website: www.slu.se/scaw

  The Centre (consortium) will support the OIE in establishing standards and guidelines in animal welfare through a science-based approach, and promoting their application. It will work to provide expertise on all general aspects of animal welfare science, specifically on science-based animal welfare assessment. The Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU) is strongly connected with applied research on farmed, sporting and companion animals, laboratory animals and wildlife, as well as on the influence of legislation, private standards and training on how animals are managed and cared for, from breeding to slaughter or euthanasia. The Centre will support the OIE global animal welfare initiative through expert consultation and the provision of scientific and technical training. It will continue to contribute to developing ISO standards for animal welfare, and to the implementation of the OIE standards worldwide.

  Risk Analysis and Modelling

  This new OIE Collaborating Centre consists of two institutions:

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
  Royal College Street
  London NW1 0TU
  United Kingdom
  Tel. +44 1707 666 960
  E-mail: principal@rvc.ac.uk
  Website: www.rvc.ac.uk

  Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
  Woodham Lane
  New Haw
  Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB
  United Kingdom
  Tel. +44 208 026 9519
  E-mail: Chris.Hadkiss@apha.gov.uk
  Website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/animal-and-plant-health-agency

  This new OIE Collaborating Centre will combine the strengths of a governmental agency and a higher education institution. It is therefore highly experienced in the provision of education and training, research, policy advice and outbreak response in the area of risk analysis and modelling.

  Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases

  Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS)
  The Nothe, Barrack Road
  Dorset DT4 8UB
  United Kingdom
  Tel. +44 1305 20 66 00
  E-mail: stephen.feist@cefas.co.uk
  Website: www.cefas.co.uk/centres-of-excellence/aquatic-animal-health/designation/oie-collaborating-centre-for-emerging-aquatic-animal-disease/

  CEFAS is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom. Established in 1969, the laboratory is the national reference laboratory for aquatic animal diseases. Research activities include investigations into emerging diseases in fish, molluscs and crustaceans in aquaculture and wild populations. In addition, studies on pathogen diversity and systematics, high-throughput sequencing for pathogens and lifecycle discovery are undertaken. CEFAS houses state-of-the-art aquarium facilities capable of mimicking diverse environmental conditions to study all aspects of disease dynamics. CEFAS is the OIE Reference Laboratory for koi herpes virus (KHV) and spring viraemia of carp (SVC). In addition, CEFAS is the FAO Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance.
  The Fish Health Inspectorate delivers statutory functions for the control of aquatic animal diseases and the associated laboratory diagnostics are UKAS accredited to ISO 17025 standard.
  A previously designated Collaborating Centre for Information on Aquatic Animal Disease will be incorporated into the new OIE Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases.