Disease

Diagnostic capabilities on site

Current Status

Needs

Measles

Kits

Only 1 kit

      Need more kits

Hepatitis

A kits

50 samples

E kits

50 samples

Influenza

Kits

      None

      No viral culture collection materials

      OIA (Influenza test kits) X 5

Meningococcal

Culture and serology

Enough materials

Salmonella

Culture, biochem and serological tests

Enough materials for starting

      TCBS medium 500g X1

      Typhidot test kits X10

Shigella

Culture, biochem and serological tests

      Shigella polyvalent antisera, A,B,C,and D X 2 vials of each

Vibrio cholera

Culture, biochem and serological tests

No anti-sera available

      Polyvalent 01 antisera X 2 vials

      Ogawa antisera X 2 vials

      Inaba antisera X 2 vials

      Hikojima antisera X 2 vials

      0139 antisera X 2 vials

Leptospirosis

Elisa

Enough materials (2 kits)

Dengue

Rapid kits

Enough materials for starting

      Dengue DUO IgM & IgG rapid strip test X20 kits

JE, other viral encephalitis

Can do HSV here, Send overseas

Rubella

Elisa, rapid kit

Enough materials for now

Polio

Send to Sri Lanka

Scrub typhus

No facilities – send to Thailand and takes 3 months

Need quicker diagnostic reporting system

Leishmaniasis, Malaria

Smears

Enough stains

STI

Syphilis, gono, Chlamydia

HIV

Rapid kits and confirmatory

TB

Smear and culture but not confirmation

Enterobacteriacea family

      API-20E system – 5 sets

Campylobacter

      Antigen detection – 1 kit

      Campy media

       - 500gX1

Blood culture

      Bottles for Oxoid system (BC0102M)

Other

      Vacutainers (EDTA)  1000 tubes

      Vacutainers serum separation  1000 tubes

Sterile bottles for specimens

Enough

Viral transport media 50 tubes all expiring Feb 2005

      Viral transport media X 100

Bacterial transport media (transwab) all expire Jan 2005

      Bacterial transport media X 100