A. Service

• As a WHO collaborating center for diarrhoeal diseases research and training, this laboratory operates as a Reference Laboratory and receives 1000 to 1500 strains per year from 30-40 institutions in India and abroad for biotyping, serotyping and phage typing.
• Serving the nation by conducting investigations of the outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases throughout the country and suggest control measures.
• This laboratory is supplying cholera bacteriophages and propagating strains to different
  institutions of the country from time to time.
   

B. Collaboration

• National level
  • King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chennai
  • Government Medical College Hospital, Chandigarh
• International level
  • Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janerio, Brazil
  • Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
  • Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria

C. Achievements

• New phage typing schemes specific for V. cholerae O1 & O139 were developed at this laboratory.
• All O1 phages both from conventional and new scheme were deposited in ATCC with accession number.
• Scientist from this laboratory made presentations at national and international meetings and visited collaborating laboratories.