Robinson M M, Jeggo M H
Animal Production Unit, Food and Agriculture Organisation/International Atomic Energy Agency Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Rev Sci Tech. 1998 Aug;17(2):454-8. doi: 10.20506/rst.17.2.1111.
The problems facing veterinary diagnostic laboratories in developing countries range from simple problems, such as limited funds to keep good personnel or obtain equipment, supplies, reagents or training, to the more complex problems of designing and executing appropriate sample collection schemes for disease surveillance of evaluating the performance characteristics of a new diagnostic assay. While many developing countries are addressing these problems independently and a number of international and national organisations provide various forms of external support, the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) must continue in its critical role to provide guidelines for the most appropriate diagnostic assays for trade purposes and the development of the primary reference reagents for these assays. In addition, the OIE should take the lead in development of quality management guidelines for veterinary diagnostic testing laboratories. Without these guidelines and standards, diagnostic laboratories in developing countries will have difficulty in gaining the credibility necessary to help improve the positions of their countries in the international trade of livestock and livestock commodities.
发展中国家的兽医诊断实验室面临着诸多问题，从一些简单问题，比如资金有限难以留住优秀人才、购置设备、物资、试剂或开展培训，到更为复杂的问题，如设计并实施适用于疾病监测的恰当样本采集方案，以及评估新诊断检测方法的性能特征等。尽管许多发展中国家在独立解决这些问题，并且一些国际和国家组织也提供了各种形式的外部支持，但国际兽疫局（OIE）必须继续发挥关键作用，为用于贸易目的的最合适诊断检测方法提供指导方针，并开发这些检测方法的主要参考试剂。此外，国际兽疫局应带头制定兽医诊断检测实验室的质量管理指南。没有这些指南和标准，发展中国家的诊断实验室将难以获得必要的公信力，从而难以帮助提升其国家在畜牧及畜牧产品国际贸易中的地位。
