Polio surveillance

Test Name
Polio surveillance
Test Code
SAAFP
Specimen Type

Faeces

Minimum Volume
2g
Preferred Volume
10g
Comments

Please send original sample in original tube.

Laboratory Notes:

Request on fecal sample which indicate any of the following should be sent to the WHO Polio Regional Reference Laboratory for polio surveillance:

ADEM, AFP (Acute Flaccid Paralysis), GBS (Guillain Barre Syndrome), Transverse Myelitis, Peripheral neuropathy.

Diagnostic tests for Polio virus should be sent to Molecular Microbiology for Enterovirus PCR (EVPC)

Assay Performed
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL)
WHO Polio Regional Reference Laboratory/National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory
Doherty Institute, 792 Elizabeth St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
9342 9607
Assay Frequency

As requested