Alyssa R Golden, Averil Griffith, Brenna C Simons, Alisa Reasonover, Hans-Christian Slotved, Brigitte Lefebvre, Karl G Kristinsson, Donna Hurteau, Gregory J Tyrrell, Michael G Bruce, Irene Martin
UNLABELLED: The International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) program is a population-based surveillance network for invasive bacterial diseases throughout Arctic countries and territories. The ICS quality control program for Streptococcus pneumoniae serotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility testing has been ongoing since 1999. Current participating laboratories include the Provincial Laboratory for Public Health in Edmonton, Alberta; Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec; the Centers for Disease Control's Arctic Investigations Program in Anchorage, Alaska; the Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Laboratory at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark; the Department of Clinical Microbiology, Landspitali in Reykjavik, Iceland; and Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
April 23, 2024: Microbiology Spectrum