The fao/iaea external quality assurance programme for disease diagnosis

摘要

As part of the programme of support to scientists in developing countries, the Animal Production and Health Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme has developed and distributed standardized and validated enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. These kits are used in epidemiological studies, in vaccination monitoring programmes and in control and eradication programmes. In order to assure that the test results from a laboratory using FAO/IAEA ELISA kits are valid and reliable an external quality assurance programme (EQAP) was implemented. The EQAP consists of three equally important elements: a questionnaire to provide evidence of routine use of internal quality control practices and satisfactory infrastructure services, the monitoring of the internal quality control (IQC) data as produced for each ELISA plate and an external quality control test panel of 'unknown' samples.