Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network national syphilis laboratory testing recommendations: INTRODUCTION

Affiliations

• ¹ National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
• ² BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia;
• ³ Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto;
• ⁴ McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario;
• ⁵ Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta;
• ⁶ Hopital Dr George Dumont, Moncton, New Brunswick;
• ⁷ Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario;
• ⁸ Cadham Provincial Laboratory, and Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases and Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
• ⁹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta;
• ¹⁰ Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan;
• ¹¹ Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
• ¹² Institut national de santé publique du Quebec-LSPQ, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec;
• ¹³ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta;
• ¹⁴ Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.