Pursuant to the Announcement on the National Reference Laboratories dd. Dec. 5, 2008 (last modified on April 28, 2009, Federal Gazette p. 1745) the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut is assigned as national reference laboratories for the following notifiable and other reportable animal diseases:
National Reference Laboratories for notifiable animal diseases
- Mpox (formerly monkeypox)
- African Horse Sickness
- African Swine Fever (ASF)
- American Foulbrood (NRL for bee diseases)
- Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
- Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA)
- Aujeszky’s Disease
- Small Hive Beetle Infestation (Aethina tumida) (NRL for bee diseases)
- Tropilaelaps Infestation of Honey Bees (NRL for bee diseases)
- Dourine
- Bluetongue Disease (BTV)
- Bovine Herpesvirus Type 1 Infection (all forms) (WOAH Reference Laboratory)
- Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD)
- Bovine, Porcine, Ovine and Caprine Brucellosis (WOAH Reference Laboratory)
- Ebola Virus Infection
- Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
- Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD)
- Epizootic Hematopoietic Necrosis (EHN)
- Fowl Plague (WOAH Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza; FAO Reference Centre for influenza in animals and Newcastle disease)
- Infection with Bonamia exitiosa (NRLs for Mollusc Diseases)
- Infection with Bonamia ostreae (NRLs for Mollusc Diseases)
- Infection with Marteilia refringens (NRLs for Mollusc Diseases)
- Infektion with Microcytos mackini (NRLs for Mollusc Diseases)
- Infection with Perkinsus marinus (NRLs for Mollusc Diseases)
- Infections of Birds or Horses with West-Nile-Virus
- Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis of Salmonids
- Ovine Epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
- Koi Herpesvirus Infection of Carp
- Lumpy-skin-Disease (Dermatitis nodularis)
- Bovine Pleuropneumonia
- Foot- and Mouth-Disease
- Anthrax
- Newcastle Disease (WOAH Reference Laboratory; FAO Reference Centre for influenza in animals and Newcastle disease)
- Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a kept bird (WOAH Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza)
- Peste des Petits Ruminants
- Equine Encephalomyelitis (all forms)
- Sheep and Goat Pox
- Blackleg
- Rift Valley Fever
- Rinderpest
- Glanders (WOAH Reference Laboratory)
- Bovine Salmonellosis
- Swine Fever (FAO Reference Centre for Classical Swine Fever)
- Vesicular Stomatitis
- Taura Syndrome (NRLs for Crustacean Diseases)
- Rabies (WOAH Reference Laboratory, WHO Collaborating Centre)
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (including Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Scrapie)
- Bovine Trichomonosis
- Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis und Mycobacterium caprae)
- Swine Vesicular Disease
- Bovine Genital Campylobacteriosis
- Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia of Salmonids
- White Spot Disease of Crustaceans (NRLs for Crustacean Diseases)
- Yellowhead Disease (NRLs for Crustacean Diseases)
National Reference Laboratories for other reportable animal diseases
- Contagious Equine Metritis
- Campylobacteriosis (thermophilic Campylobacter)
- Chlamydiosis (Chlamydophila Species) (WOAH Reference Laboratory for Chlamydial Infections of Birds and Sheep)
- Echinococcosis
- Equine Viral Arteritis
- Infectious Laryngotracheitis of Poultry (ILT)
- Maedi/Visna
- Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds (WOAH Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza)
- Paratuberculosis
- Q Fever
- Schmallenberg Virus (SBV)
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tularemia
- Verotoxin-forming Escherichia coli
Other National Reference Laboratories for Animal Diseases
- Caprine Arthritis and Enzephalitis
- Hantavirus
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Crustacean Diseases (Tetrahedral baculovirosis (Baculovirus penaei), Spherical baculovirosis (Penaeus monodon-type baculovirus), Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis, Crayfish Plague (Aphanomyces astaci), Spawner-isolated mortality virus disease, Infectious myonecrosis, White tail disease, Infection with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Infection with Ranavirus)
- Crimean-Kongo Hemorrhagic Fever
- Mollusc Diseases (Perkinsus olseni, Xenohalitiotis californiensis, Abalone Virussterblichkeit)
- NIPAH/Hendra Virus Infection
- Tick-borne Diseases