National Reference Laboratory for Diagnosis of Tropical Parasitic Infections (NRL)

The NRL at Department of Clinical Microbiology of NNB provides diagnosis, consultation and lecture activities and data processing of relevant diseases for the Czech Republic for internal needs and for WHO purposes. At the same time, the NNB is responsible for the preparation of the External Quality Assessment (EQA) for tropical tissue parasitoses for the Czech Republic.

Laboratory staff provide daily diagnostic on-call including weekends and holidays for selected acute conditions: malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, diseases caused by wild amoebae (PAME, GAE, BAE).

In case of need for diagnostic emergency (out of hours), the Infectious Diseases Clinic can be contacted to activate it +420 26608 2600

Parasitic diseases falling under the competence of the NRL for the diagnosis of tropical parasitic diseases:

Amebiasis - Entamoeba histolytica
Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis (BAE) - Balamuthia mandrillaris
Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis (GAE) - Acanthamoeba spp.
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Trypanosoma cruzi
Leishmaniasis - Leishmania spp.
Malaria - Malarial plasmodia
Pneumocystosis - Pneumocystis jirovecii
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAME) - Naegleria fowleri
Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) - Trypanosoma gambiense, T. rhodesiense