National reference laboratory

The unit is a national reference laboratory for France’s Directorate General for Food (known by its French initials DGAI) in animal health and veterinary public health and is mandated by the Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Forestry of Martinique and Guadeloupe (DAAF).

Directorate General for Food (DGAL)

Through a Ministerial Decree on of 29 December 2009, amended by the Decree of 19 October 2011, CIRAD has been appointed a national reference laboratory for the following pathologies:

  • Rift Valley fever
  • Rinderpest (cattle plague)
  • Peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
  • Ruminant poxvirus, including lumpy skin disease, sheep pox and goat pox

CIRAD is committed to providing scientific and technical support for the diagnosis and epidemiology of these diseases, working with the administrative and decentralised services, in collaboration and in a complementary fashion with other relevant national bodies.

DAAF Martinique and Guadeloupe

CIRAD has been mandated by the Department of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (DAAF) of Martinique and Guadeloupe for the first-line diagnosis of the following pathologies:

  • Cowdriosis (heartwater)
  • West Nile: serological and molecular diagnosis
  • Avian and porcine influenza: emergency molecular diagnosis
  • Classic and African swine fever, porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED): emergency serological and molecular diagnosis