WHAT’S NEW

Neurologic Surveillance and Testing

Neurologic Surveillance and Testing (NST) was initiated in 2012 as a collaboration between the Communicable Disease Emergency Response (CDER) Branch and the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory (VRDL) at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).  It is designed to provide consultation and limited diagnostic testing for neurologic illness presumed to be of infectious origin

Latest guidelines to laboratory services offered by the California Department of Public Health Virus and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory

            VRDLGuidelines to Laboratory Services v 5.4.4 (PDF)  (revised 04.26.12)

Vaccine Preventable Reference Examination for confirmation of and/or genotyping of measles, mumps, rubella or varicella

           Vaccine Preventable Reference Examination Submittal Form (for isolates of lab confirmed specimens) (PDF) 

                      For original specimens that have not been tested, use the General Purpose Specimen Submittal Form