The Maisons-Alfort Animal Health Laboratory and the Dozulé Equine Pathology Laboratory have jointly held the European Union Reference Laboratory (LRUE) mandate for equine diseases (other than African horse sickness) for nine years., thus contributing actively to improving the diagnostic capacities of the national reference laboratories of the 27 Member States of the European Union.
On May 10, 2017, the European Union announced the renewal of the European reference laboratory mandate for a period of five years. Thus, as part of this mandate, the Maisons-Alfort Animal Health Laboratory will continue to work on the West-Nile virus, glanders, vesicular stomatitis virus and more generally on equine viral encephalitis. The Dozulé Equine Pathology Laboratory will continue its reference activities specifically on contagious equine metritis (MCE), dourine, equine viral arteritis (AVE), equine herpesviruses 1 and 4 (HVEs) and anemia infection of equines (EIA).
The two laboratories also hold the mandate of national reference laboratory for these equine diseases. These various mandates therefore place ANSES at the forefront of research into equine diseases. The renewal of its mandate as European Union Reference Laboratory constitutes, for ANSES, recognition of its commitment and the quality of its research work in the service of animal health.
