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Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Online Report

Global Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Equipment Management and Sustainability and Implications for Pandemic Preparedness Priorities1

Jennifer N. LasleyComments to Author , Emmanuel O. Appiah, Kazunobu Kojima, and Stuart D. Blacksell
Author affiliations: World Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, France (J.N. Lasley, E.O. Appiah); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (K. Kojima); Mahidol–Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand (S.D. Blacksell); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (S.D. Blacksell)

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Table 2

Reported equipment not properly maintained by equipment category for Equipment Management and Sustainability Survey conducted by World Organisation for Animal Health, 2019*

Laboratory equipment Africa Americas Asia Pacific Europe Middle East Global
Roller system 85% 50% 20% 34% 0% 43%
Distillator 66% 23% 36% 29% 66% 41%
BSC class II A1 74% 31% 40% 26% 83% 40%
Magnetic agitator 66% 9% 29% 47% 61% 39%
Water bath 62% 23% 29% 36% 87% 39%
Microtome 71% 19% 36% 23% 89% 38%
Trichinoscope 67% 100% 21% 37% 50% 35%
Vortex 58% 11% 32% 33% 88% 35%
Autoclave 63% 16% 36% 24% 61% 34%
Gas incubator 54% 74% 25% 14% 54% 34%
Microplate reader 60% 14% 37% 26% 70% 34%
Dark-field microscope 73% 8% 38% 24% 50% 33%
Mixer jar 69% 38% 22% 28% 67% 31%
Oven 53% 17% 37% 14% 83% 31%
Colony counter 52% 29% 34% 19% 100% 30%
Ovoscope 100% 38% 37% 13% 100% 30%
Freezer 66% 4% 23% 25% 75% 29%
pH meter 83% 20% 26% 16% 58% 29%
Gel documentation 52% 21% 29% 24% 57% 28%
Refrigerator 59% 13% 31% 21% 64% 28%
Shaker 65% 14% 21% 26% 57% 28%
Spectrophotometer 51% 24% 19% 26% 58% 28%
Vacuum pump 70% 13% 32% 20% 58% 28%
Fluorescent microscope 47% 21% 26% 19% 67% 26%
Fume hood 44% 29% 43% 16% 92% 25%
Microplate washer 70% 13% 22% 17% 72% 25%
Water filtration 71% 24% 33% 11% 55% 25%
Centrifuge 54% 14% 35% 12% 66% 24%
Plate shaker 52% 11% 31% 12% 78% 24%
Real-time PCR 33% 19% 29% 16% 75% 24%
Inverted light microscope 61% 9% 33% 16% 71% 23%
Microscope 53% 17% 22% 13% 76% 23%
Incubator 45% 15% 31% 16% 61% 22%
Conductometer 67% 13% 25% 10% 56% 21%
Transilluminator 65% 9% 29% 13% 56% 21%
Thermal cycler 64% 12% 20% 12% 55% 19%
Biological safety cabinet class II A2 41% 40% 25% 8% 88% 18%
Biological safety cabinet class I 57% 31% 57% 6% 67% 17%
Electrophoresis 49% 6% 28% 8% 36% 15%
Pipette 57% 8% 26% 8% 77% 14%

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1Preliminary results from this article were presented at the Africa Society for Laboratory Medicine Virtual Conference, November 16‒18, 2021.

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