Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network National Syphilis Laboratory Testing Recommendations: Introduction

¹National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

²BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

³Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Canada

⁴McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

⁵Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

⁶Hopital Dr George Dumont, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

⁷Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

⁸Cadham Provincial Laboratory, and Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases and Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

⁹Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

¹⁰Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

¹¹Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

¹²Institut national de santé publique du Quebec-LSPQ, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada

¹³Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

¹⁴Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada