Pages 697-698 in N. Murphy and A. Parkinson, eds. Circumpolar Health 2012: Circumpolar Health Comes Full Circle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, August 5-10, 2012. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2013;72 (Suppl 1):697-698
CDC, Arctic Investigations Program, Anchorage, AK, USA
Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Laboratory, Statens Serum lnstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Laboratoire de sante publique du Quebec, Institut national de sante publique du Quebec, Sainte-Anne-deBellevue, Quebec, Canada
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Pages 697-698 in N. Murphy and A. Parkinson, eds. Circumpolar Health 2012: Circumpolar Health Comes Full Circle. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, August 5-10, 2012. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2013;72 (Suppl 1):697-698
The International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) project was established in 1999 to conduct population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in Arctic regions. An international quality control (QC) program for pneumococcal serotyping and antibiotic susceptibility testing was incorporated into ICS by reference laboratories in participating regions (1). ICS laboratories that currently participate in this QC program include the Arctic Investigations Program, Anchorage, Alaska; Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta; Laboratoire de sante publique du Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec; Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Laboratory, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland; and the National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba (2). Here we report data collected from 1999 to 2011.