The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently convened an expert panel to evaluate available information and produce recommendations for the development of Guidelines for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Treponema pallidum in the United States. An in-person meeting to formulate these recommendations was held on January 13-15 2009 on the CDC Roybal campus. The panel included STD clinicians, STD program directors, STD researchers, and public health laboratorians. The target audience for these recommendations includes laboratory directors, laboratory staff, clinicians and disease control personnel.
The Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis portions of the Meeting Summary Report are currently available below.
Please contact Kelly Wroblewski (kelly.wroblewski@aphl.org) with any questions or comments regarding the Meeting Summary Report.