Goals of the reference laboratory

• Provide technical training for laboratory members from countries engaged in HPV vaccine deployment.
   
  • Quality of VLPs Vaccine lots after mice immunization.
     
  • Immunogenicity of VLP-based vaccines in human.
     
  • Vaccine efficacy against HPV-type specific persistent infection.
      
  • Broad range HPV typing for epidemiological studies in pre and post vaccination situations.
      
• Provide public health services with an ISO-accredited regional reference laboratory able to perform both HPV typing and HPV 16 and 18 antibody determination in human samples.