Table of Contents

Achieving Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.- I: Outbreaks Of Disease.- Reporting Outbreaks of Human Diseases.- Reporting Outbreaks of Animal Diseases.- Reporting Outbreaks of Plant Diseases.- Epidemiological Data and Reporting: South American Realities, Problems and Perspectives.- Outbreaks of Disease: Current European Reporting.- Surveillance and Monitoring of Infectious Disease in the Slovak Republic.- Investigation of Outbreaks of Disease Under a Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention.- Investigations of Suspicious Outbreaks.- Molecular Biological Techniques for Subspecies Identification: An Overview.- Molecular Biological Techniques for Subspecies Identification: Immunological Techniques A Comparison.- An Unusual Outbreak of West Nile Fever in Romania.- WHO Contribution to Global Surveillance of Microbial Threats.- II: International Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology.- Maximizing the Security Benefits from International Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology.- Maximizing Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology: Infrastructure, Regulations And Procedures.- Benefits from International Cooperation in Microbiology: An Overview.- Benefits from Cooperation in Biotechnology: The Experience of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.- Benefits from International Cooperation in Biosafety in Central and Eastern Europe.- Measures to Provide Biosafety at the Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”..- Slovakia: Biotechnology Transfer under BTWC Protocol and the Convention on Biological Diversity.- The US Select Agent and Laboratory Registration Program.- The Development of Biotechnology in Poland.- CzechRepublic. The Development of Microbiology and Biotechnology in the Czech Republic During the Past 20 Years and Prospects for the Future.- Prospects of the SRC VB Vector International Collaboration in the Field of Emerging Infections and Biotechnology.- Good Manufacturing Practice and Licensed Products.- Approaches to the Introduction of the Quality System into the SRC VB “Vector”.- Industrial Aspects of Technical Co-Operation in Microbiology and Biotechnology.- Databases, Networks and Clearing Houses.- Increasing Transparency and Building Confidence: The OPCW Experience.- Building Peaceful Co-Operation into the BTWC Verification Protocol.- III: Concluding Remarks.- Maximizing the Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation Under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

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