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The EU Reference Laboratory for Public Health on "High-risk, Emerging and Zoonotic Bacterial pathogens" (EURL-PH-HEZB) is led by a consortium coordinated by the Robert Koch Institute’s unit ZBS 2 "Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms".

The EURL-PH-HEZB covers high-risk, emerging and zoonotic bacterial pathogens including Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Yersinia pestis (plague), Francisella tularensis (tularaemia), Brucella spp. (brucellosis), Burkholderia mallei (glanders), Burkholderia pseudomallei (melioidosis), Coxiella burnetii (Q fever), Rickettsia spp. (rickettsiosis), Borrelia spp. (neuroborreliosis) and Leptospira spp. (leptospirosis).