public health laboratory

C13580
concept

A public health laboratory is a specialized facility that conducts testing, surveillance, and research to detect, monitor, and help control diseases and health threats within populations.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
public health laboratory canonical 6
environmental monitoring laboratory 1
food safety laboratory 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: public health laboratory
Generated description
A public health laboratory is a specialized facility that conducts testing, surveillance, and research to detect, monitor, and help control diseases and health threats within populations.

Instances (9)

Instance Via concept surface
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner
surface form: Wadsworth Center
FDA field laboratories
CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory
Centre for Laboratory-based Surveillance laboratory-based surveillance centre
Oregon State Public Health Laboratory
national institutes of hygiene and epidemiology
surface form: National Institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology
national reference laboratory
Wadsworth Center
Food and Environmental Protection Laboratory food safety laboratory
State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa