Table 1. The expert and participating laboratories of the HEMQAS pilot study.

The order of the list does not correspond with the order of the laboratories in Table 5.

Country	Institution/Organization	Laboratory/Department	Laboratory type
Expert laboratories
Australia	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	The Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory	Research laboratory
The Netherlands	Erasmus Medical Center	Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	Clinical laboratory
The Netherlands	Elisabeth TweeSteden Hospital	Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Immunology	Clinical laboratory
The Netherlands	Leiden University Medical Center	Department of Parasitology	Research laboratory
USA	Baylor College of Medicine	Laboratory of Clinical Parasitology and Diagnostics	Research laboratory
USA	Smith College and the University of Massachusetts	Department of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry; Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology	Research laboratory
Participating laboratories
Australia	University Melbourne	Melbourne Veterinary School	Research laboratory
Belgium	Institute of Tropical Medicine	Central Laboratory for Clinical Biology	Clinical laboratory
India	Christian Medical College, Vellore	The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory	Research laboratory
Kenya	Kenya Medical Research Institute	Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control	Research laboratory
Malaysia	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine	Research laboratory
Uganda	Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Unit & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit	Immunity and Vaccines Programme	Research laboratory
USA	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Parasitic Diseases Branch	Research laboratory
USA	PATH	Diagnostics Program	Research laboratory
USA	Washington University in St. Louis	Infectious Diseases Division	Research laboratory