| the international circumpolar surveillance interlaboratory quality control program for serotyping haemophilus influenzae and serogrouping neisseria meningitidis, 2005 - 2009. | the international circumpolar surveillance (ics) program was initiated in 1999 to conduct population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in select regions of the arctic. the program expanded to include surveillance of invasive diseases caused by n. meningitidis and h. influenzae. an interlaboratory quality control (qc) program to monitor laboratory proficiencies in the serogrouping of n. meningitidis and serotyping of h. influenzae was co-developed by the arctic investigations p ... | 2011 | 22170933 |