The affected area spans approximately 23,000 square meters and houses 13 national reference laboratories, including those for COVID-19, mpox, rabies, Escherichia coli, arboviruses, viral hemorrhagic fevers, malaria, pertussis, plague, tularemia, Q fever, biochemistry, protein chemistry, and prenatal diagnostics. In addition, three collaborating reference laboratories for hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and influenza were also based at the site.
The institute further maintained eight public health laboratories (for tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, borreliosis, anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, and fungal diseases), 23 research departments, two WHO collaborating centers, three biobanks, three research networks, three research centers, a vaccination unit, and a laboratory accredited by Iran's Food and Drug Administration.
The complex employed 110 faculty members, over 400 researchers and non-faculty staff, and 80 doctoral students, none of whom were harmed in the incidents.
According to the institute, contingency measures were already in place, and core diagnostic operations will continue at other branches of the Pasteur Institute of Iran.
Hossein Amiri - ahmad shirzadian
