Microbiology

Microbiology Laboratories

Culture Services

• Aerobic Culture (all applicable sample types)
• Anaerobic Culture (all applicable sample types)
• Fungal Culture (blood only)
• Helicobacter pylori Culture & susceptibility testing (gastric biopsy only)
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae Culture
• Screen Culture for Candida auris
• Screen Culture for Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
• Screen Culture for MRSA
• Screen Culture for VRE

Microscopy Services

• Gram Stain
• Microscopy for Acid Fast Bacilli
• Microscopy for Cryptococcus (India ink) (CSF only)
• Microscopy for Fungal Elements
• Microscopy for Sarcoptes scabiei
• Microscopy for Trichomonas

Antigen Detection Services

• Detection for Cryptococcus (Blood, CSF only)
• Detection for Legionella (urine only)
• Detection for Streptococcus pneumoniae (urine only)

Molecular Laboratories

Microbiology PCR Services (Commercial Assays)

• Bacteria / Candida Multiplex PCR
• Carbapenemase Screen PCR
• Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhoeae PCR
• Clostridioides (Formerly Clostridium) difficile PCR Meningitis PCR
  
• Joint Infection Multiplex PCR
  
• MERS Coronavirus PCR
• Pneumonia Multiplex PCR (Viral/Bacterial/Resistance Gene).
• Respiratory Pathogens Multiplex PCR with SARS-CoV-2
• Hepatitis B virus load
• Hepatitis C virus load
• HIV-1 virus load
  
• SARS-CoV-2 PCR
  
• Stool Bacterial Pathogens PCR
• TB PCR (Respiratory samples only)

Microbiology PCR Services (Laboratory Developed Assays)

• Avian Influenza PCR
• Bulkholderia pseudomallei PCR
  
• Candida auris screening PCR
  
• Cytomegalovirus DNA Load (Quantitative)
  
• Cytomegalovirus PCR
  
• Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus and Toxoplasma gondii Triplex PCR
  
• Helicobacter pylori PCR (+ prediction of clarithromycin resistance)
  
• Herpes Virus 1, Herpes Virus 2 and Varicella Zoster Virus Triplex PCR
  
• Leptospira species PCR
  
• Pneumocystis jirovecii PCR
• SARS-CoV-2 PCR