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UK Health Security Agency's laboratories provide a comprehensive range of microbiological tests and services.
Candidozyma auris (C.auris): laboratory investigation, management and infection prevention and control of cases.
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Clinical advisory and specialist diagnostic service for medical professionals managing travellers who have returned to the UK with fever.
Information to assist with the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease and requirements for sample submission.
GBRU is the national reference laboratory for gastrointestinal pathogens and provides specialist testing of clinical, food and environmental samples.
This is to help commissioners, sample takers and laboratories reduce errors associated with cervical screening sample requests.
Guide to the services offered by the mycology reference laboratory (MRL) to help medical professionals manage fungal infections.
Guidance for health protection teams on the investigation of cases, clusters and outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease.
EVU provides reference services for enteroviruses, noroviruses and rotaviruses, as well as support for detection of enteric adenoviruses, astroviruses and sapoviruses when diagnostic assays are not provided by NHS or regiona…
Diagnostic and advisory services for Lyme disease.
Leaflet for parents explaining what happens when vaccines have inadvertently been stored outside of the recommended storage temperature range.
The malaria reference laboratory provides reference and diagnostic parasitology of malaria, with surveillance of all imported malaria reported in the UK.
Guidance and responsibilities of the UK's National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology.
How to reduce the risk of Lyme disease, its clinical management and other useful resources.
A range of tests are available from the majority of PHE regional clinical microbiology laboratories.
IDU provides diagnostic and reference services for measles, mumps, rubella, polyomavirus (JC), parvovirus B19 (B19V), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), HHV6 and HHV7.
Guidance and contact information for using the Polio Reference Service (PRS).
STIRL provides specialist and reference services to detect, investigate and characterise clinically important STI pathogens.
Details of MRL laboratory services including malaria diagnosis.
List of available tests for meningococcal disease, what specimens to send and turnaround times.
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