Microbiology Examinations in Clinical Bacteriology
Head of Laboratory,
Dr. Lilani Karunanayake, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist
All investigations are accredited
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- Blood for culture for aerobic bacteria
- Blood for culture in the diagnosis of brucellosis
- Blood for Leptospira culture
- CSF culture
- Urine culture
- Wound swab / pus / discharge/ tissues for culture
- Sputum culture
- Endo-tracheal secretions / BAL culture
- Ear, nasal, throat culture
- CVP tip culture
- Peritoneal, plural fluids culture
- Bacterial antigen detection test in CSF
- Mycoplasma antibody detection test
- Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) for Leptospira
- MRSA screening
- Identification of bacterial isolates and their antibiotic resistance from clinical samples by automation and/or molecular biology method
Antibiotic Susceptibility Test (CLSI method)
- Automated antibiotic susceptibility system (BD® Phoenix)
- Disk diffusion
- Broth dilution methods
Molecular Biology tests by real time PCR
- pathogenic Leptospira DNA detection (blood / serum / urine/CSF)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Neisseria meningitidis
- H. influenzae
- Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertusis
- Brucella spp
- PVL gene detection (isolate)
- MRSA (isolate)
- Antibiotic resistant genes – carbapenemases (IMP, VIM, KPC, NDM), ESBL (CTX-M-15, CTX-M-14, OXA-48), AmpC (CMY-2)