Available testing facilities at Clinical Microbiology
(Room no: 336 / 344) This page last updated on 16.08.2018
- Blood for culture for aerobic bacteria
- Blood for culture in the diagnosis of brucellosis
- 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
- Nasopharyngeal aspiration for the diagnosis of whooping cough
- Bacterial antigen detection test in CSF
- Legionella antigen detection in urine
- Mycoplasma antibody detection test
Antibiotic Susceptibility Test
By CLSI method
- MIC by
- Automated antibiotic susceptibility system (BD Phoenix)
- Broth dilution
- E-test
- Disk diffusion
Molecular biology tests
- qPCR for,
- pathogenic Leptospira DNA detection
- Streptococcus pneumonia
- Neisseria meningitides
- Bordetella pertussis
- Brucella spp
- Rickettsiae spp
- NDM gene detection
- PVL gene detection
Other tests
- MRSA screening
- Microbiological efficiency of disinfectants
- Identification of bacterial isolates from clinical samples