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