Head of Laboratory,

Dr. Lilani Karunanayake, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist

All investigations are accredited

• 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)