Laboratories and reference facilities

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Services

• Gastrointestinal bacteria culture referral form

  Form L4 for identification of bacillus, C. botulinum, C. perfringens, C. tetani, campylobacter, E. coli, helicobacter, listeria, salmonella, shigella, vibrio and yersinia.

• Diagnostic mycology and assays referral form

  Form (Y2) for referral of clinical samples for diagnostic mycology.

• Hepatitis viruses investigation request form

  Form (S1) for investigating hepatitis viruses.

• Brucella serology referral form

  Form (Y3) for laboratory diagnosis of Brucella by the Brucella Reference Unit (BRU) using serology tests.

• Managing clusters of pneumococcal disease in closed settings

  Guidelines for managing serious pneumococcal disease in hospitals, care homes, prisons, children바카라 사이트™s day-care centres and military settings.

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Guidance and regulation

• Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris): guidance for acute healthcare settings
  • Guidance
  • 19 March 2025
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Specialist and reference microbiology: laboratory tests and services
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 May 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Lyme disease: sample testing advice
  • Detailed guide
  • 20 April 2022
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Lyme disease services
  • Detailed guide
  • 14 April 2022
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Imported fever service (IFS)
  • Detailed guide
  • 8 August 2014
  • UK Health Security Agency

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News and communications

• Dstl to tackle emerging health threats
  • 31 March 2025
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • News story
• VDEC is supporting a GBS vaccine to prevent newborn deaths
  • 16 July 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Case study
• New research to develop vaccines against deadly henipaviruses바카라 사이트¯
  • 13 March 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Press release
• HRH The Princess Royal opens new UKHSA lab at Colindale
  • 9 November 2021
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Press release
• PHE opens virtual exhibition sharing plans for Harlow science campus
  • 22 May 2020
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• National reference laboratory for food microbiology: annual report
  • 31 October 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Typhoid and paratyphoid: laboratory confirmed cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • 22 August 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Lyme disease epidemiology and surveillance
  • 14 April 2022
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Sentinel surveillance of blood borne virus testing in England 2019
  • 19 January 2021
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Research
• SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing: assurance of positive results during periods of low prevalence
  • 16 October 2020
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Research

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Public Health England (PHE) research involving animals
  • 12 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• UK Health Security Agency
• Department of Health & Social Care
• 바카라 사이트 Office for Science
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities

• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory