Our laboratories perform hundreds of thousands of specialist and routine investigations annually and provide a fully integrated consultant-led service for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of community and imported infections in the immuno-compromised host. 

The department collaborates between clinical research groups and academic partners at:

• Guy's, King's and St Thomas’ school of medicine
• The Institute of Psychiatry
• The School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Clinical Directorate, King's College London and King's Division of Biomedical Sciences.
• National Heart and Lung Institute

The Department's wide-ranging portfolio of diagnostic bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology tests includes a comprehensive molecular repertoire offering qualitative and quantitative PCR, real time PCR and pathogen genotyping that is fully responsive to the ever changing needs of our clinical colleagues.

Our laboratory user Handbook can be seen below