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Health protection services: detailed information
A to Z on content relating to health protection services.
Local health protection services
Laboratories and reference facilities
- Specialist and reference microbiology: laboratory tests and services
- Anaerobe reference unit (ARU): Cardiff
- Bacteriology reference department (BRD)
- Brucella Reference Unit (BRU)
- Clostridium difficile ribotyping network (CDRN) service
- Cryptosporidium reference unit (CRU)
- Food, water and environmental laboratories
- Imported fever service (IFS)
- Lyme disease services
- Malaria reference laboratory (Malaria RL)
- Meningococcal reference unit (MRU)
- Mycology reference laboratory
- National leptospirosis service
- National mycobacterium reference service- South (NMRS-South)
- Primary care guidance: diagnosing and managing infections
- Public health laboratories
- Rare and imported pathogens laboratory (RIPL)
- Toxoplasma reference laboratory (TRL)
- UK national reference laboratory for food microbiology
- Virus reference department (VRD)
Health surveillance and reporting programmes
- Mosquitoes: surveillance and recording
- Tick awareness and the Tick Surveillance Scheme
- International Health Regulations 2005: UK National Focal Point
- Notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDs)
Research, testing and standards
- Biosafety unit
- Genomic research unit
- Proficiency testing for food, water and environmental microbiology
- Standards for microbiology investigations (UK SMI)
Other
Updates to this page
Published 1 October 2021