Infection Sciences Department

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.

Last updated on 31/07/2023

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King's College Hospital

Friday, 17 February, 2017

Diagnosing acute HIV infection at point of care: a retrospective analysis of the sensitivity and specificity of a fourth-generation point-of-care test for detection of HIV core protein p24.

Fitzgerald N , Cross M , O'Shea S , Fox J

Wednesday, 1 February, 2017

A European Multicentre Study on the Analytical Performance of the DxN VERIS System HCV Assay.

Braun P , Delgado R , Drago M , Fanti D , Fleury H , Gismondo MR , Hoffman J , Izopet J , Kuhn S , Lombardi A , Marcos M , Saune K , O'Shea S , Perez-Rivilla A , Ramble J , Trimoulet P , Vila J , Whittaker D , Artus A , Rhodes DW

Thursday, 12 January, 2017

Impact of rectal gonorrhoea and chlamydia on HIV viral load in the rectum: potential significance for onward transmission.

Davies O , Costelloe S , Cross G , Dew T , O'Shea S , White J , Fox J

Saturday, 9 July, 2016

Molecular detection of common intestinal parasites: a performance evaluation of the BD Max™ Enteric Parasite Panel.

Batra R , Judd E , Eling J , Newsholme W , Goldenberg SD

Tuesday, 2 April, 2013

Clustering of antimicrobial resistance outbreaks across bacterial species in the intensive care unit

There are frequent reports of intensive care unit (ICU) outbreaks due to transmission of particular antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Anne L. M. Vlek , Ben S. Cooper , Theodore Kypraios , Andy Cox , , Olga Tosas Auguet

Sunday, 17 February, 2013

Development and validation of a risk model for identification of non-neutropenic, critically ill adult patients at high risk of invasive Candida infection: the Fungal Infection Risk Evaluation (FIRE) Study

There is increasing evidence that invasive fungal disease (IFD) is more likely to occur in non-neutropenic patients in critical care units.

Harrison D , Muskett H , Harvey S , Grieve R , Shahin J , Patel K , Sadique Z , Allen E , Dybowski R , Jit M , , Kibbler C , Barnes R , Soni N , Rowan K.

Thursday, 10 January, 2013

Low prevalence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage at hospital admission: implications for risk-factor-based vs universal screening

There is debate over the optimal policy for detecting meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization at hospital admission.

J. A. Otter , M. T. Herdman , B. Williams , O. Tosas , , G. L. French

Monday, 7 January, 2013

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

The widespread use of antibiotics in association with high-density clinical care has driven the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that are adapted to thrive in hospitalized patients.

Matthew T.G. Holden , Li-Yang Hsu , Kevin Kurt , Lucy A. Weinert , Alison E. Mather , Simon R. Harris , Birgit Strommenger , Franziska Layer , Wolfgang Witte , Herminia de Lencastre , Robert Skov , Henrik Westh , Helena Žemličková , Geoffrey Coombs , Angela M. Kearns , Robert L.R. Hill , , Ian Gould , Vanya Gant , Jonathan Cooke , Giles F. Edwards , Paul R. McAdam , Kate E. Templeton , Angela McCann , Zhemin Zhou , Santiago Castillo-Ramírez , Edward J. , Lyndsey O. Hudson , Mark C. Enright , Francois Balloux , David M. Aanensen , Brian G. Spratt , J. Ross Fitzgerald , Julian Parkhill , Mark Achtman , Stephen D. Bentley , Ulrich Nübel

Thursday, 3 January, 2013

Selection for qacA carriage in CC22 but not CC30 MRSA bloodstream infection isolates during a successful institutional infection control programme.

The increasing use of chlorhexidine for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decolonization raises concerns about reduced susceptibility.

Otter JA , Patel A , Cliff PR , Halligan EP , Tosas O ,

Friday, 11 May, 2012

Diagnosing HIV infection in patients presenting with glandular fever-like illness in primary care: are we missing primary HIV infection?

The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of HIV infection in patients presenting in primary care with glandular fever (GF)-like illness.

DTS Hsu , M Ruf , Dr Siobhan O’Shea , S Costelloe , J Peck , CYW Tong

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Newara Ramadan

Service Manager

Dr Nehal Draz

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Saraswathi Murthy

Head of department/Consultant microbiologist

Martin Cunningham

Clinical Scientist

Dr Caoimhe Nic Fhogartaigh

Consultant Microbiologist

Lucy Chiri

Quality Manager

Colleen Gilkes

Virology Operations Manager

Eunice Drakes

Diana Bate

Infection Sciences Interim Service Delivery Manager

Dr Alireza Abdolrasouli

Clinical Scientist

Dr Temi Lampejo

Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician and Virologist

Dr Mark Zuckermann

Consultant Virologist

Dr Martin Brown

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Aileen Boyd

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Jasmin Islam

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Mauricio Arias

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Silke Schelenz

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Anita Verma

Consultant Microbiologist

Dr Carmel Curtis

Infection Sciences Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Clinical Lead, Laboratory Director

Richard Scott

Infection Sciences Quality Manager

Katy Stocker

Service Delivery Manager

Dr Carolyn Hemsley

Consultant and Clinical Lead for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases,

Dr Eithne MacMahon

Consultant Virologist

Dr Sam Douthwaite

Consultant in Infectious Diseases

Dr Andrea Szendroi

Clinical Scientist

Gurjit Lindsay

General Manager

Dr Siobhan O’Shea

Principal Clinical Scientist

Dr Malur Sudhanva

Consultant Virologist

Dr John Klein

Consultant Microbiologist and Postgraduate Training Lead

Infection Sciences Department at St Thomas' Hospital

020 7188 8008

St Thomas' Hospital
North Wing - 5th Floor
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH
Core opening hours: Monday-Friday 0900-1730

Infection Sciences Department at King's College Hospital

Results: 020 3299 3567 Medical advice: 020 3299 4360

King's College Hospital
Cheyne Wing - 2nd Floor
Denmark Hill
London SE5 9RS

Mycology Laboratory at St Thomas'

020 7188 6400

St John's Institute of Dermatology
South Wing - Staircase C
St Thomas' Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH

Opening times for patients is 9:30 -16:30 Monday to Friday

South London Specialist Virology Centre

Results: 02032996155 Medical Advice: 02032996298

King's College Hospital
Cheyne Wing, 2nd Floor (opposite Liver ITU)
Denmark Hill
London SE5 9RS

DX address: South London (PHL) Kings DX 6570200 Peckham 90SE

Microbiology Laboratory at Princess Royal University Hospital

01689 864269 / 01689 864250

Princess Royal University Hospital
Farnborough Common
Orpington
Kent
BR6 8ND

Microbiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

Royal Brompton Hospital - Consultant Microbiologist: 020 7351 8440; Harefield Hospital - Consultant Microbiologist: 01895 828 728

Royal Brompton
Level 2, Sydney Street wing
Sydney Street
London
SW3 6NP

Harefield Hospital:
Pathology block
Hill End Road
Harefield
UB9 6JH

Last updated: 31/07/2023

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Infection Sciences Department

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.

St Thomas' Hospital

King's College Hospital

Princess Royal University Hospital

Royal Brompton Hospital

Harefield Hospital

Infection Sciences Department at St Thomas' Hospital

Infection Sciences Department at King's College Hospital

Mycology Laboratory at St Thomas'

South London Specialist Virology Centre

Microbiology Laboratory at Princess Royal University Hospital

Microbiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

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Infection Sciences Department

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.

St Thomas' Hospital

King's College Hospital

Princess Royal University Hospital

Royal Brompton Hospital

Harefield Hospital

Infection Sciences Department at St Thomas' Hospital

Infection Sciences Department at King's College Hospital

Mycology Laboratory at St Thomas'

South London Specialist Virology Centre

Microbiology Laboratory at Princess Royal University Hospital

Microbiology at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

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