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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. 

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

Virology User Manual IS-HUB-VIR-INST2 .pdf
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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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Paul Randell
Consultant Virologist
David Muir
Consultant Virologist
Florina Mamaische
Quality Manager
Natasha Odubade
Quality Officer
Dr Imogen Jones
Infectious Disease and Microbiology Consultant
Sushma Enjam
Operations Manager
Dr Saraswathi Murthy
Consultant microbiologist
Dr Caoimhe Nic Fhogartaigh
Consultant in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Eunice Drakes
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 Anita Verma
Consultant Microbiologist
Angela Menezes
Infection Sciences Quality Manager
Dr Siobhan O’Shea
Principal Clinical Scientist
Dr Malur Sudhanva
Consultant Virologist

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

Jonathan Youngs

Last updated: 20/10/2025

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