Microbiology

The Department offers the following services

• Bacteriology
  
• Model VCTC, Hepatitis & Immunology
• Mycobacteriology
• Mycology
• Parasitology
• Serology

The services are available throughout the day. Emergency laboratory services cater to processing specimens of patients with clinical emergencies

For further information on any of these, please contact the respective sections or the head of the department.

Bacteriology

 

 

Section	Services - Routine	Special	Expertise
Bacteriology Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2527/2552	Aerobic and Anaerobic Smear , Culture and ABS. Phenotypic detection of drug resistance especially ESBL, MBL and Amp C Infection Control	Leptospira - DGI Automated blood culture - BacTAlert charge Rs.400	Dr. Sujata Baveja Dr. M.G.Karmarkar Dr. Lona Dash Dr. Sunil Kuyare Dr. Surabhi Taori Dr. Shaheen Sheikh Technical: Mrs. Shraddha Vijaykar Mrs. Sukhada Bhise Mrs. Vasudha Shroff Mr. Prabhakar Dewale Ms. Rasika Kale Ms. Pratibha Joshi Mr. Jadhav

 

 

VCTC, Hepatitis and Immunology

Section	Services - Routine	Special	Expertise
Model VCTC Free ART programme Hepatitis Immunology Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2825/2039 (HOD)	Voluntary Counselling and Testing Services for HIV//AIDS HbsAg and HCV	CD4 & CD8 counts charge Rs.500 Free for patients under the Free ART programme Voluntary Testing Centre for HIV Immunoflourescence Microscopy	Dr. P. R. Mehta Dr. Nayana Ingole Dr. Shashir Wanjare Dr. Supriya Patil Technical: Mrs. Anjali Jadhav Mr. Vasudeo Satam

 

Mycobacteriology

 

 

Section	Services - Routine	Special	Expertise
Mycobacteriology Microscopy centre under RNTCP Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2827	Smear , Culture and phenotypic speciation for Mycobacteria	ABS on requests- Primary line drugs PCR for extrapulmonary tuberculosis Charge Rs.600	Dr. Gita Nataraj Dr. Swapna Kanade Technical : Mrs. Rekha Samant Mr. Babaji Joshi Mr. Ramlakhan Yadav Ms. Poonam Patil

 

 

Mycology

 

Section	Services - Routine	Special	Expertise
Mycology Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2832	Microscopic detection (KOH/Calcofluor white) Smear and Culture Slide culture Speciation of candida	Antifungal susceptibility testing on request	Prof. C.V.Patankar Dr. Chaya Kumar

 

 

Parasitology

Section	Services - Routine	Special	Expertise
Parasitology Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2829 / 2525	Microscopic detection of parasites	Opportunistic pathogens Pneumocystis Cryptosporidium Microsporidium Cyclospora	Dr. Avani Koticha Dr. Kirti Kedare Technical : Mrs. Madhavi

 

Serology

Section	Routine investigations	Special investigations	Expertise
Serology Contact Number 24136051 Ext 2525	VDRL Widal ASO Paul Bunnel RA	Leptospirosis IgM and IgG Dengue IgM and IgG	Dr.M.J.Sathe Dr.Priyanka Prasad Technical : Mr.Dilip Ghosalkar