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Location of laboratory
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Newcastle Laboratory
Health Protection Agency North East
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Name and postal address of the laboratory
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Newcastle Health Protection Agency
Institute of Pathology
Newcastle General Hospital
Westgate Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 6BE
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DX address
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HPA North East, Newcastle Lab
DX6360100
Newcastle 90 NE
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Telephone number for enquiries & fax number
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Enquiries : +44 (0)191 226 1074
Clinical Advice Tel: +44 (0)191 2261074
Medical secretary: +44 (0) 282 1010
Fax: +44 (0)191 2260 0365
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What do we do?
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About us
The HPA north-east regional reference laboratory is one of the principal virology laboratories in the Northern and Yorkshire region. The Laboratory is part of the HPA Regional Microbiology Network (RMN) and UK Clinical Virology network (UK CVN). It is fully CPA accredited. We are currently based at the Newcastle General Hospital site. We work alongside the NHS providing specialist support in diagnostics, communicable disease and infection control, and emergency preparedness including development of diagnostic capabilities for emerging infectious diseases. We provide clinical and specialist reference virology services to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust and to the outlying District General Hospital Microbiology departments serving the population of north-east of England.
Virus serology
A full range of diagnostic (viral and bacterial) serology tests are
offered using automated, semi-automated and manual assays.
In addition, laboratory also offers reference testing for Syphilis.
Immunofluorescence
Direct immunofluorescence test for urgent respiratory virus,
Measles, HSV and VZV testing are available (please contact
duty/on-call virologist to discuss).
Molecular Diagnostics
Molecular diagnostics uses real time PCR systems for the detection of nucleic acid from a wide variety of clinical samples.
We currently offer the following assays:
1) Quantitative (Viral load measurement) tests for:
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein Barr virus
Human Herpes Virus 6
Adenovirus
Human Immunodefeciency virus-1
Hepatitis C virus (& HCV genotyping)
HBV
2) Qualitative detection of Nucleic acid:
Herpes Simplex Virus 1 + 2
Enterovirus
Varicella Zoster Virus
Norovirus
Avian Influenza virus H5
Respiratory virus panel (routine)
Influenza A + B
RSV A & B
Parainfluenza 1-4
Human Metapneumovirus
Adenovirus
Rhinovirus
On request:
Coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43,HKU)
Bocavirus
In addition, C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae, S. pneumoniae and MTB complex DNA testing and Clostridium difficile ribotyping assays are also available.
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Out of hours’ service
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Clinical Virology on-call service is provided from 5pm to 9am Monday to Friday, weekends and bank holidays. A joint Consultant clinical virology on-call service is provided between HPA, Newcastle hospitals trust & Leeds.
Urgent/out of hours requests in virology
Please discuss with duty/on-call virologist, to arrange.
For clinical advice and issue of vaccines and immunoglobulins, contact the duty Virologist via the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Hospital switch board (01912336161).
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This page was updated on
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