Mycology · Parasitology

The Parasitology-Mycology laboratory is structured into different sectors corresponding to distinct biological activities:

• Conventional Parasitology: Diagnosis of endemic and tropical parasitic infections
• Conventional mycology: direct examinations, cultures and antifungal susceptibility testing.
• Fungal serologies: Aspergillus serologies, Candida serologies, Cryptococcus antigen, BD-glucan.
• Parasite serology: Toxoplasmosis serology (ELISA and chemiluminescence IgG and IgM, ISAGA)
• Molecular biology: Toxoplasmosis PCR , Aspergillus and Mucorales PCR , Pneumocystis PCR , Microsporidia PCR , Leishmania PCR
• Fungal identification activity and participation in aspergillosis surveillance in connection with the Hospital Hygiene laboratory.

The service has ministerial approval for the prenatal diagnosis of toxoplasmosis.

• Biological on-call service 7/7, 24/24 for the diagnosis of malaria, pneumocystosis and neuro-meningeal cryptococcosis.
• Epidemiological surveillance activity and reporting to the CNR such as the CNR for Invasive Mycoses, CNR for Microsporidioses and Cryptosporidioses, CNR for Toxoplasmosis, CNR for Malaria, CNR for Leishmania, CNR for Echinococcosis.
• Mission to train and supervise theses and dissertations for residents of the DES in Medical Biology or other DES outside the field and for students in training (BTS, IUT, L3, M1, M2…).
• Providing consulting services for the interpretation of biological results and diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to clinicians and fellow biologists.