Infectious Diseases

Utah Public Health Laboratory

The Utah Public Health Laboratory supports disease surveillance programs and outbreak investigations, monitors pathogen exposures, provides testing for underserved communities, and serves as a reference laboratory for the State of Utah.

How to Submit Specimens

I.D. Test Request Form

Mycobacteriology

Mycobacteriology performs surveillance and clinical testing for tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections.

Serology

Microbial Serology performs antigen and antibody-based testing for the detection of various diseases.

Biosafety

Biosafety at UPHL

Bacteriology

Bacteriology can isolate pathogens from food, environmental, and clinical specimens. We perform organism identification, strain typing, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. We are actively involved in surveillance programs for enteric organisms, vaccine-preventable diseases, and drug-resistant organisms.

Virology

Bacteriology can isolate pathogens from food, environmental, and clinical specimens. We perform organism identification, strain typing, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. We are actively involved in surveillance programs for enteric organisms, vaccine-preventable diseases, and drug-resistant organisms.

Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN) Mountain Region

ARLN Network at UPHL.

Next Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics

The Next Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics program generates high quality nucleic acid sequence data and provides bioinformatic analysis and interpretation of that data to the public health community in Utah and across the country.

Bio-Threat Response Laboratory

Utah’s Bio-Threat Response Laboratory is part of the Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The Bio-Threat Response Lab provides clinical and environmental testing for dangerous and high consequence pathogens, agents, or toxins that may be used as a weapon of mass destruction and newly emerging diseases.