Please see below for frequently asked questions about our laboratory services. Contact our laboratory manager Dr Jennifer Canizales for further information on all of the below.
Send 10ml clotted blood or 5ml serum to our laboratory team. This can be sent in a suitable container through the post - preferably not on Friday due to weekend.
Please send a covering letter with the sample, or use our OEM Lab Services request form and instructions, ensuring that the sample label on the bottle is completed.
If you would like to measure specific IgE and IgG antibodies to a putative occupational allergen, please contact the laboratory team.
We are one of only a few remaining laboratories in the country that carry out precipitin testing to occupational and environmental allergens, typically moulds. This test requires a blood sample and an allergen sample.
Yes. Please note that we need a fresh, heparinised blood sample.
We elute filters and measure aeroallergen levels.
