The
MDL Today
Currently, MDL is part of the
Division of Communicable Disease Control (DCDC), Center for Infectious Diseases (CID), and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). It is located since 2003 on the Richmond
Campus of the CDPH. The laboratory has five sections: Bacterial Diseases;
Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases; High Risk Pathogens;
Immunodiagnostic, Mycotic and Parasitic Diseases; and Mycobacterial
Diseases. Beside reference testing, MDL conducts applied research and teaching
of public health microbiologists and post-doctoral fellows. The laboratory has
60 staff members, which include laboratory directors, public health
microbiologists, research scientists, technicians and fellows.
MDL
Organization
Bacterial Diseases
Section
Reference
Bacteriology Unit
Sexually Transmitted
Infection Unit
Molecular
Bacteriology unit
Foodborne and
Waterborne Diseases Section
Foodborne and
Waterborne Diseases Detection Unit
Foodborne and
Waterborne Diseases Genotyping Unit
High Risk Pathogens
Section
Tier 1 Select Agents
and LRN Unit
Vaccine Preventable
Pathogens Unit
Immunodiagnostic,
Mycotic and Parasitic Diseases Section
Immunodiagnostic
Unit
Mycotic and Parasitic
Diseases Unit
Mycobacterial
Diseases Section
Mycobacterial
Characterization Unit
Mycobacterial Drug
Susceptibility Unit