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    Sonoma County Public
    Health Laboratory


      3313 Chanate Rd.
      Santa Rosa, CA 95404
      Phone: (707) 565-4711
      Fax: (707) 565-7839

      e-mail 
      dyong@sonoma-county.org

      Mon-Fri 8-5pm
      (offers specimen courier service)
      ELAP: 1736
      CLIA: 05D0644064

      web site:
      www.sonoma-county.org
       

    • The Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory provides tesing services for diagnosing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases.  They include:

      -Bacterial testing of water, salt water, milks, food poisoning samples and enteric specimens.

      -Sexually transmitted diseases testing of Chlamydia (amplified DNA test); GC (amplified DNA test); syphilis serology (VDRL and FTA)

      -TB: Rapid isolation and identification procedure using liquid and sold media. Rapid susceptibility tests.

      -Mycology: fungus culture and identification

      -Herpes virus culture and serotyping

      -Rabies tests using the IFA procedure.

      -Hepatitis C test using the ELISA procedure.

      -HIV: ELISA test, Western Blot test, CD4- T cell count test, HIV Viral Load test.

      -Shellfish test: for shellfish meats and growing waters

      -Tick Borne Diseases tests: testing for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks; testing for antibodies in patient's serum for Lyme disease; for Babesia microti and Babesia WA-1; and for Ehrlichia chaffeensis (HME) and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE).

      -Intestinal parasites: direct smear and concentrated stained smears for the identification of intestinal parasites
       
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