Microbiology Laboratory


Contact Information
Richard Feathers
Gray-Bigelow 5- 526
55 Fruit Street
Boston,
MA
02114
Phone: 617-726-3612
Email: rfeathers@mgh.harvard.edu
Microbiology Laboratory
The Microbiology Laboratory is a full-service laboratory located in the Gray-Bigelow building on floor five and serves adult and pediatric patients. Our staff processes over 500,000 specimens per year and is open 24 hours a day to accession and process specimens.
The specialized services include highly developed test menus in bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycobacteriology, mycology, and infectious diseases serology.
In addition to conventional culture and microscopic methods, the laboratory offers several rapid diagnostic tests and detection of difficult-to-culture pathogens using molecular methods.
Faculty
- Eric S. Rosenberg, MD - Director, Microbiology Laboratory
- John A. Branda, MD - Associate Director,Microbiology Laboratory
- Virginia M. Pierce, MD - Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory
- Sarah E. Turbett, MD, Assistant Director, Microbiology Laboratory
Physician Profiles
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- Department of Pathology
- Infectious Diseases
- Department of Medicine
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- Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Infectious Diseases
- Department of Medicine
It is estimated that 70% of medical decision making is derived from laboratory results
Pathology's annual volume exceeds 13 million clinical laboratory tests