Bangkok, Thailand SRL

Description

The NTRL have appropriately room, equipment and staffs (currently 20 staffs of whom 12 are technical). In the future will plan to increase technical staffs about 50%. The lab separate rooms with official section and laboratory section. Laboratory section disposes of a large walk-in incubator, a culture/DST room, a separate room with MGIT 960 machines, rooms for molecular techniques, media and reagent preparation etc.  There are Negative pressure has been installed in the main laboratories, with positive pressure in other spaces.  The culture/DST room has an anteroom with double entrance door, with interlocking mechanism. There is autoclave in the room.

Structure and organization

BTB directly depend on Department of Disease Control and the NTRL& SRL directly depend on Director of BTB. Chief of laboratory units (there are 7 laboratories unit; Microscopy, Culture and identification, DST, Molecular technique, Supply, Quality Control unit, Bank of Mycobacteria storage unit) directly depend on chief of NTRL and SRL.  There are research, training and supervision functional in NTRL and SRL center.

Services provided by the SRL

- Microscopic of LED and light microscope

-Culture for liquid (MGIT960) and solid media (LJ and Ogawa) and identification by ICA, phenotypic and molecular testing

-DST for FLDST (MGIT 960 and proportional method by LJ) and SLDST (proportional method by LJ )

- Molecular methods for DST (MDR-TB and second line drugs) and species identification (HAIN Genotype line probe assay) 

-EQA provider in 3 parts; Microscopy, DST and Molecular  

Current links and partnerships outside of SRLN