Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

The table below lists the hours of operations for our Clinical Specimen Receiving department.

As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH Emergency Pager at 608-263-3280.

NOTE: The WSLH Environmental Health Division also will be closed on December 26th and January 2nd. For environmental health samples – including water testing samples – it is best to submit your samples as early in the weeks of December 19th and 26th as possible due to the holidays.

 

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene will be closed on Thursday, November 24, 2022 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Our Specimen Receiving departments will observe the following hours of operation for the Thanksgiving holiday:

 

 

 

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations for the Labor Day holiday.

As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH Emergency Pager at 608-263-3280.

 

On Thursday, September 1, 2022 the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) will begin testing for Mycoplasma genitalium using the Aptima Transcription-Mediated Amplification (TMA) assay. This assay uses nucleic acid probes and TMA for the qualitative detection of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) to aid in the diagnosis of M. genitalium infection. The M. genitalium assay uses the same Aptima collection kits currently used for CT/GC testing and a single specimen can be used for multiple tests. M. genitalium testing is available for patients 14 years and older.

Read the full test announcement

Stay up to date with Monkeypox testing information at the WSLH on our Monkeypox-2022 web page.

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations for the July 4th holiday.

As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH Emergency Pager at 608-263-3280.

 

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

The table below lists the hours of operations for our Clinical Specimen Receiving departments.

As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH Emergency Pager at 608-263-3280.

 

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene is one of six wastewater-based epidemiology centers of excellence announced today by Ceres Nanosciences (Ceres).

The Centers of Excellence program is supported by an $8.2 million award given to Ceres from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) initiative.

Ceres news release 

WSLH staff made major contributions to two recently released Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) publications.

Senior Scientist Martin Shafer provided a large portion of the content to APHL’s “SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance Testing Guide for Public Health Laboratories”. Shafer said his contributions were informed by the WSLH COVID Wastewater Surveillance Team.

He said the APHL guide is “…quite a seminal document that public health labs across the country will reference in building their wastewater surveillance programs”.

 

WI Clinical Laboratory Network (WCLN) Coordinator Erin Bowles contributed to APHL’s “Public Health Laboratory Outreach Model Practices for Infectious Disease Programs”.

The publication is a compilation of information gathered from nine interviews with public health laboratories that have sustained an outreach program focused on infectious diseases and incorporates strategies to address the challenges surrounding resource limitations.

WSLH Communicable Disease Division Director Dr. Allen Bateman was interviewed and quoted for the lead Association of Public Health Laboratories Spring 2022 Lab Matters article about balancing SARS-CoV-2 testing with other necessary infectious disease testing.

“To All the Other Pathogens: We’re Still Testing”