We passionately believe in offering a world class service through our team of more than 740 dedicated professionals.

Delivering a state of the art diagnostic service

We have a comprehensive list of UKAS accredited tests, and clinical professionals can request our analytical and interpretive services from a range of disciplines.

Microbiology: Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that have all the answers.

Blood Sciences: “750 000 specimens a month, equating to 6 tubes of blood for every person living in Leeds and Bradford”!

SLM: “Providing Specialist Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Haematology, Clinical and Transplant Immunology services locally for LTHT and regionally for referring labs within WYAAT and beyond.”

Clinical Genetics: Finding answers for families in 3.2 billion letters of genetics code.

HIV Resistance

Test of drug resistance. The Protease and RT region of the genome is amplified, sequenced and compared to genome sequences on Stanford HIV drug resistance web site to determine wild type vs resistant mutations. PI/RT are the routine resistance testing available, Integrase and Fusion (T20) is also available.

Tube	EDTA tube
ID	3647
Additional Information	To determine the drug resistance of HIV positive patients either prior to or during treatment with Protease inhibitors, Nucleoside RTI or Non-Nucleoside RTI drugs.. Requires viral load of >1000copies/ml. Lower levels please contact the laboratory.
Turn Around	18 days
Send to	LGI Microbiology Department
Collection Con	Send a baseline blood prior to drug treatment and following treatment failures.
IP Routine TAT	18 days
GP Routine TAT	18 days