UPR/MSC CURRENT PROJECTS

AND ACTIVITIES

Selected Campus Projects Relevant to Women's Health

Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory was established in 1983 at the Department of Microbiology and Medical Zoology of the School of Medicine. It is a Reference Laboratory for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The laboratory performs specialized procedures such as isolation of herpes simplex virus and chlamydia by tissue culture and monoclonal antibody techniques. The laboratory gives technical and scientific support to both clinical and basic research projects that require PCR procedures for the detection of viral (i.e., HIV, HPV) genome sequences in human specimens.