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Mycology

The Mycology Laboratory serves as a comprehensive reference facility for all NYSDOH licensed clinical laboratories including: hospitals, academic medical centers, county health departments and commercial laboratories.

The laboratory houses a fungal culture collection repository, an outstanding resource for assay development, distribution and sale.

Research and development efforts complement diagnostic programs by focusing on innovations in fungal diagnostics and antifungal testing, mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis, and molecular epidemiology. These activities are carried out in collaboration with scientists at the Wadsworth Center and investigators from around the globe. Excellent opportunities are available for the training of undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and clinical laboratory personnel. 

History

The Wadsworth Center Mycology Laboratory has a long history of excellence in both basic and applied research. The laboratory has made many notable contributions to the field with the most famous being the discoveries of the antifungal drug ‘nystatin’ by Drs. Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen, and the cryptococcal latex agglutination test by Dr. Morris Gordon. 

CLIA# 33D2005937 | PFI# 8523

Program Updates

Summer 2019 Cover Image APHL Lab Matters

Nod to Wadsworth Center Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory

The Summer 2019 issue of the Association of Public Health Laboratories' (APHL) publication Lab Matters features an article recognizing the work of the Wadsworth Center's Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network (AR...

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Candida. Content Credit: CDC/James Archer; Photo Credit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Medical Illustrator

Wadsworth Center tests some of the first cases of an emerging fungal pathogen reported in the United States

In a November 4 press release, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautioned that Candida auris had been detected for the first time in the US in four states: New York, Illinois, Maryland and New...

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Little brown bat Myotis lucifugus

Dr. Sudha Chaturvedi Fights Fire with Fire - Literally Using One Fungus to Fight Another

White-nose syndrome, first identified in the US in New York during the winter of 2006-2007 has killed millions of North American bats, and as of May 2016, has been confirmed in 29...

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