Locations and Hours

The Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory is located on the 3rd and 4th floors in the Mackenzie Building, 5788 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1V8.

The clinical labs are staffed from 0700 to 1600 and the specimen receiving/processing area is staffed from 0700 hours to 2300 hours daily. After hours, a medical laboratory technologist is available on-call.

A medical microbiologist is on-call at all times, call 902-473-2220 and ask for the microbiologist on-call to be paged.