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7. Urgent investigations
Urgent specimens are usually delivered by courier and accepted during
normal working hours. Please telephone urgent requests prior to
despatch to inform us of their impending arrival and priority status.
Please package as described, and additionally mark clearly on the outside as
'URGENT'
Where urgent diagnosis of malaria out of normal hours is required,
specimens should be referred to the Department of Clinical Parasitology at
the Hospital for Tropical Disease (HTD), telephone number: 0845 155 5000
and ask for the duty Tropical Medicine Doctor on bleep 5845, who will
liaise with the on-call Biomedical Scientist.
Depending on the origin of the specimen, a charge may be incurred.
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