Last Modified: 12:49pm 25/03/2025

Tuberculosis (TB) Service

The Tuberculosis (TB) Service team is made up of Dr Mansoor Raza, Lead Consultant for TB – Adults and Dr Lazarus Anguvaa, Lead Consultant for TB-paediatrics, and is supported by other Respiratory Consultants at MKUH.

The nursing team is led by Imelda Ogatis with Neetha Mariam Kurian, TB Specialist Nurse, and Marissa Nicholson, TB Administrator and Support Worker.

Sharon Burns, Lead Chief Nurse for Infection Prevention and Control, provides direct management and support, alongside the Divisional Chief Nurse of Medicine, Elizabeth Winter.

Our nurses provide ongoing support through education (patients, families, and healthcare workers), are active participants in improving health through TB awareness, and can evidence admission avoidance by treating patients in their own homes.

TB Elispot Test

Test Result: Please send at least 6mls of blood in plain Lithium heparin (dark green-topped) bottles (2 bottles).

Testing is not available outside the hours of 0900 – 1400, Monday to Thursday.

Samples must arrive in the Microbiology laboratory within these hours in order to be received by the reference laboratory in time for testing.

Please inform the Microbiology department that sample is expected. Samples received outside these hours cannot be tested.

Useful links

• Hello Kitty meets Dr. Lucica Ditiu, ED of the Stop TB Partnership to learn about tuberculosis (TB) – YouTube
• Stop TB Champion, Hello Kitty visits a pediatric TB hospital in India (youtube.com)
• NICE TB guidance

Contact details – Monday – Friday, 09:00 – 17:00

Email: [email protected]