Clinical Trial Support
JMI Laboratories is a CLIA certified reference microbiology laboratory that provides GCLP support for bacterial and fungal phase I – IV clinical trials. We collect referred clinical pathogens from enrolled clinical trial patients isolated from the local laboratory. Once at JMI, these organisms are identified, susceptibility tested, and/or analyzed through other microbiology and molecular methods as required for the clinical trial design. The resulting testing data form is uploaded to the data management vendor, linked with patient clinical data, and submitted as part of your overall clinical trial data set.
Available Services
- Phenotypic, mass-spectrometry, and sequencing identification
- Reference broth microdilution, disk, and agar susceptibility testing
- Culture of bacterial pathogens from direct clinical samples
- Aerobic culture from skin and soft tissue
- Anaerobic C. difficile culture from stool
- Quantitative vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus culture from stool
- PFGE and MLST epidemiology typing
- Next generation sequencing (NGS) for antimicrobial resistance genes, mutational analysis and strain typing
- Microbiome analysis (16S and WGS)
- Stool, Skin Swabs, and Vaginal Swabs
- Long-term monitoring and storage of clinical isolates
- Future: Bacteriophage agar overlay, culture lysis and evaluation of anti-phage activity of sera
