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Navy Microbiology is a globally-distributed community that serves at the forefront of Global Health, Security Cooperation, Bio-surveillance initiatives, Medical Research and Development, Operational Biological Defense, and Force Health Protection.

What We Do
  • Conduct world-wide infectious disease surveillance
  • Diplomats building partnerships with host nations to support global health activities
  • Conduct Medical Research and Development
  • Leaders in clinical diagnostic testing, field next generation infectious disease detection across the Fleet
  • Globally deployable mobile team of experts responding to biological threats
  • Evaluate new countermeasures to combat disease threats
  • Experts in Parasitology, Virology, Bacteriology, Immunology, and Molecular Biology
  • Provide Humanitarian Assistance aboard hospital ships and support Global Health Engagements
200421-N-EV253-1011 NEW YORK (April 21, 2020) - Lt. Cmdr. Tida Lee, left, confers with Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jeremy Parr regarding a patient's cultured results in the microbiology lab aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort cares for critical and non critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sara Eshleman)
For more information about the Microbiology Community, please email: 
usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.msc-microbiology@health.mil
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