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Laboratory immunology provides a wide ranging diagnostic service encompassing immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease, allergy, lymphoproliferative disease and neuro-immunology.
Please see www.ouh.nhs.uk/immunology.
As a regional immunology service for the four counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, we handle over 50,000 samples a year.
We also provide a national and international service for certain key assays in neuro-immunology and immunodeficiency. The diagnostic immunology service interacts with and underpins clinical activity within a wide range of disciplines, in particular: