Spring 2027

Microbiology Diagnostics in Public Health

Hands-on training in public health microbiology diagnostics, covering lab testing areas, CDC/clinical lab collaboration, and outbreak response.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Alana Sterkel

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the different testing areas of the Communicable Disease Division at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH).

  • Describe the basics of common diagnostic test methods like PCR, sequencing, culture, and serology. Interpret test results and understand the limitations of those tests.

  • Describe how the WSLH works with epidemiologists to identify outbreaks of disease.

  • Describe how the WSLH works between clinical labs and the CDC for public health.

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Prerequisites

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

MM&I 911

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Spring 2027
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ALANA STERKEL is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 20

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Student experience

the class

Learn firsthand how a public health lab handles testing. Learn about the different areas of testing in the lab from the experts and how we work with the CDC and clinical labs for surveillance, diagnostics, and outbreak response. Useful training for diagnostic testing and those that will order these tests in their practice.

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Topics

  • Communicable Disease Division testing areas
  • Diagnostic test methods: PCR, sequencing, culture, serology
  • Outbreak identification and epidemiological collaboration
  • Surveillance, diagnostics, and CDC coordination

Skills

  • Describe testing areas in the Communicable Disease Division
  • Interpret diagnostic test results and understand their limitations
  • Explain collaboration between labs and epidemiologists for outbreak identification
  • Describe the role of state labs between clinical labs and the CDC

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MM&I 911 · Spring 2027

Microbiology Diagnostics in Public Health

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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