List of National Specialists

Advice on any aspect of Brucella including diagnosis, management and public health aspects can be obtained from:

Clinical advice

Dr NJ Beeching 
Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Liverpool L7 5XP
Tel:  +44 0151 706 3835
Out of hours: +44 0151 706 2000
e-mail: nicholas.beeching@rlbuht.nhs.uk

Dr RC Spencer
Health Protection Agency
Level 8
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Marlborough Street
Bristol BS2 8HW
Tel: +44 0117 342 3242
Out of hours: 07885 434000
e-mail: robert.spencer@ubht.swest.nhs.uk or bob.spencer@hpa.org.uk

Diagnostic laboratory and environmental advice

Dr M Rothburn or Dr R Cooke
Clinical Microbiology and HPA Collaborating Laboratory
Brucella Reference Unit (BRU)
University Hospital Aintree
Lower Lane  
Liverpool L9 7AL
Tel: +44 0151 529 4900
e-mail: mike.rothburn@aintree.nhs.uk
richard.cooke@aintree.nhs.uk

Veterinary laboratory and clinical advice

Mrs J Stack
Department of Statutory and Exotic Bacterial Diseases (SEB)
Veterinary Laboratory Agency Weybridge
New Haw
Addlestone 
Surrey KT15 3NB
Tel:  +44 0193 235 7610
e-mail: j.a.stack@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk

Public Health advice and Out of hours

HPA Colindale 24 hour on call duty doctor; Tel: (+44) 020 8200 6868

Last reviewed: 27 June 2011