Emergency Diagnostic Services

We offer emergency and confirmatory malaria diagnostics during the opening hours of the Diagnostic Centre.

From 1 March 2025, the Diagnostic Centre will no longer offer an emergency malaria microscopy service in the evenings, at weekends and on public holidays. However, we will continue to offer our malaria diagnostic service on weekdays from 8am to 5pm. 

• Samples for malaria microscopy that arrive at our laboratory by 5pm on weekdays (Mon–Fri) will continue to be processed immediately and results will be communicated by telephone as usual within approximately two hours of receipt of the sample. 
• Samples for malaria microscopy that arrive after 5pm on weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays will be processed on the next working day (Mon–Fri 8am–5pm). 
• Please continue to notify us of any malaria diagnostic samples by telephone (tel: 061 284 82 61). 
• Attending physicians will continue to be available on the Centre for Tropical and Travel Medicine emergency line (24 hours/7 days) on 061 284 81 44. This service is exclusively for questions to doctors regarding the diagnosis and treatment of possible tropical/parasitic diseases.

Please read the following important customer information: English, French, German, Italian
 

For questions regarding malaria diagnosis or to notify the arrival of a sample, please contact us on +41 61 284 82 61 or +41 61 284 81 11.

For attending doctors

Monday–Friday daytime: Tel: +41 61 284 82 55

At night/weekends (24-h on-call service): Tel: +41 61 284 81 44