The Missouri State Public Health Laboratory is dedicated to the promotion, protection, and assurance of the health of Missouri's citizens by providing a wide range of diagnostic and analytical services. These services include quality-assurance laboratory testing for infectious diseases, genetic disorders and environmental health concerns, both in support of public health programs, and as a reference laboratory performing unusual or specialized procedures. The laboratory provides scientific expertise and managerial leadership in meeting the rapidly changing challenges in the clinical and environmental laboratory disciplines and in the development of public health policy.

About three million tests (many required by law) are performed in the State Public Health Laboratory and the two branch laboratories, one in Poplar Bluff and one in Mount Vernon. Approximately 350,000 mailing kits are assembled and distributed each year for the return of specimens from hospitals and private laboratories as well as city, county and district health offices. The State Public Health Laboratory also functions as a reference lab for medical laboratories in the state and confirms results or completes organism identification.

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The State Public Health Laboratory telephone number for lab results will be changed from (573) 751-0633 to (573) 751-3334. This change is effective immediately.