The microbiology departments at MUDC and MKDC play a crucial role in combating disease and testing microscopic organisms which include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa for dysfunction. 

Microbiology tests can detect: Malaria, Babesiosis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis.

Parasitology, a subdivision of microbiology, will assess parasites and parasitic diseases. Parasitology tests can detect Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, Bilharzia, Filariasis