The article is composed in the form of discussion with authors of another article published in the same issue of journal. The publication considers factors impacting analytical quality of results of clinical laboratory analyses. The cases in question are content of normative documents in force, expedience to complete them with more specific requirements to producers of laboratory analysis tools...

The ERNDIM Urine Mucopolysaccharide scheme is aiming at (1) provision of urine samples obtained from confirmed MPS patients to enable laboratories to gain or maintain experience to identify MPS patients and (2) proficiency testing of laboratories providing urine screening of mucopolysaccharidosis. The scheme is organised by Erasmus Medical Centre (Rotterdam, NL) in conjunction with SKML, the Du...

Rabies continues to pose a significant threat to human and animal health in regions of Indonesia. Indonesia has an extensive network of veterinary diagnostic laboratories and the 8 National laboratories are equipped to undertake diagnostic testing for rabies using the commercially-procured direct fluorescent antibody test (FAT), which is considered the reference (gold standard) test. However, m...

The characteristics of laboratories performing tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic procedures were investigated in ten Italian Regions, through a mailed questionnaire. Three hundred and eighty laboratories answered (70.8 % response rate), 250 of which performed directly at least one TB diagnostic procedure. Standard criteria concerning microscopy, culture, identification, and drug susceptibility testi...

Objetive: To evaluate the quality of prenatal care during outbreak Zika virus infection in endemic and non-endemic vector-borne regions Colombia. Materials methods: A descriptive study supplemented by interviews to explore personal experiences epidemic. total 40 pregnant women areas 44 nonendemic participated. Information collected included previous pregnancies, reasons for starting care, infor...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, majority of Biomedical Science students were not able undergo their clinical internship at diagnostic laboratories and this has created an impact on students’ skills future Malaysian healthcare system. Hence, our objective was implement arevolutionized practicum completely in a virtual environment, without compromising learning outcomes during pandemic 2021. To ach...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to evaluate the biosafety precautions that applied by diagnostic laboratories in Khartoum state, 2009. METHODS A total number of 190 laboratories were surveyed about their compliance with standard biosafety precautions. These laboratories included 51 (27%) laboratories from government, 75 (39%) from private sectors and 64 (34%) laboratories belong to organi...