Background and purpose: Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora and Microsporidium are infectious agents bringing about concern about food products across the world. The current epidemiological evidence suggests that these pathogens can be of great risk to human health. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the frequency of the pathogens in people referred to the medical laboratories in T...

Currently, different highly sensitive nucleic acid detection-based protocols used in medical diagnostic laboratories need specific working conditions, and if no optimization is performed, misleading results can be obtained. Limitations of each protocol is different in obtaining an appropriate result. Awareness of these limitations plays an important role in providing a reliable result for physi...

Abstract Background and Objective: Multi-criteria comparison between laboratories is important for laboratory management to improve performance and for policymakers to make strategic decisions. In this study, those aspects of performance are considered that are beyond the traditional evaluation carried out by checklist. Material and Methods: After the identifying the effective m...

Abstract Background and Objective: One of the organizations that have proceeded for very high standard quality management programs, ISO 9001-2008, is medical diagnostic laboratories. One of the important goals of most laboratories in the implementation of this standard is to reduce the current costs of repeated tests. Material and Methods: The number of repeated tests was evalua...