THIS is the second annual report of the Mycological Diagnostic Service and covers the work done during 1960. After September, 1960, the laboratory was incorporated into the Queen's University Department of Microbiology without any change in the scope or function of the diagnostic service. The laboratory continued to offer to general practitioners, hospital laboratories, and clinics a routine se...

INTRODUCTION Laboratory information is generated when a meaning is given to certain data. This is usually achieved by comparing a laboratory test result with the reference range/decisional limit (RL), and by providing consultation for the interpretation of data, advice, and follow-up testing. AIM In this paper, we investigate factors affecting the conversion of data into useful information wi...

INTRODUCTION Early identification and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is highly cost-effective and can reduce the risk of kidney failure progression and cardiovascular disease. In 2014, the Joint Croatian Working Group (JCWG) for laboratory diagnostic of CKD on the behalf of Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine (CSMBLM) and Croatian chamber of medical bioc...

The authors discuss the responsibility of veterinary diagnostic laboratories as suppliers of analytical data for tests on animals and animal products. The guarantee of the quality of analytical data is a basic quality requirement for veterinary certification. It is therefore important for the laboratory to adopt operational quality assurance standards which are recognised internationally. The m...

INTRODUCTION With the trend of increasing incidence of autoimmune diseases, laboratories are faced with exponential growth of the requests for tests relating the diagnosis of these diseases. Unfortunately, the lack of laboratory personnel experienced in this specific discipline of laboratory diagnostic, as well as an unawareness of a method limitation often results in confusion for clinicians. ...

Occurrence and Phenotypic Characteristics of Extended-Spectrum -Lactamases among Members of the Family Enterobacteriaceae at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center (Israel) and Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests Shiri Navon-Venezia, Orly Hammer-Munz, David Schwartz, Dan Turner, Boris Kuzmenko, and Yehuda Carmeli* Laboratories for Molecular Epidemiology and Microbiology and Division of Infectious Diseases, Tel...