A recent paper challenge scenario sent to our clinical bacteriology program participants presented a case of contaminated blood agar plates with beta hemolytic colonies that showed small Gram-positive bacilli when observed in a Gram stain. Participants were offered a series of…
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A not so simulated case of contaminated blood agar plates in the microbiology laboratory
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Proficiency Testing as a tool to highlight issues with sample processing when analyzing stool samples to investigate infectious diarrhea using multiplex assays.
In January 2023 the British Columbia Ministry of Health under the Laboratory Services Act approved a pathogen multiplex panel fee code item to encourage diagnostic microbiology laboratories to move towards syndromic testing.In response to this change in the diagnostic approach,…
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CMPT is hiring a Communications Assistant
Job Summary The Communications Assistant will work at the Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), a service unit within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The Communications Assistant will be responsible for supporting the CMPT Editor, Education Coordinator with…
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New Programs
Virology CMPT will be launching its Respiratory Panel program early 2023. This panel will include SARS CoV-2, Influenza A, Influenza B, and RSV viruses. For more information please contact CMPT. Enteric Parasitology – Molecular CMPT will be offering PT samples…
New Virology Program Expert Committee
CMPT would like to welcome our new Virology Expert Committee; Nancy Matic, MD, FRCPC, (D)ABMM Dr. Matic studied Microbiology (Honours Bachelor of Science) at the University of Guelph and earned her MD from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She then…
Issues with Piperacillin-Tazobactam (PIP-TAZ) Breakpoints
In CMPT Challenge M221-5 (July, 2022), a simulated blood culture with Acinetobacter baumanii, antimicrobial susceptibilities for piperacillin-tazobactam (Pip-Taz) were ungraded due to lack of consensus by the participants. It was unknown what breakpoints were being used for reporting this agent.…
CMPT – A vision for the future
Dr. Lucy Perrone, the Donald B. Rix Professor of Laboratory Quality and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, joined the Faculty of Medicine at UBC on March 14, 2022. Dr. Perrone currently chairs the Canadian (formerly…
CMPT changes its name
CMPT has changed its name from Clinical to Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing to better reflect the scope of our programs that extend beyond the clinical field into environmental and now cannabis industry.
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