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Welcome Dr. Kathy Malejczyk

We would like to give Dr. Malejczyk a very warm welcome to CMPT’s Clinical Bacteriology committee of experts. Dr. Malejczyk is a medical microbiologist at Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region.  

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Legacy Data Entry System phased out

CMPT’s old data entry system has been phased out. The new system is now in use to enter data for all PT programs. Laboratories will not have access to old reports. If you have any concerns please contact CMPT before

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The Polymyxin Complex – Colistin and Polymyxin B

by Robert Rennie The polymyxin complex is part of a large complex of cyclic lipopeptides that include polymyxins and daptomycin. There are at least 15-16 of these molecules, but only the former are used in clinical medicine. They are subdivided
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Case History M184 and PC184

Clinical Bacteriology Survey M184 You can access the Case History for each challenge HERE You can access the Paper Challenge HERE

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Final Results for C. difficile Survey CT1811

Final results for C. difficile survey CT1811 are available online Please check EQA Results – Clostridium difficile results  

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W183 Final Results

The final results for Survey W183 are now available online at https://cmpt.ca/category/critique/water-microbiology-results/

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Connections Fall 2018

VOLUME 22    NUMBER 3         FALL - 2018            ISSN 1496-3876 CMPT Annual Committee Meeting This year CMPT held annual general meetings with its Committee of Experts for the Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, and Mycology programs. We also used this
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Professional Development 2018

CMPT’s 2018 Professional Development course is now closed. We are happy to see that year after year the number of participants increases. This year we also had an increase in the number of participants finishing at least one category and

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CMPT Data Entry – Update

CMPT has launched a new system for Data Entry. We have been receiving feedback from our laboratories for years and acknowledged that the old data entry system was outdated and not very user friendly. After a comprehensive development process we

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CMPT Annual Committee Meeting

This year CMPT held annual general meetings with its Committee of Experts for the Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, and Mycology programs. The purpose of these meetings was to plan ahead for the year and discuss ideas on how to improve the
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