Category Archive: Clinical Microbiology

What do they mean for Canadian Medical Microbiology Laboratories. R.P. Rennie, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. In the past few months, The FDA and CLSI have created a requirement for testing laboratories accredited by United States…

Often highly effective at treating bacterial infections, carbapenem antibiotics are used to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. However, a recent case study published in the American Society for Microbiology journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy reports that a Campylobacter coli infection…

In July of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised warnings about the increasing prevalence of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in a number of countries in Asia and Europe, as well as in Canada. According to the WHO, low coverage…

It’s tempting to think of EQA providers as simply another step on the path to accreditation: a mandatory stop on the road to the real work of providing quality testing for patients, clinicians, governments, and customers. However, as guardians of…

A recent mycology Proficiency Testing survey targeted the yeast Candida or now called Clavispora lusitaniae. Approximately 30% of the participants reported the yeast with its current name: Clavispora +/- (Candida) lusitaniae while the other 70% or laboratories reported it as…