Category Archive: connections

  CMPT would like to welcome Tanis Dingle to the Mycology committee and Katrina Hurley and Jessica Forbes to the Clinical Microbiology committee. Tanis Dingle Dr. Dingle is a Clinical Microbiologist with Alberta Precision Laboratories – Public Health Lab (ProvLab)…

Early in 2021, CMPT in collaboration with BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) created a COVID-19 proficiency testing program geared to point of care (POC) testing sites within the different Health Authorities. As testing became widespread and rapid testing systems…

In February 2021, CMPT set off on a new program, to provide proficiency testing (EQA) for units providing rapid testing for COVID-19.  This was something novel for CMPT and others on many accounts. From CMPT perspective, this was the first…

Three Health Canada approved rapid antigen detection (RAD) commercial kits were tested against Covid-19 proficiency testing samples to compare their performance. Kits were tested against different dilutions of the reference material and after the sample had been incubated under different…

Early this year, CMPT in collaboration with BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) created a COVID-19 proficiency testing program geared to point of care (POC) testing sites. As testing became widespread and rapid testing systems began to proliferate, the College…