Chunye Lu, PhD, MSc, PHM - Antibiotic Resistance Testing Laboratory Supervisor, Bacterial Diseases Section, Microbial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Public Health

Vida Mofidi M.P.H., M(ASCP)CM - Senior Public Health Microbiologist, County of Orange Health Care Agency, Department of Public Health, Santa Ana, CA

The increasing emergence of carbapenem-resistant organisms (CRO), including Enterobacterales (CRE), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) and Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), is a major public health threat. The modified carbapenem inactivation method (mCIM) is a reference method that is widely used in clinical and public health laboratories to detect carbapenemase production; however, it is time-consuming ...

OCT 23, 2024 9:00 AM PDT

Dr. Matthijs Oyaert - Clinical Biologist at the clinical laboratory of the Ghent University hospital, Belgium<br/> Member of the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) <br/> Member of the Royal Belgian Society of Laboratory Medicine (RBSLM) board

Urinalysis is a major diagnostic screening test in the clinical laboratory, with an important role in diagnosing and monitoring nephrological and urological conditions. Until recently, microscopic urine sediment analysis was the most widely accepted urinalysis methodology.1 However, this time-consuming methodology is associated with extensive analytical errors. Over the past 30 years, new ...

OCT 24, 2024 5:00 AM PDT

Nikita Raymond Dsouza - Bioinformatics Scientist, Roche Sequencing and LIfe Science

NGS enables the in-depth analysis of the genome and the identification and investigation of disease-associated variants–especially when workflows include target enrichment, which focuses on specific regions and enables higher throughput with greater sensitivity for rare variants. However, while the sample preparation and sequencing workflow takes only a few days, much work remains: (1) the ...

OCT 24, 2024 10:00 AM PDT