Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA

2019-02-13

MRSA is everywhere! Skin, environment, and even your lovely pets! According to the 2018 statistic from CHP, HKSAR, community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection had reached a total number of 1220。Although MRSA infection is usually limited to skin infection, the b...

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Influenza Rapid Test, Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Multiplex PCR

2019-01-14

According to a survey done in the US in 2014 (DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00382-15), only 16% of upper respiratory tract viral infection were due to influenza A virus. RSV, rhinovirus, enterovirus, coronavirus, adenovirus are among the remaining cause of URTI. We may notice that people are more aware of influe...

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Laboratory diagnosis of Dengue Fever - antibody IgG IgM, antigen NS1

2018-08-20

Dengue fever is a common mosquito borne infection in Asia. According to figures from CHP, there has been over 41000 cases confirmed in Thailand and over 1000 cases in Singapore. This first local dengue case of this year has also been also confirmed by CHP on 14/8 and is expected to have more confir...

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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing

2018-07-09

Do you know how a laboratory perform antimicrobial susceptibility to test for antibiotic resistance? There are couple of method as suggested by international regulatory bodies. One of the most common method is called disk diffusion test. When the laboratory technologist isolates a bacteria from a sa...

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