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We plate all of cultures within a Class 2 BSC, but some of my staff are concerned about reading bacterial culture plates that may have incubated cellular material (from specimen inoculum) on an open bench during flu season, especially during a flu pandemic. Are there any references out there adressing this specific concern? (answered 11/07/2006) |
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Is 70% alcohol superior to use besides 10% bleach soln. as disinfectant to clean the lab.work bench areas? (answered 10/30/2006) |
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We are currently using methylene blue for fecal leukocytes microscopic examination. There is no commercial quality control availabe for this test, whta do you recommend to do for QC? (answered 08/30/2006) |
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My lab received a deficiency from CAP for failure to check the N2 in the API 20E. We follow manufacturers quidelines for QC organisms which does not include a positive N2 reaction. When I contacted bioMerieux they could not give me an ATCC organism with stable results for that test. That is why they did not recommend a QC organism. They recommended I establish my own method of validating that result if needed. However, they did not believe we should have received a deficiency. Can you tell me how I would validate that for our lab since they could not recommend an organism? Thank you. (answered 07/24/2006) |
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we are trying to determine what the benchmark times should be for reporting out positive and negative cultures, for example, the average turnaround time for a positive urine culture, a negative urine culture, a positive blood culture, etc....Can you help (answered 03/06/2006) |
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How are laboratories handling validation testing for rare results? For example IgM positive serum or Antibody negative serum for commonly vaccinated diseases like Measles, Mumps or Rubella? (answered 02/14/2006) |
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Does a correlation have to be performed when switching media manufacturers (i.e. switching from BBL to Remel agars)? Thank you. (answered 02/03/2006) |
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We are switching media companies and would like to know if we are to validate/correlate the new manufacturer or if the manufacturer's QC will suffice? (answered 02/03/2006) |
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