External Quality Assessment samples

Freeze-dried microorganisms

For Culture & PCR – Customized concentrations of the following microorganisms, the list is not exhaustive:

• Bacteria: Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococciae, Streptococciae, Pseudomonaccae, Bordetella, Clostridium difficile
• Viruses: Adenovirus, Enterovirus, CMV
• Fungus: Candida, Aspergillus, Saccharomyces, Cryptococcus
• Dermatophytes: Ringworm
• Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis

Minimum stability: 12 months

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Syndromic approach (Molecular Biology)

Freeze-dried synthetic matrices supplemented with viruses and/or bacteria

The following list is not exhaustive:

• Pulmonary matrices supplemented with SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, B, RSV, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Bordetella pertussis, …
• Gastrointestinal matrices supplemented with Adenovirus, Sapovirus, Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica, Vibrio cholerae, Escherichia coli O157, …
• Vaginal matrices supplemented with HSV, HPV, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Neisseria gonorrohae, …
• Meningeal matrices supplemented with HSV2, Neisseria meningitidis, Cryptococcus neoformans, …

Minimum stability: 12 months

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Blood culture

Contaminated blood

Kit containing two vials to be mixed:

• Vial with liquid blood
• Vial with freeze-dried germ to be customized with specific concentrations: Enterobacteria, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Listeria, Pseudomonas, yeasts …

Minimum stability: 1.5 months

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Specific parameters

Each of the following parameters to be customized with specific concentrations.

• Ethanol in blood or serum
• Procalcitonine in blood
• Cotinine in urine
• B-hCG in blood or urine
• Glucose in blood or urine
• Antibodies or antigens: HIV, HBS, HCV, Syphilis

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Bacteriology

Cytobacteriological examination of urine (CBEU) samples – PATENTED TECHNIQUE

Kit containing two vials to be mixed:

1.Freeze-dried vial to customize in terms bacteria (strains, enumeration, phenotype resistances).

Minimum stability: 12 months

2.Liquid vial of real urine containing red and/or white blood cells (up to 10⁶ cells per mL) and crystals (Struvite, Cholesterol, Oxalate).

Minimum Stability: 6 months 

 

NEW – Total Urine: Real urine with biochemistry and cytobacteriological parameters

Kit containing two vials to be mixed:

1.Freeze-dried vial to customize in terms bacteria (strains, enumeration, phenotype resistances).

Minimum stability: 12 months

2.Liquid vial of real urine containing

• Red and/or white blood cells (up to 10⁶ cells per mL)
• Crystals (Struvite, Cholesterol, Oxalate)
• Biochemistry parameters: Amylase, Calcium, Chlorine, Creatinine, Glucose, Magnesium, Microalbumin, Phosphate, Potassium, Protein, Sodium, Urea, Uric acid

Minimum Stability: 6 months

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Puncture fluid – Cerebrospinal and knee joint fluid

Kit containing 2 vials and one slide:

1.Vial containing freeze-dried puncture fluid synthetic Matrices to be customized with specific concentrations of:

• Crystals: Urate, Pyrophosphate, Corticosteroid
• Infectious germs: bacteria, virus, fungus

Minimum stability: 12 months

2.Liquid vial containing red and/or white blood cells to be customized with specific concentrations: up to 106 cells per mL.

Minimum stability: 6 months

3.Fixed and colored slide for leukocytes formula.

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Urogenital Mycoplasma

Urine, or synthetic vaginal matrices

Freeze-dried samples containing enumerated strains of Mycoplasma hominis or Ureaplasma urealyticum with a selected antibioresistance.

Minimum stability: 12 months

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Urinary antigen

Legionella pneumophila  /  Streptococcus pneumoniae

Freeze-dried urine matrices for the detection of Legionella pneumophila and Streptococcus pneumoniae antigens.

Minimum stability: 12 months

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Slides for microscopic examination

The slides can be shipped empty with the samples to be coated on or they can be shipped already coated with the following:

• Tissues
• Fungus
• Parasites
• Blood smear
• Spread of vaginal swabs
• BAL (fixed to be colored)

 

• Malaria
  • Blood smear (fixed and stained)
  • Colored thick drop
  • Freeze-dried blood tube:
    • for antigen testing
    • for gene amplification (PCR-LAMP)

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Parasitology

Stool or stool suspension

 

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Biochemistry

Vitamin D

25-Hydroxyvitamin D range of 20 to 150 nmol/L in serum.

Minimum stability: 12 months

Urine – Sweat

Freeze-dried or liquid urine/sweat sample to be customized with specific concentrations of the following parameters.

Minimum stability: 24 months