External Quality Assessment samples

Freeze-dried microorganisms

Customized according to your needs including the following non-exhaustive list :

• Bacteria : Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococciae, Streptococciae, Pseudomonaccae
• Yeasts
• Fungus : Aspergillus, Saccharomyces, Cryptococcus
• Dermatophytes
• Mycobacteria

Minimum stability : 12 month Aspergillus colonies on agar plate

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Blades for microscopic examination

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

• Tissues
• Fungi
• 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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Bacteriology

Cytobacteriological examination of urine (CBEU) samples : 1 freeze-dried vial + 1 liquid vial

Freeze-dried bottle

• Solution to custom according to your needs in terms of crystals, strains, enumerations, resistance phenotypes.
• Minimum stability : 12 months
• Samples available in vials in a volume of 2 to 5 ml

Liquid vial

• Liquid vial (5ml) containing red and white blood cells with counts of 10² to 10⁶ cells per ml.
• 6-month stability

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Parasitology

Stool or stool suspension Stool (3-4g) or stool suspension (3-4mL) that can be negative or contains :

• Protozoal antigens
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Giardia duodenalis
  • Cryptosporidium sp.
  • Blastocystis hominis
• Cryptosporidium oocysts

For PCR with :

• Helminths
  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • Trichuris trichiura
  • Taenia sp.
  • Diphyllobothrium sp. (Dibothriocephalus sp.)
  • Schistosoma mansoni
• Protozoa
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Giardia duodenalis
  • Cryptosporidium sp.
  • Blastocystis hominis

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Molecular Biology

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

Minimum stability : 12 months

The following list is not exhaustive.

• Pulmonary matrices such as SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, B, RSV, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Bordetella pertussis, …
• Gastrointestinal matrices such as Adenovirus, Sapovirus, Campylobacter, yersinia enterocolitica, Vibrio cholerae, escherichia coli O157, …
• Genitals matrices such as HSV, HPV, chlamydia trachomatis, mycoplasma genitalium, neisseria gonorrohae, …
• Meningeal matrices such as HSV2, neisseria meningitidis, cryptococcus neoformans, …
• Clostridium difficile : allows the detection of toxins A and b and the GDH enzyme.
• Bordetella : allows the detection of bordetella pertussis, parapertussis, holmesii.

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Puncture fluid

Synthetic Matrices for puncture fluid with :

• Leukocytes enumeration
• Specific crystals
• Infectious germs

Cytobacteriological examination of puncture fluid : cerebrospinal and knee joint fluid

• Crystals
• Bacteria
• Red blood cells
• White blood cells

Minimum stability : 12 months

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Allergology

Freeze-dried Allergens These samples are freeze-dried synthetic matrices

Minimum stability : 12 months

*Contact us for the list of allergens

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Urogenital mycoplasma

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

Freeze-dried urine matrices for the detection of legionella pneumophila and streptococcus pneumoniae antigens.

Minimum stability : 12 months

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Biochemistry

Parameter	Unit	PBQ Low	PBQ medium	PBQ high
Amylase	U/l	243		1080
Calcium	mmol/l	1	2	3
Chloride	mmol/l	40		290
Creatinine	mmol/l	13	23	39
Glucose	mmol/l	11	28	44
Magnesium	mmol/l	<10	1.9	<10
Microalbumin	mg/l	77	<3	182
Phosphate	mmol/l	7.9	16.5	26.1
Potassium	mmol/l	12		138
Proteinuria	g/l	0.58	2.2	6
Sodium	mmol/l	30		195.5
Urea	mmol/l	88	175	280
Uric acid	mmol/l	0.95	1.8	2.6

Lithiasis

Parameter	Unit	Concentration
Calcium	mmol/l	1.4 – 4.5
Citrate	mmol/l	0.7 – 4
Creatinine	mmol/l	6 – 18
Oxalate	mmol/l	0.2 – 0.5
Sodium	mmol/l	57 – 250
Uric acid	mmol/l	0.75 – 2.5

Strips

Parameter	Unit	Concentration
Albumin	mg/dl	1 – 15
Ascorbic acid	mg/dl	<40 – 500
Bilirubin	mg/dl	0 – 4
Blood	mg/dl	0.075 – 0.75
Creatinine	mg/dl	10 – 300
Glucose	mg/dl	<0.3 – >500
Ketones (Acetoacetic acid)	mg/dl	0 – 300
Leukocytes	ng/ml	40 – 1339
Nitrites	mg/dl	0.05 – 0.2
pH		7 – 8
Protein	mg/dl	10 – >500
Specific weight (Density)	kg/l	1.015 – >1.025
Urobilinogen	mg/dl	1 – >8.0

Sweat test : Synthetic liquid sweat sample for the following parameters and their concentrations

Parameter	Unit	Concentration
Chlorine	mmol/l	35 – 120
Conductivity	mmol/l	45 – 135

Vitamin D : On serum, range of 20 to 150 nmol/L.