Author: roudene.fourie@pathcare.org

Diabetes Antibodies

Feb 26, 2021 | Chemical Pathology, Knowledge Hub

Immune-mediated diabetes is characterized by the presence of circulating specific antibodies against the pancreatic islets such as glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA), islet antigen-2 autoantibodies (IA-2A), or zinc transporter-8 autoantibodies (ZnT8A)....

Retesting after a positive PCR outcome for SARS-CoV-2

Sep 21, 2020 | Infectious Diseases, Virology

The presence of viral RNA in respiratory samples is critical information in the diagnosis of an acute SARS-COV-2 infection. The real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detects these pieces of RNA. But RT-PCR is a poor test of cure. The...

COVID-19 Antibody Testing now available

Aug 27, 2020 | Infectious Diseases, Serology

Because the sensitivity of laboratory based serology tests and rapid point-of-care tests are too low within the first 14 days after SARS-CoV-2 infection (causing COVID-19), reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the current gold standard of...

Western Cape Province Antimicrobial Surveillance Data

Jul 31, 2020 | Antimicrobials & infection

We have updated the PathCare susceptibility data for common community-acquired organisms isolated from patients in the Western Cape Province from the first of March 2019 until the end of February 2020 Antimicrobial Surveillance Data 2020 View...

COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST

Jul 8, 2020 | Virology

In response to the many questions being asked of us as to when we would be able to offer antibody testing; this is a brief note of explanation as to the processes we have to follow before we may offer the tests. For suppliers of invitro diagnostic tests to sell test...