Author: roudene.fourie@pathcare.org

Anticonvulsant Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

We are proud to announce the expansion of our anticonvulsant therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) offering to enhance personalized pharmacotherapy. Anticonvulsant drug level testing is available for the following: Perampanel (Fycompa) Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal) (including...

Respiratory Pathogen Statistics March 2026

This report is a summary of the results obtained from various molecular respiratory panels performed across PathCare laboratories during March 2026 (epidemiological weeks 10-13). The data is dependent on submission of samples by clinicians and therefore may not be...

Respiratory Pathogen Statistics February 2026

This report is a summary of the results obtained from various molecular respiratory panels performed across PathCare laboratories during February 2026 (epidemiological weeks 6-9). The data is dependent on submission of samples by clinicians and therefore may not be...

Optimising Clostridioides difficile Diagnosis

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) remains a leading cause of healthcare-associated diarrhoea and antibiotic-associated colitis. C. difficile produces 2 types of toxins; toxins A and B (encoded by TcdA & TcdB genes, respectively), which are virulence factors...