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MOLECULAR LABORATORY

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  1. The laboratory provides nucleic acid based diagnostics, performing molecular diagnostics helps physicians to treat with greater precision as the tests are very accurate.

  2. Once the samples are collected and received in the laboratory are prepared appropriately prior to nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) extraction.

  3. Once the nucleic acid is extracted it's prepared for amplification on a real-time PCR platform. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifies nucleic acid to a detectale amount.

  4. Our molecular laboratory utilizes a 5-plex real-time PCR machine known as Rotor-Gene Q.

  5. Results are analysed on a computer enabled software before reporting.

WORK FLOW

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PCR TEST MENU

  • COVID -19 TESTING

  • VIRAL LOAD

  • BLOOD SCREENING TESTS (HEPATITIS A, B, C, SYPHILIS, HIV)

  • HIV DNA –PAEDS (EID)

  • MTB-MDR-TB

  • STIs (GONORRHEA, T. VAGINALIS, TRICHROMATIS)

  • HPV GENOTYPING- (CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING)

  • BRUCELLA

  • VIBRIO CHOLERAE

  • SALMONELLA

  • H. PYLORI

  • MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE

  • PROSTRATE SCREENING (REAL TIME PCR FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS (Enterobacter spp, klebsiella spp, enterococcus faecalis , E. faecium , Escherichia coli , proteus spp , pseudomonas aeruginosa , serratia spp , staphylococcus aureus , streptococcus spp)

  • HSV ½. REAL TIME PCR TEST FOR DETECTION AND TYPING OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS.

  • ONCOGENETICS BRCA PANEL. BREAST CANCER SCREENING.

  • YELLOW FEVER.

  • EBV (Epstein –Barr Virus)

  • ROTAVIRUS /NOROVIRUS /ADENOVIRUS

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