AmpathChat #71 - Safe At Work - Minimizing Risk Of New Covid-19 Infection In The Workplace

COVID-19

Implement the most current version of regulations on health and safety measures to reduce and eliminate the escalation of Covid-19 infections in the workplace, as determined by the Department of Employment and Labour.... Read more

AmpathChat #74 - A Quick Guide To COVID-19 Tests

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

The repertoire of laboratory tests related to COVID-19 has expanded since the first appearance of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019. This guide provides an update on the latest Ampath COVID-19 tests (as of March 2021), including the appropriate indications for use.... Read more

AmpathChat #76 - The COVID-19 Antigen Testing Solution

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

Diagnostic testing plays a critical role in the strategy to prevent COVID-19. While nucleic acid amplification tests such as the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the gold standard reference method to detect SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), these assays are generally expensive and usually require laboratory facilities, mostly with longer turnaround times. There is an ever-growing need for faster and more cost effective diagnosis tests that can be performed near the individual being tested.... Read more

AmpathChat #77 - COVID-19 Antibody Tests: An Update

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

Several developments have occurred since the authorisation and introduction of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) antibody tests in South Africa in August 2020. This AmpathChat provides an update on the latest COVID-19 antibody tests available at Ampath as of November 2021 in order to guide testing.... Read more

AmpathChat 78 - COVID-19 T-cell responses

COVID-19

While a large component of research into the adaptive responses has focused on the humoral (antibody) component of the immune response, and particularly neutralising antibody responses, it is also crucial to understand the role of the cellular immune response to COVID-19 infection, vaccination and SARS CoV-2 variants of concern.... Read more

Lab Update 18.2 - Role Of Cardiac Troponin Testing In COVID-19

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

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Lab Update 18.1 - Role Of Inflammatory Marker Testing In COVID-19

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

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Lab Update 18 - Lab Monitoring Of Patients With COVID-19

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

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Lab Update 25 - COVID-19 Delta Variant

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

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Lab Update 26 - COVID-19 vaccine side-effects: The essential facts

COVID-19 Infectious Diseases

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COVID-19 Antibody Test

COVID-19

Ampath would like to inform you of the availability of a new SARS-CoV-2 antibody test. This test may be used to determine whether a patient has previously been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19.... Read more

Antibody Testing - The Missing Weapon

COVID-19

The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and Covid-19 disease have challenged humanity in many ways. It has also changed the health profession. One example is how laboratory professionals, clinicians, scientists and technical staff moved from their usual role of providing ancillary information to primary clinicians and public health experts to centre stage.... Read more

WHO: Updates On Coronavirus

COVID-19

On this website you can find information and guidance from WHO regarding the current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported from Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. Please visit this page for daily updates.... Read more

Increasing Cases Of Coronavirus

COVID-19

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, notes the increase in the number of novel coronavirus (2019-NCOV) cases that have spread across parts of the world.... Read more