Antimicrobial Resistance and Nosocomial Infections - Guide to Services

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Laboratory Details

Division:

Bacteriology and Enterics

Address:

1015 Arlington Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3E 3R2

Email:

nml.arni-rain.lnm@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Phone #:

(204) 789-5000

Fax:

(204) 789-5020

Description:

The Antimicrobial Resistance and Nosocomial Infections (ARNI) Section provides reference services and outbreak support to public health and hospital laboratories across Canada. ARNI also participates in numerous national and international surveillance programs for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), such as the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP), CANWARD, AMRNet, and the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS). ARNI carries out research in many areas of AMR such as characterizing emerging AMR mechanisms and strains, novel method development, and One Health studies of AMR.

Proficiency Panels

Proficiency Panel Reports

Requisition Form

Antimicrobial Resistance and Nosocomial Infections Requisition
23-Requisition-form-Nosocomials-ENG.pdf

Reference Diagnostic Tests

Reference Diagnostic Tests
Pathogen	Test Category	Reference Diagnostic Test
Candida auris	Molecular Differentiation	Whole genome Sequencing (WGS)**Review patient criteria
Clostridioides difficile	Molecular Differentiation	Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) **Review patient criteria
Gram-negative organisms	Molecular Differentiation	Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) **Review patient criteria
Gram-negative organisms	Molecular Detection	Resistance Mechanisms
Gram-negative organisms	Susceptibility Testing	Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Gram-positive organisms	Susceptibility Testing	Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Klebsiella pneumoniae	Molecular Detection	Hypervirulence
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)	Molecular Differentiation	Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) **Review patient criteria
Non-mecA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)	Molecular Detection	Non-mecA MRSA Confirmation
non-vanA/B Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)	Molecular Detection	Non-vanA/B VRE Confirmation
Staphylococcus aureus	Susceptibility Testing	VISA/hVISA Confirmation
Staphylococcus aureus	Molecular Detection	Confirmation of Staphylococcal toxins by PCR
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)	Molecular Differentiation	Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) **Review patient criteria