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*Accredited by the Standards Council of Canada to Laboratory no. 594 (ISO/IEC 17025)

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Description:

Identification of Helicobacter spp.

Test Category:
Phenotypic and Molecular Identification
Pathogen:
Helicobacter spp.
Illnesses and Diseases:
  • Peptic ulcer disease
Specimen:

Isolate from urine, stool, blood, environmental, food, other.

 

Collection Method:

Isolate provided on appropriate culture medium with visible growth.

Specimen Processing, Storage and Shipping:

Send as growth on appropriate culture medium or in appropriate transport medium.

Transportation of Dangerous Goods:

Shipping of specimens shall be done by a TDG certified individual in accordance with TDG regulations. For additional information regarding classification of specimens for the purposes of shipping, consult either Part 2 Appendix 3 of the TDG Regulations or section 3.6.2 of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations as applicable.

Patient Criteria:

Gastroenteritis, septicemia, infection, other.

Accompanying Documentation:

Completed Division of Enteric Diseases requisition form.

Comments:

N/A

 

Methods and Interpretation of Results:

Phenotypic Identification (biotyping)*(1)

16S rRNA gene sequencing*(2)

MALDI-TOF*(3)

Whole genome sequencing based methodologies may be applied

  1. Minimal standards for describing new species belonging to the families Campylobacteraceae and Helicobacteraceae: Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter and Wolinella spp. On, et. al., 2017. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. Dec;67(12):5296-5311.
  2. Sequences compared to the 16s rDNA database in NCBI and clustered using BioNumerics
  3. MALDI-TOF results analysed using the most current Bruker Biotyper database.
Turnaround Time:

21 calendar days.

Contact:
Phone #: (204) 789-6009
Fax: (204) 789-5012
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