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Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCCM, D(ABMM), DTM&H, CTH, CIC, LTC-CIP
Situations that would prompt a clinician to order blood cultures include suspected endocarditis, pyelonephritis, sepsis, and other serious infections.[1,2] Blood culture results provide important clinical information,... Read More
Background Traditionally, stool culture and microscopy for ova and parasites are the diagnostic methods of choice to detect intestinal pathogens. In 2022, diagnostic laboratories in British Columbia were advised to... Read More
Between 2009 and 2020, 20 546 people in Canada were reported to have tuberculosis.[1] However, multidrug-resistant (defined as resistance to isoniazid and rifampin) and pre-extensively drug-resistant/extensively drug-... Read More