Educational Booklets

This booklet is intended to be a useful reference tool for physicians, nurses, clinical microbiologists, phlebtomoists, laboratory personnel and all other healthcare professionals involved in the blood culture process.

The objective of this booklet is to provide practical recommendations for healthcare workers in hospitals to improve the quality of antibiotic prescribing and illustrate the role of diagnostics in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs).

This educational booklet, written by Professor Keertan Dheda, provides an overview and practical guide to the classification, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of latent and active TB.

It is aimed at recently qualified healthcare professionals, junior medical officers, primary care physicians, and general physicians.

This booklet provides clinicians and laboratory managers with concise information on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE), with special emphasis on the role of D-dimer, including criteria for its use as a valid exclusion test.

This educational booklet is intended to be a practical guide on hormone assays for biologists and clinicians to help maximize success rates in their patients using modern infertility treatments.

This educational booklet is intended to be a useful reference tool for blood bank and transfusion services professionals involved in the preparation of platelet concentrates, and the prevention and detection of bacterial contamination.

Recent evidence is growing on the importance of environmental contamination as a reservoir for healthcare-associated infection (HAI): airborne transmission of aspergillosis is a high risk for immunosuppressed patients; water contamination may be a reservoir for acquisition of high-risk pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Legionella pneumophila or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales; the survival of resistant bacteria on dry surfaces has been responsible for transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridiodes difficile.