PHLN general laboratory and pathology guidelines and advice

General guidelines and advice

• PHLN guidance on Monkeypox patient referral, specimen collection and test requesting for general practitioners and sexual health physicians

  22 July 2022

  Guideline

• PHLN and CDNA Joint statement on patient referral and respiratory virus test requesting for winter 2022

  7 July 2022

  Report

• PHLN national high security quarantine laboratory guideline for management of quarantinable viral haemorrhagic fevers

  August 2014

  Guideline

• PHLN referral of pneumococcal PCR positive samples to Australian pneumococcal reference laboratories for molecular serotyping

  8 December 2014

  Guideline

• PHLN position paper on Hendra specimens for transport within Australia

  January 2012

  Procedure

• PHLN survey regarding Mycobacterium chimaera and heater–cooler units

  December 2016

  Guideline

• PHLN guidance regarding Mycobacterium chimaera and heater–cooler units

  December 2016

  Guideline

• PHLN policy on antiviral prophylaxis and the implications for pathology and research staff

  May 2014

  Procedure

• PHLN laboratory procedures and precautions for samples collected from patients with viral haemorrhagic fevers

  October 2014

  Guideline

• PHLN guidelines for the use and interpretation of nucleic acid detection tests for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Australia

  2005

  Guideline

• Ensuring national capacity in genomics-guided public health laboratory surveillance

  September 2014

  Report

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