PATHOGEN IDENTIFICATION

Pathogen Identification

Centro Gendiagnostik offers the identification, by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), of the following sexually transmitted pathogens:

  1. Chlamydia trachomatis
  2. Mycoplasma genitalium
  3. Neisseria gonorrhoea
  4. Human papiloma virus (HPV)

Sample requirements for pathogen identification

  1. Add two swabs with cervical-vaginal sample, on a dry without preservative vacutainer tube (red top) and send the sample to the laboratory as soon as possible. In the case of men take two samples, one from the glans area and one from the urethral channel.
  2. Insert the tubes in a sealed plastic bag. For places far from Centro Gendiagnostik send plastic bag sealed in an envelope using domestic express delivery like Uno Express o Servi Entrega. Use FedEx if you live outside of Panama. Do not send the samples by the conventional post office. Send the samples to arrive only between Monday and Friday. Do not send samples on weekend or to arrive on weekend days.
  3. Send the requisition form together with the sample and copy of payment verification. Fill the requisition form completely.
  4. Sample shipping address: Attention: Oriana Batista, M.Sc., Dr.rer.nat.
    Centro Gendiagnostik
    Avenida Central, Contiguo al Cuartel de Bomberos
    David, Provincia de Chiriquí
    Panamá
  5. For questions, please contact Client Services at (00507) 7742871.

Application form for pathogen identification

Descargar formulario para solicitar la identificación de patógenos.

Identification for other pathogens with reference laboratories

  1. BIO-ITS (Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Neisseria, Ureoplasma, Troichomonas, Herpes)
  2. Candida panel (C. albicans, C.glabrata, C. parapsilosis. C. krusei, C. tropicalis, C. guilliermondii, C. dubliniensis)
  3. Clostridium difficile-PCR
  4. COBAS- HPV- 15 high risk genotypes
  5. Enterobac Bacteria panel
  6. Entherpex viral panel
  7. Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba
  8. Helicobacter pylori feces (PCR)
  9. Hepes virus type 8-PCR
  10. Herpes simplex virus-PCR
  11. Herpes virus type 6-PCR
  12. Human Papilloma virus 35 genotypes
  13. Influenza A and B, PCR
  14. Intestinal viruses and bacteria-PCR
  15. Respiratory syncytial virus
  16. STI-panel BACTERIA/VIRUSES/PARASITES/FUNGI
  17. Streptococo Group B-PCR
  18. Viral panel- PCR (CMV, Herpes, Rubeola, Toxoplasma, EBV)
  19. Others

Figura patógenos

Amplification products of three pathogens in cervical samples:
1. GDI-40 y 2. GDI-43 ( N. gonorrhoeae positives), 3.Positive control (N. gonorrhoeae); 4. GDI-25 (C. trachomatis positive), 5. Positive control (C. trachomatis), 6.GDI-51 (M. genitalium positive), 7. Positive control (M. genitalium), 8. DNA ladder.

La mutación G202A, en hijo hemicigoto (arriba) y madre heterocigota (abajo). Esta mutación acompañada de la mutación A376G ó T968C definen la variante africana negativa.

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Arriba se muestra el resultado de un niño hemicigoto para la variante africana negativa, caracterizada por las mutaciones A376G y G202A, y abajo de una niña heterocigota para la variante Mediterránea, definida por la mutación C563T.

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The G202A mutation, in the hemizygous son (above) and heterozygous mother (below). This
mutation accompanied with the A376G mutation or T968C define the african negative variant.

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Above the result of a hemizygous child with the african negative variant , characterized by
mutations A376G and G202A , and below a heterozygous girl with the mediterranean variant, defined by the C563T mutation

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