<18                 Negative
18 – 22         Borderline
>22                Positive

Starting from 1 October 2012 we will offer you the following diagnostic panels:

1. The panel of Sexually transmitted diseases (STI)

1. Chlamydia trachomatis
2. Chlamydia trachomatis LGV
3. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
4. Trichomonas vaginalis
5. Mycoplasma genitalium

Sample materials: first void urine, Cervical canal’s mucosa, epithelial scraping,  Urethras epithelial scraping, vaginal scraping.

2. Extended panel of Sexually transmitted diseases

1. Chlamydia trachomatis
2. Chlamydia trachomatis LGV
3. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
4. Trichomonas vaginalis
5. Mycoplasma genitalium
6. Mycoplasma hominis
7. Ureaplasma urealyticum
8. Urealpasma parvum

Sample materials: first void urine, Cervical canal’s mucosa, epithelial scraping,  Urethras epithelial scraping, vaginal scraping.

3. Sexually transmitted disease ulcer panel

1. Herpes simplex virus 1
2. Herpes simplex virus 2
3. Treponema pallidum
4. Haemophilus ducreyi
5. Chlamydia trachomatis LGV

Sample materials: ulcer discharge, ulcer scraping

All analyses included in the panels, cited above, can be ordered independently as well.

We would like to draw your attention to the benefits of our new platform:

1)    Handling time for several analyses will be decreased – the analyzing time for HPV (Human Papillomavirus) genotyping will be shortened by one business day.  Chlamydia trachomatis DNA and Neisseria gonorrhoeae DNA analyses already include verifying analyses, allowing us to shorten the period of issuing positive results by one business day.

2)    Working process will be more automated, ensuring more effective and precise fitting to LIS, altogether assuring a higher quality for our clients.

3)    One sample material will be sufficient for several tests, making it possible to combine the diagnosing of different pathogens which cause similar symptoms into one diagnostic panel (we will soon send out  more information about the new diagnostic panels in our next newsletter).

4)    Luminex xMap platform is very flexible and user friendly. Taking into consideration the feedback that we receive from our colleagues and partners we can add more tests and put together new diagnostic panels.

5)    More up-to-date: determing different pathogens we will be using these genome areas which are chosen according to the latest treatment- and diagnostic guidelines and scientific literature.

6)    We are adding new diagnostics:

• Chlamydia trachomatis LGV DNA
• Treponema pallidum DNA
• Haemophilus ducreyi DNA
• Atopobium vaginae DNA

Starting from 3 September Human Papillomavirus genotyping will also be changed. As stated in the literature and by several organizations (such as American Cancer Society; American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology etc.) it is clinically insignificant to determine low risk HPV. Because of that Quattromed HTI will stop determine low risk HPV genotypes and henceforth we will offer only high risk HPV determination. The new platform determines the presence of HPV and the genotype in one analysis, allowing us to reduce the handling time for HPV diagnosing from 3 business days to 2.

In the four-hour trainings of the 2011–2012 session we will discuss the subjects of liver, hormone tests, faeces, metabolic markers, inflammation, allergy, and point of care.

The training centres are the following:

Jõhvi, Kersti Võlu Training Centre (Kooli 7) – if necessary, translation to Russian and training materials in Russian are provided.

Tallinn, Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, room X413 (Akadeemia tee 3) – training materials in Russian are also available.

Pärnu, Pärnu College, University of Tartu, room 256 (Ringi 35)

Tartu, Vanemuise Concert Hall, Ergo hall (Vanemuise 6, door from the city side)

The start of trainings is 13.00 everywhere; the end time is around 17.00.

The participation is free of charge for everybody; you do not have to be a Quattromed HTI client.

Every training provides 4 in-service training points of ELMÜ.

Please book to yourself April 11, 2012, which is the time for our spring conference in Tallinn.

More detailed information about the trainings can be found here.

Sign up here!

If you have already registered but cannot take part in the training, please contact us in advance.

The Health Insurance Fund code is 66608 x 2.

For more detailed information contact our customer support by phone 17123, or e-mail support@quattromed.ee.

The samples can also be given on site on workdays 8.00–12.00. The urine and stool samples are accepted until 15.00.

Customer support phone: 17123 (from Estonia), +372 737 6090 (outside from Estonia)

At the premises of Nooruse 9 the molecular diagnostics laboratory, development department and administration continue to operate.

In relation to this, there are troponin diagnostics, the diagnostics of diabetes, vitamin D, the diagnostics of thrombophilia, thrombosis and D-dimers under discussion. In the conference, there is a simultaneous interpretation into Russian. The conference is free of charge for the participants. You are all welcome to take part. The invitation and the schedule can be found here.

Registration until April 1, 2011.

In 2005 Quattromed HTI laboratory opened a blood sample collection office in Leola street working three days a week. It was a chance to give the patients a possibility to perform tests for their health check (blood, urine etc) which were sent to the laboratory of Tartu for examination.

Now laboratory in Viljandi was olened , address Turu 8/10, room 216.

The laboratory is open on every workday 8–14. There is an elevator in the house for making testing available for people with small children or patients with mobility disabilities.
The laboratory of Viljandi serves patients both with or without the doctor’s prescription. The patients without the doctor’s prescription are charged for the tests according to the price list of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund.

On March 1, from 12.00 to 13.30, the laboratory was open to the public, so everybody interested could get acquainted with the laboratory. In connection with the opening of the laboratory, 24 family doctors and nurses were provided a training about the possibilities of the laboratory, the innovations in the diagnostics of venereal diseases, the possibilities of microbiology and the interpretation of the referential values. The training took place in the conference centre of the Centrum Hotel and it was free of charge for the audience.

• The reference values of some laboratory analyses are changed.
In the annex of the present letter, there is the list of all the tests performed in our laboratory, together with the reference values valid from 03.01.2011. The changes are highlighted separately. All the printouts of the test results and the answers from the electronic data interchange are added the correct referentce values.

• The barcode system will become more simple.
The present material-based barcode system of letter-number combinations will be substituted with standard barcodes, where the material symbols (EV, TP, PL, SA, TV) are no longer used. All the existing barcodes can be used up without any time limit, then new barcodes will be issued.

• The reference book descriptions will be added to the analyses that we have started to perform in our laboratory:
o D-dimers
o Antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide
o Tumour marker CA 72-4
o Specific IgA, IgM, IgG to Bordetella pertussis
o Specific IgM, IgA, IgG to Chlamydia trachomatis
o Specific IgM, IgG to Herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2
o Specific IgM, IgG to Varicella Zoster virus
o Campylobacter examination
o Clostridium difficile examination
o Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) examination
o Determination of Helicobacter pylori antigen from the Faeces
o Determination of Norovirus from the Faeces
o Yersinia examination

The reference book descriptions are available and printable in Estonian under Laboriteatmik.

We hope that those carefully prepared changes will help us fulfill your expectations.

From 01.11.10 to 31.01.11 the implementation of the project „The team’s development program II“ is supported by the program of developing the knowledge and skills of the Enterprise Estonia. The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund.