ITM LabHub
Procedures, resources and other tools for medical laboratories in low resource settings
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About ITM LabHub
This website brings together training materials, tools and resources of laboratory themes. We aim to strengthen laboratory diagnosis and provide support for medical research and reference laboratories in low resource settings.
All documents are accessible and free to use for your research, study or laboratory. Ensure that you adapt them carefully to your own setting (please, kindly cite The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) Antwerp, Belgium when you use them).
If you wish to contribute your own template, procedures, diagnostic images or information of interest, or make comments or suggestions, please contact the LabHub team. We look forward to hearing from you!
Latest news from ITM LabHub
Looking back at the AIM 2023
(AIM = Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings). An interview with Charlotte Grootaers (course coordinator)...
Events
New blood culture surveillance sites started in DR Congo: two hospitals in Vanga and Kikwit!
In August 2023, Immaculée Kahindo and Edmonde Bonebe from Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) travelled to Vanga...
People and projects
Growth of Gram-negative bacteria in antiseptics, disinfectants and hand hygiene products in two hospitals in West Africa
Check out Palpouguini Lompo's important findings in his newest paper in Pathogens Antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products...
Publications
GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection
The "GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection" is out. This manual supersedes...
Resources