Quality planning and analytical quality requirements derived from biology

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. CCLM: Evolving to meet the needs of today's laboratory professionals and scientists
3. Bacterial detection and blood product contamination
4. Editorial: Rapid diagnostic tests to detect pathogenic microorganisms
5. Reviews
6. Rapid methods for diagnosis of bloodstream infections
7. Validation criteria for nucleic acid amplification techniques for bacterial infections
8. Incidence of bacterial transmission and transfusion reactions by blood components
9. Strategies of bacteria screening in cellular blood components
10. Methods for the detection of bacterial contamination in blood products
11. Bacteria detection by flow cytometry
12. Rapid screening by real-time 16S rDNA PCR for bacterial contamination of blood products
13. Microbial safety of cell based medicinal products – what can we learn from cellular blood components?
14. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
15. Screening for genetic heterogeneity in the interferon sensitivity determining region of the hepatitis C virus genome by polymerase chain reaction with melting curve analysis
16. Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) pharmacogenetics: three new mutations and haplotype analysis in the Estonian population
17. Genetic testing for adult-type hypolactasia in Italian families
18. Improved real-time detection of the H63D and S65C mutations associated with hereditary hemochromatosis using a SimpleProbe assay format
19. Easy detection of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 1298A/C genotype by mutagenically separated PCR assay
20. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
21. Mediterranean diet and plasma concentration of inflammatory markers in old and very old subjects in the ZINCAGE population study
22. Plasma interleukin-1β, -6, -8 and tumor necrosis factor-α as highly informative markers of pelvic inflammatory disease
23. The effect of hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and their treatment on parameters of oxidative stress and antioxidant status
24. Breath isoprene – aspects of normal physiology related to age, gender and cholesterol profile as determined in a proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry study
25. Prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (proBNP), BNP and N-terminal-proBNP circulating levels in chronic hemodialysis patients. Correlation with ventricular function, fluid removal and effect of hemodiafiltration
26. A comparison of two different assays for determining S-100B in serum and urine
27. Diagnostic, clinical and laboratory turnaround times in troponin T testing
28. Validation and Outcome Studies
29. An international comparability study to determine the sources of uncertainty associated with a non-competitive sandwich fluorescent ELISA
30. A new general regression-based approach for method comparison studies
31. Letters to the Editor
32. Procalcitonin values in preeclamptic women are related to severity of disease
33. Cross-reactivity between λ antiserum and fibrinogen: a double trap in interpretation of serum protein electrophoresis
34. Erroneous result of white blood cell differential count in a patient with mixed hyperlipidemia
35. Lack of association of GH T1663A variation and IGFBP3–202A/C polymorphism with risk of ischemic stroke in Chinese
36. Erratum
37. Quality planning and analytical quality requirements derived from biology