Services/Test | Sample type | Expected maximum TAT |
1. COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 | ||
a) Express | Nasal or oropharyngeal swabs | 4 hours |
b) Routine | 24 hours | |
c) Whole Genome sequencing | Nasal or oropharyngeal swabs and other body fluids | 30 working days |
2. Tuberculosis (TB) | ||
a) Hain Genotype MTBDRPlus* | Sputum or Heat inactivated Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates/cultures
| 48 hours |
b) Hain Genotype MTBDRsl* | 48 hours | |
c) Single Nucleotide Polymorphism genotyping d) (Real-time PCR assays) | 48 hours | |
e) Long Sequence Polymorphisms genotyping f) (Conventional PCR assays) | 72 hours | |
g) MIRU-VNTR based genotyping | Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates/cultures | 14 working days |
h) Restriction Fragment Length polymorphism-based genotyping and Spoligotyping | Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates/cultures | 14 working days |
2. Non-tubercular Mycobacterium | ||
a) Hain Genotype CM | Sputum or Isolates/cultures | 48 hours |
3. Respiratory tract infection | ||
a) Detection of bacterial pathogen (RT PCR) | Sputum and a BAL | 24 Hours |
b) Detection of bacterial pathogen (Conventional) | Sputum and a BAL | 24 Hours |
4. Human Papilloma Viruses-HPV | ||
a) Detection and quantification of genotypes 18 and 16 | High Vaginal swabs and Saliva | 48 Hours |
b) Common low-risk genotypes | 48 Hours | |
5. Viral load | ||
a) CMV/EBV/HBV, b) HSV, c) HHV8, d) HIV | Blood and any other body fluids | 48 Hours |
6. STIs | ||
a) Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, T. Vaginalis) | Vaginal, Urethral, penile swabs | 48 Hours |
7. Bacterial Drug resistance | ||
a) Gram-negative bacteria | Bacterial Isolates
| 48 Hours |
b) Gram-positive bacteria | 48 Hours | |
8. Malaria | ||
a) Speciation of Plasmodium pathogens | Blood and DBS | 48 Hours |
9. HLA typing | Blood and body fluids | 48 hours |
10. Staphylococcus aureus Resistance | ||
a) Spa typing | Staphylococcus aureus isolates | 72 hours |
11. Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) | Bacterial isolates | 72 hours |
12. Plasmid Profiling | Bacterial Isolates | 72 hours |
13. Sequencing | ||
a) Sanger | DNA, Amplicon | 30 working days |
b) Next Generation Sequencing-NGS | ||
i. Targeted or Amplicon | Primary, DNA, Amplicon | 30 working days |
ii. 18S ITS Metagenomics | Sputum, Stool, Vaginal swabs, other biological and environmental samples | 60 working days |
iii. 16S Metagenomics | 60 working days | |
iv. WGS for small genomes | Bacterial isolates | 60 working days |
14. Restriction Enzyme digestion | Biological samples | 72 hours |
15. Protein purification and analysis | Biological samples | 72 hours |
16. Electrophoresis | ||
a) Agarose gel electrophoresis | Extracted nucleic acids, Amplicons | 48 hours |
b) Capillary electrophoresis | 24 hours | |
17. Protein purification | All biological samples | 4 weeks |
18. DNA Extraction and QC | Bacterial isolates Biological specimens such as body fluids, swabs, tissues, stool, Environmental specimens such as soil and water Plant materials | 4 working days |
19. RNA Extraction and QC | Bacterial isolates Biological specimens such as body fluids, swabs, tissues, stool, Environmental specimens such as soil and water Plant materials | 4 working days |
20. DNA or RNA Quantification | ||
a) NanoDrop Spectrophotometry | Extracted DNA or RNA | 24 hours |
b) Qubit Fluorimetry | Extracted DNA or RNA or amplicons | 24 hours |
21. Primer design and Synthesis | Gene(s) of interest
| 12 hours |
22. Primer probe design and Synthesis | 12 hours | |
23. ELISA CRP | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
24. ELISA HSV-2 | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
25. ELISA CMV | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
26. ELISA Interleukins | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
27. ELISA HBsAg | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
28. ELISA HIV | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
29. IFN-gamma | Serum/Plasma | 7 working days |
30. QuantiFERON TB Gold | Plasma | Upon batching |
31. QuantiFERON TB Gold | Plasma | 7 days |
32. RPR | Serum | 60 minutes |
33. TPHA | Serum | 60 minutes |
34. Serum HCG | Serum | 60 minutes |
35. HIV rapid test | Serum | 60 minutes |
36. CD4 | 24hrs | |
37. COVID-19 Ag LFA | Nosal swab | 60 minutes |
38. COVID-19 antibody LFA | Serum | 60 minutes |
39. Urine LAM | Urine | 60 minutes |
40. PBMC Processing (> 50mls/ participant) | Whole blood | 24hrs |
41. PBMC Processing (35-50 mls/ participant) | Whole blood | 24hrs |
42. PBMC Processing (< 35 mls/ participant) | Whole blood | 24hrs |
43. Serum processing | Plain tube blood | 60 minutes |
44. Plasma processing | Whole blood | 60 minutes |
45. Multiplexing with Luminex | Serum, Plasma, CSF | 3 working days |
46. Cell Culture | Cells/ tissues | 90 working days |
47. Flowcytometry | Cells | 72hours |
48. Flowcytometry machine time | ||
49. Luminex machine time | ||
50. Shipment preparation | ||
51. Sample pulling (vial) | ||
52. Liquid Nitrogen storage | ||
