State Lab News Archive

This page provides past news items (announcements, memos, press releases, and guidance documents) from the State Laboratory for Public Health. Archived Division of Public Health press releases and news items can be found on the DPH Press Release Archives page.

State Lab News by Year and Month

2019

• 10/11/19: Updated Influenza Testing and Surveillance Guidance
  • Specimen Collection for Influenza Testing at the State Lab; Replaces 09/28/18 Version (PDF, 311 KB)
  • Influenza Laboratory Surveillance Memo (PDF, 162 KB)
• 09/27/19: Legionnaires’ Disease Cases in Western North Carolina - Specimen Request (PDF, 353 KB)
• 09/06/19: LIMS v11 Upgrade for Special Serology Testing (PDF, 154 KB)
• 07/23/19: LIMS Software Upgrade for Viral Culture and Rabies Testing (PDF, 310 KB)
• 07/10/19: 15th Annual Clinical Lab Day: October 4, 2019 (PDF, 3.5 MB)
• 05/29/19: LIMS Software Upgrade for HIV, Hepatitis, and Syphilis Testing (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• 02/12/19: LIMS Software Upgrade for Rubella Testing (PDF, 144 KB)

2018

• 12/07/18: 10/24/18 Acute Flaccid Myelitis Clinician Guidance
• 10/09/18: CRE Guidance Document (PDF, 464 KB)
• 09/28/18: Reporting Carbapenemase-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Candida auris in North Carolina (PDF, 163 KB)
• 09/27/18: Hepatitis B and C Virus Expanded Testing Availability (PDF, 44 KB)

2017

• 11/27/17: Blood Lead Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Update (PDF, 224 KB)
• 11/20/17: Memo: Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) Pilot Study and Integration (PDF, 317 KB)
• 10/17/17: Memo: Newborn Screening Collection and Transport during Holidays (PDF, 231 KB)
• 08/24/17: Tutorial: Sending GC-Lect Culture Plates to NCSLPH using Bio-Bags and GC Mailers (PPTX, 524 MB; Note: Large file; downloads may take several minutes or more.)
• 05/18/17: State Lab Memo re: CDC Health Alert: Potential for Falsely Low Blood Test Results from LeadCare^® Analyzers (PDF, 626 KB); CDC LeadCare^® Analyzers Health Advisory, 05/17/17 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• 04/25/17: Memo: Newborn Screening Pilot for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (PDF, 373 KB); SCID Fact Sheets

2016

• 08/18/16: Memo: Provider NPI Required on Clinical Submission Forms (PDF, 723 KB)
• 08/08/16: Memo: Newborn Screening Pilot for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (MPS-1) (PDF, 340 KB)
• 01/25/16: Extended Lab Schedule for Newborn Screening Specimen Receipt (PDF, 281 KB) 

2015

• 05/08/15: Chikungunya Virus Surveillance Memo for Healthcare Providers from 04/01/15 (PDF, 119 KB)
• 01/06/15: Memo: Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Teleform Implementation at the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health (PDF, 314 KB)

2014

• 11/21/14: Ebola Preparedness: Ebola Virus Testing
• 11/14/14: Blood Lead Teleform Implementation at the State Lab (PDF, 198 KB)
• 11/10/14: Newborn Screening related updates have moved
• 10/30/14: Ebola Preparedness: Ebola Virus Testing
• 07/08/14: Chikungunya Virus and Concern for Introduction into the United States (PDF, 231 KB)