Técnicas de imunodiagnóstico usadas no Laboratório de Microbiologia da Faculdade de Medicina da UEM

Abstract

This internship report was developed in the Microbiology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, Immunodiagnostic sector, in Maputo, and describes the immunodiagnostic techniques used in this laboratory and with great emphasis on the laboratory techniques used in Syphilis screening. The objective of this internship was the acquisition of knowledge and practice of microbiological techniques that play an important role in the diagnosis and control of infectious diseases. The internship lasted 7 (seven) months and comprised the following phases: First phase: was the technical adaptation to the laboratory. This took place in the period between March and May 2006, Second phase: Collection, Analysis, registration, processing of the samples and interpretation of the results, in the months of July to October of the current year. During the period in question activities were carried out such as: Quality Control, participation in practical classes of the Disciplines of Medical Microbiology and the study of Tinea capitis in children from Aldeia SOS in the district of Hulene in Maputo City. It is important to bear in mind that the knowledge of the microbiological world is constantly developing, hence the motivation of the internship in order to consolidate theoretical or practical knowledge about microbiological processes involved in immunodiagnosis, as well as learn and obtain feasible knowledge about microbiological analysis that allows the acquisition of technical skills or alternative methods compatible with standard processes of immunodiagnosis. During the internship the Immunodiagnostic sector processed 412 blood samples for Syphilis screening, of which 150 were from the wards and 262 were from the normal Dermatology consultations of the Maputo Central Hospital. With the advent of HIV / AIDS There is a great need to make the screening of syphilis since it is a STI that serves as a gateway to HIV. At the end of the internship, we conclude that the immunodiagnostic test is very important for the diagnosis of most STIs and especially the screening of syphilis.