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Laboratory Alerts from the Minnesota Laboratory System

The Minnesota Laboratory System (MLS) issues frequent alerts to its members concerning pressing issues of public health. 

Categories of MLS Lab Alerts

Laboratory Alert: Conveys the highest level of importance; warrants immediate action, attention or response.

Laboratory Advisory: Provides important laboratory information which needs to be reviewed in a timely manner; may not require immediate action or response. (Previously designated as "Important Laboratory Information.")

Laboratory Update: Provides routine laboratory information; unlikely to require immediate action or response. (Previously designated as "Routine Laboratory Information.")

2023 Lab Alerts

MLS Laboratory Update: May 23, 2023
Arbovirus Testing for the 2023 Vectorborne Disease Risk Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 23, 2023
Memorial Day Holiday Weekend MDH-PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May03, 2023
MDH Invites you to MDH Speaks, a free event, with speakers from across the Public Health Laboratory (PDF)

MDH Speaks Poster (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 2, 2023
MDH-PHL discontinues offering confirmatory testing for Cryptosporidium by BioFire FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Apr 21, 2023
Notification of Supplement to COVID Reporting Under Chapter 4605.7080 (PDF)

Supplemental Public Notice of Test Result Reporting for SARS-CoV-2 under the Minnesota Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, part 4605.7080 (PDF)

FAQ on the MDH Supplemental Notice for Reporting SARS-CoV-2 Test Results (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Apr 11, 2023
New Testing Methods for Enteroviruses at MDH (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Apr 10, 2023
Resuming Powassan Virus Testing for the 2023 Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Mar 27, 2023
Newborn Screening Specimen Cards Arriving This Week (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Mar 23, 2023
Updated Guidance for Submission of SARS-CoV-2 Specimens for Sequencing (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Mar 15, 2023
Influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Laboratory Test Method Survey (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Feb 10, 2023
Update on Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa National Investigation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Feb 7, 2023
President's Day Holiday Hours of Operation for MDH-PHL (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Feb 06, 2023
Newborn Screening for Congenital Cytomegalovirus (PDF)
Newborn Screening Laboratory Manager Letter (PDF)
Newborn Screening Sample Report (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Jan 26, 2023
MDH Requests Voluntary Reporting of CMV Test Results (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Jan 20, 2023
Newborn Screening Specimen Cards Delayed (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Jan 20, 2023
MDH Requests Comments Relating to Communicable Disease Reporting (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Jan 10, 2023
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Hours of Operation for MDH-PHL (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Jan 4, 2023
Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus testing kit availability update (PDF)

2022 Lab Alerts

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 29, 2022
Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus testing kit availability (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 21, 2022
Recent Measles Cases in Minnesota (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 20, 2022
Recent Issues with Commercial Influenza Molecular Diagnostic Reagents and Reduced Availability of Oseltamivir (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 20, 2022
Ending All Arbovirus Testing for the 2022 Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 16, 2022
MDH Public Health Laboratory Holiday Schedule (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Dec 9, 2022
Increased Cases of Invasive GAS Infections in Minnesota (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Nov 22, 2022
MDH - Public Health Laboratory Confirmatory Testing for Cryptosporidium on Probable False Positive Specimens by BIOFIRE FILMARRAY GI Panel (PFD)

MLS Laboratory Update: Nov 16, 2022
MDH - Public Health Laboratory Hours of Operation for the Thanksgiving Holiday (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Nov 15, 2022
Lab Manager CMV Testing (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Nov 10, 2022
Ending Mosquito-borne Arbovirus Testing for the 2022 Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: Nov 7, 2022
Veterans Day Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: October 28, 2022
Call for Cases and Isolates of Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: October 19, 2022
MDH Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease Due to Sudan ebolavirus in Uganda (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: October 05, 2022
2022 - 2023 Influenza and Respiratory Virus Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: September 22, 2022
Public Health Laboratory Transition to the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) Syphilis Screening Assay (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: September 16, 2022
Increased Turn Around Time for West Nile Virus EIA Results (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: September 13, 2022
APHL/Saf-T-Pak Safe Transport Virtual Course (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: August 26, 2022
Public Health Lab Labor Day Weekend Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: July 19 , 2022
Surveillance of Parechovirus in Minnesota (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: July 13 , 2022
Monkeypox Testing Update (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: June 27, 2022
4th of July Holiday MDH-PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: June 21, 2022
Requesting Residual Lower Respiratory Tract Specimens for Confirmed or Suspected Legionnaires’ Disease Cases (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: June 16, 2022
Travel-Associated Measles Cases in Hennepin County (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: June 14, 2022
Possible performance issues with BioFire FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) panel for Cryptosporidium spp. (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: June 13, 2022
Juneteenth Holiday MDH-PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 25, 2022
Monkeypox testing at MDH-PHL (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 18, 2022
Memorial Day Weekend-MDH-PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 5, 2022
Guidance for Acute Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology Testing (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 4, 2022
Arbovirus Testing for the 2022 Vector-borne Disease Risk Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: May 3, 2022
Blastomyces, Histoplasma, and Coccidioides Identification Testing and Reporting Updates and MDH-PHL(PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: April 19, 2022
Guidance for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Testing (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: March 15, 2022
Updated Guidance for Submission of SARS-CoV-2 Specimens for Sequencing (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: January 21, 2022
Public Health Reporting Interoperability Options Available with the Infectious Disease Laboratory (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: January 11, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday MDH - PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: January 4, 2022
Updated Guidance for Submission of SARS-CoV-2 specimens for Sequencing (PDF)

2021 Lab Alerts

MLS Laboratory Update: December 10, 2021
Arbovirus surveillance season ending (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: December 9, 2021
COVID-19 Omicron Variant Surveillance Update (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: December 9, 2021
Update on reporting of influenza subtyping results for 2021-2022 Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: November 1, 2021
New Testing Method at MDH for Influenza Surveillance Specimens (PDF)
MDH FluSC2 Test Report (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: October 25, 2021
Source Implicated in Fatal Case in Georgia: Multistate Outbreak of Burkholderia pseudomallei Infections (PDF)

MLS Laboratory update: October 11, 2021
MDH 2021-2022 Influenza and Respiratory Virus Surveillance Season
Free Webinar on National Influenza Surveillance Strategies offered by APHL (PDF)
Additional Influenza Specimen Submission to MDH-PHL (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: September 20, 2021
APHL to Host Division 6.2 Infectious Substances Packaging and Shipping Course (PDF)
MDH APHL Saf-T-Pak Seminar Dates (PDF)
APHL Virtual Seminar Flyer (PDF)

MLS Laboratory Update: September 16, 2021
Results reporting changes for potential BT agents referred to MDH-PHL (PDF)

MLS Laboratory alert: July 22, 2021
Expanded SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance (PDF)

MLS Laboratory alert: July 1, 2021
Potential Outbreak of Brucella melitensis - Observe a Heightened Awareness for Brucella spp. in the Laboratory (PDF)

MLS Laboratory update: July 1, 2021
Multistate Investigation of Non-Travel Associated Burkholderia pseudomallei Infections (Melioidosis) (PDF)

MLS Laboratory update: May 27, 2021
Arbovirus Testing for the 2021 Vectorborne Disease Risk Season (PDF)

MLS Laboratory update: Jan 14, 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday-MDH-PHL Hours of Operation (PDF)

MLS Laboratory update: Jan 13, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in Minnesota and updated schedule for MLS conference calls (PDF)

Please Contact the Minnesota Laboratory System with questions.

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Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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