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Sexually transmitted infections are infections spread from person to person through sexual contact. Other routes of transmission include mother-to-child transmission (during pregnancy and childbirth) and intravenous transmission.

The most comprehensive answer to trisomies 21, 18, and 13; sex chromosome aneuploidies; and microdeletions and microduplications.

Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and occurs when skin cells mutate and grow uncontrollably.

Harmony^® Prenatal Screening represents the greatest advance in the field of non-invasive prenatal testing for the screening of the three main trisomies (T21, 18, 13) and aneuploidies related to the sex chromosomes (X and Y). It is performed in a SIMPLE and SAFE manner using a sample of maternal peripheral blood and provides results with a high degree of ACCURACY.

Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, and if detected early, it has a high cure rate. Skin cancer screening is an essential tool for identifying suspicious lesions before they become more serious.

It’s the mosquito’s fault…

The Zika virus is a virus of the Flaviviridae family, first identified in 1947 in Uganda, and transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes of the Aedes species.

The Germano de Sousa Center for Laboratory Medicine currently offers liquid biopsy for the analysis of solid tumors.

Over the past 30 to 40 years, conventional karyotyping has been the gold standard test for detecting chromosomal abnormalities.
A method has recently emerged that allows us to go much further in the study of chromosomes; it is called Comparative Genomic Hybridization, or array-CGH.