Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods

Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods

There is an introductory chapter on the use of the microscope and then successive chapters on examination of the sputum, the urine, the blood, gastric and duodenal contents, the faeces, animal parasites, pus and other body fluids, miscellaneous examinations including divers subjects such as the pregnancy tests and diagnosis of rabies, sero-diagnosis, bacteriological methods, and vaccines and sk...

Methylmalonic Acidemia Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods

Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) is usually caused by a deficiency of the enzyme methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM), a defect in the transport or synthesis of its cofactor, adenosyl-cobalamin (cblA, cblB, cblC, cblF, cblD, and cblX), or deficiency of the enzyme methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase. A comprehensive diagnostic approach involves investigations of metabolites with tandem mass spectrometry, organic ...

Clinical Laboratory Methods and Diagnosis

Laboratory diagnosis methods of malaria infection

Background and Aim: To manage and control malaria - one of the most important infectious diseases in tropical and subtropical regions – a quick and accurate malaria diagnosis method is necessary as a high priority. For this purpose, several methods have been developed for the diagnosis of malaria, and currently, the examining the peripheral blood slide with an optical microscope as a gold stand...

Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Examinations

This-work may be regarded as a companion volume of Kolmer and Boerner's Applied Laboratory Technique. Hence, details of procedure are for the most part not given, except for an appended section of 140 pages which will undoubtedly prove valuable for those not having ready access to the previous elaborate text. The subject matter is treated from two points of view, mutually complementary. In the ...