Microfilaria in pleural fluid

CASE REPORT Microfilaria in hydrocele fluid cytology

Filariasis, a parasitic infection endemic in parts of India, Myanmar, islands of the South Pacific, West and East Africa and Saudi Arabia can be diagnosed from various types of cytopathological specimens. This case documents the detection of filarial infection from hydrocele fluid cytology in a 30-year-old Myanmar migrant worker in Malaysia.

Ada in Tuberculous Pleural Fluid

Adenosine deaminase activity (ADA) was assayed in pleural fluid and serum of 42 subjects with pleural effusion. Twenty-nine of them had TB pleural effusion and the remaining 13 had pleural effusion due to non-TB respiratory diseases. Serum adenosine deaminase activity were also measured in 32 pulmonary tuberculosis patients without pleural effusion and equal numbers of healthy controls without ...

Pleural fluid in Wegener's granulomatosis.

1 Van Vooren JP, Turneer M, Yernault JC, Dc Bruyn J, Burton E, Legros F, Farber CM. A multidot finmunobinding assay for the serodiagnosis oftuberculosis. Comparison with ELISA technique. J Immunol Methods 1988; 113:45-49 2 Van %boren JP, Farber CM, Motte 5, De Bruyn J, Legros F, Yernault JC. Assay of specific antibody response to myobacterial antigen for the diagnosis of a pleural effusion in a...

Pleural Fluid In Wegener’s Granulomatosis

1 Van Vooren JP, Turneer M, Yernault JC, Dc Bruyn J, Burton E, Legros F, Farber CM. A multidot finmunobinding assay for the serodiagnosis oftuberculosis. Comparison with ELISA technique. J Immunol Methods 1988; 113:45-49 2 Van %boren JP, Farber CM, Motte 5, De Bruyn J, Legros F, Yernault JC. Assay of specific antibody response to myobacterial antigen for the diagnosis of a pleural effusion in a...

Milky Pleural Fluid.