Report of Branch Meeting Kinki Branch Meeting

Association of Clinical Pathologists (Irish Branch) Spring Meeting 1997

Although various clinical signs and symptoms, as well as laboratory markers (e.g. pyrexia, raised white cell count, increase in C-reactive protein and other inflammatory markers) may aid in the diagnosis of infection, bacteriological culture is still the single most important laboratory investigation that is carried out. However, in a variety ofinfections, conventional bacteriological technique...

Association of Clinical Pathologists Irish Branch: Autumn Meeting

Rapid and accurate diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment of bacterial meningitis. Bacteriological culture of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood is still the single most important laboratory investigation which is carried out. However, in some cases, bacteriological culture is unable to detect any causative organisms. This may be due to a number of reasons such as prior antibiotic therap...

TEXAS BRANCH FALL MEETING October 18-20, 2012

Meeting report

Meeting Report

exhibited their new instruments in 1400 booths. Of the 900 papers presented at the conference, the following from the symposium on 'Process analysers' dealt with automated stream analysis for process control. Gibbon and Hackett [1] described the use of automated research-quality gas chromatographs to analyse the effluents from bench-scale coal gasification or liquefaction equipment. The high sp...