Report of the 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 the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

Annual Meeting of the Missouri Valley Branch of the American Society of Microbiology

Infectious diseases still remain the second leading cause of death worldwide, representing therefore a major public health challenge. My research focuses on evolutionary genetics and population dynamics of various pathogenic microorganisms: Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Plasmodium parasites. Understanding these parameters is releva...