Report of the Mycological Diagnostic Service

Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Service, Royal Victoria Hospital, 1959

Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Laboratory, the Queen's University of Belfast, 1960

THIS is the second annual report of the Mycological Diagnostic Service and covers the work done during 1960. After September, 1960, the laboratory was incorporated into the Queen's University Department of Microbiology without any change in the scope or function of the diagnostic service. The laboratory continued to offer to general practitioners, hospital laboratories, and clinics a routine se...

Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Service, Queen's University, Belfast, 1962

IN the fourth year since its inception in 1959 the Mycological Laboratory of the Department of Microbiology, Queen's University of Belfast, continued to provide a diagnostic service for the isolation and/or identification of fungi associated with human sources. During 1962 inycological examinations were made on 1,322 specimens fromn 1,000 patients from thirty hospitals, clinics or laboratories,...

The Mycological Diagnostic Service: A Five-Year Survey (1959-1963)

INTRODUCTION. IN March, 1959, the Belfast Hospitals Management Committee appointed a fulltime research mycologist, and subsequently a routine mycological diagnostic service was established at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Since then a series of annual reports in this journal (Mackenzie and McArdle, 1960; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Bell, 1961; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Rusk, 1962, 1963) have described f...

Actinomycotic Mycetoma: Report of 4 cases from Khuzestan province

Mycetoma is a chronic, progressive, and destructive disease primarily caused by actinomycetes. This is a report of 4 cases of actinomycotic mycetomas studied in our hospital during the last five years. The patients included 2 men, 56 and 42 years old, and 2 women, 31 and 52 years old, from Khuzestan province located in the south west of Iran. Clinically all patients presented with mycetoma synd...