Several biochemical and anthropometric tests were used to define the states of mild or moderate protein-energy malnutrition among 810 children aged under five years in the forest region of Southern Cameroon. The results show that the percentage and the identity of children classified as undernourished may be different according to the anthropometric test employed. The mean values of most of the...

Pheochromocytomas, although a rare cause of hypertension, are dangerous tumors that require consideration among large numbers of patients. The subsequent low prevalence of the tumor among those tested and inadequacies of commonly used biochemical tests make excluding or confirming the tumor an often difficult and time consuming task. Recognition that catecholamines are metabolized to free metan...

The API 20E Analytical Profile Index typically suggests three or four conventional biochemical tests to complete the identification of strains either identified to genus only or that have multiple genera consistent with the profile number. We compiled a simple panel of eight rapid (4-h) tests that can substitute for the supplementary biochemical tests recommended by Analytab Products (Plainview...

isolation and differentiation of various species of mycobacteria are predominantly based on conventional, cultural and biochemical tests. among the non-tuberculous mycobacteria, these tests are unable to differentiate m. scrofulaceum from m. avium-intracellulare (mai) because of their identical biochemical characteristics. for this reason, one hundred mycobacterial strains suspected to be m. sc...

The potential infectivity of 1129 randomly selected plasma specimens was directly assayed by hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA dot-hybridization. Presence or absence of HBV was then correlated with a biochemical profile of 20 common analytes obtained on these same specimens. We found that potentially infectious specimens could not be identified on the basis of any combination of simple biochemical te...

the present study was undertaken to screen the soil samples collected in iran for the presence of the bacillus subtilis lipase a gene. the bacterial colonies obtained from the collected soil samples were examined by physical appearance, biochemical tests and  the polymerase chain reaction (pcr). only four colonies were identified as putative b. subtilis strains and all contained the lipase a ge...

Clostridium perfringens is an important pathogen that provokes numerous different diseases. This bacterium is classified into five various types, each of which capable of causing a distinct disease. There are various methods for the bacterial identification, many are labor-intensive, time-consuming, expensive and also show low sensitivity and specificity. The aim of this research was to identif...