BACKGROUND Recently, the UF-100 (Sysmex Corporation) flow cytometer was developed to automate urinalysis. We evaluated the use of flow cytometry in the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). METHODS UF-100 data were correlated with microscopy and biochemical data for 256 CSF samples. Microbiological analysis was performed in 144 suspected cases of meningitis. RESULTS Good agreement was obta...

A randomized case control prospective method was adopted in this study in order to assess the health benefit associated with the Darfiyeh cheese, a traditional Lebanese raw goat milk cheese ripened in goat skin. 21 participants were recruited and divided into 2 groups: test group (n = 10) and control group (n = 11). Venous blood and stools were collected at day 14, 21 and day 0 and 21 respectiv...

INTRODUCTION Normocellular bacterial meningitis is rarely observed in adult patients. We here report two cases of adult patients with pneumococcal meningitis with a normal cerebrospinal fluid leukocyte count and review eight other cases in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION Case 1 was a 34-year-old Japanese woman with a history of splenectomy who presented with pyrexia, nausea, headache, and l...

Effect of three hygienic conditions (T1washing and disinfection of udder and teats, milker hands, and a sanitary rinse of milking pails using calcium hypochlorite solution with 200 ppm Cl; T2washing of udder and teats, milker hands and milking pails with normal water; and T3without any kind of preparation of udder and teats, milker hands and milking pails) before milking were studied. Fifteen “...

A bacteriological distribution analysis of the air was carried out at 8 sites in each of 2 general hospitals in Ibb during the period February-June 2002. Only 3 sites, reception hall, hospital passages and outpatient clinic, gave meaningful values for the distribution of bacteria in the atmospheric air. In these locations, mean values for total plate count, lactose fermenting bacteria, haemolyt...

The effect of kefir supplementation on the characteristic mozzarella cheese was investigated. Kefir is a fermented milk product that contains lactic acid bacteria, acetic and yeast. quality has strongly influenced level kefir. characteristics with addition were studied by measuring pH value, moisture content, protein fat total viable count, bacterial count. experimental design completely random...

Soil and sludge samples polluted with petroleum waste from Cairo Oil Refining Company Mostorod, Qalyubia, Egypt for more than 41 years were used for isolation of indigenous microbial communities. These communities were grown on seven polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds (naphthalene(Naph.), phenanthrene (Phen.), anthracene (Anth.), fluorancene (Flu.), acenaphthene (Acen.), pyrene (Pyr.) an...