In the present study, organisms responsible for peritonitis and their sensitivity to antibiotics were evaluated in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in Bangladesh. We collected PD effluent from 100 peritonitis cases and sent samples to the laboratory for Gram stain and cytology. Cultures used direct inoculation of PD fluid in plate media and broth media simultaneously. Organisms were isolated b...

An obligately anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain 2CBH44T, was isolated from the fecal sample of a healthy Japanese man. This initially assigned as novel species genus Coprobacter based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities compared with other species. The analysis revealed 2CBH44T had relatively low similarity (97.5%) to secundus 177T. However, showed 96.9%...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a disorder of the vaginal ecosystem characterized by a shift in the vaginal flora from the normally predominant Lactobacillus to one dominated by sialidase enzyme-producing mixed flora. It is the most common cause of abnormal vaginal discharge in adult women. The BVBlue system (Gryphus Diagnostics, L.L.C.) is a chromogenic diagnostic test based on the presence of ele...

Power-pulsed lavage is a common adjunct to surgical wound debridement, although few studies have examined the effect of this technique in lower extremity wounds. Fifty-five consecutively enrolled patients underwent 73 surgical debridements with power-pulsed lavage, and specimens were obtained for Gram stain and culture and sensitivity analyses before and after lavage. A number of risk factors w...

We were very interested in a recent report by Quale and Reese regarding pseudoinfection of prosthetic hip implants. 1 The references cited were inclusive and documented the varied kinds of situations in which pseudoepi-demics occur as well as the potentially significant consequences of such events. A similar situation recently occurred in our institution, suggesting that contamination of transp...

BACKGROUND Laboratory diagnostic tests have an essential role in patient care, and the increasing number of medical and health professions schools focusing on teaching laboratory medicine to pre-clinical students reflects this importance. However, data validating the pedagogical methods that best influence students' comprehension and interpretation of diagnostic tests have not been well describ...

Presumptive identification of Gardnerella vaginalis from 48-h human blood agar cultures by using a Gram stain, hemolysis, and colonial morphology was highly accurate.

P3-S1.36 Table 1 Concordance between tests used to diagnosis urethritis among men Gram stain result NAAT result Total Gonorrhoea Chlamydia Negative Gonorrhoea 91 0 0 91

A 36-year-old woman was diagnosed with a sellar-suprasellar craniopharyngioma and underwent transsphenoidal resection of the tumor. A lumbar drain was placed to minimize intracranial pressure and was removed on postoperative day 6. On postoperative day 9, the patient began to leak cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from her right nostril. A second lumbar drain was placed. One day later, the patient deve...