The purpose of this study was to assess the increase in positive results of bacteriological diagnostic tests for tuberculosis with the utilization of culture at a referral hospital for tuberculosis (TB). A retrospective analysis was conducted based on the positive bacteriological results obtained at the Júlia Kubistchek Hospital. The number of bacteriological diagnoses was increased by 24.6 % w...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the need for bacteriological analysis for the rational treatment of infections of the corneal surface, including conjunctivitis. METHODS The results of 1,970 consecutive bacteriological analysis obtained from 2001 to 2008 in patients with ocular hyperemia and discharge were analysed and compared with a similar study done in 1982 in the same geographical area. RESULT...

The aim of this study was to determine whether bacterial infection plays a significant role in the inflammatory process of epidermal cysts. Samples from 152 patients (115 cases of inflamed and 37 of uninflamed epidermal cysts) were subjected to aerobic and anaerobic bacterial culture and the isolates were investigated. The rate of bacterial growth and the recovered anaerobes were significantly ...

Machine analysis and reporting has been widely applied to the numerical results of clinical biochemistry and haematology. Few have applied computers to routine bacteriology, although they have been of great value in taxonomy. This is unfortunate but stems, perhaps, from failure to appreciate that although reports may contain several different sorts of information, all of them may be given numer...

In two cases of infected total hip replacements, Peptococcus magnus was isolated in pure culture from the implant when it was removed. Fluorescent antibody and ELISA studies have shown that both patients developed an antibody response to this anaerobic coccus soon after the replacement operation. These results suggest that the organism is a true infective agent, which was probably responsible f...

To establish a new system to isolate keratolytic bacteria from the hoof wall cavity (Gidoh) of a racehorse, we invented the horn powder agar-translucency (HoPAT) test and horn zymography (HZ). Using routine bacteriological techniques and these methods, we isolated five strains of keratolytic soil bacteria, which were then identified by means of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing analysis....

because of possible increase in the incidence of brucellosis in the city ghom , serological and bacteriological studies were conducted to investigate the rate of infection in this city. a total of 819 blood samples from human , “suspected” cases were investigated (serologically) 121 of these were positive for brucellosis ,(14/6%).of 182 samples of milk collected from cattle 50 were positive (27...