Background: Mutations in beta-globin are the cause of a widespread condition known as sickle cell disease (SCD). Sickle cells organ damage, hemolysis blood cells, weakness, and sometimes even death. SCD can be effectively managed mortality reduced through early detection. This protocol’s study aims to evaluate sensitivity specificity sickling test, peripheral smear, ...

We report on simultaneous frequency domain optical-resolution photoacoustic and fluorescence microscopy with sub-µm lateral resolution. With the help of a blood smear, we show that photoacoustic and fluorescence images provide complementary information. Furthermore, we compare theoretically predicted signal-to-noise ratios of sinusoidal modulation in frequency domain with pulsed excitation in t...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), a parameter that is reported as a part of a standard complete blood count by automated analyzer, is a measure of the concentration of hemoglobin in a given volume of packed red blood cell. Values of MCHC significantly above reference range are not physiologically possible due to limitations on solubility of hemoglobin. The high MCHC can give us ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The estimation of filariasis prevalence in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh was so far relied upon clinical and night blood smear examination. However, night blood smear examination fails to detect the infection in individuals having low parasitaemia and cryptic filarial infection. The present study was undertaken to re-evaluate the prevalence of filariasis in two village...

OBJECTIVE Originally, this blind study was designed to check whether blood smears constitute reliable tools to determine sex. However, when we analyzed our data some interesting findings immerged and in this paper we try to highlight them. MATERIAL AND METHODS 74 blood smears (35 women and 39 men) have been performed and then stained. 200 polynuclearneutrophils were examined for nuclear appen...

Laboratory findings A blood sample was submitted by mail to the Clinical Pathology Laboratory, University Animal Hospital, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, for a complete hematological profile. The hematology analysis was performed on an Advia 2120 hematology instrument (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Erlangen, Germany) and by evaluation of a May‐Grünwald Giemsa st...

Theileriosis, caused by Theileria protozoa and infected by ticks, is a disease with high mortality rate. The most common species found in tropical and subtropical regions are T. annulata and T. parva. Theileriosis is often seen in cattle in the Eastern Anatolia Region, especially in the Van region. Clinical symptoms such as high fever, anaemia and haemoglobinuria are detected with this disease....

A clinical case is presented here of a patient from Afganistan. We found intraerythrocytic parasites consistent with malaria vivax. Additionally extraerythrocytic structures were seen. First a co-infection with Borrelia recurrentis was discussed later these structures were identified as male plasmodia microgametes resulting from exflagellation.

OBJECTIVE To determine and optimize the sensitivity of the CellaVision DM96 automated image-analysis system in detecting platelet (PLT) clumps on blood smears and to assess the reliability of the traditional laboratory practice of examining only the feather edge of the smear for PLT clumps. METHODS We processed 102 blood smears that revealed PLT clumps on microscopic review, using the CellaVi...