BACKGROUND From 2010 to 2014, approximately 2 million Pap smears from HIV-infected women were submitted to the South African National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) through the national cervical cancer screening programme. The objective of this analysis was to determine whether using the plastic Cervex brush ("broom") would be a cost-effective approach to improve cytology specimen quality as...

BACKGROUND Oral rinse is a novel method that can be used to detect dysplasia in potentially malignant disorders and malignant oral lesions in resource challenged areas. A study was undertaken to compare the quality of the normal smears prepared with the oral rinse and that of the wooden tongue spatula. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred five normal subjects were selected for the study. Two smea...

A study was made of the contribution of the cytobrush to determining the composition of the cervical smear. From a population of women screened in The Netherlands in 1987, 733 women were selected whose smears for the second time in a row lacked endocervical cells. Note was made of method of contraception, age of the woman, and day of the menstrual cycle. A control group was formed of women whos...

Geckos can run rapidly on walls and ceilings, requiring high friction forces (on walls) and adhesion forces (on ceilings), with typical step intervals of approximately 20 ms. The rapid switching between gecko foot attachment and detachment is analyzed theoretically based on a tape model that incorporates the adhesion and friction forces originating from the van der Waals forces between the subm...

background: chlamydia trachomatis is the most reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease, especially among young women worldwide. aim of this study was comparison to evaluate the prevalence of chlamydia trachomatis infection in woman with tubal infertility by means of pcr and cell culture techniques. methods: fifty-one women with confirmed tfi were enrolled in this study in (avicenna infer...