C.-E. A., and A. R. Winslow I found that one of the fundamental differences between the parasitic and saprophytic cocci was their behavior to the Gram stain. The parasitic forms (Paracoccace~e) generally retained the stain, while the saprophytic group (Metacoccace~e) generally decolorized by Gram. In my recent revision of the Coccacem in the collection at the Museum of Natural History, 2 I was ...

University of California at Irvine’s medical school is one of many programs that have transitioned to iPad based instruction. Release of iBooks Author, a development tool for electronic books, in January 2012 enabled the creation of “iBooks” that transitioned the iPad from an instructional content viewer to an advanced learning experience including interactivity and multimedia. This tool was th...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to identify predictive factors of bacterial contamination in positive blood cultures (BC) collected in an emergency department. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective, observational and analytical study was conducted on febrile children aged on to 36 months, who had no risk factors of bacterial infection, and had a BC collected in the Emergency Department bet...

OBJECTIVE Comparison of rapid tests and screening strategies for detecting urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants. METHODS Cross-sectional study conducted in an urban tertiary care children's hospital emergency department and clinical laboratories of 3873 infants <2 years of age who had a urine culture obtained in the emergency department by urethral catheterization; results of urine dipsti...

A prospective study was performed over a 4.5-year period to determine the ability of a sputum Gram stain to predict the cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. A blood culture isolate, rather than a sputum culture, served as the reference standard to provide precise identification of the etiologic agent. The study population comprised 59 bacteremic adults who expectorated a valid sputu...