The study was conducted to determine the seropositivity of hepatitis B infection, associated risk factors and history of vaccination among staff in 3 teaching hospitals in Khartoum. The study was carried out from March 2006 to March 2007. Participants comprised 245 randomly selected hospital staff; 12 (4.9%) reacted positively for HBsAg, 6 of whom were nurses, 4 domestic staff and 2 laboratory ...

Results Patients: 52 patients were exposed: 16, who were immunocompromised, received prophylactic Immune Globulin, 21 had received 2 MMR doses, 3 had 1 dose, 6 were seropositive and 6 patients’ immunity remained unknown. Staff: 221 staff members were exposed; 103 were immune, 118 had unknown immunity [17 produced immunization record; 22 remained unknown; 79 were tested (71/79 seropositive, 6 su...

after four years of publishing the iranian national laboratory standard and following a strategic plan to implement its requirements, it was decided to review the taken actions, evaluating the achievements and the failures, as well as analyzing the gaps and planning the interventional activities to resolve the problems. a thorough evaluation revealed that the progress of implementation process ...

The Internet provides a new environment for developing a variety of applications for educational and research purposes. This paper presents the implementation of a web-based laboratory experiment on a coupled tank apparatus, a Multiinput–Multioutput (MIMO) system. The web-based laboratory has been developed to serve students and staff in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National ...

Health and safety in clinical laboratories is becoming an increasingly important subject as a result of emergence of highly infectious diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV. A cross sectional study was carried out to study the safety measures being adopted in clinical laboratories of India. Heads of laboratories of teaching hospitals of India were subjected to a standardized, pretested questionnai...

Introduction 1. Emissions in cyclotron facility and their influence on staff 2. Radiation sources of radiochemical laboratory radiation exposure radiochemists 3. Ionizing PET diagnostics division doses medical 4. Doses center patients Conclusion

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein and glucose examinations are usually performed in chemical pathology departments on autoanalysers. Tuberculosis (TB) is a group 3 biological agent under Directive 2000/54/EC of the European Parliament but in the biochemistry laboratory, no extra precautions are taken in its analysis in possible TB cases. The issue of laboratory practice and safety in the bioche...

Prior to the circulation of the CDC draft guidelines and the discussion of these at the Infectious Disease Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) in 1995, the attending staff at Genesee Hospital followed 5 different protocols for using prophylac-tic antibiotics to prevent group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in the newborn. With a planned education approach for the attending and hospital ...

DNA fingerprinting analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is used for epidemiological studies and the control of laboratory cross-contamination. Because standardized procedures are not entirely safe for mycobacteriology laboratory staff, the paper proposes a new technique for the processing of specimens. The technique ensures the inactivation of M. tuberculosis before DNA extraction without the...