TB (Tuberculosis) of intrathoracic lymph nodes is the most common form of tuberculosis disease in childhood. In Bulgaria, about 67%-70% of all newly diagnosed children patients are with this diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic capabilities of the T-SPOT TB in this form of TB disease. In a period of one year, 50 children aged 0-12 years treated in our hospital wi...

A rapid modified spot CAMP test using 183 clinical isolates of beta haemolytic streptococci was compared with the standard CAMP test described by Christie et al. The scheme of biochemical identification and serological confirmation was taken as reference method. The sensitivity of both tests was 100%, and the specificity of the rapid and standard tests was 96.8% and 88.9% respectively. The modi...

The unrelenting threat of poaching has led to increased development of new technologies to combat it. One such example is the use of long wave thermal infrared cameras mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to spot poachers at night and report them to park rangers before they are able to harm animals. However, monitoring the live video stream from these conservation UAVs all night...

Esculin hydrolysis is a useful test in the differentiation of both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria covering a wide spectrum of aerobes, facultative anaerobes, and anaerobes. Commonly utilized methods require a minimum of 18 h of incubation in broth or agar medium and utilize the production of a brown-black compound, due to the combination of ferric ions with the hydrolysis product escu...

abstract iris yellow spot virus (iysv) is one of the important pathogens of onion in reported countries. host range of this virus is very wide and transmitted by onion thrips (thrips tabaci). in survey that was conducted in summer 2006 in onion fields of mashhad, samples with viral symptoms and high population of thrips have been collected. since the symptoms were similar to iysv, special antis...

Background: Knowledge of the functional balance tests for the patients with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) may provide useful and accurate information about the balance function of these patients under different situations. Objectives: This study aims to review the functional balance tests for PwMS. Materials and Methods: This is a systematic review. The search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, LILA...

Self-administered dapsone intake by leprosy patients in Eastern Nepal was monitored with a urine spot test. Of 341 outpatients 55 (16.1%) were found to be noncompliant. A significant relationship was found between noncompliance and age and between noncompliance and caste. Sex, disease classification, type of treatment, duration of treatment, history of leprosy reactions and travel time to the c...