Muscle biopsy is an important diagnostic tool in the investigation of children with neuromuscular disorders. This report presents the experience with paediatric muscle biopsies during a 5-year period at a routine pathology laboratory. A total number of 58 cases were included, and indications, microscopical findings, and final histopathological diagnoses were recorded. A total of 21 biopsies wer...

Babesia bovis (B. bovis) is a major causative agent of bovine babesiosis, with a considerable worldwide impact. The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of PCR assay and microscopical examination (ME) for detection of B. bovis in naturally infected and apparently healthy water buffaloes and crossbred cattle under field circumstances from Sharkia province of Egypt. A total 34 a...

Forensic hair examination and comparison is often undervalued as evidence. Significant information can be developed from a thorough microscopic examination and comparison of human and animal hairs that can assist criminal and civil investigations. Animal hairs can be distinguished easily from human hairs and often can be specified to a genus, species, or even breed. Human hairs often can be ide...

Bioretention cells, or rain gardens, can effectively reduce many contaminants in polluted stormwater through phytoremediation and bioremediation. The vegetated soil structure develops bacterial communities both within the around vegetation roots that play a significant role bioremediative process. Prediction of bioretention cell’s performance efficacy is essential to design process, operation, ...

Abstract The morphological differences between the sexes of a species is relevant to its captive breeding, ethology, and eco-biology are studied extensively in fishes. In this paper, we analyzed sexual dimorphism cyprinid Nilgiri melon barb, Haludaria fasciata (Jerdon), their external structures, size, shape. Physical examination, microscopical analysis, morphometric geometrical analyses both f...

BACKGROUND This study was proposed to monitor the situation of asymptomatic malaria among the native population and Afghani and Pakistani immigrants in Kahnooj and Ghale-Ganj districts from Kerman Province, Southeastern Iran. METHODS A number of 180 and 120 individuals from Kahnooj and Ghale-Ganj respectively were registered and considered based on a cross-sectional surveillance method. From ...

Within the last three years a number of impQrtant communications have appeared concerning pathogenic yeasts. ]~efore this period it was generally believed that among the yeast plants there existed none pathogenic for man or animals. The experiments of Bernard, Grohe, Popoff, Falk, and the more recent ones of ~eumayer and of :Raum, furnished no satisfactory evidence in favor of the possession of...

The aim of the presented system is simplification and speedup of the daily pathological examination routine. The system combines telepathology with computer-aided diagnostics algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach proposing such a comprehensive method. Our system is designed to accumulate knowledge through a learning process during diagnostics. Our system targets i...