INTRODUCTION Infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) is one of the commonest sexually transmitted infections (STI). As there is currently no laboratory in Singapore that offers the chlamydia culture tests, alternative laboratory methods were developed and antigen detection methods such as enzyme immunoassays (EIA) proved to be even less sensitive than cell culture. This stud...

Cokeromyces recurvatus Poitras was isolated from an endocervical specimen obtained from a 37-year-old, insulin-dependent diabetic. The patient's diabetic condition had been well controlled for 10 years, and she had no other known medical problem. This is only the fourth time that this zygomycete has been recovered from a human source. While there was no evidence of tissue invasion in the presen...

BACKGROUND Adenocarcinoma in cervical cancer has poorer response rate to treatment and requires longer time to achieve complete remission than squamous cell carcinoma [1]. Lower response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy is observed [2,3,4,5] and the optimal management remains undefined [1,4,6,7]. CASE We report a case of a 58-year-old woman with bulky mucinous adenocarcinoma endocervical-type...

INTRODUCTION Conjunctival swab PCR was evaluated as a tool to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis in dogs. METHODS Conjunctival swab PCR was compared to indirect immunofluorescence antibody test and blood PCR. RESULTS Indirect immunofluorescence was significantly correlated with conjunctival swab PCR (p < 0.05), but not with blood PCR (p > 0.05). In addition, conjunctival swab PCR was significa...

Every microbiologist knows that the best specimens for culture are fluids or tissue. However, we rarely get what we want. The majority of the specimens that microbiology laboratories receive are collected on swabs. Clinicians favor the swab as a collection and transport system because of its ease of use, low cost, and availability. What is the laboratory to do? We need to understand the various...

The Identification and evaluation of Trichomonas vaginalis among women was performed over a period of three months in Ilesha. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis in women in relation to different samples collected and level of education. 310 samples from high vaginal, endocervical and urethral regions of female patients were analyzed using Gram stainin...

SUMMARY During 2 years, 212 patients with PID and 160 women with no sign of PIO (as control group) were selected for the detection of aerobic an<l anaerobic bacteria and possible cause of the disease. Specimens from 58 patients and 60 controls were taken by laparoscopy and laparotomy, 154 patients and 100 controls by swabs from endocervical canal. From laparoscopy and laparotomy group(58) 9 ...