A 10-year-old, male colobus monkey presented with a kyphotic appearance. Lumbar spinal pain was suspected, and the started on course of meloxicam. With no improvement noted, it sedated for examination. Haematology revealed neutrophilia. An empirical clavulanate potentiated amoxicillin started. improvements seen after 10-day course, clinical examination repeated. Abdominal ultrasound abdominal r...

Haematological studies were carried out in pure fetal blood samples obtained fetoscopically in 29 rhesus isoimmunised pregnancies at 18-24 weeks' gestation, and the values were compared with those obtained in 62 normal control pregnancies. Fetal reticulocytosis or erythroblastaemia was seen only in association with a haemoglobin concentration of 4 g/dl or less. Ten of the 14 fetuses with a haem...

This communication records the results of blood investigations in infantile sepsis. This condition includes numerous septic manifestations, such as skin lesions (abscesses; boils; pustules), otorrhoea, gastroenteritis, pyuria, etc., occurring soon after birth and up to end of first year. The work on this subject is comparatively new, as indeed, is infantile haematology in general, nor does lite...

A biological experiment of six weeks duration, followed by several laboratory investigations were carried out to study the effect of designer layer mash (DLM) containing full fat flaxseed, oil rich sardine fish, Holy Basil leaf meal (BLM), vitamin E and Organic selenium (Sel-plex), on haematology of layers. Both designer diet and BLM had significant effect on haematology of layers. They also ex...

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, Department of Haematology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, Heart of England NHS Found...

1Department of Plasma Proteins, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam; 2Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, Thrombosis and Haemostasis Laboratory, University Medical Center, Utrecht; 3Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht; 4Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht; 5Depart...

The data processing problems which arise in the provision of a modern haematology service are discussed in the light of available resources, and the basic requirements of any automated data processing system are defined. The differences between the needs of haematology and those of other pathology specialities are emphasized. A strategy for the development of a simple system which covers data c...