The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend universal screening of all pregnant women between 35 and 37 weeks of gestation for group B streptococci (GBS) by use of a selective broth medium. Recent reports suggest that Granada medium can be used for rapid and direct visual identification of GBS colonies. However, studies comparing the Granada medium method to the selective bro...

a clinical presentation of a metabolic disorder, often first seen in infants who present with poor feeding, vomiting, tachypnea, acidosis, hyperammonemia, ketosis, ketonuria, irritability, and convulsions or hypotonia and lethargy, findings that are otherwise suggestive of neonatal sepsis diseases with oa isovaleric and propionic acidemias, maple syrup urine disease, medium chain acyl dehydroge...

numerical study of double-diffusive natural convective heat transfer in a curved cavity filledwith a porous medium has been carried out in the current study. polar system has beenselected as coordinate system. as a result, all equations have been discredited in r and θdirections. brinkmann extended darcy model has been utilized to express fluid flow inporous matrix in the enclosure. smaller and...

abstract p u rpose: this study aimed to correlation between the grading stenosis and the start back screening tool (sbst) in patients diagnosed with lumbar central canal stenosis (lccs). methods: in a prospective clinical study, a total of 269 patients with lccs were asked to respond to the questionnaire at their first visits. grading of lccs on mri was determined and also the severities of the...

We report the application of tandem mass spectrometry to prospective newborn screening for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency. MCAD deficiency is diagnosed from dried blood spots on filter paper cards from newborns on the basis of the increase of medium chain length acylcarnitines identified by isotope dilution mass spectrometry methods. A robust and accurate semiautomated me...

Introduction Mammalian cell culture medium development has widely evolved in recent years. The use of hydrolysates as serum replacement has led to process variability due to lot-tolot variations. The undefined composition of these media could also increase the process optimization timelines, sometimes with limited impact on process performances. With the reduction of process development activit...

BACKGROUND The English NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme was established in 2003. Eligible people are invited annually for digital retinal photography screening. Those found to have potentially sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) are referred to surveillance clinics or to Hospital Eye Services. OBJECTIVES To determine whether personalised screening intervals are cost-effective. ...