† Center for Neutron Research, NIST. ‡ National Institutes of Health. § Polymers Division, NIST. * Corresponding author. E-mail [email protected]. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8562; National Institutes of Health, NICHD, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, 13 South Drive, Bethesda, Maryla...

INTRODUCTION Capillary sampling is increasingly used to obtain blood for laboratory tests in volumes as small as necessary and as non-invasively as possible. Whether capillary blood sampling is also frequent in Croatia, and whether it is performed according to international laboratory standards is unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS All medical laboratories that participate in the Croatian Nationa...

The report summarizes the Consultative Committee for Mass (CCM) key comparison CCM.P-K4.2012 for absolute pressure spanning the range of 1 Pa to 10 000 Pa. The comparison was carried out at six National Metrology Institutes (NMIs), including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Czech Metrology Institute (CMI), National Metrology Ins...

introduction: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) can cause serious and life-threatening hospital- and community-acquired infections. colonized and infected patients represent the most important reservoir of mrsa in health care facilities. therefore, in this study, mrsa isolates collected from shohada hospital in tabriz were evaluated for the frequency of meca gene and their anti...

background: macrolides, lincosamides and type b streptogramins (mlsb) are commonly used for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. inducible mlsb resistance (imlsb) cannot be identified by standard methods of antibiotic susceptibility testing. d-test appears to be a reliable indicator of imlsb strains. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clindamycin resistance phenotyp...

background pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of infections especially in patients with weakened immune systems. this pathogen is intrinsically resistant to many antibacterial agents. objectives the aim of this study was to survey the antibiotic resistance pattern and frequency of bla oxa10 gene in carbapenemase producing p. aeruginosa isolated from patients in isfahan hospitals. materia...

Background Candida species are normal microflora of  oral cavity, vagina, and gastrointestinal  tract. They are the third most prevalent cause of pediatric health care–associated  bloodstream fungal infection. This study aimed to provide an epidemiological feature of candidiasis and also presents an antifungal susceptibility profile of clinical Candida iso...