Isochromosome involving the long arm of X chromosome is a rare structural rearrangement of the X chromosome, leading to Gonadal dysgenesis. These patients present as phenotypic females with amenorrhea and growth failure. Often other associated features like endocrine abnormalities and skeletal deformities are found. They are chromatin positive cases and are only diagnosed by karyotyping. Hashim...

The tick-borne rickettsia Cowdria ruminantium has been propagated continuously for over 500 days in the Ixodes scapularis tick cell line IDE8 by using the Gardel isolate from bovine endothelial cells as an inoculum. Infection of the tick cells was confirmed by PCR, karyotyping, electron microscopy, and reinfection of bovine cells.

Cytogenetic analysis provides important diagnostic and prognostic information for patients with Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and plays an essential role in the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) and the revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-R). Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) assay is a recently developed technique to identify targeted cyto...

BACKGROUND Fifty percent of spontaneous miscarriages (SMs) are attributed to chromosomal abnormalities. Cytogenetic analysis is an important tool for patient counselling and assessment of the risk of recurrence in future pregnancies. Conventional karyotyping has been the gold standard for chromosomal investigation of products of conception (POC), but it has limitations due to sample maceration,...

Eight cases of 45 XO/46 XY mosaicism are described: four were phenotypic males. Karyotyping should be performed more frequently in short boys as growth hormone treatment and testicular biopsy, to screen for carcinoma in situ, are likely to be beneficial.

One hundred clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and non-HIV-infected patients from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela were separated according to varieties and tested for antifungal susceptibility. A high susceptibility to antifungal agents was observed among all the isolates. The electrophoretic karyotyping of 51 strains revealed good discrim...