The principal surveillance tool used to control bovine tuberculosis in cattle is the removal of animals that provide a positive response to the tuberculin skin-test. In this study we performed a longitudinal investigation of the immunological and diagnostic consequences of repeated short-interval skin-tests in cattle naturally infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Tuberculin skin-test positive cat...

progesterone induced dermatitis is a rare disorder. it typically occurs in females due to an autoimmune phenomenon to endogenous progesterone production, but can also be caused by exogenous intake of a synthetic progestin. here in, we present a case of autoimmune progesterone anaphylaxis (aipa) observed in an adolescent female. the patient is an 18-year-old caucasian female with no significant ...

individual approaches to the diagnosis and management of penicillin allergy are practiced    by clinicians.   this cross-sectional survey of physicians was aimed at exploring their ways of dealing with diagnosis and management of penicillin g allergy.   of the 235 respondents, 63% believed patients’ self-reported history of penicillin allergy and avoided using penicillin g;     97% do so for pa...

Skin texture analysis is one of then challenging issues in the field of medical diagnosis. Various types of skin diseases are affecting human life like skin dryness, fungus, and allergic symptoms. The objective of this paper is to analyze the skin disease using texture analysis of skin image and by comparing the test image to a defined images or reference images. The matching of test and refere...

3 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................... 2 3.1 REGULATORY RATIONALE FOR USING IN VITRO TEST METHODS TO ASSESS SKIN IRRITATION ................... 3 3.2 PRINCIPLE OF IN VITRO HUMAN SKIN MODEL SYSTEMS FOR SKIN IRRITATION TESTING............................. 3 4 GENERAL SKIN MODEL PERFORM...

in a study of 310 patients with suspected dermatophytic lesions, 110 cases of dermatophytosis, were diagnosed by direct smear in 10% koh and culture by two methods, skin stripping with use of adhesive tape and scrapping with scalpel blade conventional technique). out of 65 positive cultures, in 33 cases, growth was obtained by methods (scraping and stripping), 23 by the conventional technique a...

OBJECTIVE Skin testing with penicilloyl-polylysine (PPL) and a minor determinant mixture (MDM) were previously recommended for evaluating β-lactam hypersensitivity. However, PPL and MDM have not been commercially available. This study was to determine the negative predictive value (NPV) of skin testing with β-lactam antibiotics for the diagnosis of β-lactam hypersensitivity. METHOD Patients a...