AIMS To test the bactericidal activity of standard organ culture medium, and to compare the sensitivity and rapidity of blood culture bottles with conventional microbiological methods for detection of bacteria and fungi inoculated in a standard cornea organ culture medium. METHODS The bactericidal activity of contaminated standard organ culture medium containing 100 IU/ml penicillin, 0.1 mg/m...

conclusions concept mapping was superior to conventional skill teaching methods. it is suggested to use concept mapping in teaching practical courses such as fundamentals of nursing. results before education, no significant differences were observed between the two groups in the three skills of cleaning (p = 0.251), injection (p = 0.185) and sterilizing (p = 0.568). the students mean scores wer...

introduction: the suspected water samples contaminated with legionella were enriched with acanthamoebae. small numbers of bacteria (not detectable by culture) can be multiplied in amoebae up to culturable level in co-culture condition. the conventional culture method for legionnaires' disease bacterium always suffers from low sensitivity. this co-culture method can significantly improve culture...

SETTING In 2007, the World Health Organization recommended introducing rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture into the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of introducing a rapid non-commercial culture method (thin-layer agar), together with Löwenstein-Jensen culture to diagnose smear-negative TB at a district hospita...

We compared the organisms isolated from 30,210 pairs of blood culture bottles by using BacT/Alert system and the conventional system. Overall, 2,575 (8.5%) specimens were culture positive for pathogenic organisms. The sensitivity for detection of pathogenic organisms with the BACT/Alert system (85.6%, 2,203 of 2,575) was significantly higher than that with the conventional method (74.1%, 1,908 ...

conventional cytogenetic is the standard technique for detection of philadelphia (ph) chromosome in chronic myeloid leukemia (cml). evaluation of abelson murine leukemia/breakpoint cluster region (abl/bcr) fusion using dual-colour fluorescence in situ hybridization (d-fish) is an alternative approach allowing rapid and reliable detection of the disease. we employed the technique of interphase d...

more than 12,000 alkaloids are known in plants, mostly used as medicine with a world market value of about 4 billion us$. opium poppy, papaver somniferum, is the most important economic source of morphinane alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine and papaverine that are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry as analgesics, antitussives and anti-spasmodics. with regard to incr...

Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of food-borne diarrhea in many countries. Poultry and poultry products are known as important sources of human campylobacteriosis. In this study, conventional culture and multiplex PCR methods were compared for the detection of C. jejuni isolated from poultry carcasses. A total of 100 samples, representing 20 broiler flocks, were collected from poultry carc...

The study aimed to assess the frequency of invasive fungal infection in patients with respiratory diseases by conventional and molecular methods. This included 117 Broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) samples were collected from disease (79 male 38 female) ages ranged between (20-80) years, who attended Medicine Baghdad Teaching hospital AL-Emamain AL-Khadhymian Medical City, during period September 2...