OBJECTIVE To identify clinical features of Corynebacterium urealyticum urinary tract infection in dogs and cats and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of C urealyticum isolates. DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS 5 dogs and 2 cats. PROCEDURE Medical records of dogs and cats for which C urealyticum was isolated from urine samples were reviewed. Isolates from clinical cases, along with ...

The value of exfoliative urinary cytology for the diagnosis of different pathological conditions in renal transplantation is widely recognized. The method, however, has not yet gained full acceptance, mainly because identification of the different cells is not always possible by means of standard staining techniques. In view of its characteristics, flow cytometry (FC) seems to represent a consi...

The study aimed to evaluate the effect of exercise on urine sediment in adolescent soccer players. In 25 15-year-old (range 14.4-15.8 yrs) athletes, urinary protein, osmolality and cytology were analyzed by flow cytometry and automated dipstick analysis before (T(0)), during (T(1)), and after a match (T(2)). All athletes had normal urine analysis and blood pressure at rest, tested before the st...

Spatial variations in composition of marine microbial communities and its causes have largely been disclosed in studies comprising rather large environmental and spatial differences. In the present study, we explored if a moderate but temporally permanent climatic division within a contiguous arctic shelf seafloor was traceable in the diversity patterns of its bacterial and archaeal communities...

A 68-year-old female with a known hypertensive, diabetic, and neurogenic bladder was brought to the hospital complaints of fever constipation. The urine bag colour were found be purple (Figure 1). urinalysis showed alkaline urine, urinary sediment contained 15-20 white blood cells per high-power field. She admitted under impression that she had Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) patient empirically ...

BACKGROUND The initiation and progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN) is complex. Quantification of mRNA expression in urinary sediment has emerged as a novel strategy for studying renal diseases. Considering the numerous molecules involved in DN development, a high-throughput platform with parallel detection of multiple mRNAs is needed. In this study, we constructed a self-assembling mRNA arr...

the other autoantibodies were negative. nephritis; IgM thrombi; Waldenströ m's macro-globulinaemia Proteinuria was 3 g/day with 100% of albumin; urinary sediment revealed microscopic haematuria and leukocyturia. Immunofixation showed no free light chains in urine. Renal sonography showed that both