background and objectives: the aim of this study was to compare direct microscopic examination with culture and pcr for the diagnosis of mucorales infection in blood and tissue specimens. material and methods: blood samples and tissue specimens were obtained from 28 patients (total 58 samples) with suspected invasive fungal infection and cultured on proper media. direct smear of tissue samples ...

introduction: human hematopoietic stem cells (hhscs) have been used for transplantation in hematologic failures. because the number of hhscs per cord blood unit is limited, the expansion of these cells is important for clinical application. it has been reported that cytokines and feeder layer provide a perspective to in vitro expansion of hhscs. in this regard, cord blood cd34+ cells expanded a...

Several manufacturers have developed systems that automatically measure the amount of blood in culture bottles. We compared volumes measured by Virtuo instrument (bioMérieux, France) (height-based volumes) and those calculated weighing In all, 150 pairs aerobic anaerobic bottles (BacT/ALERT FA/FN Plus, bioMérieux) were randomly selected over two periods to compare height- weight-based analyze e...

BACKGROUND Pleural infection is common, and has a >30% major morbidity and mortality-particularly when infection is caused by Gram-negative, Staphylococcus aureus or mixed aerobic pathogens. Standard pleural fluid culture is negative in ∼40% of cases. Culturing pleural fluid in blood culture bottles may increase microbial yield, and is cheap and easy to perform. OBJECTIVES To determine whethe...

INTRODUCTION Bone marrow culture is considered superior to blood culture in evaluation of FUO. The aim of this study was to compare the usefulness of these two cultures. METHODS A one year prospective cross sectional study was conducted to find out the usefulness of bone marrow culture and blood culture in the diagnosis of FUO. Marrow aspirates in each case were sent for bacterial, myocbacter...