The importance and severity of the childhood tuberculosis frequently present with advanced disease. Automated liquid (TB) disease burden is recognized in many developing broth cultures such as MGIT and BACTEC offer slightly countries. Of the estimated 8.3 million new TB cases reported superior sensitivity and reduced turn around time compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000, 884 ...

Many of the landmark discoveries with regard to the etiology, 2. Gram staining for gonorrhea, non-gonococcal urethritis, pathogenesis and epidemiology of sexually transmitted chancroid, bacterial vaginosis infections (STIs) occurred with the use of various diagnostic 3. Tzanck smear for herpes genitalis, donovanosis, techniques many years ago.[1] However, the concept of molluscum contagiosum pr...

We study the logistics of specimen collection for a clinical testing laboratory that serves sites dispersed in an urban area. The specimens that accumulate at the customer sites throughout the working day are transported to the laboratory for processing. The problem is to construct and schedule a series of tours to collect the accumulated specimens from the sites throughout the day. Two hierarc...

In this issue ofClinical Infectious Diseases, we present the first article in a series entitled .'Diagnostic Microbiology Updates. " Although clinical microbiology is included in the curricula ofvirtually all infectious diseasefellowships, the degree ofemphasis on this subject varies considerably. Infectious disease physicianseven those who have direct responsibities or consulting responsibilit...

in the framework of collection and identification of bolete fungi of iran, one specimen from the genus strobilomyces was collected and identified as strobilomyces strobilaceus (scop.) berk., based on knudsen & vesterholt (2008).

The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project is the largest multicountry etiology study of childhood pneumonia since the Board on Science and Technology in International Development studies of the 1980s. However, it is not the only recent or ongoing pneumonia etiology study, and even with seven sites, it cannot capture all epidemiologic settings in the developing world. Fund...

Twenty-eight active international athletes agreed to be available for random spot urine collections at their homes, places of work and training. Suitable briefed collectors were arranged to conduct the spot collections and forward the specimens for analysis. An average number of 3.4 collections per athlete was made in the 9 month period of the trial. Overall there was a "failure to collect" per...

Method: 36 male 9-10 years children were invited to participate in this study, and 30 completed a 24 h urine collection. The Free Water Reserve (FWR) was used to assess the hydration status; additionally, a food record corresponding to the day of urine collection and a lifestyle, and socio-demographic questionnaire was filled with parents help. Anthropometric data were obtained. Food and bevera...

bound iron. We now use the Unimate method as our routine method. With this method, serum iron is determined linearly up to 180 jmol1L and the detection limit is 0.9 j.tmol/L. Withinrun CVs are 0.4% (iron concentration, 7.7-38.0 j.tmoVL) and the analytical recoveries of added iron are 99.2-101.2%. We think that this colorimetric method, which does not involve sample deproteinization or heating, ...

Non-traditional settings offer an opportunity to increase access to sexually transmissible infection testing for at-risk populations, but they have not yet proven to be an efficient option and current models are unlikely to be effective if scaled up.