Direct Smear
Value of Repeated Direct Smear Sputum Examination in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... third smear and the necessity for confirmation of a positive smear has also been ...third direct smear microscopy (DSM) specimen in the diagnosis of pulmonary ...2010-2013. Direct ...
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Comparison of Direct and Concentrated Acid Fast Smears To Identify Specimens Culture Positive forMycobacterium spp
... a smear made directly from a respiratory sample and one made from a concentrated sample to identify which specimens would be culture positive for a Mycobacterium ...the direct smear was significantly ...
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Comparison of direct versus concentrated smear microscopy in detection of pulmonary tuberculosis
... use direct Ziehl-Neelsen (Z-N) microscopy for detection of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in sputum smears as their main diagnostic ...that direct smear microscopy is highly specific in settings where TB is ...
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Comparison of Two Parasitological Tests and Post Mortem Examination to Detect Prevalence of Bovine Fasciolosis at Ambo Town Municipal Abattoir, West Shewa Zone, Ethiopia
... sis. Direct smear, sedimentation and post mortem examination were the tests used for ...for direct smear and sedimentation ...and direct smear techniques, ...than direct ...
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Review of Trichomonas vaginalis in Iran, Based on Epidemiological Situation
... For better chances of accurate diagnosis, at least two techniques are needed, such as wet mount microscopy and culture. Although PCR is found to be highly specific and sensitive, it is costly to be used in routine ...
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens by polymerase chain reaction and Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test
... tuberculosis by the nucleic acid amplification methods PCR and MTD systems as well as by direct smear examination and culture.. Thirty-two specimens were positive for mycobacteria by sme[r] ...
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PREVALENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION AMONG IRAQI PATIENTS
... than direct examination (16.5%) Although the direct smear microscopy and ...of smear microscopy is further reduced in diagnosing extrapulmonary TB and TB in patients co-infected with ...
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Evaluation of Commercial Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit for Tuberculosis: Further Evidence Supporting Negative Policy on the Use of Serological Tests for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Developing Countries
... One of the strengths of our report is the high number of study participants recruited when compared with other published reports [10,6,11] but there were limitations like lack of a control group of apparently healthy ...
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Sensitivity of direct versus concentrated sputum smear microscopy in HIV infected patients suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis
... over direct smear microscopy differs from the results of five prior studies that found higher sensitivity in HIV-endemic populations after sputum concentration ...sputum smear microscopy [36] and ...
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Comparison of three collection preservation methods for detection of intestinal parasites
... Since a permanent smear from PVA-preserved specimens is equivalent to a direct smear in volume, any concentration method performed on the PVA-preserved specimen should increase the numbe[r] ...
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Novel Method for Processing Respiratory Specimens for Detection of Mycobacteria by Using C18 Carboxypropylbetaine: Blinded Study
... If CB-18 caused an induced susceptibility, this could explain the loss in smear specificity. For example, if CB-18 processing provided enhanced viability, recovery, and distribution of my- cobacteria in the ...
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Genotype MTBDRplus for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Drug Resistance in Strains from Gold Miners in South Africa
... on smear-negative specimens— occurred infrequently at most, as ev- idenced by an overall specificity for ...for direct GenoType MTBDRplus testing and indirect MGIT culture for RIF and ...
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A study of visceral leishmaniasis in owned dogs with dermal lesions in Mashhad area, Khorasan Razavi province
... The present study was carried out to investigate zoo- notic visceral leishmaniasis using direct impression smear, IFAT and semi-nested PCR in a population of owned dogs with cutaneous [r] ...
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Study of hematological indices in neonates admitted with non-obstructive jaundice and its outcome in a tertiary care hospital
... The direct Coombs test is used to detect antibodies (IgG or C3) that are stuck to the surface of red blood cells. Many diseases and drugs can cause this. These antibodies sometimes destroy red blood cells and ...
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The costs of offering HPV-testing on self-taken samples to non-attendees of cervical screening in Finland
... When self-sampling was used as a second reminder with lower sampler price and a Pap smear triage, the cost of a CIN2+ lesion detected by self-sampling was not higher than one detected in routine screening. This ...
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Knowledge, practice, and barriers toward cervical cancer screening in Elmina, Southern Ghana
... Pap smear test in the study, only three ...Pap smear test reported that they were referred by their health care ...Pap smear test included fear of cervical cancer and messages from radio ...
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Direct Application of the INNO LiPA Rif TB Line Probe Assay for Rapid Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains and Detection of Rifampin Resistance in 360 Smear Positive Respiratory Specimens from an Area of High Incidence of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis
... Ninety-five percent of M. tuberculosis strains with resistance to RIF contain distinct mutations located within an 81-bp (27- codon) region of the beta subunit of the RNA polymerase (rpoB) gene (29, 31). Several methods ...
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Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis
... routine smear microscopy in Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria and Yemen ...of smear microscopy and represented high burden countries across three World Health Organization regions ...
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EVALUATION OF MGIT OVER OTHER PHENOTYPIC METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF PULMONARY AND EXTRAPULMONARY TB AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN NORTH INDIA
... MGIT-320 positive and 8 contaminated by one but not the other method. The use of both methods allowed the identification of 69 cases that were positive by one method but negative by the other method. Similarly, although ...
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How Liquid Based Microbiology Can Change the Workflow in the Microbiology Laboratories
... Considering the results for respiratory specimens, we have routinely processed 7052 samples (3461 BAL, 947 BAS, and 3713 SPU) to date, of which approximately 70% combined traditional culture investigations with molecular ...
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