Chemotherapeutic compounds and Acanthamoebae from eye infections.

abstract：:Automation in clinical chemistry is a powerful tool. Like most innovations it is posing many questions as well as resolving some. Its use in population screening has led to questioning the validity of the old system of ;normal values' and to the search for better methods of indicating the significance of laboratory te...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilson JM

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of the records of 160 necropsies it was found that, according to the clinical and gross necropsy findings, no clinically important abnormality would have been anticipated in 46% of the tissue samples. The estimated annual cost of processing this material alone was pounds 10,500, including the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reid WA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyclonal antiserum, produced in sheep and reactive against purified human leucocyte elastase, has been applied to paraffin sections from a range of human tissues by means of the indirect immunoperoxidase method. Striking and consistent results have been obtained. Normal or inflammatory granulocytes were intensely ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crocker J,Jenkins R,Burnett D

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To ascertain the effect of enhanced surveillance following an outbreak of waterborne cryptosporidiosis on the number of faecal specimens submitted to the local microbiology laboratory and the number positive for common enteric pathogens. The outbreak provided an opportunity to estimate the extent of routine under ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qamruddin AO,Keaney MG,McCann R,Chadwick PR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Thalassaemia is a good candidate disease for control by preventive genetic programmes in developing countries. Accurate population frequency data are needed for planning the control of thalassaemia in the high risk Guangdong Province of southern China. METHODS:In total, 13397 consecutive samples from five geograph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Xu XM,Zhou YQ,Luo GX,Liao C,Zhou M,Chen PY,Lu JP,Jia SQ,Xiao GF,Shen X,Li J,Chen HP,Xia YY,Wen YX,Mo QH,Li WD,Li YY,Zhuo LW,Wang ZQ,Chen YJ,Qin CH,Zhong M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Modification of the spiral arteries with loss of the muscular vascular wall, invaded by the trophoblasts, represents the goal of the physiological vascular adaptation during human implantation. When physiological vascular changes do not occur, an unfavourable evolution of gestation may develop as suggested...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Avagliano L,Bulfamante GP,Morabito A,Marconi AM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in three (2-6%) of 117 fertile men and in 19 (33-9%) of 56 men who had been vasectomized. Twenty-four of the 56 vasectomized men had been studied before vasectomy; sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in one (4-3%) compared with eight (33-3%) after vasectomy. No sperm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunter J,Logan H,Greer G

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly endothelial and inducible forms (e/i-NOS), are expressed in various cancers, including breast cancer. In mammary fibroepithelial lesions, NOS expression in stromal cells has been reported to be lower in fibroadenomas than in phyllodes tumours. AIMS:To investigate NO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tse GM,Wong FC,Tsang AK,Lee CS,Lui PC,Lo AW,Law BK,Scolyer RA,Karim RZ,Putti TC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultramicro electrophoretic technique for the separation of serum lipoproteins is described using agarose gel on microscope slides.The interaction between the agarose gel and lipoproteins has been reduced and the separation between beta- and pre-beta-lipoproteins has been improved over existing methods. A semiquanti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elphick MC

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study were (1) to determine the measurement accuracy of a widely used guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) compared with an immunochemical faecal occult blood test (iFOBT) during in vitro studies, including their analytical stability over time at ambient temperature and at 4°C; and (2) to compa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee CS,O'Gorman P,Walsh P,Qasim A,McNamara D,O'Morain CA,Boran GP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine prognostic significance of immunohistochemical markers and investigate possible germinal centre (GC) derivation in primary lymphoma of bone (PLB). METHODS:Immunohistochemical expression of BCL-6, CD10, BCL-2, p53, CD30, CD44 and MUM-1 was studied in 36 patients with PLB. All cases were clinically sta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heyning FH,Hogendoorn PC,Kramer MH,Holland CT,Dreef E,Jansen PM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of iron and folate nutrition have been carried out in early pregnancy and at delivery in 63 Bantu females. Accepted normal values for serum iron, and percentage saturation of transferrin, but not for unsaturated iron-binding capacity, for non-pregnant subjects were found to apply equally well in pregnancy. Conco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Metz J,Turchetti L,Combrink B,Krawitz S

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex enzyme immunoassay (LEIA) for detecting IgG class antibody to rubella virus was compared with the latex agglutination test (LA) and a haemagglutination inhibition assay (HI). Of 243 sera tested, four discrepant results were observed among all three techniques, corresponding to borderline values. Except for one...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duverlie G,Roussel C,Driencourt M,Orfila J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida spp are the fourth most common group of nosocomial pathogens isolated from patients on medical, surgical, and intensive care wards. Polymicrobial candidaemia has rarely been described. The diagnosis of candidaemia from peripheral blood smears has not been widely reported. This report describes the case of a yo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yera H,Poulain D,Lefebvre A,Camus D,Sendid B

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:An audit of serrated polyps diagnosed over a 4-year period: 2009 to 2012 was undertaken to ascertain the reporting trends of sessile serrated polyps (SSP). METHODS:All right sided hyperplastic polyps (HP) proximal to the splenic flexure and all polyps designated SSP were retrieved from the study period. Three path...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gill P,Wang LM,Bailey A,East JE,Leedham S,Chetty R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a simple whole cell agglutination test for tuberculosis in which phenol-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra is used as the antigen. The test gave positive results in 59 of 63 culture-positive cases of tuberculosis due to M. tuberculosis, and in 4 of 11 culture-positive cases due to other mycob...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nicholls AC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laboratories traditionally culture toxoplasma tachyzoites in animals for testing and experimental use. This article considers why available cell culture methods are not used more often. AIM:To compare HeLa cell culture and animal culture for production of toxoplasma tachyzoites. METHODS:In 2000 HeLa cultur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chatterton JM,McDonagh S,Ho-Yen DO

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis is a rare disease with classic primary or secondary changes affecting mainly the cerebrum, skin, kidneys, and heart. Such lesions are generally hamartomatous and thus display malignant features only in rare cases. This paper describes four cases of tuberous sclerosis which were unique in their assoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ilgren EB,Westmoreland D

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that Coxsackie B virus infections may play a part in causing or triggering myocardial infarction. This study was designed to compare the incidence of such infections in Coronary Care Unit patients and normal controls. The choice of a suitable criterion for diagnosis of Coxsackie infection is disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Neill D,McArthur JD,Kennedy JA,Clements G

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described with glass fibre filter paper and complete glass filters as fitted to high pre-vacuum autoclaves to determine whether organisms can grow or penetrate through the filters. A filter consisting of four layers of glass fibre paper fitted inside a sterilizer chamber for a year and used for 96 ster...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fallon RJ

更新日期：1963-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "Centrifichem" centrifugal analyser was found using a double fluorescence/bacterial tracer method to be a source of airborne and surface contamination in the laboratory. The airborne contamination was controlled by a modification incorporating a filter. Ubiquitous surface contamination generally accompanied the proc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kennedy DA,Stevens JF,Horn AN

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reticulin antibodies have been classified by immunofluorescence into five types reacting with distinct antigens of intra- and extracellular components in mesenchyme. Two types of fibrillar antigens can be distinguished on the basis of the staining patterns, anatomical distribution, and species specificity. A third ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rizzetto M,Doniach D

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation of the in vitro phagocytic and microbicidal function of granulocytes collected by filtration leucapheresis (FL) from 18 donors and by discontinuous flow centrifugation leucapheresis (DFC) from six donors, comparison was made with the function of granulocytes obtained from the same donors by venepun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Martin S,Ghoneim AT,Robinson EA,Child JA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory cells contribute to the growth and spread of human malignancies by producing molecules that enhance tumour invasiveness. AIMS:To characterise the inflammatory infiltrate in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and to analyse its contribution to angiogenesis and its prognostic relevance. METHODS:Im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Esposito I,Menicagli M,Funel N,Bergmann F,Boggi U,Mosca F,Bevilacqua G,Campani D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the sensitivity and specificity of a multiplex PCR assay for the contemporary identification of major species involved in oral candidiasis, without extraction and purification of DNA from the samples under investigation; and evaluation of this method in comparison with routine phenotypic culture ident...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Liguori G,Lucariello A,Colella G,De Luca A,Marinelli P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and College of American Pathologists recommend that at least 12 lymph nodes should be harvested for adequate staging of colorectal carcinoma. Just one nodal tumour deposit upstages the malignancy from pN0 to pN1. This is critically important as node-positive patients (pN1) ar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horne J,Bateman AC,Carr NJ,Ryder I

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To better understand the spectrum of primary lymphomas in the upper aerodigestive tract, a common site of extranodal lymphoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Lymphoma cases diagnosed at an institution in southern Taiwan from 1992 to 2007 were retrospectively studied with pathology and history review, immunohistochemistry, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen SW,Chang ST,Lu CL,Hwang WS,Tsao CJ,Huang WT,Chang KY,Chuang SS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes mellitus is an important diagnosis. New criteria have been defined for impaired glucose metabolism and, accordingly, there is a need for precise and accurate glucose analysis for the correct classification of patients. However, neither the World Health Organisation nor the National Service Framework...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Twomey PJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral botryomycosis is rare, and documented sites are lung, brain, kidney, liver and prostate. This report describes a rare autopsy case of disseminated visceral botryomycosis, with bulky, grape-like botryomycotic vegetations in the heart, and similar abscesses in the lungs and bone marrow. This is the first such r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta K,Das A,Radotra BD,Bhalla A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three selective chromogenic culture media (CHROMagars ESBL, CTX-M and KPC) were evaluated for their ability to support the growth of nine Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates producing OXA-48 carbapenemase in combination with other β-lactamases. CHROMagar ESBL and CHROMagar KPC were the most sensitive media, supporting grow...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hornsey M,Phee L,Woodford N,Turton J,Meunier D,Thomas C,Wareham DW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00