abstract：:Streptex was compared to routine laboratory identification methods available. The results from Streptex sometimes required several attempts before final identification could be achieved. In the main, group D streptococci other than Strep. faecalis failed to group with the Streptex antisera, and this method cannot ther...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waitkins SA,Ratcliffe JG,Anderson RD,Roberts C

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to detect the heat labile toxin of Escherichia coli human embryo lung fibroblast cells were seeded with whole cell lysate preparations of the organism to be tested. Positive results consisted of growth inhibition and cytopathic change which were easily seen. Heat-labile toxin was produced by strains belonging...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holzel H

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was postulated that the short chain fatty acids (SCFA) produced by anaerobic bacteria might serve as microbial markers in purulent material. Eighteen pus specimens from various sources were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), and the SCFA detected were compared with the microorganisms isolated by conventio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ladas S,Arapakis G,Malamou-Ladas H,Palikaris G,Arseni A

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial disease, which may be associated with abnormal platelet activity, has been reported after routine immunisation. Thirty-two army apprentices undergoing immunisation were studied for changes in the heparin neutralising activity (HNA) of platelet poor plasma. HNA increased after immunisation. This increa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baker IA,Howells CH,O'Brien JR

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HeLa 229 cells were infected with genital tract strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. After incubation for varying times the infected cells were fixed and stained with the fluorescent DNA binding dyes Hoechst 33258 or DAPI for comparison with conventional Giemsa stain. Fluorochrome-treated preparations were examined by in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Salari SH,Ward ME

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve methods for the demonstration of bacterial penicillinase production by strains of Haemophilus influenzae and Staphylococcus aureus are compared, and their suitability for routine clinical laboratory use is evaluated. The acidometric agar plate method is recommended. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lucas TJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described in whom a campylobacter enteritis closely resembled ulcerative colitis on clinical, sigmoidoscopic, and histological grounds. Selective stool culture techniques may be necessary to differentiate campylobacter colitis from ulcerative colitis proper. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Willoughby CP,Piris J,Truelove SC

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin activities in 30 severely malnourished children and 40 normal children were estimated in clotting tests by thrombin neutralisation as anti-Xa and by a heparin antithrombin assay; and by immunodiffusion as alpha 2-globulin and alpha 1-antitrypsin. The patients' mean alpha 2-globulin was severely depressed,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jiménez RA,Jiménez E,Ingram GI,Mora LA,Atmetlla F,Carrillo JM,Vargas W

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analytical goals inferred desirable by a group of clinicians for the imprecisions of a wide range of analytes have been studied by survey. The goals required have not in general become more stringent in the past decade and are not as demanding as those promulgated by laboratory professionals. Clinical biochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrett AE,Cameron SJ,Fraser CG,Penberthy LA,Shand KL

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunohistochemical study of the tissue CEA content of 82 epithelial neoplasms of the ovary has shown that mucinous tumours contain more of this substance than do their serous counterparts; otherwise a knowledge of tissue CEA content appears to be of little value in the differential histological diagnosis of this g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heald J,Buckley CH,Fox H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical typing method is described for Klebsiella pneumoniae (sensu lato) and Enterobacter aerogenes. The technique depends on differences in metabolism of five carbon substrates--glycerol, inositol, lactose, glucose, and xylose--at two concentrations. Reproducibility is satisfactory and is monitored by the inco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barr JG,Hogg GM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of the serum complement components, C3 and C4, in patients with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and miscellaneous gastrointestinal disorders were compared with those of normal blood donors. Significant increases of both components were found in all three patient groups, the highest being in patients with C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ross IN,Thompson RA,Montgomery RD,Asquith P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two aspects of handwashing in hospital were considered. A study was carried out to examine the contamination of bar soap and containers, and the use of antiseptic soaps in reducing the resident flora of the skin. Swabs were collected from soap dishes on six wards and from a bacteriology laboratory on four consecutive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jarvis JD,Wynne CD,Enwright L,Williams JD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetal antigen i has been demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence on cord erythrocytes and placental trophoblast. A patient with disseminated choriocarcinoma developed high-tire anti-i cold agglutinins, and minor elevation of anti-i titres was seen in four out of six further patients with treated choriocarcinom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boughton BJ

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological method for detecting streptococcal nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide glycohydrolase (NADG) is presented, based on its ability to inhibit the growth of Haemophilus parainfluenzae. Three hundred clinical isolates of beta-haemolytic streptococci were tested. All isolates producing NADG belonged to Lancefield...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Green NE

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An influenza virus vaccine containing the purified surface haemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens of A/Victoria/75 and B/Hong Kong/73 viruses adsorbed to an aluminium hydroxide gel was assessed for reactogenicity and immunogenicity in children aged 4 to 11 years, since there is no influenza virus vaccine available ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eastwood LM,Jennings R,Milner RD,Potter CW

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIb) antigenuria by latex agglutination has been shown to be sensitive, specific, and rapid. In children, antigenuria persisted for a mean duration of 10 days and a maximum of 18 days. Antigenuria was demonstrated in 25 of 30 patients with HIb infection but not in 62 with ot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaldor J,Asznowicz R,Dwyer B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of acute hypoglycaemia on platelet function was examined in patients undergoing an insulin stress test. Enhanced platelet aggregation was observed in all cases but platelet count, platelet adenine nucleotides, and the plasma level of von Willebrand factor were unchanged overall. The onset of the hypoglycaem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hutton RA,Mikhailidis D,Dormandy KM,Ginsburg J

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological diagnosis in a series of 153 skin lesions is presented. The diagnosis in each case has been compared with the clinical assessment and, where available, the biopsy result (85 lesions). Of 131 basal cell carcinomas, a cytological diagnosis was possible in 124 while biopsyl failed to identify two of the 73 le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown CL,Klaber MR,Robertson MG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have recently documented the presence of persistently abnormal liver function tests in asymptomatic haemophiliacs. While the aetiology is unknown it is possible that repeated exposure to agents transmitted in blood products may be important. This study has attempted to determine the prevalence of viral...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McVerry BA,Ross MG,Knowles WA,Voke J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman with a history of a left heminephrectomy for renal carcinoma developed hypercalcaemia 11 years after the operation. The same kidney was found to contain a recurrent renal carcinoma. After the radical nephrectomy of the left kidney, hypercalcaemia remitted but reappeared 11 months later. The right k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Szwed JJ,Gott LJ,Lempke RE,Seo IS

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocket-line immunoelectrophoresis (R-LIE) with antigen containing intermediate gel, and co-agglutination utilising protein A-containing staphylococci coated with specific antibodies, were adapted for serotyping the prototypes of group B meningococci. Both were found to have the same specificity as agar gel double diff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Danielsson D,Olcén P

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locally developed, computer-based clinical chemistry laboratory system has been in operation since 1970. This utilises a Digital Equipment Co Ltd PDP 12 and an interconnected PDP 8/F computer. Details are presented of the performance and quality control techniques incorporated into the system. Laboratory performance...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Undrill PE,Frazer SC

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum total calcium was measured in 1693 patients during a four-month period. We examined the effects of adjustment for albumin concentration on the interpretation of single measurements of serum total calcium and on the variation of series of measurements in individual patients. Markedly abnormal total calcium concen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne RB,Carver ME,Morgan DB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two cases of infected total hip replacements, Peptococcus magnus was isolated in pure culture from the implant when it was removed. Fluorescent antibody and ELISA studies have shown that both patients developed an antibody response to this anaerobic coccus soon after the replacement operation. These results suggest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor AG,Fincham WJ,Golding MA,Cook J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study to establish the prevalence of renal calculus disease, alkaline phosphatase activity was measured by the method recommended by the Scandinavian Society for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Physiology in the plasma of 3823 adults from the Scottish new town of Cumbernauld. The enzyme activity differs i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gardner MD,Scott R

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of atypical mucin-producing bronchial carcinoid in a 40-year-old man covert metastases were present at the time of lobectomy and were revealed at necropsy--a feature highlighting the malignant potential of the atypical carcinoid. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney EC,Cooney T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown that, on average, the titres of the sera obtained by both the anti-complement immunofluorescence (ACIF) and indirect immunofluorescence for viral late antigens (IFA-LA) procedures were approximately eight times higher than those obtained by complement fixation. There was no significant difference between ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Griffiths PD,Buie KJ,Heath RB

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes have been detected in the sera of 24 Nigerian children with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis using two methods. There was a significant correlation between levels of soluble complexes, detected in samples taken from patients in the oliguric phase of acute nephritis, and severity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Onyewotu II,Mee J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incomplete expression of human haemoglobin beta-chains at birth may lead to difficulty in the early demonstration of an inherited beta-chain variant. In this case, the rare unstable variant, Hb Tacoma beta30 (B12) arg leads to ser, although not present in cord blood in sufficient amounts to be easily detected by routi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Deacon-Smith RA,Lee-Potter JP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pseudolymphomatous reaction involving subcutaneous tissue and underlying skeletal muscle is described in a woman who was receiving phenytoin sodium and phenobarbitone. The histological appearance was of nodular, densely cellular tissue composed of histiocytes, plasma cells, lymphocytes, fibroblasts, and occasional p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilden JN,Scott CA

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver copper concentrations in percutaneous biopsy specimens were measured by neutron activation analysis and compared with histological staining for copper by rubeanic acid and rhodanine, and with copper-associated protein stained by orcein. Liver copper concentrations were elevated in 31 of 35 biopsies from patients...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jain S,Scheuer PJ,Archer B,Newman SP,Sherlock S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the Paris study on risk factors of cardiovascular disease in a large professional group, 7710 active and apparently healthy men aged between 48 and 54 were examined. This study measured the relationship between clinical abnormalities suggesting alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and the following blood par...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eschwege E,Papoz L,Lellouch J,Claude JR,Cubeau J,Pequignot G,Richard JL,Schwartz D

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with bacterial infection may show altered membrane permeability of the primary azurophilic lysosomes of blood neutrophils. A new enzyme cytochemical technique, sensitive to increased membrane permeability caused by contact of neutrophils with acetone, saponin, low pH, Streptolysin O, bacteria, and nylon wool,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wozniak JT,Orchard TL,Mackie PH,Mistry DK,Stuart J

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgM, IgA, and IgG concentrations were measured in 19 patients suffering from blood-dependent homozygous beta-thalassaemia. The study was prospective and the same patients served as presplenectomy controls. IgG levels rose rapidly and continuously after splenectomy IgA levels also rose but not so sharply. IgM fel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Constantoulakis M,Trichopoulos D,Avgoustaki O,Economidou J

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six fetal and 10 neonatal rat or mouse stomachs and a 14-week human fetal stomach were examined for immunofluorescence reactivity with four sera containing parietal cell antibody (PCA) and four other sera containing smooth muscle antibody (SMA). In rat and mouse stomachs, parietal cells first reacted with PCA in 19-da...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ceredig R,Toh BH

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interference of IgM-class rheumatoid factor (RF) in the solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) of rubella virus IgM antibodies was studied. Acute rubella infections did not significantly activate RF. False-positive rubella antibody results were obtained, however, when patients with raised RF levels were tested. If a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meurman OH,Ziola BR

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthine oxidase (XO) activity was found to be negligible in sterile human urines (less than 480 units, as presently defined, per litre). Significant XO activity was found in all urines containing more than 10(5) bacteria/ml, except for urines infected with Staphylococcus aureus, in which XO activity ranged from 347 t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Giler S,Henig EF,Urca I,Sperling O,de Vries A

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper records the results of the intravenous inoculation of chick embryos with type 5 gonococci and establishes that these strains are pathogenic. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hafiz S,Jennings R,McEntegart MG,Jephcott AE

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of bone marrow fibrosis was made in a group of 40 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to see whether it affected the prognosis or course of the disease. Secondary myelofibrosis (SMF) was present at diagnosis in 57% of the cases. It was not statistically significantly related to the prognosi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hann IM,Evans DI,Marsden HB,Jones PM,Palmer MK

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00