abstract：:The lymphoid tissue of the normal colon is compared with that of colons with diverticular disease. Colons with diverticular disease show a significant increase in the number of lymphoid nodules in areas not containing diverticula. Lymphoid-glandular complexes of the colon were studied in relation to diverticular disea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kealy WF

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A moderatley sensitive, rapid, and economical test scheme for the detection of infantile gastroenteritis virus (IGV) in stool or antibody in serum has been developed and evaluated. The test scheme with minor modifications was an adaptation of a counter-immunoelectro-osmophoresis system we once used for the detection o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Middleton PJ,Petric M,Hewitt CM,Szymanski MT,Tam JS

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the differential determination of plasma antithrombins, antithrombin III and alpha2 macroglobulin, is described. The method is based on the selective inactivation of plasma alpha2 macroglobulin by treatment with 0-1 M methylamine for 10 minutes at 37 degrees C and on the observation that antithrombin III ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Musumeci V,Vincenti A,Bizzi B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour urinary excretion of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) was measured by a protein-binding assay in 55 healthy volunteers (aged 20-35 yr) and in 30 hospitalized elderly subjects (aged 70-93 yr). In the older subjects the mean 24-hour cAMP excretion was significantly lower; the correlation between c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gennari C,Galli M,Montagnani M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma concentrations of biotin were measured for up to 49 days after injury in nine children with burns and scalds which involved from 12% to 50% of the surface area of the body. Biotin levels below the minimum of the control range were observed in eight of the nine injured children at some stage during the episo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barlow GB,Dickerson JA,Wilkinson AW

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A blood group change from A2 to Ax is described in a boy who had Fallot's tetralogy, oesophageal atresia, and a tracheo-oesophageal fistula. The change of blood group created a transfusion problem. The unusual serology is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bird GW,Roberts KD,Wingham J

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:The degree of inflammation in the trachea, bronchi, and lungs of 139 cot deaths has been analysed and each case allocated to one of four groups. In group I the changes were considered to be serious enough to have caused death, while group II cases showed similar abnormalities but of a less severe nature, and in this g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tapp E,Jones DM,Tobin JO

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic discs from Oxoid, Mast, AB Biodisk, Difco, and Baltimore Biological Laboratories were compared, where discs of similar antibiotic content were available, in diffusion-sensitivity tests against organisms of known sensitivity. Discs from Oxoid and Mast gave zones 1-5 mm larger than discs from other manufactur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown DF,Kothari D

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of typing isolates of Proteus mirabilis and Proteus vulgaris is described based on the sensitivity of the organisms to bacteriocine. Twelve standard proteocine producing strains were selected from a large number of isolates tested, and from these liquid proteocine preparations were prepared. The sensitivities...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Al-Jumaili IJ

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urines from patients with symptoms of urinary tract infection yielded mixed growths of different colony types of Escherichia coli. The different colony types were found to be variants of single infecting strains caused by mutation or by phase action. It is suggested that care should be exercised in the interpretation ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols GL

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently much speculation over the precise nature of lobular carcinoma in-situ of the breast and its significance. Histochemical study shows that it is rich in sialomucin. This has a characteristic intracellular distribution which distinghishes lobular carcinoma in-situ from cancerization of lobules. The sam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gad A,Azzopardi JG

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of jaundice and of abnormal liver function tests has been assessed in 91 multitransfused patients with severe haemophilia A and B. Tests of hepatocyte function were within the normal range in the majority of patients. On the contrary, tests of biliary cell function, liver cell damage, and bromsulphthalei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mannucci PM,Capitanio A,Del Ninno E,Colombo M,Pareti F,Ruggeri ZM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three adults with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency are described. In two of the cases the deficiency was genetically determined (cases 1 and 2), and each demonstrated unusual features of the disease. The liver in case 1 (homozygous) showed cholangiolar hyperplasia which has been recorded only once before. Case 2 (hetero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney EC

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staining with naphthol AS phosphate and Fast Blue BB salt has been used for the estimation of neutrophil alkaline phosphatase (NAP) scores in patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL). The very low scores found at diagnosis rise when the disease is treated, and there is some inverse correlation between the NA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Spiers AS,Liew A,Baikie AG

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine specimens of liver tissue from 53 infants with neonatal hepatitis or its sequelae were examined without knowledge of the alpha1-antitrypsin phenotype. Distinctive, diastase-resistant, PAS-positive, pure magenta-coloured, sharply defined globules, 2-20 microns in diameter were found in periportal and parasep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talbot IC,Mowat AP

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-vivo studies of fibrinogen metabolism were carried out using an I-120 labelled preparation of fibrinogen supplied commercially by the Radiochemical Centre, Amerhsham for use in the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis. These studies show that the material is suitable for obtaining the main metabolic parameters of c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bradley J,Hickman JA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of women with non-specific genital infection were treated for two weeks with tetracycline 250 mg six-hourly and minocycline 100 mg twice daily respectively. Cultures for yeasts were performed before treatment and at the end of the first and second weeks. Before treatment yeasts, mostly Candida albicans, wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Oriel JD,Waterworth PM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity patterns to a number of antibiotic-impregnated discs of 126 strains of Gram-negative anaerobes and 36 strains of Gram-positive non-sporing anaerobes from various sources have been examined. The sensitivity patterns shown by Bacteroids fragilis and Bacteroides melaninogenicus were useful for the rapid i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Peach S

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy od duodenal mucosa from children with acute non-bacterial enteritis has shown virus particles in epithelial cells. Indirect immunofluorescent techniques applied to the same tissue showed virus antigen localized in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of the villi. Specific IgM antibody was present in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davidson GP,Goller I,Bishop RF,Townley RR,Holmes IH,Ruck BJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, Gram-positive cocci isolated in significant numbers from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections, provisionally subdivided by their sensitivity to nonoviocin, were classified according to a slightly model version of Baird-Parker's schemes (1965 and 1972). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meers PD,Whyte W,Sandys G

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight strains of Pseudomonas putrefaciens have been received from among 466 strains of Pseudomonas submitted to the Computer Trials Laboratory for identification over the last eight years. Two of the strains of P. putrefaciens from patients with otitis media and otitis externa respectively appear to have played a path...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holmes B,Lapage SP,Malnick H

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the value in diagnosis and the clinical implications of the detection of pneumococcal antigen in patients with lobar pneumonia. Ninety-eight patients with lobar pneumonia were investigated. Pneumococcal antigen was detected by counter-current immunoelectrophoresis in the sputum of 79% of patients ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tugwell P,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Compu-pet 100 diluter/dispenser is a versatile and accurate instrument which can be employed for a wide variety of microbiological tests and techniques. Time in performing tests is often more than halved when the diluter is used. Large numbers of tests can be performed with minimal fatigue. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cremer AW,Mellars B,Stokes EJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight isolates of C. albicans were used to determine the frequency with which germ tube formation occurred: on rice extract -Tween 80 agar, on its components, and on 1% bactopeptone agar after three hr at 37 degrees C; in 0.5% aqueous solution of various carbohydrates; in various concentrations of glucose; on 0.5 and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joshi KR,Bremner DA,Parr DN,Gavin JB

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material from a case of Tietze's disease has been examined histologically. A review of the literature on the pathology of this lesion correlated with the findings from this case indicates that there is a pathological lesion in the costal cartilage in this disease. This consists of an increased vascularity and dege...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cameron HU,Fornasier VL

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the group polysaccharide of group A streptococci were estimated by means of a haemagglutination reaction. In this reaction human erythrocytes of blood group O were sensitized with polysaccharide esterified with myristoylchloride. The optimal conditions of the reactions were determined by varying the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goedvok-de Groot LE,Michel-Bensink N,van Es-Boon MM,van Vonno AH,Michel MF

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PAS and acid phosphatase reactions showed a different pattern of positivity in the cells of lymphoproliferative disorders according to their B or T cell nature. In B-cell leukaemias (chronic lymphocytic and prolymphocytic) a low proportion of lymphocytes gave a positive result with the acid phosphatase reaction, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Catovsky D,Galetto J,Okos A,Miliani E,Galton DA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of granulocyte/macrophage colonies grown in vitro from bone marrow cells obtained from 90 rib segments and 30 ;normal' bone marrow aspirates was found to be highly variable. Considerable variation was also noted in the relationship between colony number and the number of cells cultured in both groups. The a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morris TC,McNeill TA,Bridges JM

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of serum agglutinins and precipitins to Candida albicans in men and women who had impaired bladder function following spinal injury is compared with that in other patients in hospital and in apparently fit men and women. Antibody levels which have commonly been regarded as significant were found in 35 of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Everall PH,Morris CA,Morris DF

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test has been evaluated as a means of differentiating episodes of infection and rejection in 10 cadaver kidney transplant recipients. Normal NBT values were observed during all 11 episodes of acute rejection. A significant elevation of the NBT score was encountered in six of eight episo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gordon AM,Briggs JD,Bell PR

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to detect hepatitis B antigen in faeces and bile should take into account the degradation and disappearance of the surface antigens in an environment containing proteolytic enzymes in the presence of bile salts as in the intestinal lumen. The cores of the Dane particles are much more stable than the surface a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Moodie JW,Stannard LM,Kipps A

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, cheap and readily available test system for biological safety cabinets is described. It depends on the containment of an aerosol of Bacillus subtilis spores generated in a BIRD micronebulizer and the measurement of air flows with an anemometer. The system was set up to survey new equipment but equally valuab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Newsom SW

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalin fixation followed by routine paraffin embedding allows the demonstration of intracellular immunoglobulin by a sandwich technique using either peroxidase or fluorescein isothyocyanate labelled antibody conjugates. The results compared favourably with those obtained using either the fresh frozen or the Sainte-M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burns J,Hambridge M,Taylor CR

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven commercially available screening tests for rheumatoid factor and two quantitative tests have been compared with the standard Rose-Waaler test in a series of 477 sera from patients with various joint diseases. Markedly different results were obtained, and on the basis of our findings suggestions are made as to wh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MacSween RN,Hughes H,Breen C,Kitchen P,Cathcart B,Buchanan WW

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 104 clinical isolates of Pr. mirabilis from three hospitals were screened for their sensitivity to chlorhexidine. The minimum inhibitory concentrations of the antiseptic for these strains ranged from 10 to 800 mug/ml. Two strains sensitive to 20 mug of chlorhexidine/ml were adapted to resistance by growth i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stickler DJ

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although epithelial mucin has been demonstrated in ordinary mammary duct carcinomas, it is formed profusely in the uncommon mucous carcinomas. A histochemical study of mucous carcinomas of the breast and colon showed that both types produce similar mucins, viz, acid and neutral, although the mammary carcinomas produce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper DJ

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the new beta-lactam antibiotic FL 1060 on urinary tract pathogens, of which 71 were sensitive to and 100 resistant to ampicillin, is presented here. When tested by conventional methods FL 1060 was found to be highly active against ampicillin-sensitive strains of E. coli but phenotypically resistant varia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greenwood D,Brooks HL,Gargan R,O'Grady F

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryostat sections from 160 rectal suction biopsies were stained for cholinesterases by the method of Karnovsky and Roots (1964) in an attempt to facilitate the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease. The method proved at least as reliable as experienced assessment of paraffin haematoxylin-eosin sections, and appeared to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Trigg PH,Belin R,Haberkorn S,Long WJ,Nixon HH,Plaschkes J,Spitz L,Willital GH

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 5171 inpatients have been tested for HBAg and HBAb during the 18-month period ending in December 1972. The incidence of HBAg (0.116%) was similar to that in blood donors (0.119%) in the same area, being tested for the first time by the same technique. By contrast the incidence of HBAb in patients (0.271%) wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne RW,Barr A,Wallace J

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00