Advanced technologies, new biomarker discovery, microparticles, exosomes... M001 AN INVESTIGATION ON THE USE OF NEUTROPHIL VOLUME, CONDUCTIVITY AND LIGHT SCATTERING PARAMETERS FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS

Bacterial infections are important aspects that need to be rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment with antibiotics. Bacterial infection can cause severe clinical conditions especially premature infants, diabetes mellitus, renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis, hepatic cirrhosis, hematologic or non-hematologic malignancies, immune deficiency syndrome. Therefore, many laboratory tests are performed for the diagnosis of the disease, detection of pathogens and early treatment of disease. In recent studies, it has been shown that VCS parameters (mean cell volume of channels, conductivity, and light scattering), as a part of WBC count, can show morphological changes of reactive and immature neutrophils. That shows us VCS parameters in the diagnosis of bacterial infection could be used as a new marker.