Routine cytological examination of vaginal and cervical smears is now an established method of early detection of cancer of the uterine cervix, and the need for screening as many women at risk as possible has been repeatedly stressed in recent leading articles (British Medical Journal, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965; Lancet, 1963). Trichomonas vaginalis may be identified in smears stained by the Papani...

We report a 42-year-old woman with reactive arthritis induced by bacterial vaginosis who presented with oligoarthritis with an additive form, arthralgia, and enthesitis. She hasn't had a history of diarrhea or dysuria or vaginal secretion, or sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The laboratory tests were normal except for a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Her pelvic examination re...

OBJECTIVE To determine the methods used by genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in the United Kingdom for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV). METHODS A questionnaire survey of UK GUM clinics was conducted. RESULTS 148/221 (67%) clinics returned a questionnaire. 96/148 (64.9%) clinics reported using Amsel's criteria to diagnose BV but only 29 (30.5%) of these used all four of the comp...

A patient with a several year history of normal pressure hydrocephalus was found to have an infection owing to Cryptococcus neoformans. Cryptococcal infection was not suspected until typical cells were observed in a Wright's stained smear of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). A review of past medical findings in this patient showed elevated CSF values for lactic acid and protein. This case prompted us ...

OBJECTIVE To study the accuracy of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) processed by smear cytology and cell block (CB) techniques for the diagnosis of lacrimal gland tumors (LGTs). STUDY DESIGN In a prospective study, we enrolled 48 consecutive patients with LGTs. Immediately after excision of LGTs, the tissues were underwent FNAB with 23-gauge needles. The FNAB samples were processed to pro...

Confirmative diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is still a challenge at the primary health care facilities in most of the rural areas of endemicity in the Indian subcontinent. Conventional methods for parasitological confirmation are risky and require skilled personnel, and hence they are unavailable to the poor people in the regions of endemicity. Buffy coat smear microscopy, as a minima...

Ninety consecutively seen babies with eye discharge in the first three weeks of life were examined. Four babies had "sticky eyes" with no evidence of ophthalmia and had uniformly negative cultures and test results for antichlamydial antibody; these babies were excluded. Of the 86 babies with ophthalmia neonatorum, Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from eight, Chlamydia trachomatis from 44, oth...

Gonodecten (Gd; U.S. Packaging Corp., LaPorte, Ind.) is a commercially available test for the presumptive diagnosis of gonococcal urethritis in men. With this test, urethral discharge is collected on a swab, placed in a plastic tube, and moistened with oxidase reagent. Development of a purple color on the swab within 3 min indicates the presence of gonococci. This system was compared with cultu...

Malaria, a febrile illness mostly confined to the tropical countries is transmitted by bite of infected female Anopheles mosquito. In 2015 alone, 88% of the malaria burden and 90% deaths due to malaria were confined to the African and Asian countries. Although number of tests are available for rapid diagnosis and screening for malaria, peripheral blood smear examination remains the gold standar...

the study has strived to compare the leucocyte-esterase stripe activity on sputum samples with gram-stained direct smear microscopy. this is for the demonstration of white blood cells (wbcs) and so to develop a simple method for selecting suitable sputum samples for cultural examination and laboratory diagnosis. . a total of 17(34.0%) out of 50 samples studied were shown to be unsuitable for mi...