It has been stated that this new area of education includes preparation of teachers and students for the selective and active reception and creative use of media, which means developing new educational curricula as popularised by the media on a micro

D URING THE PAST decade, significant improvements have evolved in our approach to the problems of the patient with coronary heart disease. The fundamental reason for these changes has been the establishment of an improved basic standard of diagnosis, selective coronary arteriography. At this point in time, selective coronary arteriography has been generally accepted as a useful technic for demo...

D URING THE PAST decade, significant improvements have evolved in our approach to the problems of the patient with coronary heart disease. The fundamental reason for these changes has been the establishment of an improved basic standard of diagnosis, selective coronary arteriography. At this point in time, selective coronary arteriography has been generally accepted as a useful technic for demo...

A new medium, pseudomonas selective isolation agar, was developed to isolate Pseudomonas spp. from water. It consists of 350 micrograms of nitrofurantoin per ml and 2 micrograms of crystal violet per ml in a nutrient agar base. It is more selective for Pseudomonas spp. than are available commercial media. Its ingredients are inexpensive and readily available, and it is easy to prepare.

Clinical material collected from various body sites, but excluding faeces, was cultured on either selective or non-selective media for Campylobacter spp. Campylobacter jejuni was found in only two (0.18%) of 1100 specimens; both positive specimens were urine. From these results it is suggested that C jejuni is an uncommon finding in clinical material other than faeces.

We present a novel report on a surface plasmon resonance enhanced upconversion luminescence strategy in aqueous media for highly sensitive and selective detection of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).

Eight commercially available selective media were evaluated by the membrane filter technique. Enterococcosel broth (BBL) consistently gave the best recovery of group D streptococci, particularly of Streptococcus bovis.

Six media were evaluated to determine their ability to isolate yeasts and inhibit bacteria. The media included the following: Snyder, Snyder tellurite, Sabouraud tellurite, Littman-gentamicin, molybdate, and Mycosel (BBL). Doses of mixed intestinal gram-negative bacilli and enterococci were most effectively inhibited by Snyder tellurite agar. Klebsiella pneumoniae was the most common bacterial ...

Isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is challenging due to overgrowth by rapidly growing species that colonize the lungs of patients with CF. Extended incubation on Burkholderia cepacia selective agar (BCSA) has been recommended as an expedient culture method for the isolation of rapidly growing NTM in this setting. The aim of this...

The laboratory isolation of Salmonella began approxhately a century ago. Since that time there have been numerous reports in the scientific literature comparing the efficacy of various media and incubation conditions. An important part of the Salmonella laboratory procedure is the selective plating agar. Many of the currently used media were developed for the clinical microbiologist, and clinic...