A case-control study was performed to identify clinical predictors for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection among patients with acute febrile illness during the nosocomial outbreak. Patients with MERS-CoV were more likely to have monocytosis with normal white blood cell (WBC) count and lower C-reactive protein (CRP) level. Simple laboratory data such as complete blo...

Diagnosis of various blood related diseases adopts differential WBC count which plays an important and vital role. Counting the cells manually is a tedious task and, time consuming. Hence many automatic techniques have been developed which gives a faster and more accurate ways to count the blood cells. This paper describes the various techniques for WBC segmentation the basic steps involved are...

INTRODUCTION The CellaVision™ DM96 (DM96) is a digital microscopy system which performs well in developed countries. However, to date it has not been evaluated in Africa, where the pathology spectrum encountered is very different. In particular, its utility in a setting with high HIV prevalence has not been assessed, which is of interest because of the morphological aberrations often seen in HI...

The traditional use of plant as herbs for medicinal purposes has been a practise as old as man. In spite of the evolution of modern medicine, and the ground-breaking successes in drug development and therapy, the use of herbs is still a common practise in many parts of the world today. This is even more so in developing countries, where a significant portion of the population still depend on he...

A number of studies have shown total leukocyte count to be a risk factor for ischemic heart disease, but there is little information on the role of the individual types of leukocyte, and the role of smoking is controversial. The Caerphilly and Speedwell studies recruited 4,860 men aged 45-63 years between 1979 and 1983 in South Wales and the West of England, respectively. At the 10-year follow-...