This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of implementation of an automated liquid culture system on the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy in an HIV-uninfected patient population. We retrospectively compared the culture yield, time to positivity, and contamination rate of pleural effusion samples in the BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube 960 (MGIT) and Ogawa media among patients wi...

OBJECTIVES To compare the performance of the BacT/ALERT PZA kit (BioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) with the radiometric BACTEC 460TB PZA test (Becton-Dickinson method) for testing Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to pyrazinamide. METHODS A total of 50 M. tuberculosis strains were tested. Thirty of these strains had been previously considered pyrazinamide-susceptible and 20 pyrazina...

In this study, eight new ethyl {2-[3,4-diaryl-3H-thiazol-2ylidenamino]thiazol-4-yl}acetate were synthesized by reacting ethyl [2-(3-aryl(thiouredio)thiazol-4-yl]acetate and phenacyl bromides in ethanol. The solid was filtered and recrystallized from ethanol. The chemical structures of the synthesized compounds were proven by elemental analysis, IR, 1H-NMR and MS spectral data. The compounds wer...

background and objectives : there are limitations in time and technique for isolation of brucella from patients. we developed a new brucella culture medium and evaluated its efficiency compared to bactec blood culture system and serology. materials and methods: a bi-phasic medium containing urea agar and brain heart infusion was formulated. appearance of clear red color in liquid phase was the ...

An optimal assay for high-throughput screening for new antituberculosis agents would combine the microplate format and low cost of firefly luciferase reporter assays and redox dyes with the ease of kinetic monitoring inherent in the BACTEC system. The green fluorescent protein (GFP) of the jellyfish Aequorea victoria is a useful reporter molecule which requires neither substrates nor cofactors ...

one of the main requirements for providing software security is the enforcement of access control policies, which is sometimes referred to as the heart of security. the main purpose of access control policies is to protect resources of the system against unauthorized accesses. any error in the implementation of access control policies may lead to undesirable outcomes. hence, we should ensure th...

INTRODUCTION Enteric fever is a global public health problem, especially in developing countries. Antimicrobial resistance is a major issue enteric fever management. This study examined current pattern of antimicrobial susceptibility among Salmonella enterica isolates from enteric fever cases at a tertiary care centre in New Delhi, India. METHODOLOGY Blood cultures from patients with enteric ...