Mycobacterium heckeshornense is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. We performed simultaneous 16S rRNA sequence analysis of a mycobacterium culture and a histopathology specimen to determine the relevance of M. heckeshornense infection in an immunocompetent patient initially presenting with pneumothorax.

Banked biospecimens from a defined population are a valuable resource that can be used to assess early markers for illness or to determine the prevalence of a disease to aid the development of intervention strategies to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Alaska Area Specimen Bank (AASB) currently contains 266,353 residual biologic specimens (serum, plasma, whole blood, tissue, bacterial cultur...

Objective: Among the various impression materials, for alginate tear strength is probably more important than the compressive strength. The tear strength is important when an impression involves a mechanical undercut and/or lacks bulk strength to resist tearing. This study evaluated tear strength of Iralgin and compared it with tear strength of Alginoplast. Methods: In this invitro experime...

gate collection tubes from various manufacturers, available evidence, including our data, indicates that these problems may be common. The more rapid coagulation process in clot-activator tubes may be associated with more extensive proteolysis in the specimen, potentially leading to greater protein fragmentation that is subsequently detected by mass spectrometry. Nonbiological changes, observed...

a vermiform specimen taken from a 10-year-old boy patient with the chief complain of sneezing, coughing and nasal dis-charge with a history of consumption of fast snack in the day before and liver of sheep in two weeks ago was referred for diagnosis to the helminth taxonomy laboratory, dept. of mdical parasitology and mycology, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, ira...

purpose: to report the clinical and histopathological features of recurrent atypical fibrous histiocytoma of the corneo-scleral limbus followed by intra-epithelial squamous neoplasia. case report: a 25-year-old female patient presented with a recurrent vascularized gelatinous mass in the left nasal limbus. the preliminary histopathological diagnosis of the previously excised lesion was an amela...

The clinical course of ocular toxocariasis and the chronological development of peripheral retinal and macular granulomas are reported. Removing the epiretinal as well as subretinal component of the granuloma via pars plana vitrectomy and retinotomy techniques yielded an excellent clinical result. Clinicopathologic correlation of the specimen confirmed the diagnosis with histological evidence o...

Serratia plymuthica was isolated from the blood and from a central venous catheter tip in a 54-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and clinical signs of sepsis. This was the seventh reported isolate of S. plymuthica from a clinical specimen and the first in which the organism was clearly a significant pathogen.

Nocardiosis in a Patient with Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis. Can A Simple Microscope Specimen Save a Patient’s Life? A Case Report Krzysztof Madej1*, Hanna Tomczak2 and Marek Karczewski1 1Department of Transplantology, General and Vascular Surgery, Clinical Hospital of Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland 2Central Laboratory of Microbiology, Clinical Hospital of Poznan University of M...