To cite: Parikh MP, Krishnan S, Ganipisetti VM, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014205820 DESCRIPTION A 29-year-old African-American woman presented with acute onset of altered mental status. She was obtunded with visible rigors and a fever of 102.8°F. Routine laboratory study showed platelet count of 59k/mm. Urine toxicology screening, blo...

Sharma P, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222321 Description A 35-year-old woman presented to outpatients with a 1-week history of high-grade fever and generalised malaise. General and systemic examination was unremarkable. On evaluation, her complete haemogram was within normal limits; however peripheral smear revealed the presence of thread-like larval forms of filaria, belongi...

Background: Leucorrhoea is the clinical evidence of infection and can be treated satisfactorily whenever diagnosed. Occurrence of cervical cancer associated with discharge/leucorrhoea can be easily prevented if detected early. Majority of patients attending hospital present with varying degree of vaginal discharge and cytological monitoring of these subjects is mandatory to know any cellular ch...

The method of preparation of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for cytological examination can significantly affect the results of cellular quantitation. Investigations have shown that cytocentrifugation leads to an underestimation of the number of lymphocytes and membrane filter preparation to an underestimation of the number of neutrophils. As a simple alternative to these two techniques, B...

The study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis among populations Bera, Pabna from January December 2021. Samples (Sputum) were collected 09 different unions susceptible pulmonary TB patients ages and occupations by field health workers in using a pretest questionnaire. A gross 4353 samples (January-December 2021) tested fluorescent smear microscope GeneXpert, middle them, 24...

Malaria is a parasitic infectious disease that remains one of the focuses world health problems. The ethanol extract Hedyotis corymbosa has biochemical compounds potentially become new antimalarial drug. This study aimed to analyze effect this on parasitemia and hepatomegaly in mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA. Twentyfive BALB/c were P. ANKA grouped into 5 groups. Group 1-3 treated 25...

Background: Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common invasive in women.It comprises 22.9% of cancers women and 16% all female cancers. It accounts for 15% deaths worldwide.Objective: to study expression ER/PR on by immunocytochemistry fine needle aspiration smears. Material Methods: A prospective was carried out 120 cases lump, referred from various clinical Departments cytopathology lab a t...

in order to evaluate the effect of berberis vulgaris extract on the experimental ulcers of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) on balb/c mice, a study was undertaken over a 12 months period. forty balb/c mice were divided into 2 main groups a and b. each main group in turn was divided into 5 sub groups of 4 mice and each sub group were inoculated subcutaneously by 0.1ml liquid phase culture containing...

background although the number of infectious diseases has sharply decreased in last few decades, parasitic diseases persist in developing countries. on the other hand, chronic psychiatric patients tend to have low self-control, poor personal hygiene, long term institutionalization and extremely low self-care should be monitored for parasitic diseases since psychosocial conditions can contribute...