A simple drop method for quantitative urine culture was developed and tested in comparison with standard methods for bacterial urinary counts. In a group of 452 urines all yielding Escherichia coli, 74 showed counts of more than 100,000 colonies, and 16 showed counts between 10,000 and 100,000 colonies per ml. Of these 90 urines, 3 of the 16 in the doubtful group were false negative with the dr...

Safety culture plays an important role in the prevention of accident. Positive safety culture can effectively improve worker’s safety conscious and reduce the accident rate. This paper is aimed to present a fuzzy decision making method for objectively evaluating enterprise safety culture construction level. Based on evaluation indicators of safety culture construction level, combination weighti...

A modified slide culture method which combines advantages found in several slide culture methods is described. A block of inoculated nutrient agar sandwiched between two sterile cover glasses is placed in a plastic petri dish containing water agar. After adequate growth has occurred, the slide culture is disassembled and mounted in a conventional manner.

edigraphic.com Blastocystis hominis is a strict anaerobic protozoan that occurs in the intestine of humans and other mammals (Zierdt, 1991). Recently, phylogenetic analyses of ribosomal RNAs place B. hominis within the straminopiles (Silberman et al., 1996). Its pathogenic role in human beings is still disputed by some investigators (Markell and Udkow, 1986; Miller, 1988). The mechanism by whic...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...