MBIA is the newest immunoassay technology and allows for detection of antibodies elicited by more than one microorganism in the same specimen, permitting multiplex testing. For further information on the performance of MBIA, please refer to the following recently published studies from Binnicker M et al. in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2011 and Gomez E et al. in Clinical and Vaccine Im...

Objective: To ascertain the adequacy of information provided by clinicians when requesting a histopathology investigation and to study the quality control parameters of the specimen containers. Methodology: This is an observational descriptive study which was carried out at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in December 2006 on 500 specimen requests for histopathology. Results: Out of 500 spec...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether DNA ploidy and the S-phase fraction are predictive of the clinical course in children with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. DESIGN Masked compression of DNA analysis findings to the clinical course of the disease. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS All pediatric patients treated for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis at our institution between...

Background: Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous multisystem disease of unknown etiology. It has recently been tired to detect Mycobacteria genome in biopsy specimens of patients with sarcoidosis by Polymorphism chain reaction method. Objective: To detect and identify Mycobacteria species in cutaneous lesions of the patients with sarcoidosis by PCR-RFLP. Patients and methods: 20 patients with clinica...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a nonspecific inflammatory of digestive tract with limited known biomarkers. We aimed to identify potential molecules involved in CD severity. Weighted gene co-expression network and differentially expressed analyses were used explore hub genes associated inflammation pathological processes the GSE83448 cohort. The expression relationship clinical characteristics normal ...