Biofilm-forming ability is increasingly being recognized as an important virulence factor in several Staphylococcus species. This study evaluated the biofilm-forming ability of sixty canine derived clinical isolates of S. pseudintermedius, using three phenotypic methods, microtiter plate test (MtP), Congo red agar method (CRA) and tube adherence test, and the presence and impact of biofilm-asso...

the objective of this experiment was comparison blood serotonin levels in ascetic and non ascitic broilers of three strains (ross, arbor acres plus and cobb). to this purpose, a factorial test in crd was applied. in each of these three strains, 12 ascitic and 12 non ascitic broilers were selected. after tagging and blood sampling, all of blood samples were divided in two parts. one part was app...

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BACKGROUND Health care workers are exposed to patients with tuberculosis and are at risk of nosocomial infection. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers in Malaysia and also to evaluate the agreement between Quantiferon TB Gold in tube test with Tuberculin Skin Test. METHODS A cross sectional st...

Eddy current testing (ECT) is a conventional inspection method of heat exchanger tubes. Many types of probes have been developed depending on such tube conditions as tube shapes and materials. However, the vicinity of a tube expansion is still a difficult area to inspect. This is because there is a step-shape variation circumferentially on the inside surface and there is a ferromagnetic tube sh...

Four commercially available rapid agglutination tests for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus were compared with the tube coagulase test for the identification of 300 methicillin-resistant isolates of staphylococci. Isolates tested included 207 methicillin-resistant S. aureus and 93 coagulase-negative staphylococci, collected from five medical centers. Strain variability was documented ...