Idescribe an assay for total cholesterol in serum, with use of the AutoAnalyzer ii (Technicon), in which cholesterol esters are saponified by alkali, cholesterol is held in aqueous micellar solution with a surfactant (Triton X-100) and oxidized by cholesterol oxidase, and the hydrogen peroxide produced is measured by chelation with Ti4+ and xylenol orange. An assay for free cholesterol in serum...

Background: In India, malaria has a major impact on health system. It is usually diagnosed based symptomatology, parasite detection in the peripheral smear (PS) or rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) such as antigen test (MAT). Detection of by MAT considered gold standard. A rapid, cost effective screening can be done with automated analyzers. The present study was undertaken to assess efficacy WBC sc...

Plasma viscosity (PV) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) are tests which can be used as inflammation and tissue injury markers [2, 11]. ESR usage is more extended than PV in clinical laboratories. However ESR may be haematocrit (Ht) dependent and is related with red blood cell (RBC) rheological properties [1], whereas RBC are not involved in PV. We aimed to evaluate retrospectively the im...

Malaria is one of the most pervasive parasitic diseases ever known to mankind affecting nearly 300 million people every year. The need for rapid diagnosis of malaria in tropical and subtropical malaria endemic areas is on the rise. In this study, we evaluated the usefulness of hematology autoanalyzers, Sysmex XE-2100 & XT-2000i in the presumptive diagnosis of malaria. Our study shows that abnor...