brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in iran and human brucellosis is endemic in all parts of the country. growth of brucella is slow and blood culture of these bacteria by use of classical methods is time-consuming. furthermore, in endemic area culture is required for definitive diagnosis. in the present study, direct urease test and acridine orange staining were tried on th...

an 8-day-old newborn female twin holstein calves with a history of weakness, anorexia, emaciation and convulsion were presented to tabriz university veterinary teaching hospital. on admission, the calves were febrile and recumbent. physical examination revealed many ticks from the external body surface of the animals, right and left prescapular lymphadenopathy, severe opisthotonos, nystagmus, p...

Thirty acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with mycobacterial bacteremia documented by Du Pont Isolator (Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del.) blood cultures underwent microscopic examination of buffy coat blood smears. Of 30 patients, 14 were culture positive for Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex and 1 was positive for M. tuberculosis. Of 15 culture-positive patients, 1...

A procedure is described for visualization of cells that had only fetal hemoglobin apnormal and mutant adult hemoglobins in peared as clear ghosts. Analyses of cord human blood smears. After extraction of blood from newborn infants indicate that, blood smears with a concentrated poalthough most erythrocytes contain only Hb tassium phosphate buffer (2.76 M, pH 7.2), F and a few contain only Hb A...

Background & Objectives: Tumor diathesis (TD) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. It is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of TD in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. Methods: Cytological smears and histological ...

Background. FISH is a molecular cytogenetic technique enabling rapid detection of genetic abnormalities. Facilities that can run fresh/wet samples for molecular diagnosis and monitoring of neoplastic disorders are not readily available in Ghana and other neighbouring countries. This study aims to demonstrate that interphase FISH can successfully be applied to archival methanol-fixed bone marrow...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...