A Novel De Novo Microdeletion Spanning the SYNGAP1 Gene on the Short Arm of Chromosome 6 Associated With Mental Retardation Ana Cristina V. Krepischi, Carla Rosenberg, Silvia S. Costa, John A. Crolla, Shuwen Huang, and Angela M. Vianna-Morgante* Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of S~ao Paulo, S~ao Paulo, Brazil AC Camargo Cancer Hospital, S~a...

D J Ulmasova1, G Uzakova2, M N Tillyashayhov3, L Turaev4, W van Gemert5, H Hoffmann6, M Zignol5, K Kremer7, T Gombogaram8, J Gadoev8, P du Cros9, N Muslimova4, A Jalolov2, A Dadu7, P de Colombani7, O Telnov10, A Slizkiy10, B Kholikulov1, M Dara7, D Falzon ([email protected])5 1. Republican DOTS Centre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2. Programme Implementation Unit, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Ma...

The Australian National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory (NPRL), located within the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, is the national laboratory for Australia, the Pacific Islands and Brunei Darussalam, and is accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Regional Reference Laboratory for the WHO Western Pacific Region. The NPRL, in collaboration with the Australian ...

OBJECTIVE To establish a laboratory iodization quality assurance system to support small-scale salt production facilities in India and to assess the level of agreement for the internal quality assurance (IQA) and external quality assurance (EQA) protocols. DESIGN Operational research. The IQA and EQA programme was established in the year 2008. Agreement between field laboratories and the refe...

abstract background and objective: a high level of homogeneity observed within all bacteria in the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex makes a property that seriously challenges traditional biochemical-based identification methods of these pathogens in the laboratory. the work presented here was conducted to characterize mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in golestan, northern iran. mat...

In late 2002, health professionals from the ministries of health and academia of Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel formed the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS) to facilitate trans-border cooperation in response to infectious disease outbreaks. The first mission of MECIDS was to establish a regional, laboratory-based surveillance network on foodborne d...