The use of flow cytometry in the clinical laboratory has grown substantially in the past decade. Flow cytometric analysis provides a rapid qualitative and quantitative description of multiple characteristics of individual cells. For example, it is possible to detect the cell size and granularity, aspects of DNA and RNA content and the presence of cell surface and nuclear markers which are used ...

We estimated nucleotide pyrophosphatase and phosphodiesterase I activities in human and rat organs and in body fluids from man and dog. The highest organ activities were found in epididymis, kidney, liver, and intestine. In body fluids, the activity was highest in seminal plasma, followed by intestinal lymph, serum, heart lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, milk, and urine. The ratio nucleotide pyropho...

The concentrations of cefoxitin in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were measured simultaneously in three groups of patients, 12 with aseptic meningitis (group 1) and 17 and 14 with bacterial meningitis (groups 2 and 3). The patients in group 1 received a single intravenous dose of 2 g of cefoxitin without other antimicrobial therapy. In addition to conventional doses of ampicillin or benzyl...

Manual hemacytometer cell counting of body fluids is labor-intensive and requires skilled testing personnel. We performed a multicenter evaluation of the Iris iQ200 automated microscopy analyzer Body Fluids Module (Iris Diagnostics, Chatsworth, CA) and compared 350 iQ200 body fluid cell counts with manual hemacytometer cell counts. Within-run imprecision, expressed as coefficient of variation (...

One possible means of rapidly detecting microorganisms in patients with suspected infectious diseases is the direct measurement of microbial enzymes in body fluids. This technique is based on the fact that bacterial, fungal, and viral organisms possess enzymes that are not produced by mammalian cells and are thus not found in uninfected human body fluids. Detection of one of these microbial enz...

background bacterial meningitis is still considered as one of the most dangerous infectious diseases, which causes numerous complications and high mortality if not diagnosed and treated timely. objectives this study was performed to determine antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens isolated from acute bacterial meningitis at tabriz children educational-health care center in ira...

Abstract Background: Convulsion in neonatal period is a considerable clinical issue because of its potential brain damage.One of the benign neonatal seizures known as the  fifth day fits ,is due to zinc deficiency. Zinc is a rare element which has spread throughout the body fluids and tissues especially central nervous system. Reduction of neurons’ stimulation has been ascribed as the main eff...