The soluble and ionized calcium and magnesium contents of 18 lots of Mueller-Hinton agar medium from three different manufacturers were analyzed, and the results were correlated with medium performance. A standardized disk diffusion test, with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 27853) and a 10-microgram gentamicin disk, served as an indicator of medium performance. Zone diameters correlated well with...

Objective: The aim of this study is to share our experience with nasal reconstruction and give a standardized algorithm for reconstruction. Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional. Setting: Burns Plastic Surgery Center, Peshawar. Period: January 2019 December 2022. Material & Methods: Data was obtained from patient records after approval IREB. Patients multiple co-morbidities small defect...

PURPOSE To investigate the difference between two-dimensionally measured disc diameters (DDs) based on fundus images and three-dimensionally measured DDs based on enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT). METHODS The DDs were three-dimensionally measured on EDI-OCT images of optic nerve heads and two-dimensionally measured on near-infrared reflectance fundus images in 90 ...

Increased durability of permanent TiAl6V4 implants still remains a requirement for the patient's well-being. One way to achieve a better bone-material connection is to enable bone "ingrowth" into the implant. Therefore, a new porous TiAl6V4 material was produced via metal injection moulding (MIM). Specimens with four different porosities were produced using gas-atomised spherical TiAl6V4 with d...

In all biological systems growth is defined as increase of chemical compounds. Bacteria can achieve to balanced growth if they are growing in a medium, which are completely adapted to it. Clostridium chauvoei, (Clostridium feseri) is an anaerobic, spore forming, motile, and polymorph bacteria, which its size varies from 0.5-1 to 3-8 micron and could be observed as individual bacterium, diplo, a...