British Journal of Biomedical Science back issues from October 2004:
Evaluation of the neutralising capacity of Bactec medium for some antibiotics
Oct 01, 2004; ... Bactec medium 9240 (Becton Dickinson, MD, USA) is a blood culture medium used routinely at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH). The medium is said to contain substances that can neutralise antibiotics and destroy leucocytes in blood samples. In this study, the ability of the medium to ...
Aetiological agents of vaginitis in Nigerian women
Oct 01, 2004; ... This study focuses on the identification of aetiological agents of vaginitis in Nigerian women. Study subjects are drawn from patients presenting with lower abdominal pain, vaginal discharge and itching at the gynaecology clinic of Lagos University Teaching Hospital and at the Clinical Centre of ...
Diagnostic methods for typhoid fever in Nigeria
Oct 01, 2004; ... In this study, 65 patients are screened for Salmonella typhi by conventional culture and the Widal test. In addition, the patients undergo full blood count are screened for malaria parasites. Of the 65 patients, 50 report febrile conditions, while the remaining 15 are used as a control ...
Use of bioinformatics and PCR in the search for ABC transporter homology among various bacteria
Oct 01, 2004; ... Bioinformatics databases and search tools are utilised to produce polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for the amplification of an ABC transporter gene from the clinically important anaerobe Finegoldia magna. On sequencing, a 450 base pair amplicon showed homology with the amino acid ...
Culture-negative Bartonella endocarditis in a patient with renal failure: the value of molecular methods in diagnosis
Oct 01, 2004; ... Members of the genus Bartonella are increasingly recognised as a cause of culture-negative endocarditis, particularly in those patients with underlying risk factors (e.g., homelessness and alcoholism (B. quintana) or valvulopathy and cat ownership (B. henselae). The aortic and mitral valves are ...
Phenotypic characterisation of flagellin and flagella of urease-positive thermophilic campylobacters
Oct 01, 2004; ... In this study, flagellin is purified biochemically from eight urease-positive thermophilic camplylobacters (UPTC) isolated from river water, sea water and mussels, and purified also from two isolates of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli and fractionated by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide ...
Human chronic fascioliasis: a possible cause of unexplained abnormal liver tests
Oct 01, 2004; ... Fascioliasis is a cause of hepatic disease. Hepatitis B and C viruses are important causative factors in chronic liver disease. In this study, the frequency of hepatitis B (HBV) and/or hepatitis C (HCV) in cases of chronic human fascioliasis is studied. Egg count, indirect haemagglutination test ...
Induction of apoptosis in myeloid progenitors by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
Oct 01, 2004; ... Spontaneous apoptosis of normal purified bone marrow CD34^sup +^ cells induced by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) via the Fas pathway appears to be mediated by caspase-1 and caspase-8 activity. In seeking an alternative explanation for this observation, the present ...
Reversal of multidrug resistance of gastric cancer cells by down-regulation of ZNRD1 with ZNRD1 siRNA
Oct 01, 2004; ... The over-expression of a new zinc ribbon (ZNRD1) gene has been shown previously to promote a multidrug-resistant phenotype in gastric cancer cells through the up-regulation of permeability-glycoprotein (P-gp). In the present study, siRNA eukaryotic expression vectors of ZNRD1 are constructed and ...
Comparison of three homogeneous methods for measuring high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with a precipitation method in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects
Oct 01, 2004; ... Three homogenous methods for the automated measurement of high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) are studied and compared with a precipitation method in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects. All three methods meet the precision criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Programme (NCEP) ....
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Oct 01, 2004; ... Lipaemia: an overrated interference Sir, I would be grateful for the opportunity to comment on a recent article by Anderson et al.1 Any statistical test for the difference between means or medians will be inclusive of analytical variation, and thus assessing the significance of ...
Prions. A challenge to Science, Medicine and the Public Health System
Oct 01, 2004; ... Prions. A challenge to Science, Medicine and the Public Health System Second edition (revised and extended). H.F. Rabenau, J. Cinatl, H.W. Doerr eds. Basel: Karger, 2004. ISBN 3-8055-7656-0. 222 pp. US$162. In a seminal paper in 1965, Dickinson demonstrated that scrapie in sheep, the ...
Impact of new AABB guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing among Saudi blood donors
Oct 01, 2004; ... This study aims to compare the advantages and disadvantages of implementing the new American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) guidelines for hepatitis B and C against its old criteria for screening blood donors. Between July 1995 and December 2002, 63,368 consecutive blood donors were screening ...