Incubator: Introduction, Principle, Handling Procedure, Types, Uses, and Keynotes

Blood agar and chocolate agar incubated CO2 Incubator

Introduction of Incubator The incubator is an electrical device in which the incubation process is performed which conditions an enclosure to a predetermined temperature since it provides and maintains all artificial optimal conditions for the growth of microbial culture as well as cell and tissue …

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Health Laboratory Establishment and Operation: Introduction, Space, Equipment, and Human Resource

Health Laboratory Establishment and Operation

Introduction of Health Laboratory Establishment and Operation As we know, ‘Laboratory Diagnosis’ is the third eye of doctors/clinicians that confirms the cause of pathology/ disease. It highlights the importance of Health Laboratory Establishment and Operation for better service. Here, we discuss in brief the national …

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Negative Pressure HEPA Filtration Unit for Isolation Rooms and Other High Risk Areas: Introduction, Parts of Instrument/Unit, Working Mechanisms, Applications and Keynotes

Negative Pressure HEPA Filtration Unit for Isolation Rooms and Other High Risk Areas Introduction, Parts of InstrumentUnit, Working Mechanisms, Applications and Keynotes

Introduction “Negative Pressure HEPA Filtration Unit” is useful for hospital (isolation ward that keeps patients with infectious illnesses or immunocompromised individuals who are susceptible to infections from others, away from other patients, visitors, and healthcare workers) and molecular laboratory (Sample Aliquoting and RNA Extraction Room …

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Abbott ID Now for Rapid COVID-19 Point of Care Testing: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Testing Procedure, and Result Interpretation and Keynotes

Abbott ID Now for Rapid COVID-19 Point of Care Testing: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Testing Procedure, and Result Interpretation and Keynotes

Introduction of Abbott ID Now for Rapid COVID-19 Point of Care Testing The ID Now (Abbott) COVID-19 Test performed on the ID Now Instrument is a rapid molecular in vitro diagnostic test utilizing an isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology for the qualitative detection and discrimination …

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VITEK 2 Compact System: Introduction, Testing Requirements, Testing Procedure, Result Interpretation, and Keynotes

VITEK 2 Compact System: Introduction, Testing Requirements, Testing Procedure, Result Interpretation and Keynotes

Introduction The VITEK 2 compact system is an automated microbiology bacterial and fungal (mainly yeasts) identification and antimicrobial susceptibility system. Testing Requirements 11. AST-Card-It is also of the following types- 12. VITEK 2 Compact (machine) Testing Procedure Result Interpretation Organisms Identification GN-Reagent Card: In this …

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Syllabus of Various Streams of Medical Laboratory Technology: Introduction, Course wise List of Syllabus

Syllabus of Various Streams of Medical Laboratory Technology: Introduction, Course wise List of Syllabus

Introduction Courses offered in Medical Laboratory Technology are Medical Laboratory Assistant (LA), Certificate in Medical Laboratory Technology (CMLT), Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology (B.Sc. MLT), and Master of Science in Medical Lab Technology (M.Sc. MLT) but this course has further specialized into other …

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Contribution to Wikimedia Commons: Introduction and Link

Contribution to Wikimedia Commons

Introduction of Contribution to Wikimedia Commons The author has contributed hundreds of Medical Laboratory related genuine images to the Wiki Commons. Most of them belong to Clinical Microbiology (Bacteriology, Mycology, Parasitology, Virology, Immunology/Serology, and Molecular Biology) but also Hematology, Blood Banking, Transfusion Medicine, Histopathology, Phlebotomy, …

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