KOH Wet Mount Preparation: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses, Keynotes, and Collection of KOH Mount Footages

KOH Wet Mount Preparation: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses, Keynotes, and Collection of KOH Mount Footages

Potassium hydroxide (KOH) Wet Mount Introduction The KOH Wet Mount is a very simple and important technique in mycology for presumptive diagnosis of the type of fungal infections whether ringworm, aspergillosis, dermatomycosis, blastomycosis, mucormycosis, otomycosis, etc. It is the most common assay ordered by clinicians, particularly …

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Ziehl -Neelsen Stain: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Staining Procedure, Result Interpretation, Keynotes, and Z-N Stained Smear Footages Collections

Ziehl -Neelsen Stain: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Staining Procedure, Result Interpretation, Keynotes and Z-N Stained Smear Footages Collections

Ziehl -Neelsen Stain Ziehl–Neelsen stain is a type of acid-fast stain and it is named after the surnames of two German doctors who modified the stain. One is the bacteriologist Franz Ziehl (1859–1926) and other is the pathologist Friedrich Neelsen (1854–1898). It was initially introduced …

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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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Atlas of Fungi: Introduction, List of Contents, and Description

Atlas of Fungi: Introduction, List of Contents, and Description

Introduction to Atlas of Fungi The name ‘ Atlas of Fungi’ is given even due to the vast spectrum of mycology but puny collection and another thing are that only an epic center collection of author authentical performance. So, please if you have benefited from …

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Germ Tube Test: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result Interpretation, and Keynotes

Germ Tube Test: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result Interpretation and Keynotes

Introduction of Germ Tube The Germ Tube Test procedure is used for the presumptive identification of Candida species. The culture of Candida species is treated with normal human pooled serum or sheep or rabbit or fetal calf serum and incubated at 37°C for 2-4 hours. A drop of suspension …

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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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