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

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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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Use of X, V, and XV Growth Factors Disks for Haemophilus species Identification: Introduction, Species Identification, Keynotes, and Haemophilus Footages

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Use of X, V, and XV Growth Factors Disks for Haemophilus species Identification: Introduction, Species Identification, Keynotes, and Haemophilus Footagaes

Introduction of Haemophilus The genus Haemophilus is a pleomorphic Gram-negative coccobacilli fastidious bacteria and thus they do not grow on an ordinary medium like nutrient agar and they need chocolate agar to grow (H. influenzae) due to having X, V, and both X and V growth factors in it. …

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Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton: Definition, Differences and, Footages of Dermatophytes

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Differences among Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton: Definition, Differences and, Footages of Dermatophytes

Definition of Dermatophytes Dermatophytes are a common label for a group of three types of keratinophilic fungi that infect keratinized tissues causing diseases known as dermatophytoses and they are Trichophyton,  Microsporum, and Epidermophyton that commonly cause skin, nail, and hair disease in our body. Differences among Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton The …

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Staphylococcus and Micrococcus: Introduction, Differentiating Features, Keynotes, and Related Footages

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Staphylococcus Vs Micrococcus: Introduction, Differentiating Features, Keynotes, and Related Footages

Introduction of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus Staphylococcus (pleural-staphylococci) is spherical, non-motile, gram-positive in singles, pairs, and clusters. On nutrient agar, growth is opaque and golden yellow or white color. Catalase and coagulase test positive (Staphylococcus aureus), oxidase negative, aerobic or facultative anaerobe. Parasite of humans and …

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Pneumococcus and Viridans streptococci: Introduction, Differentiating Features, Keynotes, Pneumococcus, and Viridans streptococci Footages

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Streptococcus pneumoniae Versus Viridans streptococci- Introduction, Differentiating Features, Keynotes, Pneumococcus, and Viridans streptococci Footages

Introduction of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Viridans streptococci Streptococcus pneumoniae is also called pneumococcus and pneumococcus is the commensals of the upper respiratory tract. It is an important etiological agent of pneumonia and otitis media in children that differs from streptococci in its morphology (diplococci), bile …

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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

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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

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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Amoebic and Bacillary dysentery: Introduction, Differences, and Keynotes

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Amoebic dysentery Vs Bacillary dysentery- Introduction, Differences, and Keynotes

Introduction of Amoebic dysentery and Bacillary dysentery Amoebic dysentery or amoebiasis is an intestinal infection caused by a unicellular (protozoan) parasite, Entamoeba histolytica whereas bacillary dysentery or shigellosis is a bacterial disease caused by a group of non-motile bacteria called Shigella species. Differences between Amoebic …

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COVID-19 PCR Laboratory Setup: Introduction, Design, Test Requirements, Laboratory Practices, Decontamination Approaches, Validation/Verification Study, Quality Control Plan, quality Indicator, Proficiency Testing, and Keynotes

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COVID-19 PCR Laboratory Setup Introduction, Design, Test Requirements, Testing Procedure Sample, Result Interpretation, and Keynotes

Introduction of COVID-19 PCR Laboratory COVID-19 PCR Laboratory is the most common laboratory which was used in the COVID-19 pandemic for the diagnosis of COVID-19 (detecting genes of SARS-CoV-2) as well as prognosis COVID patients. To my knowledge, there is no country where there is …

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