Transudates and Exudates: Introduction, Differences between them, and Keynotes

Transudates and Exudates: Introduction and Differences between them

Introduction of Transudates and Exudates Transuadtes are serous cavities fluids that accumulate as a result of non-inflammatory mechanisms while exudates are serous cavities and tissue fluids which accumulate due to inflammatory processes. Differences between Transudates and Exudates The Differences between transudates and exudates are as …

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Bacteria-wise Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST): Introduction, List of Bacterial Panel, Antibiotics

Bacteria wise Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST): Introduction, List of Bacterial Panel, Antibiotics

Introduction of Bacteria-wise Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) All antimicrobial agents/ antibiotics are not applicable for all bacteria and for this reason, we should follow organism-wise antibiotics policy. As we know, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing day by day but no new antibiotic has not been …

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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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Semen Analysis: Introduction, List of Tests, Unit, and Normal Range

Semen specimen for Semen analysis

Introduction of Semen Analysis Semen analysis is the branch of laboratory medicine that deals with the examination of semen which reflects the condition of male fertility. It is the most common test suggested by a gynecologist or general physician. Sample collection is a little bit …

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Colony Morphology of Bacteria: Introduction, Types and Special Features of Bacteria

Colony Morphology of Bacteria: Introduction, Types and Special Features of Bacteria

Introduction of Colony Morphology  Colony morphology of bacteria is the most common diagnostic method in bacteriology for the isolation and identification of bacteria on the basis of phenotypic characteristics on solid medium for the color, shape, surfaces, size, elevation, edges, opacity, and consistency. Common Colony …

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Staphylococcus and Micrococcus: Introduction, Differences, and Keynotes

Differences Between Staphylococcus and Micrococcus

Introduction of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus Staphylococci are Gram-positive bacteria, with diameters of 0.5 – 1.5 µm and non-motile, non-spore-forming facultative anaerobes that grow by aerobic respiration or by fermentation, and they are characterized by individual cocci, which divide in more than one plane to form …

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Medical Laboratory Quiz: Introduction, List of Contents, and Keynotes

Medical Laboratory Quiz: Introduction and List of Contents

Introduction of Medical Laboratory Quiz This is a huge collection of quizzes pertaining to various fields of Medical Laboratory Science e.g. Microbiology, Hematology, Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Parasitology, Blood Banking, Transfusion Medicine, Histopathology, Serology/Immunology, Molecular Biology, etc. This Medical Laboratory MCQ is an epicenter for all …

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

Atlas of Bacteria: Introduction, List of Contents and Description

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

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