String Test to Identify Vibrio cholerae: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result-Interpretation, and Uses

String test positive Vibrio cholerae

Introduction of String Test String test is a special test of bacteria to identify Vibrio cholerae (String test positive) from Vibrio species and other bacteria like Aeromonas species and Plesiomonas shigelloides. This assay can perform on a glass slide or plastic petri dish, suspending overnight …

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Fungal Videos: Introduction, List of Fungal Videos, and Short Description

Aspergillus structures like septate hyphae, conidiophore or stipe, vesicle, Phialides, conidia, metulae, dichotomous branching (at an angle of approximately 45°) in LPCB Tease Mount Microscopy

Introduction of Fungal Videos This chapter is a part of a genuine puny collection of clinically relevant fungal videos. It is an author’s own work footage collected during laboratory diagnosis of fungal etiological agents in the mycology laboratory. List of Fungal Videos • Candida albicans …

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Immunochromatographic Test (ICT): Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation, Uses and ICT Footages

Immunochromatographic Test (ICT): Introduction, Principle,Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation and Uses

Introduction of Immunochromatographic Test (ICT) The full form of ICT is the immunochromatographic test and it is the most common test in the diagnostic laboratory all over the world for the rapid finding in the field of diagnosis and treatment of patients. Lateral flow assays …

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Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar Test: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result- Interpretation, Keynotes, and TSI Test Footages

Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar Test: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result- Interpretation, Keynotes, and TSI Test Footages

Triple Sugar Iron Agar Test The triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar test is a combo test and is useful for the identification of mainly gram-negative bacteria, on the basis of the following tests- Composition of Triple Sugar Iron Agar Triple Sugar Iron Agar (TSI) (Oxoid, England) …

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Lactophenol Cotton Blue (LPCB) Stain: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result-Interpretation, Uses of LPCB Stain, Keynotes, and LPCB Stained Footages

Lactophenol Cotton Blue (LPCB) Stain: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result-Interpretation, Uses of LPCB Stain, Keynotes and LPCB Stained Footages

Introduction of Lactophenol Cotton Blue (LPCB) Stain LPCB stands for lactophenol cotton blue and Lactophenol Cotton Blue (LPCB) Stain is a combination of fixative, staining, and clearing agent. LPCB stain uses both as a mounting fluid and a stain and it is used for staining …

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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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Biomedical Waste: Introduction, Classification, Segregation, and Management

Biomedical Waste: Introduction, Classification, Segregation, and Management

Introduction of Biomedical Waste Biomedical Waste is defined as waste that is generated during the diagnosis treatment or immunization of human beings and is contaminated with patients’ body fluids. (WHO)  It includes : Sources of biomedical waste areas are government hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, physicians or dental …

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Health Research: Introduction, Qualification-Based Training Packages, and Links

Health Research: Introduction, Qualification Based Training Packages and Links

Introduction Health research is the branch of health science that deals with a variety of scientific analyses that objective to test ideas, answer questions, improve treatment options and surge knowledge about human health. There are a variety of such research training packages available depending on …

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