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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Biochemistry Test: Introduction, List of Tests, Unit and Normal Range

Biochemistry tests results on the screen of Vitrous 250 analyser

Introduction of Biochemistry Test Biochemistry is the branch of medicine that deals with a series of blood tests used to evaluate the functional ability of several critical organs and systems of the body. e.g. renal function test (RFT) for kidney, liver function test (LFT) for …

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Hematology Test: Introduction, List of Tests, Unit and Normal Range

Hematology Test: Introduction, List of Tests, Unit and Normal Range

Introduction of Hematology Test Hematology is the field of medicine concerned with the study of the root, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases connected to blood. A hematology test can evaluate a variety of blood conditions including infection, inflammation, anemia, hemophilia, other coagulation disorders, leukemia …

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SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Laboratory Proficiency Testing Assessment: Introduction, Report Format and Possible Reasons for Discordant

SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Laboratory Proficiency Testing Assessment: Introduction, Report Format and Possible Reasons for Discordant

Introduction Private or satellite COVID Molecular Laboratories are supervised under national or Sentinel ClinicalLaboratory of the country. The quality of those laboratories is assayed following proficiency testing assessment. In this assessment, a few positive and a few negative specimens are requested and retested in the …

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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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