Human red blood cells at work: identification and visualization of erythrocytic eNOS activity in health and disease [PDF]
, 2012 A nitric oxide synthase (NOS)-like activity has been demonstrated in human red blood cells (RBCs), but doubts about its functional significance, isoform identity and disease relevance remain.
Rodriguez-Mateos, Ana; id_orcid +33 more
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Human papillomavirus and pregnancy: A narrative review study [PDF]
Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i ĪrānIntroduction: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexual transmitted infection. The persistence of HPV infection causes different types of anogenital and oropharyngeal cancer.
Azam Shafaei +3 more
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Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Human Papillomavirus in a Population of Iranian Men
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background and purpose: Human papillomavirus (HPV) often infects humans through sexual contact. Men are carriers of the HPV virus and inadvertently transmit the virus to their sexual partners while being asymptomatic.
Maryam Shahi +3 more
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Role of Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein in the Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis [PDF]
Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and Research, 2021 Introduction: Neonatal Sepsis (NS) is responsible for 30-50% of total neonatal deaths in developing countries. Blood culture is gold standard diagnostic test but has a low yield and is the time consuming.
Sumedha Yadav +4 more
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Sensitivities, specificities, and predictive values of microbiological culture techniques for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection [PDF]
, 2014 Background. Identifying the microorganism in a prosthetic joint infection is the key to appropriately targeting antimicrobial treatment. Despite the availability of various techniques, no single test is considered the definitive gold standard. Aim.
Foguet, P +9 more
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Implementing a Standardized Education Protocol to Improve the Blood Culture Collection Process in a Rural Hospital Setting [poster] [PDF]
, 2023 The primary purpose of this quality improvement project was to correct the knowledge deficit and improve compliance regarding the identified inconsistencies in the current improper blood culture collection process by implementing a standardized education
Heredia, Edward R.
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Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2021 Background and purpose: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer. Awareness of the prevalence of different HPV genotypes in Iran will facilitate implementation of national prevention and vaccination programs.
Maryam Shahi +3 more
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, 2020 Background: Blood culture collection remains the gold standard to diagnose bacteraemia. Current evidence suggests that the emergency department (ED) often has blood culture contamination (BCC) rates above the recommended 3%, contributing to increased ...
Barton, MJ, Zimmerman, PA, Bool, M
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BLOOD CULTURES IN EPILEPSY [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1916 In cultures from the blood of the following six cases of epilepsy we have failed to isolate the organism described by C. A. L. Reed1as theBacillus epilepticus. Dr. Reed gave us one of the cultures isolated by Dr. Hyatt from a case (S). As far as we could tell, this organism belonged to theB. subtilisgroup.
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Diagnosis of drug induced liver injury using a lymphocyte blast transformation test based on whole blood culture [PDF]
, 1977 Twenty cases of suspected drug induced liver injury (16 cases of which satisfied the criteria for at least a query positive diagnosis as based on the Fourth Congress of "Drugs and the Liver" in Japan) were studied by the whole blood culture ...
Takata, Shinji
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