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Study on Drug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis using Line Probe Assay in a Tertiary Care Hospital from Eastern India [PDF]

National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) is a major public health issue globally, all age groups in community are at high risk to become get infected. Multidrug Resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is increasing day
Shivendra Kumar Shahi, Rohit Kumar, Anima Xess, Prashant Goswami, Balkrishna Mishra, Rakesh Kumar, Shailesh Kumar, Raj Kishore Sharma   +7 more
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Examination of Acid-Fast Bacilli in Sputum Using Modified Light Microscope with Homemade Light Emitting Diode Additional Attachment [PDF]

, 2011
Typical clinical symptoms and chest X-ray is a marker of Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers. However, the diagnosis of TB in adults should be supported by microscopic examination.
Damian P. Hruszkewycz (1802131), Louise M. Guard (1469071), Matthew J. Chalkley (1926736), Michael K. Takase (1371342), Nilay Hazari (1469062), Peter Hofmann (624654), Timothy J. Schmeier (1845007)   +6 more
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Cytopathology of Malignant Melanoma in Conventional and Liquid-Based Smears [PDF]

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2002
We evaluated 62fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy specimens of metastatic malignant melanoma (MM) from 62 patients and compared 84 smears with the corresponding tissue sections. Melanin is found more often in FNA smears than in corresponding tissue sections of metastatic MM but is significantly less abundant in smears. Melanin is present more often in
Carl, Morrison, Donn C, Young, Paul E, Wakely   +2 more
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Aspergillus as a contaminant on conventional cervicovaginal papanicolaou smear

IP Archives of Cytology and Histopathology Research, 2022
Majority of the cases of fungal infections to be detected in the cervicovaginal smears, are caused by Candida species. Aspergillus infections are not just rare, but should also raise alarm regarding the immune status of the patient. Here we report the case of an adult female with cervicovaginal smears showing non-Candida fungal elements, going on to ...
Kuladeepa Ananda Vaidya K, Aashish Sharma K   +1 more
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Role of cervical cytology in the detection of uterine glandular lesions

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2021
Background: Diagnosis of atypical glandular cells (AGCs) is challenging to the cytopathologist due to the overlapping features of various neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions.
Hilda Fernandes, Sumanth Devaraju, Archana Bhat, Pallavi Ramachandra   +3 more
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Testing positive for human papillomavirus in routine cervical screening: examination of psychosocial impact [PDF]

, 2004
Objective To examine the psychosocial impact of testing positive for high risk human papillomavirus (HPV) among women attending primary cervical screening.Design Cross sectional survey.Measures were taken at baseline and one week after the receipt of HPV
Cadman, L, Forrest, S, McCaffery, K, Szarewski, A, Waller, J, Wardle, J   +5 more
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A comparative study of conventional cytology and cell block in the diagnosis of pleural effusion with special reference to immunohistochemistry

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2023
Background: Body cavity fluids are evaluated by cell block (CB) technique. In conventional cytological smears (CS), appropriate identification of the cells as either reactive mesothelial cells or malignant cells is a diagnostic problem.
Srishtidhar Mangal, Samar Kumar Barai, Sabyasachi Choudhury, Ipsita Saha   +3 more
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LED-fluorescence microscopy for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis under programmatic conditions in India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundLight-emitting diode fluorescence microscopy (LED-FM) has been shown to be more sensitive than conventional bright field microscopy using Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain in detecting sputum smear positive tuberculosis in controlled laboratory ...
Lord Wasim Reza, Srinath Satyanarayna, Donald A Enarson, Ajay M V Kumar, Karuna Sagili, Sujeet Kumar, Levi Anand Prabhakar, N M Devendrappa, Ashish Pandey, Nevin Wilson, Sarabjit Chadha, Badri Thapa, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Mohan P Kohli   +13 more
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Comparative evaluation of centrifuged liquid-based cytology method over conventional brush cytology in normal oral mucosa

SRM Journal of Research in Dental Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is a new monolayer slide preparation method introduced to overcome the limitations of conventional Papanicolaou (PAP) smears which is used in cancer screening.
M Arunachalam, Nandhini Gunasekaran, K Rajkumar, Dinesh Kumar Thayalan, J Dinakaran, R Bharanidharan   +5 more
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Use of Xpert MTB/RIF in Decentralized Public Health Settings and Its Effect on Pulmonary TB and DR-TB Case Finding in India [PDF]

, 2015
Background Xpert MTB/RIF, the first automated molecular test for tuberculosis, is transforming the diagnostic landscape in high-burden settings. This study assessed the impact of up-front Xpert MTB/RIF testing on detection of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB)
Alavadi, U, Arinaminpathy, N, Babre, A, Boehme, C, Denkinger, C, Dewan, PK, Ghedia, M, Gray, C, Gupta, RS, Kulsange, S, Paramasivan, CN, Parmar, M, Raizada, N, Ramachandran, R, Sachdeva, KS, Sreenivas, A, Thakur, R, Vadera, B, Van den Hof, S, Van't Hoog, AH   +19 more
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