A rapid PCR-based test for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, the Roche AMPLICOR
Mycobacterium tuberculosis test (AMPLICOR MTB), was evaluated. Results from AMPLICOR …

The ability of the Roche Amplicor, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) test to detect M.
tuberculosis in specimens other than respiratory secretions was evaluated. A total of 249 …

A 20-month old infant presented to the emergency department with diarrhea and vomiting of
six days duration. Blood, stool and urine specimens were collected for both bacteriological …

St. Johns University’s clinical laboratory sciences curriculum is a 3 + 1 program. New
freshman and transfer students are introduced to the major during their first year in an “Introduction …

This project was undertaken to assess the changes made in a medical laboratory science
program as it transitioned from hospital based to university based. The University offered this …

200 Improving Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality in the 21st Century—Competencies
Required of Future Medical Laboratory Science Practitioners

… In addition to the 16 to 18 h of incubation necessary for the inoculated MuellerHinton
agar plates, the most time-consuming and logistically problematic step in the method is the …

BIOGRAM is an antimicrobial susceptibility test system for the determination of MICs from
the standard disk diffusion test zone diameters. The system was challenged with 511 recent …

How metaphysical commitments shape the study of psychological mechanisms - Eric Hochstein,
… The psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett highlights this fact when she notes that there is …

… Likewise, Lisa Barrett notes that treating emotion as a natural kind for the purposes of
classification in psychology and neuroscience may yield tremendous practical benefits, regardless …