Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. blood test- a serologic analysis of a sample of blood agglutination test- a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen; used in...
A blood culture is done when a person has symptoms of a blood infection, also calledbacteremia. Blood is drawn from the person one or more times and is tested in a laboratory to find and identify any microorganism present and growing in the blood. If a microorganism is found, more testing...
GA, in the early 1970s. Morphological characters identify this strain as the subspeciesAedes aegypti aegypti[75], but for brevity we henceforth refer to the UGAL strain asAe. aegypti.The G3 strain ofAnopheles gambiaewas originally obtained from the Centers for Disease Control...
shake culture a culture made by inoculating warm liquid agar culture medium in a tube and shaking to distribute contents evenly. Incubation of the resolidified culture allows the development of separated colonies; especially adaptable to obligate anaerobes. slant culture one made on the surface of so...
It was used to identify the blood group antigens in saliva to confirm the secretor status. The results were tabulated and the Pearson's chi -squared test was performed for statistical analysis using SPSS 15.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL).ResultsThe present study showed that 282 subjects (94%)...
Variations to the conventional manual method is combining agar in the form of paddles to the broth. These systems allow for more frequent subculturing by inverting the bottles to bring the broth into contact with the agar. These bottles can be inspected for growth and Gram staining with presumpt...
We next used pyrosequencing to experimentally test if we also could identify these age-related changes in DNA methylation in blood. However, since we did not have access to blood samples from the islet donors, we analysed DNA methylation of KLF14, FHL2, FAM123C and ZNF518B in blood ...
Effectively isolate Gram-positive organisms from clinical samples using Thermo Scientific™ Columbia CNA Agar with Sheep Blood, a selective microbiological medium that includes colistin and nalidixic acid to inhibit gram-negative bacilli. Columbia CNA Agar has traditionally been used to identify staphylococ...
Methods: 176 positive blood cultures with suspected staphylococci (i.e., Gram positive cluster forming cocci) were comparatively analysed by: i) the usual method consisting of subcultures on agar plates and detection of the clumping factor and free coagulase; ii) the detection of the coagulase dir...
A Venn diagram was created to identify common and characteristic proteins in the blood plasma of Ovopel- and CPE-treated males (Fig. 6A). Of 35 proteins, 8 were common for both variants of treatment and showed similar direction of changes with the exception of the A2M1 fragment, which was...