Most Recent Articles from British Journal of Biomedical Science

• Effectiveness of introducing blood culture collection packs to reduce contamination rates 

  ABSTRACT Contaminated blood cultures result in a significant waste of healthcare resources and can lead to inappropriate antibiotic therapy....

  01/01/09 by Bamber, A I; Cunniffe, J G; Nayar, D; Ganguly, R; Falconer, E · More from publication

• Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection. An evaluation of tests for faecal toxin, glutamate dehydrogenase, lactoferrin and toxigenic culture in the diagnostic laboratory 

  ABSTRACT Faecal samples from 1007 patients suspected of having diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile infection are investigated for the...

  01/01/09 by Wren, M W D; Sivapalan, M; Kinson, R; Shetty, N P · More from publication

• Anti-MRSA activity of aldehyde Schiff base N-aryl thiosemicarbazones 

  ABSTRACT Eight different newly synthesised aldehyde Schiff base N-aryl thiosemicarbazones, differing in R, R' groups, are tested on 25 clinical...

  01/01/09 by Kriushnapriya, S; Malathy, N S; Begum, A Shamitha; Baskaran, A C; Appalaraju, B; Mani, K; Kandhaswamy, K A · More from publication

• Increased frequency of HLA-B7 among B27-negative seronegative spondarthritis patients from Mumbai, western India 

  ABSTRACT Seronegative Spondarthritis (SSA) is a group of inflammatory disorders that shares certain clinical features and has a strong association...

  01/01/09 by Devraj, J P; Shankarkumar, U; Ghosh, K · More from publication

• Antibiotic susceptibility patterns in Helicobacter pylori strains from patients with upper gastrointestinal pathology in western Nigeria 

  ABSTRACT A total of 186 Helicobacter pylori isolates and 532 gastric biopsies recovered from 532 patients with varying degrees of gastroduodenal...

  01/01/09 by Oyedeji, K S; Smith, S I; Coker, A O; Arigbabu, A O · More from publication

• Cadherin-13 in primary and blast crisis chronic myeloid leukaemia: declining expression and negative correlation with the BCR/ABL fusion gene 

  ABSTRACT Expression of the CDH13 gene in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients at different clinical stages, and its relationship with the...

  01/01/09 by Mu, H-J; Xie, P; Shen, Y-F; Jiang, Y-Q; Zeng, Y-J · More from publication

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