Legend: *Method: can either be 1 smear, 2 smears, 1 culture, 2 cultures.
During the study period, 3742 SE had at least 1 smear and 1 culture done.
In total, 56 Mtb-spiked sputum specimens were made: 6 smear-positive and 1 smear-negative specimens for each laboratory targeted in this evaluation.
Microscopic examination detected Leishmania amastigotes in 22 smears of the 53 smears collected from patients with suspected cutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Central Health Laboratory.
This would reduce the workload by a further 195 smears to 3645.
If the sputum was found to be smear-negative (at least 2 smears negative), a chest radiograph was requested.
For example of the 3810 blood smears examined in 2008, P. falciparum was detected alone in 196 smears, whereas P. ovale and P. vivax were observed alone in only 4 and 2 smears, respectively.
Of the confirmed pTB cases, 2.5% had Grade I, 27.5% Grade 2 and 70% Grade 3 smears (taken as highest grade out of 2 consecutively positive smears).
Notably, the appearance of SUMO-1 smears on Western blot analysis varied between experiments, reflecting on the one hand differences in the abundance of SUMO-1 conjugates between primary cultures and, on the other, differences in resolution of SUMO-1 modified proteins on SDS-PAGE.
The random set includes 139 cases (261 smears) and 548 controls (1049 smears) (Table 1).
Of 26 liquid-based cytology smears, 19 out of 20 smears from SCC were adequate and all were MCM positive.
