Because the reservoir of carbapenemase producers remains the intestinal flora, fecal and rectal swab specimens are adequate for performing this screening.
We thank Liv Gröntoft for excellent technical assistance in preparing the joint specimen, Hanna Hillman for performing ELISA, and Professor Thomas Skogh for critically reviewing the manuscript.
This study demonstrates that dried and adequately preserved herbarium specimens are also useful for performing macrochemical tests with KOH.
Prior to a full-scale implementation of the tool at the study sites, a feasibility study was necessary to determine whether or not the available specimens retrievable were of significant quality for performing research studies.
Furthermore, we thought that there was a discrepancy between the CT findings and the pathological findings of the biopsy specimen, which was an additional reason for performing surgical resection.
We thank ward staff at the Alfred Hospital for assisting in this survey, microbiology staff including Lisa Liolios for processing specimens and performing vanA and vanB PCR and the staff at the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (The University of Melbourne) for performing ribotyping.
This paper presents the design of a plastic injection mould for producing warpage testing specimen and performing thermal analysis for the mould to access on the effect of thermal residual stress in the mould.
There was no time trend in proportion of CRC detected in colectomy specimen on performing colectomy for LGD (Pearson's correlation, −0.68; P=0.32) or HGD (Pearson's correlation, 0.42; P=0.42).
Congo-red staining of renal tissue specimens was performed for histopathological diagnosis, and green birefringence was considered indicative of the presence of amyloid deposits.
