Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious contagious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Microscopic examination remains the primary laboratory diagnostic method ...

Background: While smear positive patients with tuberculosis (TB) are considered more infectious than smear negative patients, the latter can also transmit TB. Methods: In a molecular epidemiology ...

An undesirable smear in a vertical-overflow-drain interline CCD image sensor (VOD IL-CCD) has been analyzed. This smear has been reduced by using a new structure. The main cause of the smear was ...

FIGURE 1 Peripheral blood smear - multiple yeasts in neutrophil (arrow). 1,000x magnification - Giemsa staining). Yeasts can grow in the blood of patients with disseminated histoplasmosis, and in ...

New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani responded to Rep. Andy Ogles’s (R-TN) call late last week for his deportation by casting it as merely part of the “smears and slander” ...

But a Bristol doctor says getting a smear test at your GP surgery is still the "gold standard".

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) could be considered as first-line therapy for primary Clostridioides difficile infection.

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) could be considered as first-line therapy for primary Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), according to a study ...

Higher kd was observed in SEW than in PB. The inactivation of indigenous fecal coliforms (FC) in SEW was also measured. A two-population double-exponential model that accounted for both dispersed and ...

The negative predictive of fecal calprotectin was 96%. Our study measured fecal calprotectin in 538 consecutive patients with abdominal discomfort referred for endoscopy.

In the present study, we demonstrated that whether the gut microbiota and related metabolites contribute to the therapeutic effect of total sesquiterpenoids (TSs) from loquat leaves on obesity. A ...

Luigi Mangione Defense Blasts Journal Leak, Saying It's Part Of 'Smear Campaign' Luigi Mangione’s defense team is accusing New York prosecutors of trying to bias the public and media against their ...