Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections

2014 ◽  
pp. 257-265.e1
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Byrne
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Tatyana Alekseyevna Khusnutdinova ◽  
Yuliya Anatolyevna Savochkina ◽  
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Gushchin ◽  
Yelena Vasilyevna Shipitsyna ◽  
Alevtina Mikhailovna Savicheva

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) represent the most common bacterial infections and often complicate pregnancy. UTIs in pregnancy are classified by site of bacterial proliferation as follows: asymptomatic bacteriuria, cystitis, pyelonephritis. Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria is a standard of obstetrical care and is included in most international guidelines. The urine microbiologic culture is considered the gold standard for laboratory diagnosis of UTIs. Molecular methods enable to rapidly detect, identify and quantitate causative agents of UTIs in urine and are effective alternative to traditional bacteriological methods.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Saeideh Sadat Shobeiri ◽  
Saeid Abediankenari (Phd) ◽  
Mohtaram Nasrollahi ◽  
Mohammad Khademlou ◽  
Maryam Sarabijamab ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Alexey Yurievich Strugovshchikov ◽  
Petr Vladimirovich Smutnev ◽  
Nikolay Alexandrovich Pudovkin ◽  
Vladimir Vasilievich Salautin

Currently, broad-spectrum antibiotics are widely used to treat bacterial infections. One of them is     Azitronit containing 10% of azithromycin. The main objective of the work was to study the urea formation function of the liver of cats with chlamydia and the effect of the preparation  Azitronit on it. All the animals studied were subjected to a clinical study according to the generally accepted method, in which special attention was paid to the condition of the organs that are most often affected by chlamydia - the eyes, mucous membranes of the external genital organs, and upper respiratory tract. Laboratory diagnosis was carried out by polymerase chain reaction. Determination of biochemical parameters on an IDEXX Catalist analyzer. It was found that in sick animals the content of total protein, urea, ammonia, glutamine and ornithine increases by 15.5%, 27.6%, 27.8%, 18.2% and 17.5%, respectively, compared with healthy ones. After treatment of animals, the studied indices decreased by 4.9% (total protein), 5.3% (urea), 18.3% (glutamine), 10% (ammonia) and 13.6% relative to the initial level (sick animals) (ornithine), but did not reach the animals of the control group and were higher by 11.1%, 23.5%, 11.7%, 10% and 4.5%, respectively. In the blood of cats with chlamydia patients, the content of a number of metabolites of the ornithine urea cycle increases, the activity of arginase and transamination enzymes increases, the content of total protein and ornithine, the concentration of ammonia, while increasing the concentration of urea, glutamine. After treatment with the drug Azitronit, the desired indices decrease, but do not reach the indices in healthy animals.


1964 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 590-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Fahrländer ◽  
F. Huber ◽  
F. Gloor
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