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We analyzed 2,212 submitted results. Precision was highest for von Willebrand factor (vWF) antigen assays (coefficient of variation, 14%), which were performed predominantly by latex immunoassays, and lowest for ristocetin cofactor assays (coefficient of variation, 28%), which were increasingly repl...
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PMID: 21571959
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We describe a first experiment in routine use of a virtual slides system within a pathology practice whose technical facilities are not located on the same geographical site as pathologists.
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PMID: 21601110
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The Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Annex of Garoua, studied since 2007 méningococcus of meningitidis in the North of Cameroon. The serogroup A méningococcus completely seem to have disappeared with the profit from the serogroup W135 méningococcus. Current measurements of answers to an epidemic, based...
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PMID: 21585084
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Problem of emergence and spread of poliomyelitis in Russian Federation and neighboring states is examined. Measures taken in Russian Federation to prevent emergence of poliomyelitis cases caused by wild type virus are discussed, as well as treaties and agreements between Russia, Commonwealth of Indep...
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PMID: 21598610
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To identify procedures employed by publicly funded clinical diagnostic laboratories in the United Kingdom (UK) for the detection of Cryptosporidium in community cases of diarrhoea, a telephone survey was conducted between August 2008 and January 2009 of all such laboratories that test stools from co...
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PMID: 21144447
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Measurements of semi-volatile organic chemicals (SVOCs) were compared among 21 laboratories from 7 countries through the analysis of standards, a blind sample, an air extract, and an atmospheric dust sample. Measurement accuracy strongly depended on analytes, laboratories, and types of standards and...
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PMID: 20813443
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We present here a gel-based method for rapid purification of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) from small volumes of human plasma. After isolation of high density lipoprotein from plasma, the apoA-I protein was separated by electrophoresis and the apoA-I band excised from the gel. The apoA-I was then elute...
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PMID: 20667818
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Real-world particulate emission measurements usually include a fresh nanoparticle mode called the nucleation mode. The formation of the nucleation mode during mixing, dilution, and cooling of diesel exhaust is discussed based on existing experimental and modeling data. The further evolution of the n...
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PMID: 21090552
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The bioterrorism challenge program (LPS, LPX) provides important comparative data from more than 1300 sentinel laboratories that can be used by individual laboratories to evaluate their identification and LRN reporting performance....
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PMID: 20923306
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This method can be used to optimize thresholds for flag alerts on automated cell counters of any type and to improve the overall positive predictive value of the flagging system at the expense of a reduction in the negative predictive value. A reduced manual review rate helps to focus resources on d...
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PMID: 20923310
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D Cohen,
N Gargouri,
A Ramlawi,
Z Abdeen,
A Belbesi,
B Al Hijawi,
A Haddadin,
S Sheikh Ali,
N Al Shuaibi,
R Bassal,
R Yishai,
M S Green and
A Leventhal
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In late 2002, health professionals from the ministries of health and academia of Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel formed the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS) to facilitate trans-border cooperation in response to infectious disease outbreaks. The first mi...
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PMID: 20158930
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Because of the specific structure of forensic medicine in Turkey, reexamination of histopathologic specimens is a frequent practice. The aim of the present study is the assessment of microscopic diagnostic consistency in forensic pathology between different laboratories. Reports of the Council of Fo...
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PMID: 20498593
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We selected 10 representative tests considered antiquated by most experts in the clinical laboratory medicine field: creatine kinase-MB, myoglobin, serum folate and red blood cell folate, amylase, lecithin/sphingomyelin ratio, qualitative serum human chorionic gonadotropin, prostatic acid phosphatas...
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PMID: 21250398
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Detecting and classifying error in a surgical pathology (SP) practice is an important part of a comprehensive quality assurance program. There are a number of mechanisms to detect error, including secondary review, examination of amended reports, correlation studies (cytology-histology and frozen-fi...
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PMID: 20733354
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Irradiation experiments conducted on dogs and mice at Argonne National Laboratory, IL between 1952 and 1992 led to creation of archives of paraffin-embedded tissues accompanied by extensive datasets with gross pathology and histopathology information. Over the past 40 years, these data were investig...
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PMID: 20309706
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We assess the comparative results of samples stored as liquid blood and DBS. We also determine the transferability of DBS samples by comparing the analysis at two laboratories.
Bioanalytical methods for the analysis of pioglitazone in DBS and liquid blood samples were validated to US...
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PMID: 21083349
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Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling could potentially become the preferred blood collection technique in toxicological and clinical studies. Autoradiography was performed to study compound distribution within a dbs under different conditions using five papers, 31ETF, Grade 226, 903(®),...
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PMID: 21083347
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In a randomized trial, AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) protocol 5146 (A5146) investigated the use of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) to adjust doses of HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs) in patients with prior virologic failure on PI-based therapy who were starting a new PI-based regimen. The overa...
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PMID: 20592644
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The Vitamin D External Quality Assessment Scheme (DEQAS) has been monitoring 25-OHD assay performance since 1989. The scheme has expanded rapidly in recent years and has 670 participants in 35 countries (July 2009). Five samples of human serum are distributed quarterly and the results analyzed to gi...
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PMID: 20302938
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Thomas R TR Ioerger,
Yicheng Y Feng,
Krishna K Ganesula,
Xiaohua X Chen,
Karen M KM Dobos,
Sarah S Fortune,
William R WR Jacobs,
Valerie V Mizrahi,
Tanya T Parish,
Eric E Rubin,
Chris C Sassetti and
James C JC Sacchettini
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We carried out whole-genome sequencing on six strains of H37Rv from different laboratories. Polymorphisms at 73 sites were observed, which were shared among the lab strains, though 72 of these were also shared with H37Ra and are likely to be due to sequencing errors in the original H37Rv reference s...
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PMID: 20472797
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The goal of this study was to conduct an outcomes-based evaluation of the National Cancer Institute-Frederick (NCI-F) Scientific Library's Laptop Librarian service, where librarians took a laptop and spent time in research buildings. The authors used statistics from the Laptop Librarian sessions, a...
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PMID: 20677065
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The current methane generation model used by the U.S. EPA (Landfill Gas Emissions Model) treats municipal solid waste (MSW) as a homogeneous waste with one decay rate. However, component-specific decay rates are required to evaluate the effects of changes in waste composition on methane generation....
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PMID: 20496890
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We have developed a combined experimental/computational framework to address this problem and used it to understand the genetic basis of ethanol tolerance in Escherichia coli. We used fitness profiling to measure the consequences of single-locus perturbations in the context of ethanol exposure. A mo...
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PMID: 20531407
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We have determined the experimental logP values of a set of 25 lamellarins, given it is the single most important parameter in determining multiple ADMET parameters. We also discuss the relationship between this natural product class, natural product derivatives in development and on the market, ora...
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PMID: 20167395
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This article summarizes annual workloads for staff positions and work flow productivity (WFP) values from 247 human pathology, 31 veterinary, and 35 forensic histology laboratories (histolabs). There are single summaries for veterinary and forensic histolabs, but the data from human pathology are di...
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PMID: 20471564
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We suggest guidelines for conducting unbiased pathology reviews are also needed as part of that process.
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PMID: 20494214
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