Laboratory diagnostics

Julian RJ, Galt DE, Butler D. 1976. Diagnosis of triorthocresyl phosphate poisoning in cattle. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics 18 407-418. 

Analytical investigations are always carried out to serve a definite purpose. In this respect analytical results have to be evaluated and interpreted. In modern fields of applications like environmental monitoring, foodstuff control, medical laboratory diagnostics etc., conclusions have to be drawn about the presence of given species and their amount as well as the exceeding of limit values or falling significantly below them. 

Mobile Medical units with Clinic for First aid treatment Laboratory Diagnostic units operating theater hospital, specifications for treatment of patients affected by chemical agents (indication, decontamination). 

In an era of escalating health care costs, "inputs" to the production of health care, such as pharmaceuticals, physician visits, laboratory/diagnostic services, and hospital care, are often viewed in isolation from each other as if one sector of the health care economy can be optimized independent of the others. When cost containment is the primary economic objective, a shortterm, risk-averse decision rubric emerges. 

CIO. Cross, F. C., Canada, A. T., and Davis, N. M., The effect of certain drugs on the results of some common laboratory diagnostic procedures. Amer. J. Hasp, Pharm. 23, 234-239 (1966). 

Felgenhauer, K., Laboratory diagnosis of neurological diseases. In Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics (L. Thomas, ed.), pp. 1308-1326, TH-Books Verlasges., Frankfurt/Main, 1998. 

F5. Felgenhauer, K., Rrocess localisation, phase of illnes, and CSF composition. In Laboratory Diagnostics of Disorders of the Nervous System (M. Holzgraefe, H. Reiber, and K. Felgenhauer, eds.), Perimed, Erlangen, 1998. 

This volume marks the first issue of a biannual publication for the Advances in Clinical Chemistry series. Starting this year, the series will be published twice a year to keep the readership abreast of the rapid changes and latest developments in clinical chemistry, clinical laboratory science, and laboratory diagnostics. 

Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Kundratstrasse 3, 1100 Vienna, Austria... 

E Kaiser. Phospholipase A2 its usefulness in laboratory diagnostics. Crit Rev Clin... 

Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics (ZIMCL),... 

Jain KK, Nanotechnology in clinical laboratory diagnostics, Clin. Chim. Acta, 2005, 358, 37-54. 

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The most common laboratory diagnostic is the nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test which detects impaired function, inability to produce reactive oxygen species, in isolated leucocytes. Female carriers may be identified by this test. 

Inability of authorities to cope adequately with the situation because of insufficient technical or professional personnel, organizational experience, and necessary supplies or equipment (e.g., drugs, vaccines, laboratory diagnostic materials, vector control materials). ... 

Current data suggest that fumonisins may have greater effect on the health of farm animals than on humans, because studies on the impact of levels of fumonisins in human food have not yielded significant correlations [127, 146]. The Mycotoxin Committee of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics recommended that permissible levels of fumonisins (B,) in feeds be limited to 5 ppm for horses, 10 ppm for swine and 50 ppm for cattle and poultry. 

JOHN A. PICKRELL, DVM, PhD, DABT Comparative Toxicology Laboratories, Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, 1800 Denison Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-5606, USA... 

If not done routinely, clinical laboratory diagnostic evaluations should be considered any time fungal keratitis is suspected. More routine methods of laboratory evaluation yield no positive results. 

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