40 Years of the Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Prevalence of bacterial vaginosis among women in Al-Diwaniya city by using Amsel’s criteria and Nugent’s scores

“…In addition, semen have a pH between 7 and 8 (1) and during sexual intercourse the vaginal pH may be rise as a result of the effect of seminal fluid. Other causes of increased vaginal pH may include infections such as trichomoniasis, atrophic vaginitis (3), and desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (19), also it was found that 25% of women with a pH above 4.7 have had coccoid aerobic vaginitis (21). pH may rise if the sample contains blood or if it was close to cervix, where cervical mucus has alkaline pH (1).…”

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value were calculated in order to describe the performance of the diagnostic tests (19).…”

تقييم استخدام خميرة Saccharomyces boulardii كمضاد لبكتريا Clostridium difficile خارج الجسم الحي

“…2-Gram stain ,Malachite green for spore,Api20A Kit(BioMerieux,USA). 3- The standard isolated yeasts( biocodex, France) were inoculated in Yeast Extract Glucose peptone (YEGP) (Forbes et al, 2007;AL-Samarraie,2013), and incubated at 37ºC for( 18-24) hr, 50ml of the same medium was inoculated by 5ml of yeast suspension and incubated at 37ºC for (18-24) hr, three different concentration of yeast (1x10 7 ,1x10 8 ,1x10 9 )CFU/ml were used to determine the best concentration . C.difficile isolate showed that it was resistant to many antibiotics (Mehdi and Al-Mossawei,2015) b and cultured in nutrient broth at 37ºC under anaerobic incubation for (18-24) hrs, Plates were inoculated by 0.1 ml of C.difficile, left to dry for 15 minutes at 37ºC, (3-4) wells in each plate (with diameter 5mm) were done using Cork Borer and filled with 0.1ml of yeast suspension , the plates were incubated for (18-24 )hrs under anaerobic at 37ºC then the inhibition zones were measured (Izgu et al, 1997).…”

Biographical Feature: Davise H. Larone, Ph.D

“…That same year, John, who worked for G. K. Hall Publishers, was asked to establish a division devoted to medical books/publications. John had the novel idea of creating a newsletter, specifically geared to the bench technologist, which would contain brief articles on timely and practical topics (2). He approached Dr. Laurence R. McCarthy and Dr. Josephine Morello, who embraced the concept, and the rest is history (2).…”

“…John had the novel idea of creating a newsletter, specifically geared to the bench technologist, which would contain brief articles on timely and practical topics (2). He approached Dr. Laurence R. McCarthy and Dr. Josephine Morello, who embraced the concept, and the rest is history (2). When John Lawrence moved to Elsevier, Inc., the newsletter followed him.…”