We evaluated the performance of several methods for the detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus using 101 clinical ... The Etest and oxacillin agar screening plates were 100% ...

Staphylococcus species frequently colonize the skin of birds and mammals ... non-motile, and non-hemolytic on blood agar. All isolates were identified as S. epidermidis by MALDI-TOF MS. Sixty isolates ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA ... E-test method - E-test strips of IPM (AB Biodisk) were placed on plates containing Mueller-Hinton agar (Difco) with and without 0.5 μg/mL (1/2 MIC ...

This study proposes such an intelligent system, detecting malaria parasites through images of thin blood smears. We used a Convolutional ... and an accuracy of 87.9% for identifying the two species ...

This practice, combined with overharvesting of the crabs for fishing bait, has caused a decline in the species in the region in the past few decades. Catching crabs and harvesting their blood is ...

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Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. We report an accurate method to count red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells, as well as to determine ...