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77th XiaoBianTai's Medical Street: January 2008
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008. MMic dPBL-2: Problem Statement. There are outbreaks of viral, fungal and protozoa. Diseases among platoons of army soldiers. Soldiers reported sick after 2 weeks of jungle warfare training. It is of concern to the ministry that there are also sporadic reports of avian flu. In the nearby villages. In view of these outbreaks, you have been tasked to conduct a pre-mission briefing with blogs and poster to educate future batches of soldiers. We are the XiaoBianTai-7! 6 DPDx. (2...
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77th XiaoBianTai's Medical Street: November 2007
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007. 19th Week of SIP - Medical Microbiology. I am sharing about a very scary virus infection. It causes hepatitis and has mortality rate of 30 percent. Quite scary huh! We all heard about hepatitis B. But the motality rate of hepatitis B is not that high (0.5 - 1%). However this particular virus is somehow related to hepatitis B virus and it depends on the hepatitis B virus to infect the host. Okayso much about the background and now I am sharing the laboratory diagnosis of HDV.
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77th XiaoBianTai's Medical Street: Group Post: MMIC dPBL 1
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Sunday, December 2, 2007. Group Post: MMIC dPBL 1. List of possible organisms for each case. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Gram Positive, Spherical-shaped, immobile and form grape-like clusters. Gram Positive, Cocci-shaped occur singly and in pairs, short chains, and grape-like clusters. Gram Positive, Cocci-shaped in pairs and chains. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Klebsiella sp (Klebsiella pneumuniae, Klebsiella oxytoca). Gram positive, diplococci, lancet-shaped. Gram negative, coccibacilli. Urinary c...
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77th XiaoBianTai's Medical Street: April 2007
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007. MMIC: Case Study 1. A 85-year-old male was found to be staying alone in a one-room flat. It is found that his mattress was soiled with human excreta and urine. The premise is infested with cockroaches, fleas and rats. It is known to the nieghbours that the elderly man has the habit of feeding stray dogs and cats in the neighbourhood. The elderly man was referred to a nursing home and is presented with high fever, rash and general weakness. 1 Cat Scratch Disease. Medline Plus...
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Vast_YJ`07 MedTeam: MMIC PBL2
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. 1 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Coronavirus are an important cause of the common cold. However, in 2002, a new atypical pneumonia, called SARS emerged. Coronavirus have a non-segmented, single stranded, positive polarity RNA genome. They are enveloped viruses with a helical nucleocapsid. PCR (Fast and sensitive), Viral isolation (in BSL-3 lab), Antigen detection and Serology. Treatment of SARS so far has been largely supportive with antipyretics, supplemental oxyge...
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Vast_YJ`07 MedTeam: July 2007
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Sunday, July 29, 2007. Photos of things included in food testing. Interior of stomacher (see the 2 blades? How the stomacher works. (taken from http:/ www.stomacher.com/. Food in resealable bag for testing (this is mutton curry). After addition of PDW. After stomaching. (maybe thats what happens in the stomach? Looks a little like vomit right? Serial dilutions to be done in the small bottles, and pour plates. MPN rack (LTB tubes). Durham tube beside a normal test tube. Shows that the bacteria produces gas.
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BloodBank.MedMic.Haematology: October 2007
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Sunday, October 28, 2007. Topic: Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT). Bone marrow contains immature cells (stem cells), which develops into RBCs, WBCs and platelets. To replace unhealthy cells with healthy ones in order to survive. People with diseases of the blood, bone marrow, or certain types of cancer, (e,g., Hodgkin's disease, mulitple myeloma, leukaemia, etc.). Treatment with high doses of chemotherapy or total body irradiation, given immediately prior to a transplant. As a result of the total body i...
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The Lab Freaks: Medical Microbiology-dPBL Package 2
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Friday, January 25, 2008. Medical Microbiology-dPBL Package 2. There are outbreaks of viral, fungal and protozoa diseases. Among platoons of army soldiers. K after 2 weeks of jungle warfare training. It is of concern to the ministry that there are also sporadic reports of avian flu. In the nearby villages. In view of these outbreaks, you have been tasked to conduct a pre-mission briefing with blogs and poster to educate future batches of soldiers. 8216;Army soldiers’. They are also always perspiring.
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The Lab Freaks: October 2007
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Monday, October 29, 2007. Haha i am so sorry guys. looks like we are all mixed up with the dates. i shall blog now too. poor nat got so much questions to answer. Alright. back to the basics. as u all know, i am still attached to the food and water lab. so now, i shall take all of u on an excursion on how i collect my samples! For our lab, we do sample collection from hotel's restaurants. To go and collect samples, we first need to prepare some items. Sterile spoons - To collect samples. Links to this post.
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The Lab Freaks: September 2007
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Thursday, September 27, 2007. Testing on Escherichia coli. I am sorry about the late posting again. Was doing my project until I forgot about the blog posting until today. Another common test in our laboratory is the detection of Escherichia coli. From Ying Ying’s first posting, we know that is LTB tubes are positive (gas production), we will have to continue by inoculating a loop of the positive LTB tube into a BGB and a EC tube. Eosin Methylene Blue agar (EMB). Ecoli on EMB plate. If positive for Esche...
