A cross-sectional study of 40 children with portal hypertension found a modest correlation between serum ammonia and H.
A urease test is positive when a urea medium turns bright pink (fuchsia) and negative when it stays yellowish. The colour change comes from ammonia released by urea hydrolysis, which makes the medium ...
A 46-year-old woman with severe iron deficiency anemia, a sedimentation rate of 109 mm/h, and fasting gastrin above 1800 ng/L ...
Beyond localized gastrointestinal disease, diagnostic screening should be considered for patients displaying recognized extra-gastric manifestations of H pylori infection, such as unexplained ...
Northwestern University engineers have developed a new way to quickly test for tuberculosis that avoids several pitfalls of ...
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, devastating children and young adults in low- ...
A new urine test could make bladder cancer easier to detect — and help doctors figure out which treatments are most likely to ...
Medical and consumer genetics innovator Genefluence today announces the first use of its rapid, near-patient diagnostic platform to screen for urinary tract infections (UTIs), at the Royal Hospital ...
The FDA granted clearance to a rapid blood test designed to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections in as little ...
Researchers have demonstrated how living bacteria can bind grains of sand into solid architectural elements using 3D printing and robotic spraying. The approach uses biocementation, a process in which ...