Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan parasite. It causes trichomoniasis; a sexually transmitted infection. The primary habitat of this organism is the vagina and prostate. In infected females, it...
Year: 2016
Treponema pallidum Hemagglutination Assay (TPHA) is a treponemal test for the serologic diagnosis of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by spirochetes, Treponema pallidum. Based on the...
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by the dengue virus, an Arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus). Also known as break bone fever, a severe form of dengue is called dengue hemorrhagic fever...
The NNN (Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle) is a common culture medium for isolating the agent of the genus Leishmania, which causes leishmaniasis. The culture of this organism in suitable media...
Oxidative fermentative (OF) test: Principle, Procedure, Results
Hugh and Leifson developed the oxidative-fermentative (OF) test in 1953. They developed OF media to differentiate between oxidative bacteria (that produces acid from carbohydrates under aerobic...
Zika virus: Transmission, Pathogenesis, Symptoms, Lab Diagnosis
Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that was first isolated in Zika forest of Uganda in 1947. Since then, it has remained mainly in Africa, with small and sporadic outbreaks in Asia....