Laboratory Procedures

Grossly bloody stool and vomitus are sometimes seen in neonates as the result of swallowing maternal blood during delivery. The APT test helps to distinguish between the presence of fetal blood or ...

Differential cell count is the most diagnostically significant test performed on body fluids. This test aids in the diagnosis of systemic disease, inflammation, malignancy and trauma.

Clostridium difficile GDH is a rapid qualitative enzyme immunoassay screening test to detect Clostridium difficile antigen, glutamate dehydrogenase, in fecal specimens from persons suspected of hav...

This is a chromatographicimmunoassay for the qualitative detectionof toxins A and B from C. difficile in human feces.C. difficileis considered to beresponsible for approximately 25% of the diarrhea...

The fecal concentration methods based on sedimentation of parasites are useful for recovering heavy parasite eggs due to the concentration of the organisms in the sediment, whereas the centrifugal-...

diagnostic test to monitor individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn?s disease, ulcerative colitis, indeterminate colitis) and to distinguish from irritable bowel syndrome.

rapid, visual immunoassay for the qualitative, presumptive detection of human haemoglobin in faecal specimens. The test is intended for use as an aid in diagnosis of lower gastrointestinal pathol...

The detection of fecal occult blood in stool is important for the diagnosis of diseases that result in gastrointestinal bleeding and to screen for colorectal cancers and large adenomas that bleed. ...

Examination of?feces?provides important information that aids in the differential diagnosis of various gastrointestinal tract disorders, which range from maldigestion and malabsorption to bleeding ...