An outbreak of Salmonella napoli infection in England and Wales in 1982 was detected by
the surveillance of routine reports of salmonella infections from hospital and public-health …

The incidence of infection after needle biopsy of the prostate by different techniques was
compared in 45 patients. Aerobic and anaerobic culture was made of the biopsy needle, …

Bacteraemia and urinary tract infection are wellrecognized complications of urological
procedures. This paper compares, for the first time, the incidence of bacteraemia after cystoscopy …

Seven cases of asymptomatic rubella reinfection in early pregnancy are described. In each,
there was a history of exposure to a rubelliform illness and low levels of rubella-specific IgM …

This report describes a double outbreak of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) in
which two distinct tetracycline-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus producing different …

In two infants with pneumonia, Coombs test positive hemolytic anemia and hemolytic uremic
syndrome (HUS), exposure of the Thomsen cryptantigen, probably due to the action of …

Counter-current immunoelectrohporesis is a rapid sensitive method for detecting pneumococcal
capsular antigens in sputum. A result can be obtained within 45 minutes. The optimum …

A study of a modified Canadian unit system of measuring laboratory workload was undertaken
in five joint Public Health Laboratory Service and hospital microbiology laboratories. Ten …

A five-year-old girl from Bangladesh living in Westminster developed diphtheria. She wasthe
second case reported in 1982; 2 weeks previously, a three-year-old English girl, died of the …

Counter-current immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) for the detection of pneumococcal capsular
antigen (PCA) in the sputum of patients with suspected chest infection increased the detection-…