Friday, December 4, 2009

Annual Conference

The details of the XIII Annual Conference of IAMM AP Chapter are available on the web page.

The important date for all is : 15th January

for registration - for sending abstracts for prize papers and free papers.

the details can be seen in the brochure.

Also in the web page, you will find links for the rules and regulations for the prize papers.

click here to see the website : click here

A Word of Appreciation

We just received a word of appreciation from Dr Savitri Sharma. A happy moment that has to be shared with you all here on this blog.

****

Dear Secretary,

I must congratulate you and other office bearers of IAMM-AP chapter for the wonderful job of conducting timely meetings, maintaining the website and communication with the members effectively. I am very proud to be associated with such an organisation. I know of no other IAMM chapter maintaining this standard. Do keep it up. This is possible only with the dedication of the members and office bearers. I hope to be present for the next meeting.

Savitri Sharma, MD, MAMS
Associate Director & Head, Microbiology Services-LVPEI network
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Patia, Bhubaneswar- 751 024
Orissa, India
Phone: + 91 674 3987 129/999
Fax: +91 674 3987 130
E mail: savitri@lvpei.org, savitrishilpa@yahoo.co.in
Websites: www.lvpei.org

***

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Postgraduate Quiz 01

A school-going boy of about 10 years age presented with enlarged painful axillary lymph nodes. The doctor also noticed a small inflamed circular coin-like lesion surrounding a small abraded area on the forearm.

The inflamed lymph node was aspirated and the aspirate was submitted for laboratory studies. A Warthin-Starry Silver Impregnation Staining of the smear prepared from the lymph node aspirate revealed plenty of pleomorphic rod shaped organisms. Routine cultures were negative.

The sample was also inoculated on Chocolate agar and incubated in CO2 (5%). Growth was observed after about a week. The colonies are white dry cauliflower-like and embedded in agar. Smear from the culture revealed small, slightly curved Gram negative bacilli. The bacilli are motile.





(Image source : http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/01/health/adam/8989.jpg accessed on 1st September 2009)







(Warthin-Starry Silver Impregnation Staining )


Questions :

1. What is the most likely diagnosis.
2. What could be the causative organism.
3. What additional information from the patient's history will be beneficial in arriving at a diagnosis.

Submit your answers as Comments below (or) you may send email to iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in

Correct answers submitted by :

Dr. V.Lakshmi
Dr. M.V.Ramanamma
Dr. Sarita Kar
Dr. Saileela K
Dr. P.Chandrakala

***
Answer :

1. The Most likely diagnosis is Cat scratch disease.
2. The most likely causative agent is : Bartonella henselae
3. Additional histoy about exposure to cat or dog's scracth or bite would be helpful to arrive at the diagnosis.

***

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

How to use website

Web site : http://sites.google.com/site/iammapchapter/
Email : : iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in
Blog : http://iammapchapter.blogspot.com/

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

To access the web pages :
There are two ways to access it :

1. Type the following URL address in the address bar of the Internet explorer : http://sites.google.com/site/iammapchapter/ , and click ‘go’

2. Just type ‘ iammapchapter ’ in Google search and click ‘search’. You will find the links directed to the website.

You may save the page under ‘favorites’ or ‘Bokmarks’ for easy access later.

How to save as ‘bookmarks’ : click ‘favourites’ in the Internet explorer toolbar. A panel opens on the left side of the window. Click ‘add’ .

To view : The pages are best viewed with Internet explorer 6.0 or higher, with the text size set to ‘Medium’ (this is the default setting in many systems; you may check it, by clicking ‘view’ in the tool bar and see ‘text size’ as ‘medium’). If the text size is ‘large’, the home page might appear little distorted.

To view the links : just click on the highlighted text (link)

To save the pdf files : right click on the link and select 'save target as'

This is recommended, as clicking on a pdf link tries to open the file in the browser, which may cause the browser to stop responding for sometime, especially if system is low in memory or the network is slow.

MAILS :

You will be receiving any important information by email, if you submit your email to iammpachapter. simply send your details and email id to register.

IMPOTANT :

Please add the mail id of iammapchapter (iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in ) to your address book. Otherwise the mails from the iammapchapter might go to your 'bulk mail' or 'junk mail' folders rather than being delivered to your inbox and you might miss any important communication. So, please add the mail address to your inbox as soon as possible.

Important Message

PLEASE CONTACT US THROUGH EMAIL :

Please register to receive email alerts about the news bulletins and other important issues related to the website.
Registration is simple.

Just send your email ids with your details to : iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in


Please also delete spam from your mail boxes.
Recently we are getting a lot of spam emails.
We are trying to filter them out but it consumes lot of energy , which otherwise can be devoted to the development of the website.
Also we are planning to put a presentation on how to use this website soon to help the new users. So keep looking for important updates.


UPDATING DIRECTORY

The directory is planned to be updated. all the members are requested to submit their latest details as soon as possible to our email id (iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in ). Also communicate this message to your friends.
More responses are coming from the members to update their details in the directory.We thank them for coming forward.

Membership form is available on website.

The suggestions and contributions are welcome at :
iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in


CONTRIBUTIONS

We congratulate all the members for their active participation by submitting photographs and articles.
We also request the contributors of the photographs to please enclose the details like the magnification, staining procedures and relavent clinical data to enrich the webpage.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Welcome to the Homepage of IAMM AP CHAPTER

Welcome to the blog of IAMM AP Chapter. Here you will have important updates regarding the website and other activities of the IAMM AP Chapter.

To visit home page :
Please click here

The site is dedicated for the academic interaction among the medical microbiologists and Post graduates of medical microbiology.

The home page has links for the 'News Bulletin', 'PG Quiz', 'Directory', 'Web resources for microbiologists', 'forthcoming events in microbiology' and other useful stuff.