AN EVALUATION of the importance of routine stool testing in the internist's office for occult blood was made by reviewing 1600 consecutive office records of new patients. Stool specimens brought to ...

Stool tests for occult blood or reducing substances were introduced in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) as potential aids in the early recognition of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called ...

We have developed a nucleic acid dot-blot hybridization test for the detection of astroviruses in stool samples. The test was not as sensitive as electron microscopy for the detection of low numbers ...

Routine Clinitest screening of stools from high-risk infants has been advocated. [6,7,8] A study of healthy full-term infants found that stool Clinitest was 2+ or greater (equivalent to ≥ 0.75% ...