Concentrated specimen smear microscopy utilising a polymer membrane sandwich filtration vessel for the detection of acid-fast bacilli in health facilities in Sabah, East Malaysia

• Main Authors: Dawn Carmel Paul, Yun Fong Ngeow, Sook Fan Yap, Jiloris F. Dony, Richard Avoi, Rashidah Mohammad, Hien Fuh Ng
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
• Subjects: RA1-1270 Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31876/1/Concentrated%20specimen%20smear%20microscopy%20utilising%20a%20polymer%20membrane%20.ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31876/2/Concentrated%20specimen%20smear%20microscopy%20utilising%20a%20polymer%20membrane.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31876/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1472979222000208; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2022.102183

A simple, ready-to-use concentrated specimen smear microscopy method employing a nanometer silicon polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer membrane sandwich filtration vessel to concentrate acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in samples (SFV-CSSM, Hunan-Tech New Medical System Co. Ltd. China) was compared with d...