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[The current status of clinical laboratories on mycological examination]. 2003

Michiko Abe

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Allied Health Science, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Sagamihara 228-8555, Japan.

A questionnaire survey to determine the current status of clinical laboratories on mycological examination was performed in May 2002, and the results compared with data obtained in December 1994. One hundred and sixty seven answers were received in this survey. The results indicated that the average number of medical technologists in a microbiological laboratory was one for every 168 hospital beds, and the number of clinical specimens examined daily by each technologist was 16 (bacterial) and 3.4 (mycological). The rate of laboratories prepared a specialized technologist to handle mycological examinations was 10% in both surveys, and laboratories which had a system for mycological examination order were 23.4% (this survey) and 14.1% (prior). The problems in routine mycological examination were: identification of non-sporulating filamentous fungi, 69.9%; identification of the fungi not previously encountered, 67.5%; and judgement of pathogenicity of the isolates, 66.9%. Sixty four percent of technologists desired a lecture on the subject of dermatophytes, techniques of mycological examination, dematiaceous fungi, and moniliaceous fungi other than Aspergillus. The above results indicate to establish a continuous postgraduate education system and reference center readily available to a medical technologist.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007564	Japan	A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo.	Bonin Islands
D009172	Mycology	The study of the structure, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of fungi, and MYCOSES.
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D004496	Education, Continuing	Educational programs designed to inform individuals of recent advances in their particular field of interest. They do not lead to any formal advanced standing.	Continuous Learning,Life-Long Learning,Lifelong Learning,Continuing Education,Learning, Continuous,Learning, Life-Long,Learning, Lifelong,Learnings, Life-Long,Life Long Learning,Life-Long Learnings
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D019411	Clinical Laboratory Techniques	Techniques used to carry out clinical investigative procedures in the diagnosis and therapy of disease.	Clinical Laboratory Test,Clinical Laboratory Testing,Clinical Laboratory Diagnoses,Clinical Laboratory Testings,Clinical Laboratory Tests,Diagnoses and Laboratory Examinations,Diagnosis, Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnosis,Laboratory Examinations and Diagnoses,Laboratory Techniques, Clinical,Clinical Laboratory Technique,Diagnose, Clinical Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnoses,Laboratory Technique, Clinical,Laboratory Test, Clinical,Laboratory Testing, Clinical,Technique, Clinical Laboratory,Test, Clinical Laboratory,Testing, Clinical Laboratory