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Although the semiquantitative catheter segment culture is one of the least expensive tests for a clinical microbiology laboratory to perform and the most frequently used method in hospital laboratories, quantitative culture methods should be preferred for catheter tip culture.
The distal 5 cm of the catheter was cut off using sterile scissor and sent aseptically to the clinical microbiology laboratory where it was cultured by semiquantitative method [ 10 ] . When blood cultures were indicated, 10 mL of venous blood was drawn from catheter and from two peripheral veins following skin preparation with povidone-iodine.
A subset of these IL-1β-stimulated genes was then confirmed by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
Semiquantitative RT-PCR analysis is a sensitive and specific method [ 26, 27].
By applying in situ hybridization, Tuck and colleagues identified breast tumor cells as a source of OPN [ 13 ] . Using a semiquantitative scoring system to evaluate immunohistochemical staining, these investigators found a correlation between OPN positivity (defined as >33% of tumor cells in a section staining for OPN) in lymph node-negative primary breast carcinomas and patient survival, suggesting that tumor cells with elevated OPN levels may behave differently with regard to disease progression [ 13 ] . Another recent study showed immunohistochemically that while OPN protein is expressed weakly in normal breast tissue, OPN is expressed strongly (>50% tumor cell staining) in pregnant/lactating tissue and in the majority (66%) of breast carcinomas.
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