Assessing diabetic polyneuropathy in Spanish-speaking patients: Translation and validation of the Toronto Clinical Neuropathy Score.

Background And Aims: Diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSP) is a common complication of diabetes. The Toronto Clinical Neuropathy Score (TCNS) is a useful tool for detecting DSP. However, it is not available in Spanish.

Presurgical evaluation of temporal lobe epilepsy: Is an outpatient prolonged ambulatory EEG study sufficient to recommend a surgical resection?

Purpose: Inpatient Video EEG Monitoring (VEM) is the typical study performed in presurgical evaluations. It is expensive and not widely available in developing countries. Recent studies suggested that in selected patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy secondary to unilateral mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), the recording of unilateral interictal epileptiform activity ipsilateral to the MTS may yield sufficient presurgical EEG data.

Evaluation of the BIOCEN GC agar medium base in antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Background: Since 1995, the Cuban Reference Laboratory for Neisseria has been monitoring the antibiotic susceptibility of gonococci, following the methodology of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, which uses GC agar medium base supplemented with 1% Vitox. We evaluated three lots of GC agar medium base produced by BIOCEN, Cuba, in antibiotic susceptibility testing of reference and wild strains of gonococci.

Methods: The susceptibilities to five antibiotics were evaluated five times on three lots of GC agar medium base from BIOCEN.