Automation of RIDA®GENE Helicobacter pylori PCR on the BD MAX™ System.

PCR detection of Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric biopsies allows the detection of this bacterium and the mutations associated with macrolide resistance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of RIDA®GENE H. pylori PCR (r-Biopharm) on a BD MAX™ System (Becton Dickinson).

[Presbytia: are eyeglasses unavoidable?].

The power of eye accommodation to close vision decreases with age. This physiological process, called presbytia (or presbyopia), occurs in all people reaching maturity, irrespective of sex and race. This paper describes the evolution of our knowledge concerning this phenomenon and the various means of correction utilized nowadays to compensate for the loss of accommodation power.

[Practical aspects of the evaluation of preoperative aniseikonia].

Ten years ago, Dr. Simone Delthil, who was one of the first, in France, to make researches into aniseikonia, departed from this life. This anniversary offers the opportunity to the authors to recall that it is most desirable, before operating, that theoretical modifications of the size of retinian pictures should be considered, according to the selected compensatory method, especially in the case of anisometropia or unilateral aphakia.