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  • noun A unit of volume being one millionth (10-6) of a cubic decimetre. Symbol: μl

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Examples

  • Contained in 500-microlitre (one microlitre is 1,000th of a cubic metre) tubes the size of a thumb, the clear solutions sit on trays stored at temperatures of - 20°C.

    A working life: The pathologist 2010

  • Hoffmann's CD4 count was above the 350 level and in June this year his CD4 count was 469 cells per microlitre of blood.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Treatment of the trial patients with Virodene dramatically reduced their PCR (virus count per microlitre of blood) and boosted their CD4 (white blood cell count per microlitre) in just one to three weeks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The patients were initially subjected to two-hourly blood tests and later once a week to monitor their PCR count, which in layman's terms is the virus count per microlitre of blood, and their CD4 count, the number of of lymphocytes or white blood cells which collectively make up the body's immune system, per microlitre.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The virus counts in the blood of some patients on Virodene for three weeks dropped below 4000 per microlitre of blood, the point at which doctors agree a cure is possible.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • They should be between 15 and 60 years old, weigh 55kg or more, have a platelet count of above 200,000 per microlitre and consider their blood and platelets safe for a patient.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • International guidelines set down in 2006 by the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) advised doctors to begin therapy when the patient's count of CD4 cells -- the key immune cells targeted by HIV -- reaches 200 cells or less per microlitre of blood.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • CD4 cells per microlitre or below, whether they have symptoms of AIDS or not.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • Therapy "should be considered" for non-symptomatic patients with more than 500 cells per microlitre, it said, adding: "There is no CD4 cell count threshold at which initiating therapy is contra-indicated," or inadvisable.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • However, no statistically robust correlation between gene structure and RDT detection rate for P. falciparum parasites at 200 parasites per microlitre was identified.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Joanne Baker 2010

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