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Milligan Four-and-a-half Years Experience in the Serodiagnosis of this Disease Technical Communication A.Y. Chereshsky, R.V. Metcalfe, K.A. Bettelheim Polyvinylpyrrolidone as a Substitute for Bovine Serum 161 Albumin in Microplate Work. SCAP- A Survey of Coagul ation Assay Performance 152 S.M. Henry K.F. Smith Continuing Education Identification of Haemophilus Influenza from Respiratory 154 Lipoproteins 162 Specimens C.W. Small R. Menzies, C. Sloan Glaxo Microbiology Meeting 167 Report on the 14th International Congress of Chemotherapy 23-28 June 1985 Update on Ceftazidime -M .R. Jones 167 The Bactericidal Assay: Summary of a workshop held at the 14th International Congress of Chemotherapy - D.A. Bremner 168 Prevention of Needle Prick Accidents- P.N. Goldwater, R. Law, A.D. Nixon 169 Campylobacter Pyloridis: Its Hi story, Characteristi cs and Clinical Relevance - A. Morris 169 An Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Techn ique for th e Detection of Streptococcus Sui s Type 2 - I. D. Robertson 171 Sore Throats. M Types and Post Streptococcal Sequelae, Auckland 1982-1985 - D. Lennon, R. Hill, D. Martin , J. Newman, L. Taylor 172 Epidemiology Typing - For whom is it a Service?- D. Martin 177 A Two-year Survey of Branhamella Catarrhal is in Dunedin Hospital - J.B. Sm ith, B.M. Lockwood 177 S. Typhi Infection in Adults- A.B. Ellis-Pegler, J. Clark, D. Downey 178 Comparison of two tests that detect low frequency resistance to Cefotaxime and Ceftriaxone- D. MacC ul loch 178 Q.T.A. Examination Application Lift-Out 173 The Pacific Way 179 The Case for Vaccination for Hepatitis B for New Zealand Laboratory Workers - W. Wil son 180 Presidential Address- C. Campbell 187 Book Review 182 Registered Medical Laboratory Technologists Badge 194 Letters to the Editor 182 41stAGM 195 1984 Eli Lilly Award 185 41st SGM 196 In stitute Business 187 Poets Corner 197 Comments on Dr Schwartz Tour 188 Coming Events 197 Membership Report 189 New Products & Services 199 Branch News 190 Situations Vacant 202 NZIMLT Library 190 Work Wanted 202 Technical Assistants Exam Resu lts 193 Apology 193 Awards & Prizes 194 SUBSCRIPTIONS Intending contributors should submit their material to the Subscriptions to the Journal for non-members Editor, D. Dixon-Mclver, Biochemistry Laboratory, National requiring delivery in New Zealand is $NZ25.00 for 1 Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, or The Editor, year surface mail paid. Single issues are $NZ8.00 P.O. Box 35-276, Auckland 10, New Zealand. Acceptance surface mail paid. is at the discretion of the Editor, and no undertaking is given Subscription to the Journal for non-members that any article will be published in a particular issue. The requ iring delivery overseas is $NZ25.00 for 1 year copy deadline for each issue is the first of the month prior to plus $NZ4.20 surface mail paid. All subscriptions the month of publication. except for single issues are due in February. ADVERTISER INQUIRIES Inquiries regarding advertising rates and copy or blocks DIRECTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS for advertising should be addressed to the Advertising From Vol. 36 No. 1 al l papers published will be in the form Manager, Trish Reilly, 48 Towai St, St Heliers, Auckland 5, known as "Vancouver Style" or Uniform Requirements for Phone 555-057. Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals. Full details may be found in the New Zealand Journal of Medical DATES OF PUBLICATION Laboratory Technology, Vol. 36, No.4, page 90 to 109 or The months of publication for 198'5 are March, May, from the Editor. August and November. Th is Journal is abstracted by: Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Cumulative Index Nursing and Al li ed Health Literature, Current Clinical Chemistry, Hospital Abstracts, lnstitut nautchnoi informatsii. Contributions to the Journal do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor, nor the policy of the Council of the Institute. 148 N.Z.J. Med. Lab. Techno/., 1985 T.H. Pullar Memorial Address Brian Main Mr President, Guests, Members of the Institute, Health Department pays lip service to the policy of removing the It is now nineteen years since Dr "Thos" Pullar, in whose present examination system from the MLTB to Education memory this address is given, died . Many of you present today Department control be itTechnicallnstitute, A.A.V.A. or University would not have known him but to others and particularly those but is not committed to this policy in any time frame. There is a from Palmerston North where he worked from 1937-1963 this directive that boards should be self supporting from fees, etc., occasion will, I am sure, bring back memories of a man of high and there have been suggestions of examination fees rising to principles who made a great contribution to clinical pathology and $150-$200 per paper. There is firmly held opinion in high places who was intensely interested in the training and welfare of that medical laboratory technologists are overtrained and that the medical laboratory technologists in this country. My own solution to all our examination problems would be to register involvement with him was brief being limited to a searching medical laboratory technologists at the NZCS level. I am sure that scrutiny during my C.O.P. examination in 1953 in Wellington. I do not have to spell out the consequences of this occurring. It However I became aware of his concerns and involvement in would of course mean that the MLTB would be reduced to similar medical technologist education in subsequent years as I began function and castings of other registration boards. my political involvement with the NZIMLT. I have come to the firm conclusion in recent months that if we I should like at this stage to thank your Council for inviting me to want medical laboratory technologists to have a degree then it deliver this memorial address. In earlier years it was the practice has to be by the reverse method being adopted in Christchurch to invite pathologists of note and I remember being a member of and now accepted in our laboratory in Dunedin, i.e., trainees are Council when it was decided to depart from this practice and engaged with a B.Sc. and trained in Medical Laboratory instead ask senior medical laboratory technologists to deliver a Technology to obtain registration with the Board. If the Institute keynote address at this time. I deem it an honour and privilege that was to adopt this course and proceed with it on a nationwide I should have been chosen in this context. I trust that when I have basis I am sure that to mount the present Certificate and concluded Council wi ll not regret their invitation. Specialist Certificate training and examinations within the The theme of this 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the NZIMLT Technical In stitutes would prove to be a much easier concept to is "Towards the Year 2000" and I should like to speak to you today sell to Government than the Massey concept. Many of you will say on where the profession of medical laboratory technology is going that there wi ll be too many specialists produced by this concept as we move towards that time. I am bound to tell you that I do not and that smaller laboratories will not be able to run properly at li ke wha:t I see and that unless we the members take active and weekends and after-hours. My answer is that you would be somewhat drastic steps in the next few years to improve our dealing with a much more mature person who has been through situation we may well see the demise of the profession as we a three year learn ing process and that it shou ld be possible to know it by that time in this country.