Neomycin robertson’s cooked meat medium (N.RCM) for the selective isolation of anaerobes.

As Robertson’s cooked meat medium (RCM) promotes the simultaneous multiplication of facultative anaerobes along with anaerobes, it may be interfered with the isolation rate of anaerobes. In the present study RCM was made selective to overcome this difficulty by the incorporation of Neomycin. The efficacy of modified RCM was evaluated by growing stock cultures of various anaerobes and aerobes well as by inoculating clinical specimen directly and comparing the results with routine RCM. Among the 160 stock cultures of aerobes 8 of the 28 neomycin resistant aerobes grew in N.RCM but none of the 132 neomycin sensitive aerobes. Out of the 150 clinical samples tested in the study,77 anaerobes and 97 aerobes were isolated from routine RCM whereas 89 anaerobes and 8 Neomycin resistant aerobes from NRCM (i.e. NRCM inhibited 91.7% of aerobes and gave an increased yield of 13.5% anaerobes).These findings suggest that NRCM can be employed to suppress the aerobes and at the same time to enhance the isolation of anaerobes.

Peasants as beneficiaries of the new rural cooperative medical system (NRCM) in Beijing / 中华医院管理杂志

Objective To find out whether the benefits entitled to peasants have increased since NRCM is in place in Beijing, and to analyze the extent of such benefit increase if any. Methods The first is to calculate changes to the reimbursement ratio of hospitalization charges for the peasants covered by NRCM; the second is to calculate the role played by NRCM for alleviating the catastrophic health expenditure of peasants. Results The reimbursement ratio of hospitalization charges for peasants covered by NRCM rose from 32.4% in 2004 to 45.4% in 2007. Survey data from districts and counties in the sampling test indicate that NRCM has gained an ever growing power in alleviating the catastrophic expenditure of peasants. Conclusion Recent years have witnessed a marked growth in medical charges, peasants' income, and peasants' demand for medical services. Against such a background, NRCM can still sharply downsize their catastrophic health expenditure, and its role keeps intensifying. This proves that the fund raising speed of NRCM has greatly outpaced the growth of medical charges and peasants' demand for medical services, and NRCM is playing a more effective role in alleviating the peasants from poverty caused by diseases.