clinical microbiology laboratory
Evaluation of the Sirscan Automated Zone Reader in a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... Comparison of zone sizes measured by a Sirscan automated reader with those measured by caliper. Over a 4-month period, 368 fresh clinical isolates were tested prospectively by both methods in the Clinical ...
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Applications of MALDI TOF MS in Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... In Laboratory Medicine, Twenty first Century is the era of evolution of automated ...but Microbiology utomated methods in day to machine cannot think or exercise and moreover are expensive, very little ...
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Feasibility of a Molecular Screening Method for Detection of Salmonella enterica and Campylobacter jejuni in a Routine Community Based Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... routine clinical microbiology ...routine clinical microbiology ...routine clinical microbiology laboratory with ...
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A Genomic Day in the Life of a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... enhancing clinical microbiology workflow, decreasing patient length of stay, and re- ducing hospital costs ...a clinical microbiology laboratory to identify unknown ...the ...
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Rising Stakes for Health Care Associated Infection Prevention: Implications for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... C onsider the following three scenarios related to the role of the clinical microbiology laboratory (CML) in health care-associated infection (HAI) surveillance and preven- tion. In scenario 1, ...
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Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... medicine. Clinical practice guidelines are an important outgrowth of the concept of evidence-based med- ...developed clinical practice guidelines that directly affect the practice of diagnostic ...
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Evaluation of the Automated Phoenix System for Potential Routine Use in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... cocci (CNS) and enterococci were 92 and 86%, respectively, findings comparable to previous results (10). Eight CNS and four enterococcus strains were misidentified by the Phoenix system. A first analysis showed that E. ...
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A Critical Appraisal of the Role of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections
... comparative clinical trials have been reported, but these trials are generally designed to compare the efficacy of a new antibiotic with that of a currently prescribed ...from clinical trials is lacking, ...
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Lowering the Barriers to Routine Whole Genome Sequencing of Bacteria in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... Mason and colleagues add to their published work, which correlates S. aureus genome data with phenotypic susceptibility interpretations (3, 13, 14). In their current article, they compare three data analysis software ...
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Identification of Burkholderia spp in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Comparison of Conventional and Molecular Methods
... B. cepacia appeared to be genuine B. cepacia when PCR-RFLP was considered the gold standard for identification. This find- ing implies that the different Dutch strain contributors possibly misidentified at least seven ...
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Implications of Bacteriophage and Bacteriophage Component Based Therapies for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... 16 to 18 h at 37°C, the degree of phage activity is classified as confluent lysis, opaque lysis, semiconfluent lysis, several plaques, or negative. These approaches can be time- and labor-intensive and may not be ...
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Three year experience with sonicated vascular catheter cultures in a clinical microbiology laboratory
... An analysis was done to determine whether any quantitative relationship existed between the number of organisms removed by sonicated catheter culture and the frequency of associated bloo[r] ...
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Prospective Evaluation of a Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System in a Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for Identification of Bacteria and Yeasts: a Bench by Bench Study for Assessing the Impact on Time to Identification and Cost Effectiveness
... Several limitations to our study exist. Some of the isolates pro- cessed may have been repeat isolates from the same patient, and the actual number of unique isolates assessed is less than 952. However, this study was ...
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Point Counterpoint: Molecular Testing for Infectious Diseases Should Be Done in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... different laboratory and near-patient ...lecular laboratory that performs highly complex, laboratory-de- veloped tests for infectious diseases, hematopathology, oncology, and genetic conditions ...
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The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director in the United States Hospital Setting
... medical microbiology training programs exist (3 programs are accred- ited by both CPEP and ACGME, for a total of 20 unique programs in the United ...ical microbiology or public health laboratory ...
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Point Counterpoint: The Automated Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Fact or Fantasy?
... qualified laboratory per- sonnel, raising questions about the ability of laboratories to han- dle current and future testing ...medical laboratory professionals is owed to an inability to train enough ...
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Burkholderia pseudomallei: Challenges for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... pathognomonic clinical syndrome and the ability to exhibit clinical manifestations that mimic other diseases, such as cancer or tuberculosis (5, ...exposure. Clinical manifestations of the disease ...
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Evaluation of serum gentamicin assay procedures for a clinical microbiology laboratory
... Averaged values of percent maximum binding for clinical samples and HS-gentamicin samples were used to determine gentamicin concentration in micrograms per milliliter.. Kits in the 100- [r] ...
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Point Counterpoint: Is the Era of Viral Culture Over in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory?
... Influenza diagnosis and surveillance are probably among the best examples of where culture still has a significant role. Each day and each season around the globe, influenza viruses are drifting. The pace and the pattern ...
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Response of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory to Emerging (New) and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
... on-site microbiology services that test for reemerging infectious diseases 24 h/day, 7 ...on-site microbiology services are essential, if not ...the clinical presentations of which could mimic those ...
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