Rectal swab
A Single Negative Result for van Quantitative PCR on Enrichment Broth Can Replace Five Rectal Swab Cultures in Screening for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci
... ABSTRACT The increased incidence of infections by vancomycin-resistant Entero- coccus (VRE) causes an accumulation of patients who are either colonized with VRE or flagged as potentially colonized with VRE. Since such ...
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Culture of Rectal Swab Specimens for Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Decreases Time to Test Result While Preserving Assay Sensitivity Compared to Bulk Fecal Specimens
... methods. Rectal swabs and bulk fecal specimens (fresh or preserved in Cary-Blair transport medium) are routinely accepted for enteric bacterial ...specific swab type and culture conditions did have ...
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COMPARATIVE FREQUENCY OF DETECTION OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC E. COLI, SALMONELLA AND SHIGELLA IN RECTAL SWAB CULTURES FROM INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
... COLI, SALMONELLA AND SHIGELLA IN RECTAL SWAB CULTURES FROM COMPARATIVE FREQUENCY OF DETECTION OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC E. Services[r] ...
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Molecular analysis of partial VP 2 gene amplified from rectal swab samples of diarrheic dogs in Pakistan confirms the circulation of canine parvovirus genetic variant CPV 2a and detects sequences of feline panleukopenia virus (FPV)
... from rectal swab samples of infected domestic and stray dogs from all areas of district ...40 rectal swab samples were collected from diarrheic dogs from different areas of district ...
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Antibiotic Sensitivity of the Vibrio cholera isolated from rectal swab of Golestan′ patients. (Summer 2005)
... اﺮﻠﮐ ﻮﯾﺮﺒﯾو ﯽﮑﯿﺗﻮﯿﺑ ﯽﺘﻧآ نﺎﺘﺴﺑﺎﺗ رد نﺎﺘﺴﻠﮔ نﺎﺘﺳا نارﺎﻤﯿﺑ یﺎﻫ ﻪﻧﻮﻤﻧ زا هﺪﺷ اﺪﺟ یﺎﻫ.. 1384 ﺪﺷﺎﺑ ﯽﻣ. ﯽﺳرﺮﺑ شور :.[r] ...
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Evaluation of targeted antimicrobial prophylaxis for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy: a prospective cohort trial
... conducted. Rectal swab cultures plated on non-selective blood agar and on selective MacConkey agar supplemented with ciprofloxacin identified ciprofloxacin-susceptible and – resistant gram-negative bacteria ...
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Rapid Detection of Antimicrobial Resistant Organism Carriage: an Unmet Clinical Need
... with rectal swabs had a sensitivity of 50%, which was better than that of direct culture from rectal swab specimens but which was none- theless complicated by a high level of PCR inhibition ...from ...
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Factors That Influence Confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Positivity by Molecular Methods
... of rectal swabs (the second-most common nonvalidated specimen received), exceeded 90% for the Roche and Abbott assay and was 87% for the BD assay, which was actually higher than confirmation associated with certain ...
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Retrospective Assessment of Transcription Mediated Amplification Based Screening for Trichomonas vaginalis in Male Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic Patients
... and rectal swab specimens on the basis of an off-label validation executed in-house by the Wheaton Franciscan ...and rectal collections, were sub- jected to analysis using ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Colonizing and Infecting Isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae
... Definitions. In patients without K. pneumoniae infection, K. pneumoniae colonization was defined as a positive rectal swab culture for K. pneumoniae at any point during the hospital admission. For patients ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing for Analyses of Clonality of Candida albicans Strains in Taiwan
... Three isolates, 18-1, 18-2, and 18-3 from the sputum, urine, and rectal swab, respectively, from one intensive care unit patient, P18, possessed different PFGE and MLST types.. This is f[r] ...
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Strategies for prevention of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy infections
... However, 25% of urologists prescribed augmented prophy- laxis in the empiric group, which may have potentially low- ered the inherent sepsis rate in the control group. In addition, 88% of men who received appropriate ...
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Colonization sites in carriers of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria
... one rectal swab specimen was available (totalling 12,436 ...the rectal swab culture only in 326 of 588 ESBL-GNB carriers ...(13.9%) rectal swab cultures remained ...illustrate ...
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Association of Nonpolio Enteroviral Infection in the Central Nervous System of Children With Febrile Seizures
... Results. No enterovirus was isolated from cell culture of CSF, throat swab, or rectal swab samples. All samples were screened for the presence of enteroviral sequences using a sensitive PCR method ...
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Rapid Diagnosis of Cholera Caused by Vibrio cholerae O139
... of rectal swab cultures in alkaline-peptone water were collected from 6,497 patients with watery ...the rectal swab cultures and the antigen detection assays ...
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Evaluation of Self Collected Glans and Rectal Swabs from Men Who Have Sex with Men for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Use of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests
... and rectal swab specimens from men who have sex with men (MSM) may be appropriate, convenient specimens for ...glans swab specimen, subjects enrolled early in the study rolled a Dacron swab ...
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Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Strand Displacement Amplification and Relevance of the Amplification Control for Use with Vaginal Swab Specimens
... Vaginal swab specimens may be preferable to cervical swab or urine specimens for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae because of the ease of specimen collection and ...vaginal ...
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Phenotypic Characterization of ESBL-Producing Escherichia coli from Animal Feacal Dung
... feacal swab samples and 150 intestinal swab samples recovered from the carcass of animals slaughtered in different abattoirs in Abakaliki metropolis were phenotypically investigated for ESBL production by ...
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Effective biofilm removal and changes in bacterial biofilm building capacity after wound debridement with low-frequency ultrasound as part of wound bed preparation before skin grafting
... including swab sampling at patient admission, the results of swab sampling analysis showed discrepancies between initial classification of wounds based on the clinical picture with the results of wound sam- ...
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Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in asymptomatic men and women by PCR assay
... A concern with the use of DNA amplification in a clinical laboratory is the presence of inhibitors in the specimen. Sev- eral studies have noted specimens from culture-positive pa- tients which were initially PCR ...
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