Table 6. Characteristic of line probe assays for the identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Assay Manufacturer Target Intended use Species GenoType Mycobacterium CM/AS Bruker 23 rRNA gene Culture only CM Ver 2.0MTBC, M. avium, M. intracellulare, M. chelonae, M. abscessus complex, M. fortuitum group,M. gordonae, M. scrofulaceum, M. szulgai, M. interjectum, M. kansasii, […]
Table 5. Commercial molecular assays assays for M. tuberculosis complex
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Assay Type Gene Target Manufacturer, headquarters Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct (AMTD) test isothermal transcriptase-mediated amplification assay 16S rRNA gene Detection of MTBC Hologic, Canada AdvanSure TB/NTM real-time PCR kit Real-time PCR IS6110 insertion sequence for MTBCITS regions for NTM […]
Table 4. Characteristics of three MALDI-TOF MS systems for mycobacteria
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Company Vitek MS PRIME MALDI Biotyper Sirius IDSys LT® bioMérieux Bruker Daltonics ASTA Panel Disposable slide with 48 positions 192 isolates can be tested per run Reuseable slide with 96 well Disposable or reuseable 6 × 16 μFocus Plate […]
Table 3. Characteristics of immunochromatography assays for M. tuberculosis complex
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Assay Type Target Time to result Media Performance Manufacturer, headquarters SD BiolineTM TB Ag MPT64 Device MPT64 Ag 15 min Solid cultureLiquid culture Sensitivity: 98.6%Specificity: 100% Abbott, Korea STANDARD Q TB MPT64 Ag Device MPT64 Ag 10 min Solid […]
Table 2. Current status of mycobacterial testing in clinical laboratories in South Korea
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Methods No. % AFB smear (n = 238) Ziehl–Neelsen 127 53.4 Fluorochrome 110 46.2 Kinyoun 1 0.4 Culture – solid media (n = 123) Ogawa 115 93.5 Lowenstein-Jensen 8 6.5 Culture – liquid media (n […]
Table 1. Classification of mycobacteria proposed by Gupta et al. [10] in 2018
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea Download table Group Genus Clade Species Slow-growing Mycobacterium “Tuberculosis-Simiae” clade M. tuberculosis complex, M. avium complex,M. intracellulare, M. gordonae clade,M. kansasii clade, M. arupense,M. lentiflavum, M. simiae clade,M. scrofulaceum, M. parascrofulaceum,M. gastri, M. interjectum,as well as several other slow-growing species Mycolicibacter […]
Complete genome analysis of representative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains prevalent in Korea during 2014-2017
Original article Harshad Lade1*, Tae-Im Kim1*, Jung-Min Kim1, Yong-Kyun Kim2, Kibum Jeon3, Hyun Soo Kim4, Han-Sung Kim5, Wonkeun Song6, Jae-Seok Kim1 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, Korea2Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sahmyook Medical Center, Seoul, Korea3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Hangang Sacred Heart […]
Current status of mycobacterial identification in clinical laboratories in Korea
Review article Si Hyun Kim1, Jeong Hwan Shin2 1Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Paik Institute for Clinical Research, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea Correspondence to Jeong Hwan Shin E-mail: jhsmile@paik.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):16. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2025.28.3.5Received on 30 June 2025, Revised on 30 July 2025, Accepted […]
Table 3. Low discrimination results of 22 Haemophilus influenzae strains by VITEK 2 system
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):13. Evaluation of VITEK 2 system and VITEK MS system for the identification of Haemophilus species: a diagnostic accuracy study Download table VITEK 2 results of identification Strains (n) H. influenzae / H. haemolyticus 6 H. influenzae / A. urae 5 H. influenzae / H. parainfluenzae 3 H. influenzae / H. parahaemolyticus […]
Table 2. Identification results from VITEK MS and VITEK 2 systems for 118 Haemophilus strains
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):13. Evaluation of VITEK 2 system and VITEK MS system for the identification of Haemophilus species: a diagnostic accuracy study Download table VITEK MS (n, %) VITEK 2 (n, %) hpd real-time PCR and 16S rRNA sequencing H. influenzae (115, 100) H. influenzae (88, 76.5) H. influenzae Low discrimination (22, 19.1) […]