Fig. 1. Cascade reporting examples for Enterobacterales.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:51-57. Introduction to the revised international guidelines on breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing Download image
Fig. 2. Reading graphs of blood culture bottle of the first patient (A) showed positive flag within less than a day after starting to incubate in the automated blood culture system. Additional incubation of blood cultures revealed no change of peaks in reading graphs until 5 days. (B) Normal positive flag within a day showed abrupt peak at 13 hours after incubation.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:37-40. False positive cases in automated blood culture systems due to hyperleukocytosis Download image
Fig. 1. Gram stain of initial blood culture of positive signal showed no bacteria, but with many WBCs (×1,000, left-first case; right-second case). WBC, white blood cell.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:37-40. False positive cases in automated blood culture systems due to hyperleukocytosis Download image
Fig. 1. Accurate identification rates for each combination of reagent kit and MALDI-TOF MS system at the species (A) and genus (B) levels. MALDI-TOF MS, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization timeof-flight mass spectrometry.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:19-27. Evaluation of two commercial kits for rapid pathogen identification directly from positive blood cultures by matrix-associated laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry Download image
Fig. 1. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences of Blastocystis small subunit rDNA in this study. A phylogenetic tree was conducted using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean clustering with 1,000 bootstrap replications using Geneious Prime (Biomatters Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand).
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:11-17. Epidemiology and subtype distribution of Blastocystis among asymptomatic volunteers in Korea: a multicenter study Download image
Fig. 1. Morphological characterization of the Gemella sanguinis clinical isolates. (A) Small, circular, nonpigmented and translucent to opaque bacterial colonies grew on a blood agar plate. (B) Microscopic f inding of Gemella sanguinis shows singles, pairs or short chains of gram-positive cocci (Gram stain, 1,000×).
Ann Clin Microbiol 2022;25:155-160. A case report of Gemella sanguinis isolated from blood cultures of a patient with mitral valve prolapse Download image
Fig. 2. AMRs of Acinetobacter baumannii in various clinical conditions. (A) CA versus HA, (B) ICU versus non-ICU-admitted patients, (C) inpatients versus outpatients. *Statistically significant (P-value < 0.05). Abbreviations: AMR, antimicrobial resistance rates; CA, communityacquired infection; HA, healthcare-associated infection; ICU, intensive care unit; PIP, piperacillin; TZP, piperacillin-tazobactam; SAM, ampicillin-sulbactam; CAZ, ceftazidime; FEP, cefepime; IPM, imipenem; MEM, meropenem; AMK, amikacin; GEN, gentamicin; TOB, tobramycin; CIP, ciprofloxacin; MIN, minocycline; TGC, tigecycline; CST, colistin
Ann Clin Microbiol 2022;25:137-145. Antimicrobial resistance patterns of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from vulnerable patients in Korea, 2021 Download image
Fig. 1. AMRs of Acinetobacter baumannii (A) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa blood isolates (B). Abbreviations: AMR, antimicrobial resistance rates; PIP, piperacillin; SAM, ampicillin-sulbactam; TZP, piperacillin-tazobactam; CAZ, ceftazidime; FEP, cefepime; IPM, imipenem; MEM, meropenem; AMK, amikacin; GEN, gentamicin; TOB, tobramycin; CIP, ciprofloxacin; MIN, minocycline; TGC, tigecycline; CST, colistin; AZT, aztreonam.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2022;25:137-145. Antimicrobial resistance patterns of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from vulnerable patients in Korea, 2021 Download image
Fig. 1. Differences between the old & new AST algorithm of the QMAC-dRAST. The new AST algorithm judges that bacterial growth is inhibited if there is no decrease in the brightness of the image. In the new AST algorithm, bacterial growth is considered to have occurred actually only when the brightness of the image decreased. AST, antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2022;25:109-118. Clinical usefulness of the QMAC-dRAST system for AmpC β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales Download image
Fig. 2. Trends of Ct values of 31 patients with follow-up SARS-CoV2-PCR tests (A) and comparison of the severity of COVID-19 between patients in convalescent period and patients in early infection period (B). The trend lines of the recovery period were indicated by solid lines, and the trend lines of the early infection period were indicated by dotted lines. Ct, cycle of threshold; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.
Ann Clin Microbiol 2022;25:103-107. Laboratory indicators for convalescence in SARS-CoV-2 positive cases with high Ct value Download image