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) […]
Table 1. Primers and probe list used in the study
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 Target genes Primer or probe Sequences (5′–3′) hpd hpd822F GGT TAA ATA TGC CGA TGG TGT TG hpd952R TGC ATC TTT ACG CAC GGT GTA Pb896i (FAM) TTG […]
Evaluation of VITEK 2 system and VITEK MS system for the identification of Haemophilus species: a diagnostic accuracy study
Original article Yeon Chan Choi1*, Eun-Young Kim1*, Hyun Jin Choi1, Si Hyun Kim2, Eunkyoung You1, Ja Young Lee1, Jihyun Cho3, Seok Hoon Jeong4, Dokyun Kim4, Hyun Soo Kim5, Soo Hyun Kim6, Young Ah Kim7, Young Ree Kim8, Nam Hee Ryoo9, Jong Hee Shin10, Kyeong Seob Shin11, Young Uh12, Jeong Hwan Shin1 1Department of Laboratory Medicine […]
Fig. 2. Comorbidity-specific risk ratios for 2-year mortality in tuberculosis patients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. TB, tuberculosis; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
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Fig. 1. Comorbidity-specific risk ratios for 1-year mortality in tuberculosis patients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. TB, tuberculosis; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
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Table 2. Comparison of mortality rates in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis before and during pandemic phase of COVID-19
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):12. Clinical impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the quality of pulmonary tuberculosis management with national reimbursement data in Korea: a retrospective cohort study Download table Groups Time period Before COVID-19 (%)[Lower limit, Upper limit] During COVID-19 (%)[Lower limit, Upper limit] Log-rank P Total(n = 75,024) After 1 year 12.30 […]
Table 1. Analysis of the treatment discontinuation
Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):12. Clinical impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the quality of pulmonary tuberculosis management with national reimbursement data in Korea: a retrospective cohort study Download table Factors Entire period Initial intensive care period Maintenance treatment period β P β P β P Intercept -0.5190 -2.3590 -1.5494 Time […]
Clinical impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the quality of pulmonary tuberculosis management with national reimbursement data in Korea: a retrospective cohort study
Original article Young Ah Kim1, Jaekwang Lee2, Sunmin Lee3 Departments of 1Laboratory Medicine, 2Research and Analysis, 3Pulmonology Medicine, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea Correspondence to Young Ah Kim, E-mail: yakim@nhimc.or.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2025;28(3):12. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2025.28.3.1Received on 17 March 2025, Revised on 12 May 2025, Accepted on 15 May 2025, Published on 24 […]