Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Isolated from Respiratory Specimens during Recent Two Years: Distribution and Clinical Significance
Original article PDF Min Kyoung Lee1, Yiel Hea Seo2, Ji Hoon Jeong2, Pil Whan Park2, Kyung Hee Kim2, Jeong Yeal Ahn2, Jin Yong Kim3, Jeong Woong Park3 1School of Medicine, Gachon University School of Medicine, Departments of 2Laboratory Medicine, 3Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon, Korea Corresponding to Yiel Hea Seo, E-mail: seoyh@gilhospital.com Ann […]
Epidemiologic Characteristics of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Korea, 1995-2010: Microbiological Diagnosis versus Clinical Diagnosis
Original article PDF Kyoung-Jin Park, Kyung Sun Park, Nam Yong Lee Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Nam Yong Lee, E-mail: micro.lee@samsung.com Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):92-97. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.92Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Background: The aim of the present study was to […]
Evaluation of a ChromID C. difficile Agar for the Isolation of Clostridium difficile
Original article PDF Ji-Sook Yim, Seock-Mi Hwang, Myungsook Kim, Hee-Joung Lim, Saeam Shin, Hae-Sun Chung, Heejung Kim, Kyungwon Lee Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Heejung Kim, E-mail: hjkim12@yuhs.ac Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):88-91. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.88Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Background: […]
Basic Concepts of Bacterial Taxonomy
Original article PDF Young Sook Kim1, Sook-Jin Jang2 Departments of 1Radiology, and 2Laboratory Medicine, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea Corresponding to Sook-Jin Jang, E-mail: sjbjang@chosun.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):79-87. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.79Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract The three components of taxonomy are classification, nomenclature and identification. Traditionally, bacterial classification and identification were […]
Laboratory Experience in Phenotypic and Molecular Identification of Blastomyces dermatitidis First Isolated in Korea
Case report PDF Kyung Sun Park, Chang-Seok Ki, Nam Yong Lee Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Nam Yong Lee, E-mail: micro.lee@samsung.com Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):114-116. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.114Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Blastomycosis, endemic in North America, has been hardly reported in Korea. We […]
A Case of Bacteremia Due to Microbacterium oleivorans Identified by 16S rRNA Sequencing Analysis
Case report PDF Bo Hyun Kim, Mi-Kyung Lee Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Kyung Lee, E-mail: cpworld@cau.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):110-113. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.110Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Microbacterium oleivorans is a gram-positive, coryneform rod bacterium. The pathogenic potential of the Microbacterium species has recently been […]
Detection of Trichomonas vaginalis, Gardnerella vaginalis, and Candida Species in Affirm VPIII, Papanicolaou Smear Test and Gram Stain
Original article PDF Kye Hyun Kim1, Tae-Hyoung Kim2, Jun Hyung Lee3, Tae Jin Lee4, Mi-Kyung Lee3 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Departments of 2Urology, 3Laboratory Medicine, and 4Pathology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Kyung Lee, E-mail: cpworld@cau.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2012;15(3):104-109. https://doi.org/10.5145/KJCM.2012.15.3.104Copyright © […]