Table 1. Comparison of bacterial identification between ASTA MicroIDSys and Bruker Biotyper for 418 Enterobacterales isolates
Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23:135-148. Evaluation of the Performance of ASTA MicroIDSys, a Novel Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System, in Identification of Bacterial Clinical Isolates Download table Reference identification (number of isolates) ASTA MicroIDSys, number of isolates Bruker Biotyper, number of isolates Correctly identified Mis-ID Invalid-ID Correctly identified Mis-ID Invalid-ID Genus […]
Table 3. Summary of discrepancies in 13 strains showing discrepant results between modified-EUCAST rapid direct and conventional ASTs
Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23:125-134. Performance of Modified-EUCAST Rapid Direct Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Clinical Urine Samples Download table Species Antimicrobial agent Modified-EUCAST rapid direct AST Conventional AST MIC by E-test (μg/ml) Interpretation Escherichia coli Aztreonam R S 0.5 ME Escherichia coli Cefepime R S 4 MnE Escherichia coli Cefepime R S 8 MnE Escherichia coli […]
Table 2. Performance of modified-EUCAST rapid direct AST compared with conventional AST
Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23:125-134. Performance of Modified-EUCAST Rapid Direct Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Clinical Urine Samples Download table Antimicrobial agents Total CA MnE ME VME No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) Ampicillin 103 99 (96.1) 3 (2.9) 0 (0) 1 (1.0) Piperacillin-tazobactam 103 94 […]
Table 1. AST performance of modified-EUCAST rapid direct and conventional AST methods
Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23:125-134. Performance of Modified-EUCAST Rapid Direct Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Clinical Urine Samples Download table Antimicrobial agents Modified-EUCAST rapid direct AST Conventional AST Unweighted kappa (95% CI) Weighted kappa (95% CI) S I R S I R Ampicillin 12 3 88 12 0 91 0.83 (0.77 – […]
Fig. 1. Flowchart of urine samples selection
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Table 1. Clinical performance of STANDARD F Strep A Ag FIA and Sofia Strep A FIA compared to throat culture (n=372)
Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23:117-124. Performance Evaluation of STANDARD F Strep A Ag FIA for Diagnosis of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis Download table Rapid antigen detection tests Results Throat culture Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) GAS Positive GAS Negative STANDARD F Strep A Ag FIA Positive 96 13 95.0% (88.8-98. 4%) 95.2% (91.9-97. […]
Fig. 1. Distribution of age and sex of STANDARD F Strep A Ag FIA positive patients
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Performance Evaluation of STANDARD F Strep A Ag FIA for Diagnosis of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis
Original article Seon A Jo1, Sang Hyuk Ma2, Seungjun Lee3, Sunjoo Kim3,4 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Daewoo General Hospital, Geoje, 2Department of Pediatrics, Changwon Fatima Hospital, Changwon,3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, 4Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongsang Institute of Health Sciences, Jinju, Korea Corresponding to Sunjoo Kim, E-mail: sjkim8239@hanmail.net Ann Clin Microbiol […]
Performance of Modified-EUCAST Rapid Direct Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Clinical Urine Samples
Original article Justin Mugiraneza1, Mijung Kwon2, Daewon Kim2, Sang-Guk Lee2, Hyukmin Lee2, Dongeun Yong2 1Department of Global Health Security, Yonsei University Graduate school of Public Health, Seoul, 2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Dongeun Yong, E-mail: deyong@yuhs.ac Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23(3):125-134. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2020.23.3.2Received […]
Evaluation of the Performance of ASTA MicroIDSys, a Novel Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System, in Identification of Bacterial Clinical Isolates
Original article Changseung Liu1*, Eunjung Lee2*, Dokyun Kim1, Seok Hoon Jeong1 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 2Department of Clinical Pathology, Sangji University College of Science, Wonju, Korea *These authors contributed equally to this work. Corresponding to Dokyun Kim, E-mail: kyunsky@yuhs.ac Ann Clin Microbiol 2020;23(3):135-148. […]