Table 3. Risk factors for cefotaxime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infections: A univariate analysis
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:59-66. Risk factor analysis of urinary tract infection by cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a simple and effective analysis using the National Health Insurance Data Sharing Service Download table Variable CTX-NR % (N) CTX-R % (N) P-value All 64.2 (1,573) 35.8 (877) Sex Female 44.1 (1,081) 22.7 (557) < 0.0001 […]
Table 2. Risk factors of cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infections: A multivariate analysis
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:59-66. Risk factor analysis of urinary tract infection by cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a simple and effective analysis using the National Health Insurance Data Sharing Service Download table Variable cefotaxime-resistant E. coli cefotaxime-resistant K. pneumoniae OR 95% CI OR 95% CI Sex Female 1 – 1 – Male 1.335 1.204-1.480 […]
Table 1. Risk factors for cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli urinary tract infections: A univariate analysis
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:59-66. Risk factor analysis of urinary tract infection by cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a simple and effective analysis using the National Health Insurance Data Sharing Service Download table Variable CTX-NR % (N) CTX-R % (N) P-value All 71.2 (8,994) 28.8 (3,638) Sex Female 58.2 (7,355) 21.7 (2,742) < 0.0001 […]
Table 2. New breakpoints of aminopenicillins for Enterobacterales according to infection types and formulations in EUCAST version 13
Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:51-57. Introduction to the revised international guidelines on breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing Download table Aminopenicillins Formulations/Infection types Disk diffusion (mm) MIC (µg/mL) S I R S I R Ampicillin IV ≥14 – ≤13 ≤8 – ≥16 Oral/uUTI only Ampicillin-sulbactam IV ≥14 – ≤13 ≤8 – ≥16 Oral/uUTI […]
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Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26:51-57. Introduction to the revised international guidelines on breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing Download table Organism Antimicobial agent Test/Report group Tier Disk diffusion (mm) MIC (µg/mL) 2022 2023 2022 2023 S I R S I R S I R S I R Enterobacterales Amikacin B 2 ≥ 17 15-16 ≤ 14 ≥ […]
SARS-CoV2 mutation detection experience using PowerChek SARS-CoV-2 S-gene Mutation Detection Kit
Letter to the editor Sun-Mi Cho, Yeon Hee Choi, Seong Geun Hong, Myung Seo Kang Department of Laboratory Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea Corresponding to Myung Seo Kang, E-mail: olive@chamc.co.kr; Seong Geun Hong, E-mail: hlseo@cha.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26(3):83-86. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2023.26.3.6Received on 7 March 2023, Revised on 19 July 2023, Accepted on […]
A survey of physicians’ perceptions of diagnostic tests for Clostridioides difficile infection
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Multicenter study on the molecular epidemiology of intestinal protozoan parasites in Korea
Original article Changseung Liu1, YeJin Oh2, Young Jin Ko3, Mi Hyun Bae4, Jung-Hyun Byun5, Eun Jeong Won6 Department of Laboratory Medicine, 1Gangneung Asan Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, 2Green Cross Laboratories (GC Labs), Yongin, 3Chosun University Hospital, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, 4Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, […]
Risk factor analysis of urinary tract infection by cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a simple and effective analysis using the National Health Insurance Data Sharing Service
Original article Jae Kwang Lee1, Yoonseon Park2, Young Ah Kim3 1Department of Research and Analysis, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, 2Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Internal Medicine Gil Medical Center, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea Corresponding to Young Ah […]
Introduction to the revised international guidelines on breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Review article Jae-Woo Chung Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea Corresponding to Jae-Woo Chung, E-mail: jwchung@dumc.or.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26(3):51-57. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2023.26.3.2Received on 13 September 2023, Revised on 18 September 2023, Accepted on 18 September 2023, Published on 20 September 2023.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology.This is an Open Access article […]