Original article PDF Dae-Gu Son*, Eun-Hee Kwon, Hye-Gyung Bae, Woon-Bo Heo, Nan-Young Lee,Dong-Il Won, Kyung-Eun Song, Jang-Soo Suh, Won-Kil Lee Department of Plastic Surgery, Keimyung University, DongSan Medical Center*, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine Taegu, Korea Corresponding to Won-Kil Lee, E-mail: leewk@knu.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2002;5(2):84-96.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Bakground: In recent years, knowledge of bacterial resistance to antimicobials has expanded in important ways. Availability of an increasing number of antibiotics allows more precise individualization of resistance phenotypes and recording susceptibility results as patterns or phenotypes is valuable for both surveillance and patient care. If the patterns of resistance to panels of related antimicrobials are considered the underlying mechanisms can often be inferred. And the inferred mechanisms make the clinician to be advised to use alternative treatment. Interpretation of resistance phenotypes is based on the comparison of clinical isolates with prototype

Original article PDF Hyun-Ouk Song, Myoung-Hee Ahn, Han-Kyu Choi, Jae-Sook Ryu, Duk-Young Min, and Han-Il Ree Department of Parasitology & Institute of Biomedicine, Hanyang University, College of Mediciene, Department of Parasitology & Institute of Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Myoung-Hee Ahn, E-mail: mhahn@hanyang.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2004;7(1):66-71.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Background : We analysed 205 cases of parasitic infection that were confirmed at Dept. of Parasitology, Hanyang University, College of Medicine from January 1986 to December 2003. Methods : Parasitic worms were observed on gross examination or light microscope after treatment with lactophenol. Stool was examined with formalin-ether method for detection of eggs or protozoal cysts and scotch tape method was used for E. vermicularis eggs. In case of S. stercoralis, stool sample was incubated at 26℃ for 48 to 72 h to confirm filariform larvae. Commercial ELISA kit for T. canis and ELISA test

Case report PDF Sang Hoon Song1, Joon Jeong Park2, Kyo Sun Shin1, Sae Ik Joo1, Gwang Ja Lee2 , Kyoo Won Lee2, Hyun Lee1, Eui Chong Kim1 Department of Laboratory Medicine1, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul; and Department of Ophthalmology2, Cheil Eye Hospital, Daegu, Korea Corresponding to Eui-Chong Kim, E-mail: euichong@snu.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2006;9(2):131-136.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Colletotrichum is mainly a fungal pathogen of plants, but sporadic cases of human infection have been reported recently. Most of them are fungal keratitis and only a few cases have been reported worldwide. A 63-year-old female farmer developed foreign body sensation and watering in her left eye following trauma by rice leaves. At presentation, her visual acuity decreased and corneal ulcer and inflammation in anterior chamber were observed on a slit lamp examination. Numerous hyphae were found on Gram stain and a rapidly growing mold with cup-shaped acervuli and falcate

Original article PDF Wonkeun Song, Han-Sung Kim, Jae-Seok Kim, Hyun Soo Kim, Dong Hoon Shin, Saeam Shin, Min-Jeong Park Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Wonkeun Song, E-mail: swonkeun@hallym.or.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2016;19(4):83-87. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2016.19.4.83Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Background: We evaluated the carbapenem inactivation method (CIM) compared with the modified Hodge test (MHT) for the detection of carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacilli. Methods: A total of 61 isolates of carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE: 14 KPC, 7 GES- 5, 8 NDM-1, 9 VIM-2, 9 IMP-1, and 14 OXA-48-like), 34 isolates of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Pseudomonas spp. (14 VIM-2 and 20 IMP-6), and 70 carbapenem-nonsusceptible carbapenemase-negative isolates were included. The CIM and MHT were performed for all of the isolates. To perform the CIM, a meropenem disk was incubated with a suspension of the isolate to be tested and then on Mueller-Hinton agar with the