Annals of Clinical Microbiology, The official Journal of the Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology

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Evaluation of Two Commercial Kits for Rapid Detection and Typing of Carbapenemase in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales

Original article Seunghoo Lee, Kyu-Hwa Hur, Yunsil Chung, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Na Kim, E-mail: mnkim@amc.seoul.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2021;24(2):45-53. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2021.24.2.3Received on 13 April 2021, Revised on 12 May 2021, Accepted on 13 May 2021, Published on 20 June 2021.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. Abstract Background: Rapid detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) is desirable to guide antimicrobial therapy and infection control. The NG-Test Carba5 (Carba5; NG Biotech, France) rapid multiplex lateral flow immunoassay and BD MAX Check-Points CPO Assay (CPO; BD Diagnostic Systems, USA) fully automated real-time PCR assay were evaluated for the detection of KPC, NDM, VIM, IMP, and OXA-48-like group in a culture colony compared to genotyping using conventional PCR.  Methods: Among the clinical isolates of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) collected from 2013 to 2019, up to 20 isolates for

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The Impact of Social Distancing on the Transmission of Acute Respiratory Viruses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Letter Kuenyoul Park, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Heungsup Sung, E-mail: sung@amc.seoul.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2021;24(1):27-29. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2021.24.1.4Received on 8 October 2020, Revised on 4 November 2020, Accepted on 12 November 2020, Published on 20 March 2021.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology. To the Editor, Since the first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on January 20, 2020, the Korean government reported a total of 8,799 COVID-19 patients until March 21, 2020, which were mainly attributed to community outbreaks [1]. This novel respiratory viral infection is so feared that the number of individuals using public transport has dropped dramatically. Moreover, enhanced social distancing measures, including refraining from going out and following personal hygiene practices such as hand washing and wearing a mask, were announced on March 21. These strategies successfully attenuated COVID-19 transmission

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Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and clarithromycin resistance rate from 2015 to 2018 in Korea: a repeated cross-sectional study

Original article Sunkyung Jung1, Mi-Na Kim2, Dongeun Yong3, Miae Lee4, Jongwook Lee5, Hae Kyung Lee6, Mi-Kyung Lee7, Helicobacter Study Group 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seegene Medical Foundation, Seoul, 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 4Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, 5Department of Laboratory Medicine, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, 6Departments of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, 7Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Kyung Lee, E-mail: cpworld@cau.ac.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2024;27(1):19-30. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2024.27.1.4The title has been changed from “Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and clarithromycin resistance rate from 2015 to 2018 using the laboratory information system of the Seegene Medical Foundation in Korea: a repeated cross-sectional study”.Received on 23

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Emergence of Vanrija humicola as a pathogen of urinary tract infections in Korea

Note Jae Won Lee, Eun Jeong Won, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Na Kim, E-mail: mnkim@amc.seoul.kr; Eun Jeong Won, E-mail: ejwon@amc.seoul.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2024;27(1):31-37. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2024.27.1.5Received on 5 February 2024, Revised on 5 March 2024, Accepted on 9 March 2024, Published on 20 March 2024.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Vanrija humicola, a yeast belonging to Trichosporonaceae, is rarely pathogenic. All cases of isolation of V. humicola were retrospectively reviewed from 2021 to 2023. A total of four V. humicola were isolated from urine samples. Organisms cultured for 5 days at 25°C produced yellow, dry and cerebriform

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Taenia saginata infection incidentally detected during workup for lymphoma from an 8-year-old boy in Korea: a case report

Case report Eun Jeong Won1, Min Jae Kim2, Jina Lee3, Hyery Kim4, Heungsup Sung1, Mi-Na Kim1 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, 2Department of Infectious Diseases, 3Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, 4Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Min Jae Kim, E-mail: nahani99@gmail.com; Eun Jeong Won, E-mail: ejwon@amc.seoul.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26(4):165-169. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2023.26.4.165Received on 22 September 2023, Revised on 8 November 2023, Accepted on 15 November 2023, Published on 20 December 2023.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Human taeniasis is presumed to have almost disappeared from Korea. Recently, we incidentally detected a Taenia saginata infection in an 8-year-old boy undergoing lymphoma

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Performance evaluation of 4-day versus 5-day blood cultures using the BD BACTEC FX system

Original article Jiyeon Kim, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Corresponding to Mi-Na Kim, E-mail: mnkim@amc.seoul.kr Ann Clin Microbiol 2023;26(4):125-137. https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2023.26.4.125Received on 26 October 2023, Revised on 1 December 2023, Accepted on 4 December 2023, Published on 20 December 2023.Copyright © Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Blood culture (BC) systems have evolved to increase sensitivity and reduce turnaround times. This study compared the performance of a 4-day versus a 5-day BC incubation period using the BD BACTEC™ FX (Becton, Dickinson and Company, USA). Methods: A total of 37,379 consecutive sets of BC were evaluated over a 3-month period in a

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