Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases ► Detection/ Diagnosis

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 35  Number 8  August 20-27, 2015

Detection/ Diagnosis

Polymerase chain reaction, pyrosequencing, and culture of infected and uninfected site skin biopsy specimens cannot identify etiology of cellulitis.
Crisp JG et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2015 Aug 3.

Randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating multiplex polymerase chain reaction for pathogen identification and therapy adaptation in critical care patients with pulmonary or abdominal sepsis.
Tafelski S et al. J. Int. Med. Res. 2015 Jun (3) 364-77

Rapid and fully automated bacterial pathogen detection on a centrifugal-microfluidic LabDisk using highly sensitive nested PCR with integrated sample preparation.
Czilwik G et al. Lab Chip 2015 Aug 3.

Comparison between conventional culture and NAATs for the microbiological diagnosis in gonococcal infection
Serra-Pladevall J, et al. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, Aug 8, 2015.

Real-time PCR assays for genotyping of Cryptococcus gattii in North America.
Kelley EJ et al. BMC Microbiol. 2014 125

16S rRNA gene sequence-based identification of bacteria in automatically incubated blood culture materials from tropical sub-Saharan Africa.
Frickmann H et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (8) e0135923

Analytical performance of the automated multianalyte point-of-care mariPOC® for the detection of respiratory viruses.
Sanbonmatsu-Gámez S et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jul 18.

Development and evaluation of MALDI-TOF MS-based serotyping for Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Nakano S et al. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Aug 19.

New real time PCR assays for detection of inducible and acquired clarithromycin resistance in mycobacterium abscessus group.
Shallom SJ et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 12.

Identification of Nocardia species by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization - time of flight mass spectrometry.
Khot PD et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 12.

HIV drug resistance testing by high-multiplex "wide" sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq.
Lapointe H et al. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2015 Aug 17.

Diversity and antibiotic resistance profiles of Pseudomonads from a hospital wastewater treatment plant.
Santoro DO et al. J. Appl. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 18.