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1581Laboratory Evaluation of three HIV and Syphilis Combination Rapid Diagnostic Tests.

scientific article published in December 2014

2144. Performance of 2019 CLSI Ciprofloxacin Breakpoint Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Algorithms for Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Directly from Positive Blood Culture on the Accelerate Pheno™ System

21st Century Cures Act and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Clinical Implications in the Era of Multidrug Resistance

scientific article published in 2018

2290. Carbapenem vs. Piperacillin–tazobactam Definitive Therapy for Patients with Bloodstream Infections Due to Ceftriaxone Not Susceptible Escherichia coli or Klebsiella species

A Cost Analysis of Gyrase A Testing and Targeted Ciprofloxacin Therapy Versus Recommended 2-Drug Therapy for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection.

scientific article published in February 2018

A multisite implementation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to predict ciprofloxacin susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

A real-time quantitative PCR assay for evaluating Clostridium difficile adherence to differentiated intestinal Caco-2 cells.

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

Activity of Ceftolozane-Tazobactam and Ceftazidime-Avibactam against Beta-Lactam-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates

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Aerococcus urinae and Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole ⬇️

scientific article published on September 14, 2011

Answer to May 2015 Photo Quiz

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Engaging Project Managers to Increase Productivity

scientific article published on June 2016

Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Abiotrophia defectiva, Granulicatella adiacens, and Granulicatella elegans

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Burkholderia pseudomallei: Challenges for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) detection practices in California: What are we missing?

scientific article published in November 2017

Case-control study comparing de novo and daptomycin-exposed daptomycin-nonsusceptible Enterococcus infections

scientific article published on 17 January 2012

Ceftaroline restores daptomycin activity against daptomycin-nonsusceptible vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

scientific article

Ceftazidime/avibactam resistance associated with L169P mutation in the omega loop of KPC-2.

scientific article published on 7 February 2019

Ciprofloxacin May be Efficacious in Treating Wild-Type Gyrase A Genotype Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Ciprofloxacin-resistant Aeromonas hydrophila cellulitis following leech therapy

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) position statements on polymyxin B and colistin clinical breakpoints

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Clinical and Microbiological Aspects of β-Lactam Resistance in Staphylococcus lugdunensis

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Clinical impact of switching conventional enzyme immunoassay with nucleic acid amplification test for suspected Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea

scientific article published on 05 October 2012

Colistin MIC variability by method for contemporary clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli

scientific article

College of American Pathologists (CAP) Microbiology Committee Perspective: the Need for Verification Studies

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Combination therapy with daptomycin, linezolid, and rifampin as treatment option for MRSA meningitis and bacteremia

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

Comparison of the AmpliVue, BD Max System, and illumigene Molecular Assays for Detection of Group B Streptococcus in Antenatal Screening Specimens

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Continuing Challenges for the Clinical Laboratory for Detection of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article

Correction for Humphries and McKinnell, Continuing Challenges for the Clinical Laboratory for Detection of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on February 2016

Corrigendum: Digital Quantification of DNA Replication and Chromosome Segregation Enables Determination of Antimicrobial Susceptibility after only 15 Minutes of Antibiotic Exposure.

scientific article published in September 2017

Daptomycin nonsusceptible enterococci: an emerging challenge for clinicians

scientific article published in January 2011

De novo daptomycin-nonsusceptible enterococcal infections

scientific article published in April 2012

Detection of intestinal protozoa in the clinical laboratory

scientific article

Development of Daptomycin Susceptibility Breakpoints for Enterococcus faecium and Revision of the Breakpoints for Other Enterococcal Species by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Development of a novel real-time PCR assay with high-resolution melt analysis to detect and differentiate OXA-48-Like β-lactamases in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article

Diagnosis of Fatal Human Case of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infection by Metagenomic Sequencing, California, 2016.

scientific article published on October 2017

Digital Quantification of DNA Replication and Chromosome Segregation Enables Determination of Antimicrobial Susceptibility after only 15 Minutes of Antibiotic Exposure.

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Direct-from-blood culture disk diffusion to determine antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative bacteria: Preliminary report from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Methods Development and Standardization Working Group

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Duodenoscope-Related Outbreak of a Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Identified Using Advanced Molecular Diagnostics.

scientific article published in October 2017

Elimination of Routine Contact Precautions for Endemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus: A Retrospective Quasi-Experimental Study.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Emergence of daptomycin-non-susceptible enterococci urinary tract isolates

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Enteric fever in a 6-year-old traveler caused by Salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A: laboratory detection strategies and treatment options ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2010

Epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Gyrase A Genotype, Los Angeles, California, USA.

scientific article

Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in Los Angeles County

scientific article published on May 2012

Erratum for Alberti et al., Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Abiotrophia defectiva, Granulicatella adiacens, and Granulicatella elegans

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

Establishing Diagnosis of Haemophilus Parainfluenzae as Etiology of Culture-negative Endocarditis Using DNA Sequence Analysis on Tissue Specimen

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Evaluation of Ciprofloxacin and Levofloxacin Disk Diffusion and Etest Using the 2019 Enterobacteriaceae CLSI Breakpoints

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Evaluation of Empiric β-Lactam Susceptibility Prediction among Enterobacteriaceae by Molecular β-Lactamase Gene Testing

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Evaluation of Piperacillin-Tazobactam ETEST for the Detection of OXA-1 Resistance Mechanism among Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluation of Surrogate Disk Tests for Detection of Ciprofloxacin and Levofloxacin Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Salmonella enterica

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Evaluation of surrogate tests for the presence of mecA-mediated methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus hominis, Staphylococcus capitis and Staphylococcus warneri

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Evolution and Transmission of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Expressing the blaOXA-232 Gene During an Institutional Outbreak Associated With Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

scientific article published on April 2017

Evolution of high-level daptomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium during daptomycin therapy is associated with limited mutations in the bacterial genome.

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

False-positive imipenemase detected by NG-Test CARBA-5 in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

scientific article published on 11 December 2023

First Report of Ceftazidime-Avibactam Resistance in a KPC-3-Expressing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate.

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

First Report of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infection due to Cyberlindnera fabianii

scientific article

First report of treatment of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bloodstream infection with levofloxacin

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Francisella philomiragia Bacteremia in a Patient with Acute Respiratory Insufficiency and Acute-on-Chronic Kidney Disease

scientific article

Frequency of susceptibility testing for patients with persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

From alpha to beta: identification of amino acids required for the N-acetyllactosamine-specific lectin-like activity of bundlin.

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Genotypic and phenotypic evaluation of the evolution of high-level daptomycin nonsusceptibility in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

Graft Loss and CLAD-Onset Is Hastened by Viral Pneumonia After Lung Transplantation

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Hepatitis E Virus-Associated Meningoencephalitis in a Lung Transplant Recipient Diagnosed by Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing

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How to better monitor and clean irregular surfaces in operating rooms: Insights gained by using both ATP luminescence and RODAC assays

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Impact of 21st Century Cures Act on Breakpoints and Commercial Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Systems: Progress and Pitfalls

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Implementation of a Large System-Wide Hepatitis C Virus Screening and Linkage to Care Program for Baby Boomers

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Implementation of a Rapid Genotypic Assay to Promote Targeted Ciprofloxacin Therapy of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a Large Health System

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Improbable results of urine isolate antimicrobial susceptibility testing

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

In Vitro Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius Isolates of Human and Animal Origin.

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

In vitro activity of daptomycin in combination with β-lactams, gentamicin, rifampin, and tigecycline against daptomycin-nonsusceptible enterococci

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of Aerococcus urinae

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

In vitro susceptibility testing of fluoroquinolone activity against Salmonella: recent changes to CLSI standards

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Induction of β-Lactamase Activity and Decreased β-Lactam Susceptibility by CO2 in Clinical Bacterial Isolates

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Interactions of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli with pediatric and adult intestinal biopsy specimens during early adherence

scientific article published on 27 July 2009

Investigation of a suspected nosocomial transmission of blaKPC3-mediated carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by whole genome sequencing

scientific article

Laboratory Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Electronic Reader of Rapid Dual Point-of-Care Tests for Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Treponema pallidum Infections

scientific article published in July 2017

Laboratory evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests for dual detection of HIV and Treponema pallidum antibodies

scientific article

Lipopolysaccharide Renders Transgenic Mice Expressing Human Serum Amyloid P Component Sensitive to Shiga Toxin 2 ⬇️

scientific article published on June 24, 2011

Mechanisms of linezolid resistance among coagulase-negative staphylococci determined by whole-genome sequencing

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Minireview: CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group Best Practices for the Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Multicenter Evaluation of Ceftazidime-Avibactam Susceptibility Testing of <i>Enterobacterales</i> and <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> on the VITEK® 2 System

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Multicenter Evaluation of Colistin Broth Disk Elution and Colistin Agar Test: a Report from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Multicenter Evaluation of a Modified Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion Method and PBP2a Testing To Predict mecA-Mediated Oxacillin Resistance in Atypical Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Multicenter Evaluation of the Accelerate PhenoTest™ BC Kit for Rapid Identification and Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Using Morphokinetic Cellular Analysis.

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Multicenter Evaluation of the BioFire® FilmArray® Pneumonia/Pneumonia plus Panel for the Detection and Quantification of Agents of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Multicenter Evaluation of the Etest Gradient Diffusion Method for Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Multicenter Performance Assessment of Carba NP Test

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Multicenter evaluation of the RAPIDEC® CARBA NP assay for the detection of carbapenemase production in clinical isolates of Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

N-acetyllactosamine-induced retraction of bundle-forming pili regulates virulence-associated gene expression in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 4 May 2010

New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase (NDM-1)-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: Case Report and Laboratory Detection Strategies

scientific article published in 2011

New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: case report and laboratory detection strategies

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, United States

scientific article published on June 2013

Performance of Clostridium difficile toxin enzyme immunoassay and nucleic acid amplification tests stratified by patient disease severity

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

Performance of Etest and disk diffusion for detection of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin resistance in Salmonella enterica

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

Performance of Etest for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Abiotrophia defectiva and Granulicatella Species.

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Performance of Vitek 2 for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia with Vitek 2 (2009 FDA) and CLSI M100S 26th Edition Breakpoints

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Performance of Vitek 2 for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Enterobacteriaceae with Vitek 2 (2009 FDA) and 2014 CLSI breakpoints

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Performance of Vitek 2 for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus spp. and Enterococcus spp.

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Performance of anti-pseudomonal beta lactams on the Accelerate PhenoTest® BC kit against a collection of P. aeruginosa isolates

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Performance of ceftolozane-tazobactam Etest, MIC Test Strips and Disk Diffusion as Compared to Reference Broth Microdilution for Beta-lactam resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates

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Performance of ceftriaxone susceptibility testing on the Accelerate Pheno® system of ESBL-producing isolates

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Pharmacodynamics of Daptomycin against Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in the Murine Thigh Infection Model.

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Photo quiz: A child with fever after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Point-Counterpoint: Reflex Cultures Reduce Laboratory Workload and Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship in Patients Suspected of Having Urinary Tract Infections

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Practical comparison of the BioFire® FilmArray® Pneumonia Panel to routine diagnostic methods and potential impact on antimicrobial stewardship in adult hospitalized patients with lower respiratory tract infections

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Practical methods for effective vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) surveillance: experience in a liver transplant surgical intensive care unit

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Precision of vancomycin and daptomycin MICs for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and effect of subculture and storage

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Raising the Bar: Improving Antimicrobial Resistance Detection by Clinical Laboratories by Ensuring Use of Current Breakpoints

scientific article published in March 2022

Rapid detection of Campylobacter antigen by enzyme immunoassay leads to increased positivity rates

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Rapid pathogen-specific phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing using digital LAMP quantification in clinical samples.

scientific article published on October 2017

Real-Time PCR Targeting Mosaic penA XXXIV for Prediction of Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporins Susceptibility in Clinical Neisseria Gonorrheae Isolates.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Reply to "Burkholderia pseudomallei: Challenges for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory-a Response from the Front Line".

scientific article published on March 2017

Reply to Kircher et al.

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Reply to Pogue and Heil, "The Clinical Impact of a Negative Molecular β-Lactamase Gene Test for Enterobacteriaceae: Let's Not Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Really Good"

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Reproducibility of Ceftazidime/Avibactam MIC Results for Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using MicroScan Dried Gram Negative MIC Panels

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Reproducibility of Ceftolozane/Tazobactam MIC Results for Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using MicroScan Dried Gram-negative MIC Panels

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Resistance to Ceftazidime-Avibactam Is Due to Transposition of KPC in a Porin-Deficient Strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae with Increased Efflux Activity

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Resistance to Ceftazidime-Avibactam in Klebsiella pneumoniae Due to Porin Mutations and the Increased Expression of KPC-3.

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Risk Factors for Colistin Resistance among Gram-Negative Rods and Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Risk Factors for Development of Carbapenem Resistance Among Gram-Negative Rods

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Risk factors associated with the transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae via contaminated duodenoscopes

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Risk factors for development of aminoglycoside resistance among gram-negative rods

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Selection of hyperproduction of AmpC and SME-1 in a carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens isolate during antibiotic therapy.

scientific article

Serological misdiagnosis of acute liver failure associated with echovirus 25 due to immunological similarities to hepatitis A virus and prozone effect

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Should laboratories test methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus for elevated vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations by Etest as a driver of treatment changes?

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Sticky situation: localized adherence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to the small intestine epithelium

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Successful treatment of pan-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia and bacteraemia with a combination of high-dose tigecycline and colistin

scientific article published on 05 August 2010

The Continued Value of Disk Diffusion for Assessing Antimicrobial Susceptibility in Clinical Laboratories: Report from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Methods Development and Standardization Working Group

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

The Cpx envelope stress response both facilitates and inhibits elaboration of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli bundle-forming pilus

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The Frequency of Discordant Gyrase A Genotypes Among Cases of Multiple Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections at Different Anatomic Sites

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

The Regional Antibiogram Is an Important Public Health Tool to Improve Empiric Antibiotic Selection, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia As A Case Example

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The changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pediatric wound cultures: a 10-year experience

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

The emerging problem of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus

scientific article published on 04 September 2012

Time to Result for Pathogen Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Endotracheal Aspirate Specimens in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Two-Site Evaluation of the Colistin Broth Disk Elution Test to Determine Colistin Activity Against Gram-Negative Bacilli

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Understanding and Addressing CLSI Breakpoint Revisions: a Primer for Clinical Laboratories

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Unusual carbapenem resistant but ceftriaxone and cefepime susceptible Klebsiella oxytoca isolated from a blood culture: Case report and whole-genome sequencing investigation

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Use of Ancillary Carbapenemase Tests To Improve Specificity of Phenotypic Definitions for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Use of rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis of malaria in the United States

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

Variability of Daptomycin MIC Values for Enterococcus faecium When Measured by Reference Broth Microdilution and Gradient Diffusion Tests

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Verification Is an Integral Part of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Quality Assurance

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

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