Eric A. Dauler, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, and Karl K. Berggren Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420, USA National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Bro...

iii DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN ENGINEERING Katherine C. Morris Mary Mitchell Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Christopher Dabrowski Elizabeth Fong Computer Systems Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899

background: the aim of this study was to compare the biofilm formation and the prevalence of biofilm-associated genes between the isolates of methicillin-resistant (mrsa) and methicillin-susceptible (mssa) staphylococcus aureus. methods: in total, 209 s. aureus isolates were collected. the antibiotic susceptibility test was conducted using nine antibiotics according to the guidelines of clinica...

Tyler B. Coplen*, Willi A. Brand, Matthias Gehre, Manfred Gröning, Harro A. J. Meijer, Blaza Toman and R. Michael Verkouteren US Geological Survey, 431 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Beutenberg Campus, P.O. Box 100164, 07701 Jena, Germany UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Labor für Stabile Isotope, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig...

To address and overcome these barriers, the NCI established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) at its NCI-Frederick facility. The NCL is a formal collaboration with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its charter is “to perform the pre-clinical characterization of nanomaterials and to facilitate the de...

Methods A total of 22 isolates, K. pneumoniae (n=20), Escherichia coli (n=1) and Enterobacter aerogenes (n=1), were collected from a university hospital, in Lisbon, Portugal. MIC were determined by Etest and interpreted according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines. PCR was performed with primers designed to amplify blaSHV, blaTEM and blaKPC genes. Molecular typing was per...

We performed bedaquiline broth microdilution susceptibility testing using Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines on 103 respiratory isolates of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), including multidrug-resistant isolates. Approximately 90% of isolates had bedaquiline MICs of ≤0.008 μg/ml, and 102/103 isolates had MICs of ≤0.015 μg/ml. Bedaquiline has excellent potential for ...

background in recent decades, multidrug-resistant non-fermenting gram-negative pathogens, particularly acinetobacter baumannii and pseudomonas aeruginosa, have been recognized as a major cause of healthcare-associated and nosocomial infections and outbreaks. conclusions the majority of a. baumannii and p. aeruginosa isolates were found to be resistant to commonly recommended antibiotics. theref...