About 40 scientists from the clinical and biotechnology communities, instrument and standards vendors, federal agencies, academia and five national metrology institutes (NMIs) attended this 2 day workshop, focusing on standards for fluorescence-based chemical analysis, held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. The workshop was jointly sponsored by th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of SG17, an ophthalmic antimicrobial susceptibility measurement plate. DESIGN This was a multicenter, retrospective, observational study. PATIENTS AND METHODS Using clinical isolates from patients with ocular infections, drug susceptibility testing using the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute standards was routi...

Diagnosis of endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium abscessus. Ann Saudi Med. 2010;30:408–11. 8. Corrales-Medina V, Concha R, Simkins J, Sanchez M, Baracco G. Native valve endocarditis caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria: case report and review of the literature. Scand J Infect Dis. 2007;39:639–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00365540601169745 9. Tsai WC, Hsieh HC, Su HM, Lu PL, Lin TH, Sheu SH,...

MIC and disk diffusion quality control (QC) ranges were established for two new pleuromutilin antimicrobials (BC-3205 and BC-3781) in an eight-laboratory study performed according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M23-A3 guidelines. Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 and 25923, Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 49619, and Haemophilus influenzae ATCC 4927 strains were evaluated. The propo...

SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTS Antibacterial susceptibility testing is not necessary for every case in veterinary medicine because the majority of cases can be treated empirically. But performed properly, antibiotic susceptibility results are helpful to select proper antibacterial therapy for patients with refractory infections, seriously ill animals, or when resistant strains of bacteria are suspected. ...

background assessment of resistance genes is imperative, as they become disseminated to bacterial flora in plants and to the indigenous bacterial community, and thus ultimately contributes to the clinical problems of antibiotic resistant pathogens. objectives the research was to assess the antibiotic characteristics and incidence of sul3 genes of stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates recovered ...