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In 1884 Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler published Koch's Postulates defining our historical understanding of the relationship between an organism and infection: one organism: one disease. In the last decade...
Sepsis is a common and critical illness diagnosed via blood culture. Although a continuous blood culture monitoring system was introduced several decades ago, optimal utilization and improvement of blood culture...
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has become a serious problem worldwide, and ceftriaxone non-susceptible isolates have been recently reported from Japan and Europe. In this study, we evaluated the...
BACKGROUND: Through change in the climate and living environment, bacterial pathogens that cause diarrhea also change. This study sought to determine the characteristics of pathogens according to species, isolated region,...
BACKGROUND: This study compared the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influenzae in blood culture bottles containing anticoagulants, sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) and sodium...
BACKGROUND: Viruses that cause acute respiratory infection include adenovirus (ADV), respiratory syncytial virus A and B (RSV(A), RSV(B)), influenza virus A and B (FluA, FluB), parainfluenza virus 1, 2 and...