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BACKGROUND: The recovery of bacteria from blood can be affected by many factors. Standardization of blood culture methods is important for reliability. Herein, we aimed to investigate blood culture protocols...
BACKGROUND: The spectrum of bacteria causing diarrhea is highly affected by geographic area, sanitation, travel, food consumption, and previous antibiotic use. A nationwide databank for stool cultures is undeveloped. The...
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the carbapenem inactivation method (CIM) compared with the modified Hodge test (MHT) for the detection of carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacilli.
METHODS: A total of 61 isolates of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae...
BACKGROUND: In this study, we compared various methods of taxonomic identification of Bacillus strains: biochemical methods, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)....
BACKGROUND: To investigate the national molecular epidemiology and resistance profiles of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA), we analyzed the characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) collected from clinical samples at tertiary...