期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (1)
The World Health Organization recently lowered the rifampin (RIF) critical concentration (CC) for drug-susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium t......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (3)
The rapid administration of optimal antimicrobial treatment is paramount for the treatment of bloodstream infections (BSIs), and rapid antimicrobial s......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (4)
The Streptococcus bovis group (previously group D streptococci) consists of seven distinct species and subspecies. Definitive identification within th......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (4)
Klebsiella oxytoca complex (KoC) species may overproduce their chromosomal class A OXY beta-lactamases, conferring reduced susceptibility to piperacil......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (4)
In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, C. Manuel, R. Maynard, A. Abbott, K. Adams, et al. (J Clin Microbiol 61:e01617-22, 2023, https:......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (5)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections cause substantive morbidity and mortality in neonates. Using publicly available resource......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (7)
Ceftibuten/ARX-1796 (avibactam prodrug) is a novel oral antibacterial combination in early clinical development for the treatment of complicated urina......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (8)
Identification and analysis of clinically relevant strains of bacteria increasingly relies on whole-genome sequencing. The downstream bioinformatics s......
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The QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT) is routinely utilized in North American health systems to detect a cellular immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosi......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (12)
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common helminthic infection of the human central nervous system. The antibody detection assay of choice is the en......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (1)
Monkeypox infection is a zoonosis first described in humans in 1970 in Congo. While previously manifesting in small, confined outbreaks, the disease i......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (3)
Enterococcus cecorum, a commensal Gram-positive bacterium of the chicken gut, has emerged as a worldwide cause of lameness in poultry, particularly in......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (3)
Staphylococcus epidermidis infections can be challenging to diagnose due to the species frequent contamination of clinical specimens and indolent cour......
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023; 61 (4)
Rothia, Kocuria, Arthrobacter, and Pseudoglutamicibacter are bacterial species within the family Micrococcaeae. Knowledge of human infections due to t......