ELEMENTARY MORPHOMETRIC LABS-ON-A-CHIP BASED ON HEMOCYTOMETRIC CHAMBERS WITH RADIOFREQUENCY CULTURE IDENTIFICATION AND RELAY OF SPECTROZONAL HISTOCHEMICAL MONITORING

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Notchenko ◽  
Oleg V. Gradov
Keyword(s):  
Culture Identification

scholarly journals Impact of rejection of low-quality wound swabs on antimicrobial prescribing: A controlled before-after study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Marchand-Senécal ◽  
Ian A Brasg ◽  
Robert Kozak ◽  
Marion Elligsen ◽  
Christie Vermeiren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Susceptibility Testing ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Antimicrobial Prescribing ◽  
Culture Identification

Abstract In this controlled before-after study, wound swabs were only processed for culture, identification and susceptibility testing if a quality metric, determined by the Q score, was met. Rejection of low-quality wound swabs resulted in a modest decrease in reflexive antibiotic initiation while reducing laboratory workload and generating few clinician requests.

Diagnostic accuracy of the BioFire FilmArray blood culture identification panel when used in critically ill patients with sepsis

2021 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 106303
Author(s):  
Roxanne Rule ◽  
Fathima Paruk ◽  
Piet Becker ◽  
Matthew Neuhoff ◽  
Julian Chausse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Culture ◽  
Diagnostic Accuracy ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Critically Ill Patients ◽  
Culture Identification

scholarly journals Evaluation of the BioFire® FilmArray® Blood Culture Identification Panel on positive blood cultures in a regional hospital laboratory in KwaZulu-Natal

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mokshanand Fhooblall ◽  
Fikile Nkwanyana ◽  
Koleka P. Mlisana
Keyword(s):  
Blood Culture ◽  
Antimicrobial Susceptibility ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Blood Cultures ◽  
Combination Methods ◽  
Single Organism ◽  
Hospitalised Patients ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Culture Identification ◽  
Study Laboratory

Background: There are presently many non-culture-based methods commercially available to identify organisms and antimicrobial susceptibility from blood culture bottles. Each platform has its benefits and limitations. However, there is a need for an improved system with minimal hands-on requirements and short run times.Objectives: In this study, the performance characteristics of the FilmArray® BCID Panel kit were evaluated to assess the efficiency of the kit against an existing system used for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of organisms from blood cultures.Methods: Positive blood cultures that had initially been received from hospitalised patients of a large quaternary referral hospital in Durban, South Africa were processed as per routine protocol at its Medical Microbiology Laboratory. Positive blood cultures were processed on the FilmArray BCID Panel kit in parallel with the routine sample processing. Inferences were then drawn from results obtained.Results: Organism detection by the FilmArray BCID panel was accurate at 92.6% when organisms that were on the repertoire of the kit were considered, compared to the combination methods (reference method used in the study laboratory). Detection of the antimicrobial resistance markers provided by the panel and reference method demonstrated 100% consistency. Blood cultures with a single organism were accurately identified at 93.8% by FilmArray, while blood cultures with more than one organism were identified at 85.7%.Conclusion: The FilmArray BCID Panel kit is valuable for detection of organisms and markers of antibiotic resistance for an extensive range of organisms.

The Intercessor

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-163
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Corens
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Host Society ◽  
New Host ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
English Identity ◽  
Culture Identification

This chapter explores questions about assimilation and integration of Catholics in a universal Church through the lens of expatriates’ devotional lives. Their English identity was not a merely abstract idea but was, like all early modern belonging, constituted through bonds and reciprocal relations. The formative role of charity in fostering and maintaining communal bonds explains some of the driving motivations behind expatriate English Catholics’ preserving their own English community distinct from that of their hosts. They needed to perpetuate the commemoration of their ancestors to ensure their salvation, and intended to return England to the Catholic fold for the salvation of their compatriots. Yet this chapter also questions the assumption that migrants belonged either to their home society or their host society, and that there is a linear way to map their steady integration into the new host culture. Identification with and participation in one community did not preclude membership of other communities.

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