Advanced Molecular Detection in Action ► Detection/ Diagnosis

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 35  Number 12  September 17-24, 2015

Detection/ Diagnosis

Overdiagnosis of clostridium difficile infection in the molecular test era.
Polage CR et al. JAMA Intern Med 2015 Sep 8. 1-10

Direct molecular testing to assess the incidence of meningococcal and other bacterial causes of meningitis among persons reported with unspecified bacterial meningitis.
Ramautar AE et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Jun 16.

Comparison between conventional culture and NAATs for the microbiological diagnosis in gonococcal infection.
Serra-Pladevall J et al. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2015 Aug 8.

Multicolor melting curve analysis-based multilocus melt typing of vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Liu R et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (9) e0136998

Rapid first-line discrimination of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains using MALDI-TOF MS.
Østergaard C et al. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 14.

Clinical performance of a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry method for the detection of certain blaKPC-containing plasmids.
Youn Jung-Ho et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Sep 2.

Comparing MALDI-TOF MS, phenotypic and molecular methods for the identification of species within the Streptococcus anginosus group.
Arinto-Garcia R et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Sep 9.

Fluorescence in situ hybridization for the identification of Treponema pallidum in tissue sections.
Petrich A et al. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 2015 Aug 28.

Protocol for metagenomic virus detection in clinical specimens.
Kohl C et al. Emerging Infect. Dis. 2015 Jan (1) 48-57

Diagnostic accuracy of rapid antigen detection tests for respiratory syncytial virus infection: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Chartrand C et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Sep 9.

Development of prototype filovirus recombinant antigen immunoassays.
Boisen ML et al. J. Infect. Dis. 2015 Oct 1. S359-67

Analysis of breath specimens for biomarkers of plasmodium falciparum infection.
Berna AZ et al. J. Infect. Dis. 2015 Oct 1. (7) 1120-8