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• Ensuring the survival of infection control nurses: an experienced infection control nurse looks at the education, knowledge, skills and relationships her professional peers need to ensure their unique role and scope of practice continues well into the 21st century

  Author:Victoria SmithFrom:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20051,832 words Article When I was a student nurse in the late '80s, I never dreamed I would now be working in infection prevention and control. At the age of 18 I was the stereotypical naive nursing student--wanting to deliver babies in Third...

• Appropriate Microbiological Testing in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

  Authors:Richard G. Wunderink and Grant W. WatererFrom:Chest (Vol. 119, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20011,661 words Editorial The appropriate microbiological investigation of the patient admitted with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a contentious issue. Several arguments favor microbiological investigation. First, the pathogen...

• Effect of Sputum Bacteriology on the Quality of Life of Patients With Bronchiectasis

  Authors:C.B. Wilson, P.W. Jones, C.J. O'Leary, D.M. Hansell, P.J. Cole, and R. WilsonFrom:Chest (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 1998330 words Brief article ABSTRACT: Bronchiectatic patients have impaired health-related quality of life (QoL) and are prone to chronic lower respiratory tract infections. We have investigated whether impaired QoL is related to sputum...

• Community ecology as a framework for human microbiome research

  Authors:Jack A. Gilbert and Susan V. LynchFrom:Nature Medicine (Vol. 25, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20196,049 words Report 1670LThe field of human microbiome research has revealed the intimate co-association of humans with diverse communities of microbes in various habitats in the human body, and the necessity of these microbes for the...

• The validity of classic symptoms and chest radiographic configuration in predicting pulmonary tuberculosis

  Authors:Robert Cohen, Shirin Muzaffaar, Jose Capellan, Hasan Azar, and Mustafa ChinikamwalaFrom:Chest (Vol. 109, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19962,750 words Article Objective: Patients admitted to the pulmonary isolation service to rule out tuberculosis (TB) were prospectively studied to identify predictors of smear-positive TB. Methods: History of symptoms--cough, sputum...

• Time to acquire and lose carriership of ESBL/pAmpC producing E. coli in humans in the Netherlands

  Authors:Peter F. M. Teunis, Eric G. Evers, Paul D. Hengeveld, Cindy M. Dierikx, Cornelia C. C. H. Wielders, and Engeline van DuijkerenFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 21, 20184,891 words Report 1470LAuthor(s): Peter F. M. Teunis 1,2,*, Eric G. Evers 1, Paul D. Hengeveld 1, Cindy M. Dierikx 1, Cornelia C. C. H. Wielders 1, Engeline van Duijkeren 1 Introduction Enterobacteriaceae with extended spectrum [beta]...

• The Significance of the Persistent Presence of Acid-fast Bacilli in Sputum Smears in Pulmonary Tuberculosis(*)

  Authors:Mohamed S. Al-Moamary, Black, William (American philanthropist), Elaine Bessuille, R. Kevin Elwood, and Sverre VedalFrom:Chest (Vol. 116, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 19993,894 words Article Study objectives: Identification of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in the sputum smear at the completion of tuberculosis therapy is in some settings considered evidence of treatment failure. However, some patients with...

• A pilot study using metagenomic sequencing of the sputum microbiome suggests potential bacterial biomarkers for lung cancer

  Authors:Simon J. S. Cameron, Keir E. Lewis, Sharon A. Huws, Matthew J. Hegarty, Paul D. Lewis, Justin A. Pachebat, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20176,531 words Report 1610LLung cancer (LC) is the most prevalent cancer worldwide, and responsible for over 1.3 million deaths each year. Currently, LC has a low five year survival rates relative to other cancers, and thus, novel methods to...

• Facilitating point-of-care detection/suspicion of early TB disease to enable early treatment access, while awaiting more definitive microbiologic diagnosis.

  Author:Diana B. DickinsonFrom:Journal of the International AIDS Society (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20161,844 words Report 1370LTuberculosis (TB) was the scourge of the past few centuries among European populations, causing up to 40% mortality within the first year of diagnosis [1]. Effective chemotherapy dramatically improved prognosis [1,2]....

• Artificial stool transplantation: progress towards a safer, more effective and acceptable alternative

  Authors:Emma Allen-Vercoe and Elaine O. PetrofFrom:Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20132,122 words Report 1530LAuthor(s): Emma Allen-Vercoe [*] 1 , Elaine O Petrof 2 Keywords : Clostridium difficile infection; fecal bacteriotherapy; gut microbiota; microbial ecosystem therapeutics Clostridium difficile infection...

• Quantitative culture of endotracheal aspirates in the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with treatment failure *. (clinical investigations in critical care)

  Authors:Chien Liang Wu, Dine Ie Yang, Nai Yu Wang, Hsu Tah Kuo, and Pai Zan ChenFrom:Chest (Vol. 122, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20024,033 words Article Study objective: To study the correlation of bacteriology between quantitative cultures of protected specimen brush (PSB), BAL, and quantitative endotracheal aspirate (QEA) in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)...

• Trade You Pneumonia for Tuberculosis

  Author:Karen BirchardFrom:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 20)

  Jan. 24, 2003246 words Brief article 1380LByline: KAREN BIRCHARD A new set of trading cards has bred a contagious enthusiasm among microbiology students worldwide. MicrobeCards, which feature bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and the diseases they...

• Basic science overlooked in fighting cholera

  Author:Bernard DixonFrom:British Medical Journal (Vol. 304, Issue 6829) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 21, 1992502 words Article There are times when medical microbiology, biology, as a discipline, seems to go bonkers. During the past year a cholera epidemic has hit a third of a million people in South America, killing over 3500 of them. And how...

• Corridor consultations and the medical microbiological record: is patient safety at risk? (Original Article)

  Authors:S.R. Heard, C. Roberts, S.J. Furrows, M. Kelsey, and L. SouthgateFrom:Journal of Clinical Pathology (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20032,922 words Article The performance procedures of the General Medical Council are aimed at identifying seriously deficient performance in a doctor. The performance procedures require the medical record to be of a standard that enables the...

• OCUFLOX(R) -- AN EXTRA EDGE IN TREATING CORNEAL ULCERS AND BACTERIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS

  From:Review of Optometry (Vol. 137, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 15, 200071 words Brief article Ocuflox(R) (ofloxacin ophthalmic solution) 0.3% is a safe, proven way to treat ocular pathogens. It provides complete corneal penetration and sustained tear concentration levels to ensure that the active drug reaches...

• Clinical and Chest Radiographic Findings Among Persons With Sputum Culture Positive for Mycobacterium gordonae(*)

  Authors:Paul B. Eckburg, Eric O. Buadu, Paul Stark, Priscilla S. A. Sarinas, Rajinder K. Chitkara, and Ware G. KuschnerFrom:Chest (Vol. 117, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20003,917 words Article A Review of 19 Cases Study objectives: To describe the clinical and radiographic findings associated with growth of Mycobacterium gordonae in cultured sputum and to determine the proportion of eases that fulfill...

• Microbiologic Evaluation of Matricaria and Chlorhexidine against E. faecalis and C. albicans

  Authors:Hena Rahman and Anil ChandraFrom:Indian Journal of Dentistry (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  April-June 20153,171 words Report 1920LByline: Hena. Rahman, Anil. Chandra Objective: To evaluate the antimicrobial activity of different concentrations of Matricaria chamomilla and Chlorhexidine gel against Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis....

• BAL fluid contains detectable superoxide dismutase 1 activity

  Authors:Robert A. DiSilvestro, Eric Pacht, W. Bruce Davis, Nizar Jarjour, Hyojee Joung, and Kathleen Trela-FulopFrom:Chest (Vol. 113, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19981,959 words Article Objective: This study determined which, if any, of the three superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzyme activities were detectable in BAL fluid (BALF). Background: The identity and concentrations of antioxidant molecules in...

• The role of nucleic acid amplification and detection in the clinical microbiology laboratory

  Authors:A. Christian Whelen and David H. PersingFrom:Annual Review of Microbiology (Vol. 50) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 199610,449 words Article Nucleic acid amplification (NAA) methods utilize nucleic acid targets for the detection and identification of infectious microorganisms. They are classified into three groups: target amplification, probe amplification,...

• Association between chiropractic and pediatric classroom hours of microbiology with patterns of diagnosis of children with otitis media, upper respiratory or ear infection between 1995 and 2015

  Author:Adrian IsazaFrom:Original Internist (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20162,945 words Report 1750LAbstract: In 2010 a systematic review of 135 citations concluded that acute otitis media microbiology has changed with the use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) and antibiotics are modestly more effective than no...