Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
May 8, 2025
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced infectious mononucleosis (IM) is a prevalent pediatric condition with diverse clinical manifestations. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between EBV-DNA load, lymphocyte subsets, serum biomarkers, and h...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Feb 4, 2025
INTRODUCTION: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming clinical laboratories, significantly improving diagnostic precision and operational effectiveness in the fields of pathology, microbiology, and biochemistry. ...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Aug 4, 2024
Tuberculosis (T.B.) remains a prominent global cause of health challenges and death, exacerbated by drug-resistant strains such as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis MDR-TB and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis XDR-TB. For an effective disease ma...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Jul 30, 2024
In this study, 80 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP) and 160 carbapenem-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae (CS-KP) strains detected in the clinic were selected and their matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass s...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Dec 17, 2023
Post-discharge re-positivity of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 is challenging for the sufficient control of this pandemic. However, there are few studies about the risk of re-positivity. We aimed to explore the association of neutralizing antibodies (nAbs, AU/mL...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Jul 7, 2022
BACKGROUND: The gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis-reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)- is expensive and often slow to yield results whereas lateral flow tests can lack sensitivity.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Jun 8, 2020
Previous studies have shown promising results of machine learning (ML) models for predicting health outcomes. We develop and test ML models for predicting Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in hospitalized patients. This is a retrospective coho...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
May 7, 2020
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel and exponentially growing disease, and consequently, the accelerated development of knowledge from good data is possible quickly and globally. In order to combat the global pandemic of COVID-19...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Nov 27, 2019
Allplex Bacterial vaginosis assay (Seegene, South Korea) is a molecular test for bacterial vaginosis (BV). A machine learning algorithm was devised on 200 samples (BV = 23, non-BV = 177) converting 7 identified bacterial strains polymerase chain reac...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Dec 30, 2018
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a key antibiotic for the treatment of drug susceptible tuberculosis. PZA-resistance is mainly mediated by mutations in the pncA gene; however the current gold standard is a phenotypic drug susceptibility test requiring a well-ad...