Department of Neurology, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Electronic address: xuwh@pumch.cn.
Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, 567 Baekje-daero, deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 561-756, Republic of Korea. kwak8140@jbnu.ac.kr.
Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, 567 Baekje-daero, deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 561-756, Republic of Korea.
Department of Neurosurgery and Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, P.R. China.
Anatomy and Neuroscience (JC), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville; Department of Surgery (JC), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria; Interventional Radiology Service (JM, MB, HA), Department of Radiology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne; School of Medicine (JM, MB, HA), Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds; Stroke Division (JM, MB, HA), Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria; Interventional Neuroradiology Service (HA), Department of Radiology, St Vincent's Hospital; Interventional Neuroradiology Unit (RVC, L-AS, HA), Monash Imaging, Monash Health; and Faculty of Medicine (RVC, HA), Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Anatomy and Neuroscience (JC), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville; Department of Surgery (JC), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria; Interventional Radiology Service (JM, MB, HA), Department of Radiology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne; School of Medicine (JM, MB, HA), Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds; Stroke Division (JM, MB, HA), Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria; Interventional Neuroradiology Service (HA), Department of Radiology, St Vincent's Hospital; Interventional Neuroradiology Unit (RVC, L-AS, HA), Monash Imaging, Monash Health; and Faculty of Medicine (RVC, HA), Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a fast and simple method for the simultaneous detection of clarithromycin (CLR) resistance and...
A total of 70 specimens with confirmed...
Among the 70 specimens analyzed, the positivity rate was 97.1% (68/70) with RT-PCR and 82.9% (58/70) with RUT. CLR resistance (minimum inhibitory concentration >1.0 μg/mL) was confirmed in 18.6% (13/7...
RT-PCR assay was found to be more efficient than RUT in detecting...
We developed a new electrochemical impedimetric method for the real-time detection of polymerase chain reactions (PCR) based on our recent discovery that the DNA intercalator, [Ru(bpy)...
Spondylitis caused by...
Case 1 involved a 49-year-old male shepherd who presented with a 6-month history of fever (40°C), severe chest and back pain, and 2-week limited lower limb movement with night-time exacerbation. Physi...
Real-time PCR detection offers valuable diagnostic insights for suspected cases of brucellosis spondylitis. Surgical treatment helps in infection control, decompression of the spinal cord, and restora...
Successful detection of the first SARS-CoV-2 cases using the real-time polymerase chain reaction (real-time PCR) method reflects the power and usefulness of this technique. Real-time PCR is a variatio...
The diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis is challenging even nowadays. This study aims to report the positivity rates of new diagnostic methods such as immunohistochemistry and Real-Time Polymerase Ch...
This was a retrospective observational study conducted in patients diagnosed with intestinal tuberculosis, between 2010 to 2023 from the Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion and a Private Patholog...
Immunohistochemistry was positive in 90.9% of cases, while real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction was positive in 38.7%. The ileocecal region was the most affected area (33.3%), and the most frequent end...
Since immunohistochemistry does not require an intact cell wall, it demonstrates higher sensitivity compared to Ziehl-Neelsen staining. Therefore, it could be helpful for the diagnosis of paucibacilla...
Rapid monitoring of Legionella pneumophila (Lp) is essential to reduce the risk of Legionnaires' disease in healthcare facilities. However, culture results take at least eight days, delaying the imple...
Hot water samples (N = 459) were collected from a hospital HWN. Lp were quantified using iQ-Check® Quanti real-time PCR Quantification kits (Bio-Rad) and the results were compared with those of cultur...
Lp concentrations measured by culture and qPCR were correlated for both the training dataset (Spearman's correlation coefficient ρ = 0.687, P<0.0001) and the validation dataset (ρ = 0.661, P<0.0001). ...
Detection of Lp by qPCR could be implemented with confidence in hospitals as a complement to culture in the monitoring strategy to speed up the implementation of corrective measures....
Identifying clarithromycin resistance is essential for eradicating Helicobacter pylori (HP). Therefore, we evaluated the performance of Allplex™ H.pylori & ClariR Assay (Allplex™) for diagnosing and d...
Subjects who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy between April 2020 and August 2021 at Incheon St. Mary's hospital were enrolled in this study. The diagnostic performances of Allplex™ and dual primin...
A total of 142 gastric biopsy samples were analyzed. Gene sequencing revealed 124 HP infections, 42 A2143G mutations, 2 A2142G mutations, one dual mutation, and no A2142C mutation. DPO-PCR showed 96.0...
Allplex™ showed comparable diagnostic performance with direct gene sequencing and non-inferior diagnostic performance to DPO-PCR. Further research is required to confirm whether Allplex™ is an effecti...
Clinically and biologically, it is essential to detect rare DNA-sequence variants for early cancer diagnosis or drug-resistance mutation identification. Some of the common quantitative polymerase chai...
Rapid detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the most reliable method used worldwide. Although the incidence of t...
Random samples were pooled for two months in group of two-five and tested for SARS-CoV-2. If the pool was negative, all individuals in the pool were reported negative. If the pool was positive, then t...
The mean cycle threshold (Ct) value of pooled samples was not significantly different with that of individual samples for N, ORF-1ab and E genes. Also, pooling saved more than 60% of reagents, time an...
In this study, the positivity rate was around 5% and saving of reagent, cost, time and manpower was more than 60%....
The aim of this study was to evaluate the time in days between symptom onset and first positive real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) result for COVID-19....
This systematic review was conducted in the MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase, and Scopus databases using the following descriptors: "COVID-19", "SARS-CoV-2", "coronavirus", "RT-PCR", "real time PCR", and "dia...
The included studies were conducted in 31 different countries and reported on a total of 6831 patients. The median age of the participants was 49.95 years. The three most common symptoms were fever, c...
These findings corroborate the RT-PCR COVID-19 testing practices of some health units. In addition, the most frequently described symptoms of these patients can be considered the initial symptoms of i...
