Manjusree ShanmughamJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):1-1
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Sanjay BhattacharyaJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):2-4
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Jhansi Vani Devana, Ramasubramanyam GuttiJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):50-52 Surgical site infection is the second most common nosocomial infection in healthcare facilities. Open-heart surgery is a clean surgery, and sternal wound infection after open-heart surgery has a great impact on the patient both psychologically and financially. Sternal wound infections are preventable infections if stringent infection control practices are followed. Sternal wound infection...
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Sanjay Bhattacharya, Ranganathan Iyer, Kavita Raja, Vinitha Mary Joy, Swapna R Bijulal, Kalpana George, Gaurav Goel, Shabina Santosh, Anitha Madhavan, M Ardra, Debabrata Dash, Seema Oommen, Geethu Joe, Anup Kumar Shetty, Yogesh Kumar Gupta, MS Prabhakar, Dagny Hari Vengilat, J Beena Philomina, SR Sujatha, Sasmita Hotta, Chhavi Gandhi, Rakesh Sehgal, S Kirupa, Sangeetha Sampath, Dhruv K Mamtora, M Kalyani, Mallikarjun Koppad, J Ashish, M Santhi, Samitha Nair, Kuntal Kumar Sinha, TR NeethaJournal of...
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AN Vimalraj, Aiswarya Mukundan, Greeshma Hareendranath, PK SreekumaryJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):44-46 Arcanobacterium haemolyticum is a well-recognised cause of pharyngitis and skin and soft-tissue infections. It is often under-reported in microbiology laboratories probably because diphtheroids are commonly considered as colonizers or contaminants in bacterial cultures. A. haemolyticum usually cause infections in immunocompromised patients. Here, we present a...
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Kuntal Kumar Sinha, Pravin Kumar Singh, Urmila Singh, Pratima Dixit, Amita JainJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):12-16 BACKGROUND: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) may cause pulmonary disease that resembles tuberculosis (TB) and it may also coexist with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here, we aimed to study the occurrence and diversity of NTM among suspected and confirmed cases of TB. METHODS: During 2017–2018, we received 11,094 sputum samples, of which 4288 samples...
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Sanjay Bhattacharya, Vinitha Mary Joy, Priyanka VivekJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):56-58
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Sushma Krishna, Sadia Khan, Kavitha Dinesh, S Aswathy, Vinitha Viswanath, Shamsul KarimJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):17-22 BACKGROUND: Coliforms and other bacterial indicators are known to be present in Community water samples causing faecal pollution of water. There is also a growing body of evidence demonstrating that the aquatic environmental microbes are drug resistant. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the microbial quality of the water...
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Swetha Sivaraman, Ivy Viswamohanan, Ganga Raju Krishna, Ashish Jithendranath, Ramani BaiJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):41-43 Scrub typhus, a potentially fatal rickettsial infection, is common in India. As the clinical features include fever, vomiting, headache, respiratory infection and rashes the differential diagnosis includes Enteric fever, Dengue, Leptospirosis and Malaria. Though many methods are available for diagnosis, IgM ELISA is the most sensitive method....
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Shivani Khullar, Rajendra Singh Parihar, Prabhat Kiran Khatri, Vinod Kumar MauryaJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):23-27 CONTEXT: Viral hepatitis has become the most common viral infections encountered in dialysis patients. Patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) have a significantly increased risk of exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV and other blood-borne viruses. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are the most important causes of...
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Reena Anie Jose, Sujith Philip, Renu Mathew, Marina ThomasJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):47-49 Non-typhoidal Salmonella are important food-borne pathogens that are associated with gastroenteritis, bacteraemia and focal infections. Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar bareilly has been implicated in gastroenteritis and nosocomial infections. There are not much literature available on the hepatobiliary involvement by S. bareilly. We report a case of acute...
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Deepa Pandey, CP BavejaJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):28-34 OBJECTIVE: The objective was to study anti-tubercular drug susceptibility level among 'newly diagnosed' pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases by two methods of drug sensitivity testing i.e., standard proportion method (SPM) and BACTEC radiometric method. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sputum samples from fifty new cases of pulmonary TB were cultured and subjected to antitubercular drug susceptibility testing by using...
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Swetha Sivaraman, Ivy Viswamohanan, Ganga Raju Krishna, Ashish Jithendranath, Ramani BaiJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):53-55 Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobe. It is a common inhabitant of soil and water. It causes localised skin infection or localised lymphadenitis following contact with stagnant water or soil and then progresses to fulminant septicaemia with necrotising metastatic lesions. A three day-old girl presented with fever...
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Ansu Sam, Seema OommenJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):35-40 INTRODUCTION: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is one of the hospital-acquired infections and the most common cause for antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Documentation of CDI is difficult, and interpretation of diagnostic results often requires consultation with clinical microbiologists. The purpose of this study was to compare the results of the combination of glutamate dehydrogenase enzyme (GDH) and...
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Sanjay Bhattacharya, Anju Vidyadharan, Vinitha Mary JoyJournal of The Academy of Clinical Microbiologists 2020 22(1):59-61 Inconclusive SARS CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) reports for the detection of infection in symptomatic patients or during screening of asymptomatic contacts can cause clinical, diagnostic and infection control uncertainty. It has been noted that up to 5% of COVID RT-PCR reports may be inconclusive. The reasons for these inconclusive reports are...
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