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Direct screening of clinical specimens for multiple respiratory pathogens using the Genaco Respiratory Panels 1 and 2John Brunstein
Children s and Women s Health Centre of BC, Canada
Diagn Mol Pathol 15:169-73. 2006..To our knowledge, this study represents the first trial of these panels on standard clinical specimens in a routine diagnostic setting...
Evidence from multiplex molecular assays for complex multipathogen interactions in acute respiratory infectionsJohn D Brunstein
Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, PHSA Labs, Children s and Women s Health Centre of BC, PHSA, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Clin Microbiol 46:97-102. 2008....
Is the healthy middle ear a normally sterile site?Brian D Westerberg
Division of Otolaryngology, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences CHEOS, St Paul s Rotary Hearing Clinic, Providence, Vancouver, Canada
Otol Neurotol 30:174-7. 2009..To systematically evaluate the presumption that the healthy middle ear becomes colonized with organisms via the patent eustachian tube using modern microbiologic techniques...
Optimal use of MRSASelect and PCR to maximize sensitivity and specificity of MRSA detectionMohammad R Hasan
Division of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Control, Department of Pathology, Children s and Women s Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, Canada
Curr Microbiol 66:61-3. 2013..4 vs. 60 %), extending the incubation time to 48 h, along with PCR confirmation, increased the total number of true positive samples by 27.8 %. These results provide a cost effective method for sensitive and specific detection of MRSA...
