Sentence examples for microbiologic laboratories and from inspiring English sources

Anaerobic cultures of airway samples are problematic in that they are labor intensive, outside standard practice for most clinical microbiologic laboratories and may have variable performance; thus, their utility as a gold-standard comparison is limited.

To improve the national surveillance system, the focus of reporting should be shifted from microbiologic laboratories and pathologists to referring physicians, who usually collate the various diagnostic results.

Furthermore, reports almost exclusively come from microbiologic laboratories, and, consequently, case-patients who do not undergo serologic testing, or who have seronegative results, are likely to be missed.

Diagnosis of echinococcosis by serologic testing and histopathologic examination is reportable to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) by microbiologic laboratories and pathologists, respectively.

HCIDC collects information on notified cases from hospital microbiologic laboratories and district health authorities (11 ) and also performs active surveillance on the general incidence of gastroenteritis through physicians' reports (10 ).

METHODS: During July 28 through August 18 , 1998we analyzed clinical, epidemiologic and microbiologic data from a cohort of 225 hospitalized children in Malawi, Africa, to determine clinical indices associated with the presence/absence of BSI and/or mortality for use in settings with minimal microbiologic laboratory and intensive care facilities.

Clinical gold standard: we used an expert consensus based on clinical, microbiologic, laboratory, and radiologic data collected for each patient during the first 7 days of hospitalization.

These procedures are common in microbiologic laboratories in Sweden and internationally.

However some of the regions of Turkey do not possess the appropriate infrastructure (for example they are deficient in trained staff or simply lack the appropriate microbiologic laboratories) to allow accurate and rapid isolation and susceptibility testing.

One bacterial swab was sent for microbiologic characterization and antibiotic sensitivities to the clinical microbiology laboratory and the other swab was placed in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth and grown overnight at 37°C.

Clinicians and microbiologic laboratories report diagnosed cases to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control.