Bacteriology Studies
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| Independent Studies - 2001 | |||
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![[image] pdf icon](../images/studies/iconPDF.gif){kind=small} P-79 | Recovery of N. gonorrhoeae from Amies Clear Transport Media Following Storage at Room Temp. or at 4° C. | J. Tomblin*, J. Roy, S. Henwick, D. Purych, BC Biomedical Laboratories, Surrey, BC | CACMID, CHICA & CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia |
P-80 | Evaluation of the copan Easy-Flow Venturi Transport System™ Swab Compared to the Starplex STARswabII™ SP130X System Utilizing Amies Agar Gel Without Charcoal | T. Mazzulli, P. Lo, M. Skulnick, P.W. Marshall, Toronto Medical Laboratories & Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | CACMID, CHICA & CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia |
P-82 | Evaluation of the New Easy-Flow™ Transport Swab (Copan diagnostics Inc.), Designed for Improved Sample Relwease, in Comparison with Regular Rayon Transport Swabs | M. Sarina, B. Gandhi, P. Mercuri. - The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | CACMID, CHICA& CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia |
C-22 | Comparison of the BioStar Antigen Test, Gen-Probe Direct Probe and Culture for Detection of Group A Streptococcus | P.M. Blake, P.M. Benjamin, J.C. Kee, C.D. Wilson, K.C. Chapin, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
C-53 | Comparison of a New Liquid Stuart Aerobic Swab Transport system with Two Currently Available Swab Systems | E.Grover Smith1, T.L. Jackson 2 1 Raleigh Pathology Associates, Raleigh,NC; 2 WakeMed, Raleigh,NC | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
C-55 | Effects of Temperature on Fastidious Organism Viability During Swab Transport | J.L. Perry, VA Medical Center, Wichita, KS | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, florida • May 2001 |
C56 | Comparative Study of the Bacteriological Performance of Commercial Amies Agar Swab Transport Devices with a Traditional Stuart Agar Transport System | L. Sjoberg, E. Blomgren, M. Larsson, Orebro Medical Centre Hospital, Orebro, SWEDEN | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
C-57 | Comparison of Four Swab Transport Systems stored at Room Temperature and +4°C for Recovery of Previously Inoculated Fastidious Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria | L. Rouse, C. Hernandez, S. De Martino, P. Zachary, H. Monteil, Y. Piémont, Institut de Bactériologie, Strasbourg, FRANCE | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
C-58 | Comparison of the Copan Transport Swab to the BD Culturette and BD Port -a-Cul for the Collection and Transportation of Selected Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria | W.H. Riley, M.R. Banaszak, G.S. Cherry, C. Garcia, Baptist Health Systems of South Florida, Miami, FL | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
C-61 | Effect of Storage Temperature on Recovery of Bacteria From Three Swab Transport Systems: BD CultureSwab and BD Culturette (BD Diagnostis Systems, Ontario, Canada) | Deborah Wilson, M.J. Tuohy, G.W. Procop, G.S. Hall, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH | ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001 |
| Comparison of Three Transport Systems (Starplex StarSwab II, the New Copan Vi-Pak Amies Agar Gel Collection and Transport Swabs, and BBL Port-A-Cul) for Maintenance of Anaerobic and Fastidious Aerobic Organisms | Musa Hindiyeh, Victoria Acevedo, and Karen C. Carroll | Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Jan. 2001, p. 377-380 |
| Independent Studies - 2000 | |||
| Copan and Starplex Amies with Charcoal Tansport Systems - An Evaluation of Organism Recovery | B. Gandhi, J. Tarbush, A. Sarabia | CACMID 68th Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. Nov. 4th - 9th, 2000 |
C-150 | Survival of Fastidious Bacteria on Specimen collection swabs Stored at Room Temperature | J.M. Campos, L. Ruthamn, and M. Tshimanga | Abstract: C-150 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000. |
C-152 | Comparison of 3 Amies Gel Transport Systems for the Recovery of 12 Clinically Significant Organisms | C. Hetchler, C. Brown, J. Galbraith | Abstract: C-152 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen Collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000. |
C-153 | Comparison of Four Swab Transport Systems for the Recovery of Aerobic Microorganisms | C. Tóth and K. Van Horn | Abstract: C-153 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen Collection, Transportation and Processing. May 23rd, 2000. |
C-154 | Comparison of the New Starplex StarSwab II™ and the New Copan Vi-Pak Amies Agar Gel Collection and Transport Swabs with BBL™ Port-A-Cul™ for the Maintenance of Anaerobic and Fastidious Aerobic Organisms | Musa Hindiyeh, Victoria Acevedo, Ann Croft, and Karen C. Carroll | Abstract: C-154 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000. |
TuP303 | Bacterial Survival in Different transport Media | M. Gelmi, S. Licenziati, E. Garrafa, A. Turano | Poster: TuP303 European Congress of Clinacal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 10th ECCMID Meeting. May 28-31, 2000. |
TuP305 | Quality of Four Transport Systems for Bacterial Survival | J.M. Rousée, H. Monteil and Y. Piémont | Poster: TuP305 European Congress of Clinacal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 10th ECCMID Meeting. May 28-31, 2000. |
| Survival of Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria in Purulent Clinical Specimens Maintained in the Copan Venturi Transystem and Becton Dickinson Port-a-Cul Transport Systems | Diane M. Citron, Yumi A. Warren, Marie K. Hudspeth, and Ellie J. C. Goldstein | Journal Of Clinical Microbiology, Feb. 2000, P. 892–894 |
| Independent Studies - 1999 & Prior | |||
| Evaluation of four commercial transport media for the survival of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae | Judy C. Arbique, Kevin R. Forward, John LeBlanc | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 36 (2000) 163-168. Received 27 July 1999: accepted 9 November 1999. |
| Comparison of Direct Inoculation versus Copan Transport Systems for isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Endocervical Specimens | C.C. Olsen, J.R. Schwebke, W.H. Benjamin Jr., A. Beverly and K.B. Waites. | Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Nov 1999, page 3583 - 3585. |
| Evaluation of Fastidious-Organism Survival in Swab Transport Systems | J. L. Perry | Abstracts from the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Sept 1999. |
| Comparison of Commercial Amies Transport Systems with In-House Amies Medium for Recovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae | D. Thompson and Susanne French | Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Sept 1999, page 3020 – 3021. |
| Viability of Trichomonas vaginalis in Transport Medium | L. Beverly, M. Venglarik, B. Cotton, and J.R. Schwebke. | Abstracts from the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR) 1999 Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 11th – 14th. |
C-31 | Comparison of Rayon and Dacron Swabs in Amies Medium for Bordetella pertussis transport | J.S. Thompson and D.E. Smith | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, May 1999. C-31 Poster Session. |
C-32 | Comparison of Four Swab Systems for Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria | K. Van Horn, K. Warren and C. Tóth. | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, May 1999. C-32 Poster Session. |
| Evaluation of the New BBL™ CultureSwab Plus™ Transport Device (Becton Dickinson, Baltimore, MD) for Recovery of Anaerobes. | S.D. Allen, J.A. Siders, C.L. Emery, L.C. Wolters, G.G. Korba and M.E. Tibbs | ASM General Meeting, Chicago, May 1999 |
| Evaluation of Four Transport Systems for the Survival of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. | J.C. Arbique and K.R. Forward | Abstracts from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. November 1998. |
C-451 | Evaluation of Two Swab Transport Systems For the Recovery of Sixteen Bacterial Species of Clinical Significance | S. Finn, S. E. Farhat, J. Beech, J. McCann, M. Skulnick, and B. B. Diena | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-451 Poster Session |
C-448 | Evaluation of the Copan Venturi Transystem for Anaerobes using Clinical Specimens | D. M. Citron, M. K. Hudspeth, S. Hunt Gerardo and E. J. C. Goldstein. | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-448 Poster Session |
C-444 | Comparison of Bacterial Recovery Rates of Four Commercial Swab Transport Systems | D.M. Warshauer, L.J. Bartell and J. T. Paloucek | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-444 Poster Session |
C-439 | Use of Copan Liquid Media Transport Swabs for the Gen-Probe Group A Streptococcus Direct Test | P. P. Bourbeau and B. J. Heiter | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-439 Poster Session |
C-437 | Comparison of Copan Amies Agar Swab and BBL Port-a-cul Swab for Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria | K. Van Horn, Clara Tóth, and Jane Wegienek | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-437 Poster Session |
C-436 | Viability of Aerobic Microorganisms in Four Swab Systems | K. Van Horn, Clara Tóth, and Jane Wegienek | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-436 Poster Session |
| Inhibitory Properties of a Swab Transport Device | J. L. Perry | Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Dec 1997, page 3367 – 3368 |
Ps-8 | The Effect of Different Sponge (Pledget) Material on the Survival of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) During Swab Transport | J. Krepel | Abstracts from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. Ps-8, October 1997. |
18-C | Inhibitory Properties of a Commercially Available Swab Transport Device | J. L. Perry | Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Miami Beach, Florida, May 1997. 18-C Poster Session |
| Assessment of Swab Transport Systems for Aerobic and Anaerobic Organism Recovery | J. L. Perry | Journal of Clinical Microbiology. May 1997, page 1269 –1271 |
S132-3 | Evaluation of a Novel Specimen Transport System (Venturi Transystem) for Anaerobic Bacteria | M. K. Hudspeth, D. M. Citron, and E.J.C. Goldstein | Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal. 1997; 25 (Supplement 2): S132-3 |
| Inhibition of PCR-Based Assay for Bordetellapertussis by Using Calcium Alginate Fiber and Aluminum Shaft Components of a Nasopharyngeal Swab | Robert M. Wadowsky, Stella Laus, Therese Libert, Stanley J. States, and Garth D. Ehrlich | Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Apr. 1994, p.1054 - 1057 |
C-02 | A comparative Study of four Commercially Available Swab Transport Systems | D. Burkhart and R.L. Sutter Harrisburg Hospital, Harrisburg, PA | Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 1988. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. |