May 8, 2023
Comparison of AI-assisted and manual zone interpretation of Nitroxoline in uncomplicated urinary tract infections.
Nitroxoline is one of the recommended first-line drugs for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections…
May 8, 2023
Direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing for acute urinary tract infection – comparison of AI-assisted zone interpretation and conventional susceptibility testing methods.
Direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing (dAST) from urine samples using disc diffusion methods is in widespread use…
October 4, 2022
Comparison of the automated plate assessment system (APAS) to manual plate reading of surveillance screening cultures and clinical urine cultures – a diagnostic study
Screening for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can account…
September 30, 2022
World MRSA Day 2022
Don’t sweat the small stuff… Except on the 17th of September. Making a big deal out of the small stuff is what…
September 15, 2022
International Microorganism Day
Don’t sweat the small stuff… Except on the 17th of September. Making a big deal out of the small stuff is what…
September 9, 2022
World Patient Safety Day – Don’t be hasty, it’s about medication safety!
World Patient Safety Day is observed annually on the 17th of September. It is an initiative started by the World Health…
September 8, 2022
World Sepsis Day
World Sepsis Day (WSD) is held on September 13th every year. The Global Sepsis Alliance and the Sepsis Stiftung will…
August 23, 2022
Comparison of the APAS Independence Automated Plate Reader System with the Manual Standard of Care for Processing Urine Culture Specimens
Urine cultures are among the highest-volume tests in clinical microbiology laboratories and usually require…
August 17, 2022
Microbiology 2.0 – A “behind the scenes” consideration for artificial intelligence applications for interpretive culture plate reading in routine diagnostic laboratories
Laboratory automation with Artificial Intelligence (AI) features have now emerged into routine diagnostic clinical use…
June 15, 2022
Evaluation of the APAS Independence as an artificial intelligence tool for urine culture reporting in a clinical hospital setting
Urine cultures (UC) constitute up to 30-40% of the workflow in clinical microbiology laboratories. Staffing…
June 15, 2022
Comparison of the APAS Independence automated plate reader system with manual standard-of-care for processing urine culture specimens
Urine cultures are amongst the highest volume tests run in clinical microbiology laboratories and usually require…
April 29, 2022
APAS Independence clinical data presented at ECCMID 2022
Five clinical presentations featuring the APAS Independence were presented at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical…
April 27, 2022
Streamlining Urine Processing with modular automation using DxM Autoplak and APAS Independence: A French experience with CPSE media
Investigation of urine samples remains a core focus for microbiology laboratories and has largely remained manual in…
April 27, 2022
Evaluation of the APAS Independence with Thermo Fisher Brilliance MRSA Analysis Module at NHS William Harvey Hospital
Screening of MRSA samples in routine microbiology is an important service to assist with infection control…
April 27, 2022
Artificial intelligence and diagnostic microbiology: Comparison of APAS Independence with chromogenic UTI media Analysis Module and routine plate-in-hand with traditional CLED media at NHS William Harvey Hospital
Examination of urine culture is one of the most commonly performed microbiology tests accounting for a significant…
April 27, 2022
Comparison of the APAS Independence Automated Plate Reader System with manual standard-of-care for processing urine culture specimens
Urine cultures are amongst the highest volume tests run in clinical microbiology laboratories and usually require…
April 27, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST): Automated imaging and the use of artificial intelligence for interpretation of disc-diffusion AST according to EUCAST, including rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (RAST)
Disc diffusion remains an essential part of AST and EUCAST has recently expanded its guidelines to include breakpoints…
March 24, 2022
World Tuberculosis Day
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease which affects 10 million people worldwide, each year. In order to raise…
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