Factors Influencing the Timing of the First HIV Virological Test for HIV Exposed Infants; A Cross Sectional Descriptive Study of HIV Positive Breastfeeding Mothers and their Infant... by Enos Mirembe, Masereka, Edson Musungu, Bwambale, Edson, Katsomyo, Clement, Munguiko

“…Due to this, we sought to determine the factors affecting uptake of first Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test among HEIs to inform the selection of strategies to strengthen Early Infant…”
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Clonal dissemination of an NDM-2-producing Acinetobacter baumannii ST103 clone resulting in an outbreak in an intensive care unit of a Lebanese tertiary care hospital by Tania Nawfal Dagher, Linda Hadjadj, Fadi Bittar, Fadi Fenianos, Elias Abdo, Jean-Marc Rolain, Charbel Al-Bayssari

“…Antibiotic susceptibility testing was carried out using the disk diffusion method and carbapenemase-encoding genes were searched for using standard polymerase chain reaction. Epidemiological relatedness was studied using multilocus sequence typing. …”
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Herpetic Meningoencephalitis Complicating the Resection of a Vestibular Schwannoma: A Case Report by Jérôme Houdu, Maxime Barron, Thierry Civit, Cécile Parietti‐Winkler

“…No time should be wasted in diagnosis and treatment; therefore, a polymerase chain reaction testing on cerebrospinal fluid should be systematic in this situation, without neglecting to consider other differential diagnoses.…”
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Opportunity for early de-escalation of antibiotics in Enterobacterales bacteremia with multiplex PCR rapid diagnostic technology by Erin Deja, Adam Greenfield, Sangeeta Sastry, Barry Rittmann

“…In this brief, we describe the utilization of multiplex polymerase chain reaction rapid diagnostic technology for the early de-escalation of broad-spectrum antimicrobials in patients with Enterobacterales bacteremia.…”
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Confusion and Hallucination: A Case Report of an Unusual Presentation of COVID-19 by Rawabi Aljumaiah, Wael Alturaiki, Bandar Alosaimi

“…Patient’s SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test was positive, and he underwent daily vital signs and respiratory, cardiovascular, and abdominal examinations. …”
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Impact of a cerebrospinal fluid diagnostic stewardship intervention on quantity of tests, length of stay, antibiotic prescriptions, and cost by Aaron Pathak, Sabra Shay, Todd Lasco, Mayar Al Mohajer

“…Our diagnostic stewardship intervention limited available infectious disease cerebrospinal fluid assays to seven common tests, including a multiplex polymerase chain reaction panel. There was no significant difference in the cost of testing or clinical outcomes.…”
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Associated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in a Toddler by Kristie Searcy, Apoorva Jagadish, Patricia Pichilingue-Reto, Radhakrishna Baliga

“…We report a novel case of a toddler who presented with classic features suggestive of HUS characterized by bloody diarrhea followed by thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and acute kidney injury, in whom a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 was positive.…”
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Molecular Identification of Enterocytozoon bieneusi Isolates from Nigerian Children by Adekunle Bamidele Ayinmode, Oladele Teslim Ojuromi, Lihua Xiao

“…Using nested polymerase chain reaction, 9.3% of the children were identified as positive for Enterocytozoon bieneusi. …”
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Severe Congenital Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report and Strain Characterization by Bahador Sarkari, Samaneh Abdolahi Khabisi

“…Amniotic fluid was taken and evaluated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay with a direct amplification of the Toxoplasma URPT gene which was found to be positive. …”
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A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis by Bshara Mansour, Adib Habib, Nazih Asli, Yuval Geffen, Dan Miron, Nael Elias

“…Identification of this pathogen was only made by polymerase chain reaction.…”
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Mini-review: Utilization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus virulence coding genes for early detection of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) by Munti Yuhana, Usamah Afiff

“…Through several stages of testing the selected virulence encoding genes will be developed into molecular markers. The polymerase chain reaction method and several of its variants have been widely applied using selected molecular markers. …”
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Characterization and molecular detection of pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance genes in Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from Pacific white shrimp by Muhammad Arif Mulya, Fachriyan Hasmi Pasaribu, Usamah Afiff, Munti Yuhana

“…The V. parahaemolyticus isolates were collected from the shrimp’s hepatopancreas, before biochemical test and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene confirmation. …”
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Pediatric Infectious Prepatellar Bursitis with Kingella kingae by Charles C. Pitts, Walter R. Smith, Michael J. Conklin

“…Our diagnosis was established through bursal fluid analysis, though oropharyngeal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may be also be considered. …”
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Recurrent bilateral idiopathic anterior uveitis with vitritis post Coronavirus Disease 2019 infection by Srinivasan Sanjay, Yogesh Preet Singh, Debaditya Roy, Padmamalini Mahendradas, Ankush Kawali, Rohit Shetty

“…In this patient, we found an association of high coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) total antibodies. The polymerase chain reaction for COVID-19 was negative ruling out an active COVID-19 infection. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Cu(II) Complex with Photocatalytic Property on Gastric Cancer by Inhibiting the Proliferation of Tumor Cells by Dan Yu, Shuqin Li

“…However, we also used real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect the activation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling pathway, and Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) method was used to calculate the inhibition activity of 1 on gastric cancer cell viability.…”
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Relapse of Visceral Leishmaniasis in an HIV-Infected Patient Successfully Treated with a Combination of Miltefosine and Amphotericin B by Shauna McQuarrie, Ken Kasper, Dana C Moffatt, Daniel Marko, Yoav Keynan

“…With the addition of miltefosine, the patient no longer presented with bone marrow amastigotes, and displayed an increased CD4 count and negative Leishmania polymerase chain reaction results. The present case highlights atypical presentation of visceral leishmaniasis, including poor immune reconstitution and gastrointestinal involvement. …”
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Buschke-Löwenstein Tumour: Successful Treatment with Minimally Invasive Techniques by Estefânia Correia, António Santos

“…Histologic findings revealed a moderate degree of dysplasia of the epithelium with koilocytosis atypia, acanthosis, and parakeratosis, features that are consistent with Buschke-Löwenstein tumour. Polymerase-chain-reaction assay for human papillomavirus (HPV) showed an infection with HPV type 11. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Fungal Species Contaminating the Refrigerators by Hiba Hadi Taha, Faten Noori Mula Abed, Jehaan Mowfak Al-Rawi

“…Molecular identification of Cladosporium sp. because it is the most frequent among the fungal isolated from refrigeration and freezing by using polymerase chain reaction, it has been shown that Cladosporium sphaerospermum strain HKA in the gene bank. …”
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Etiopathogenesis, diagnostic evaluation, and management of ovarian tuberculosis: A systematic review by Ashutosh Nagpal, Poras Chaudhary

“…Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the study of choice and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay increases its sensitivity. …”
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Prevalence of Campylobacter Species on Cattle Breeding Farms in Zimbabwe by Precious Mahlangu, Stephen T. Marambe, Iredale K. Mutengwa, Bamusi Saidi, Pious V. Makaya, John Kagira

“…The samples were submitted to the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Zimbabwe, for screening of Campylobacter species using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Based on the PCR results, the animal-level prevalence was 25.96% (range 0–73.98%) and all the positive samples came from four (57.14%) of the 7 herds tested. …”
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