Many severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) serology tests have
proven to be less accurate than expected and do not assess antibody function as neutralizing…

Respiratory viral infections are associated with a wide range of acute syndromes and
infectious disease processes in children and adults worldwide. Many viruses are implicated in …

Coronavirus disease (COVID) serological tests are essential to determine the overall
seroprevalence of a population and to facilitate exposure estimates within that population. We …

Type IV pili (T4P) contain hundreds of major subunits, but minor subunits are also required
for assembly and function. Here we show that Pseudomonas aeruginosa minor pilins prime …

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed enormous challenges for existing diagnostic tools to
detect and monitor pathogens. Therefore, there is a need to develop point-of-care (POC) …

This study compared the diagnostic performance of Bruker's Microflex LT and bioMérieux's
Vitek MS matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry systems…

Vitek 2 (bioMérieux Inc., Durham, NC) is a widely used commercial antimicrobial susceptibility
test system. We compared the MIC results obtained using the Vitek 2 AST-GN69 and AST-…

The performances of Vitek 2 AST-GN69 and AST-XN06 cards were compared to Clinical and
Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) reference broth microdilution (BMD) for 99 isolates of …

We systematically evaluated SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity in a provincial cohort to understand
the local epidemiology of COVID-19 and support evidence-based public health decisions. …

Enterococci that are nonsusceptible (NS; MIC > 4 μg/ml) to daptomycin are an emerging
clinical concern. The synergistic combination of daptomycin plus beta-lactams has been shown …