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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 1.2 million people in the United States have HIV, including about 161,800 people who are unaware of their status. Nearly 40% of new HIV infections are transmitted by people who don’t know they have the virus. For people with undiagnosed HIV, testing is the first step in maintaining a healthy life and preventing HIV transmission.
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Through an agreement with CLSI, a program to translate M100 into Chinese was developed by the China Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, which includes 1,500 clinical laboratories as members.
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The Value of Intermediate^ or “I^” by Graeme Forrest, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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Novel antimicrobial agents like imipenem-relebactam (IMR), aztreonam-avibactam (AZT-AVI), and cefiderocol have been recently added to the antimicrobial armamentarium to combat multidrug resistant gram-negative infections. Guidelines for clinical microbiology laboratories regarding cefiderocol were addressed in the July 2020 CLSI AST News Update and included questions a laboratory should consider when deciding how to approach testing of these new agents. This current issue provides an update on IMR and AZT-AVI. AZT-AVI will be discussed in terms of in vitro testing and its investigational use for specific multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) as it is not currently US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for clinical use.
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Clinical breakpoints provide an interpretation of the probability of treatment success, based on the MIC value or the area of growth inhibition by disk diffusion. Isolates with results within the susceptible category are predicted to be associated with a high chance of treatment success when the patient is administered that antimicrobial, whereas those in the resistant category are associated with low chance of treatment success.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit full-force during March of 2020 and emergency use authorized (EUA) tests became available for measuring SARS-CoV-2, was your laboratory ready? Did you know what you needed to do before implementing the new tests? At CLSI, we know that time period was (and may still be) difficult and stressful for your laboratory, with many unknowns. To help you prepare for the next emergency event, we brought together a working group of experts to consolidate information on implementing such new laboratory tests.
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On March 9, CLSI hosted a Future Focus Forum which explored the future of medical laboratory technologies. Leading experts from industry, government, and the laboratory professions shared their insights into new and emerging technologies and discussed how using standards is integral to the future application and advancement of these technologies.
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CLSI welcomes Victoria Waddell, PhD, as President. He sat down with CLSI Interviewer, Sheri Singer, to discuss more about himself, his work, and his involvement with CLSI. Watch now to meet our new President, Dr. Waddell.
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Not all laboratories use CLSI or other available standards for interpretation of veterinary culture specimens. However, if a laboratory does not adhere to a public standard, such as CLSI’s, breakpoints may vary and interpretation may be inconsistent from laboratory to laboratory, or among different regions of the country.
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The latest edition of CLSI’s GP42 standard—Collection of Capillary Blood Specimens, provides guidance for proper capillary blood collection procedures and processes to ensure the safety of the patient as well as the health care professional responsible for blood specimen collections.
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