Rapid label-free identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae antibiotic resistant strains by the drop-coating deposition surface-enhanced Raman scattering method.

Although many methodologies have been developed to identify unknown bacteria, bacterial identification in clinical microbiology remains a complex and time-consuming procedure. To address this problem, we developed a label-free method for rapidly identifying clinically relevant multilocus sequencing typing-verified quinolone-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains. We also applied the method to identify three strains from colony samples, ATCC70063 (control), ST11 and ST15; these are the prevalent quinolone-resistant K.

Label-free identification of antibiotic resistant isolates of living Escherichia coli: Pilot study.

We introduce a label-free spectroscopic method to classify subtypes of quinolone-nonsusceptible Escherichia coli (E. coli) isolates obtained from human blood cultures. Raman spectroscopy with a 30-nm gold-deposited, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate was used to evaluate three multilocus sequencing typing (MLST)-predefined groups including E.

Whole-Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Korean Strain KIT87190.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a contagious agent that causes tuberculosis. A specific type (called the K cluster) of M. tuberculosis with 10 copies of IS6110 in restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) has been found in about 4% of M.

Optimal Combination of VNTR Typing for Discrimination of Isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Korea.

Background: Variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) typing is a promising method to discriminate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in molecular epidemiology. The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal VNTR combinations for discriminating isolated M. tuberculosis strains in Korea.

Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from foreign-born patients in Korea.

Information on drug resistance and transmission patterns of tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born patients is lacking in Asia where immigration is increasing. We examined the drug-resistance profiles of 288 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from foreign-born patients in South Korea, and assessed for potential transmission in the host country by analysing their IS6110 genotypes, as well as those of 4780 strains from native Korean TB patients. The prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB was 9.