Evaluation of microbial occurrence in reusable robotic instruments for minimally invasive surgery: A pilot study.

In recent decades, minimally invasive surgery has become the favoured surgical technique, with increasing utilisation of robotic surgery to enhance patient outcomes. However, the design complexity of surgical robotic instruments can pose challenges in maintaining adequate cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation-particularly of the device's interior. In our hospital, robotic instruments are reused for a maximum of ten successive patients, following the manufacturer's guidelines.

Chlamydia trachomatis Coinfection Does Not Influence Mycoplasma genitalium Bacterial Load in Urogenital Samples.

Background: Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is associated with urethritis in men and weakly associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in women. Mycoplasma genitalium coinfections with Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) are commonly reported; however, little is known about their interaction. One study suggested that MG/NG coinfections might increase the bacterial load of NG, which has been shown to have a higher transmission potential.

Men and Women Have an Equal Oropharyngeal and Anorectal Chlamydia trachomatis Bacterial Load: A Comparison of 3 Anatomic Sites.

Background: The Chlamydia trachomatis bacterial load could have impact on transmission and sequelae. This is the first study providing comparison of C. trachomatis load at 3 anatomic sites estimated by cycle quantification (Cq) values.

Standardisation is necessary in urogenital and extragenital bacterial load determination by quantitative PCR: a review of literature and retrospective study.

Objectives: Pathogen load has been linked to disease severity in patients infected with HIV, resulting in international standards to adequately and reproducibly quantify load. (CT) load has been inconsistently linked to disease severity since extensive differences exist in quantification methods (14 methods in 28 articles). Differences include normalisation for human cell load due to CT's intracellular nature, despite the inability to distinguish inflammatory cells from epithelial cells with molecular techniques.

Review of Chlamydia trachomatis viability methods: assessing the clinical diagnostic impact of NAAT positive results.

Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) is the most commonly diagnosed bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) worldwide. The advancement of molecular techniques has made chlamydia diagnostics infinitely easier. However, molecular techniques lack the information on chlamydia viability.

Chlamydia trachomatis load in population-based screening and STI-clinics: implications for screening policy.

Objectives: If the Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) bacterial load is higher in high-risk populations than in the general population, this negatively affects the efficacy of CT screening incentives. In the largest retrospective study to date, we investigated the CT load in specimens collected from 2 cohorts: (1) attendants of a sexually transmitted infection (STI)-clinic and (2) participants of the Dutch population-based screening (PBS).

Methods: CT load was determined using quantitative PCR in CT-positive male urine and female cervicovaginal swabs.