Bacteriology Studies

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Independent Studies - 2001
P-79	Recovery of N. gonorrhoeae from Amies Clear Transport Media Following Storage at Room Temp. or at 4° C.	J. Tomblin*, J. Roy, S. Henwick, D. Purych, BC Biomedical Laboratories, Surrey, BC	CACMID, CHICA & CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia
P-80	Evaluation of the copan Easy-Flow Venturi Transport System™ Swab Compared to the Starplex STARswabII™ SP130X System Utilizing Amies Agar Gel Without Charcoal	T. Mazzulli, P. Lo, M. Skulnick, P.W. Marshall, Toronto Medical Laboratories & Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	CACMID, CHICA & CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia
P-82	Evaluation of the New Easy-Flow™ Transport Swab (Copan diagnostics Inc.), Designed for Improved Sample Relwease, in Comparison with Regular Rayon Transport Swabs	M. Sarina, B. Gandhi, P. Mercuri. - The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	CACMID, CHICA& CIDS, November 2001, Victoria, British Columbia
C-22	Comparison of the BioStar Antigen Test, Gen-Probe Direct Probe and Culture for Detection of Group A Streptococcus	P.M. Blake, P.M. Benjamin, J.C. Kee, C.D. Wilson, K.C. Chapin, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
C-53	Comparison of a New Liquid Stuart Aerobic Swab Transport system with Two Currently Available Swab Systems	E.Grover Smith1, T.L. Jackson 2 1 Raleigh Pathology Associates, Raleigh,NC; 2 WakeMed, Raleigh,NC	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
C-55	Effects of Temperature on Fastidious Organism Viability During Swab Transport	J.L. Perry, VA Medical Center, Wichita, KS	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, florida • May 2001
C56	Comparative Study of the Bacteriological Performance of Commercial Amies Agar Swab Transport Devices with a Traditional Stuart Agar Transport System	L. Sjoberg, E. Blomgren, M. Larsson, Orebro Medical Centre Hospital, Orebro, SWEDEN	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
C-57	Comparison of Four Swab Transport Systems stored at Room Temperature and +4°C for Recovery of Previously Inoculated Fastidious Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria	L. Rouse, C. Hernandez, S. De Martino, P. Zachary, H. Monteil, Y. Piémont, Institut de Bactériologie, Strasbourg, FRANCE	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
C-58	Comparison of the Copan Transport Swab to the BD Culturette and BD Port -a-Cul for the Collection and Transportation of Selected Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria	W.H. Riley, M.R. Banaszak, G.S. Cherry, C. Garcia, Baptist Health Systems of South Florida, Miami, FL	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
C-61	Effect of Storage Temperature on Recovery of Bacteria From Three Swab Transport Systems: BD CultureSwab and BD Culturette (BD Diagnostis Systems, Ontario, Canada)	Deborah Wilson, M.J. Tuohy, G.W. Procop, G.S. Hall, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH	ASM 101st General Meeting, Orlando, Florida • May 2001
	Comparison of Three Transport Systems (Starplex StarSwab II, the New Copan Vi-Pak Amies Agar Gel Collection and Transport Swabs, and BBL Port-A-Cul) for Maintenance of Anaerobic and Fastidious Aerobic Organisms	Musa Hindiyeh, Victoria Acevedo, and Karen C. Carroll	Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Jan. 2001, p. 377-380
Independent Studies - 2000
	Copan and Starplex Amies with Charcoal Tansport Systems - An Evaluation of Organism Recovery	B. Gandhi, J. Tarbush, A. Sarabia	CACMID 68th Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. Nov. 4th - 9th, 2000
C-150	Survival of Fastidious Bacteria on Specimen collection swabs Stored at Room Temperature	J.M. Campos, L. Ruthamn, and M. Tshimanga	Abstract: C-150 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000.
C-152	Comparison of 3 Amies Gel Transport Systems for the Recovery of 12 Clinically Significant Organisms	C. Hetchler, C. Brown, J. Galbraith	Abstract: C-152 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen Collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000.
C-153	Comparison of Four Swab Transport Systems for the Recovery of Aerobic Microorganisms	C. Tóth and K. Van Horn	Abstract: C-153 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen Collection, Transportation and Processing. May 23rd, 2000.
C-154	Comparison of the New Starplex StarSwab II™ and the New Copan Vi-Pak Amies Agar Gel Collection and Transport Swabs with BBL™ Port-A-Cul™ for the Maintenance of Anaerobic and Fastidious Aerobic Organisms	Musa Hindiyeh, Victoria Acevedo, Ann Croft, and Karen C. Carroll	Abstract: C-154 ASM 2000 General Meeting, Los Angeles, California. 105/C. Specimen collection, Transportation, and Processing. May 23rd, 2000.
TuP303	Bacterial Survival in Different transport Media	M. Gelmi, S. Licenziati, E. Garrafa, A. Turano	Poster: TuP303 European Congress of Clinacal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 10th ECCMID Meeting. May 28-31, 2000.
TuP305	Quality of Four Transport Systems for Bacterial Survival	J.M. Rousée, H. Monteil and Y. Piémont	Poster: TuP305 European Congress of Clinacal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 10th ECCMID Meeting. May 28-31, 2000.
	Survival of Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria in Purulent Clinical Specimens Maintained in the Copan Venturi Transystem and Becton Dickinson Port-a-Cul Transport Systems	Diane M. Citron, Yumi A. Warren, Marie K. Hudspeth, and Ellie J. C. Goldstein	Journal Of Clinical Microbiology, Feb. 2000, P. 892–894
Independent Studies - 1999 & Prior
	Evaluation of four commercial transport media for the survival of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae	Judy C. Arbique, Kevin R. Forward, John LeBlanc	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 36 (2000) 163-168. Received 27 July 1999: accepted 9 November 1999.
	Comparison of Direct Inoculation versus Copan Transport Systems for isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Endocervical Specimens	C.C. Olsen, J.R. Schwebke, W.H. Benjamin Jr., A. Beverly and K.B. Waites.	Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Nov 1999, page 3583 - 3585.
	Evaluation of Fastidious-Organism Survival in Swab Transport Systems	J. L. Perry	Abstracts from the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Sept 1999.
	Comparison of Commercial Amies Transport Systems with In-House Amies Medium for Recovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae	D. Thompson and Susanne French	Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Sept 1999, page 3020 – 3021.
	Viability of Trichomonas vaginalis in Transport Medium	L. Beverly, M. Venglarik, B. Cotton, and J.R. Schwebke.	Abstracts from the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR) 1999 Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 11^th – 14^th.
C-31	Comparison of Rayon and Dacron Swabs in Amies Medium for Bordetella pertussis transport	J.S. Thompson and D.E. Smith	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, May 1999. C-31 Poster Session.
C-32	Comparison of Four Swab Systems for Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria	K. Van Horn, K. Warren and C. Tóth.	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, May 1999. C-32 Poster Session.
	Evaluation of Four Transport Systems for the Survival of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.	J.C. Arbique and K.R. Forward	Abstracts from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. November 1998.
C-451	Evaluation of Two Swab Transport Systems For the Recovery of Sixteen Bacterial Species of Clinical Significance	S. Finn, S. E. Farhat, J. Beech, J. McCann, M. Skulnick, and B. B. Diena	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-451 Poster Session
C-448	Evaluation of the Copan Venturi Transystem for Anaerobes using Clinical Specimens	D. M. Citron, M. K. Hudspeth, S. Hunt Gerardo and E. J. C. Goldstein.	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-448 Poster Session
C-444	Comparison of Bacterial Recovery Rates of Four Commercial Swab Transport Systems	D.M. Warshauer, L.J. Bartell and J. T. Paloucek	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-444 Poster Session
C-439	Use of Copan Liquid Media Transport Swabs for the Gen-Probe Group A Streptococcus Direct Test	P. P. Bourbeau and B. J. Heiter	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-439 Poster Session
C-437	Comparison of Copan Amies Agar Swab and BBL Port-a-cul Swab for Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria	K. Van Horn, Clara Tóth, and Jane Wegienek	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-437 Poster Session
C-436	Viability of Aerobic Microorganisms in Four Swab Systems	K. Van Horn, Clara Tóth, and Jane Wegienek	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. C-436 Poster Session
	Inhibitory Properties of a Swab Transport Device	J. L. Perry	Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Dec 1997, page 3367 – 3368
Ps-8	The Effect of Different Sponge (Pledget) Material on the Survival of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) During Swab Transport	J. Krepel	Abstracts from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases. Ps-8, October 1997.
18-C	Inhibitory Properties of a Commercially Available Swab Transport Device	J. L. Perry	Abstracts from the American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting. Miami Beach, Florida, May 1997. 18-C Poster Session
	Assessment of Swab Transport Systems for Aerobic and Anaerobic Organism Recovery	J. L. Perry	Journal of Clinical Microbiology. May 1997, page 1269 –1271
S132-3	Evaluation of a Novel Specimen Transport System (Venturi Transystem) for Anaerobic Bacteria	M. K. Hudspeth, D. M. Citron, and E.J.C. Goldstein	Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal. 1997; 25 (Supplement 2): S132-3
	Inhibition of PCR-Based Assay for Bordetellapertussis by Using Calcium Alginate Fiber and Aluminum Shaft Components of a Nasopharyngeal Swab	Robert M. Wadowsky, Stella Laus, Therese Libert, Stanley J. States, and Garth D. Ehrlich	Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Apr. 1994, p.1054 - 1057
C-02	A comparative Study of four Commercially Available Swab Transport Systems	D. Burkhart and R.L. Sutter Harrisburg Hospital, Harrisburg, PA	Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 1988. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.