Publications

8.24.2010 | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute document for PNA FISH

8.9.2010 | EU Package Insert for GNR Traffic Light PNA FISH

7.27.2010 | US Package Insert for Yeast Traffic Light PNA FISH

6.9.2010 | Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Document for GBS PNA FISH

6.9.2010 | US Package Insert for GBS PNA FISH

11.17.2008 | A look at how the availability of rapid results affects antimicrobial management.

10.16.2007 | PowerPoint slides describing the PNA FISH technology, procedure and how the tests can help improve care for patients with bloodstream infections.

10.13.2006 | IDSA 2006 Oral Presentation

10.11.2006 | ICAAC 2006 Presentation

4.13.2010 | We highly recommend that the new Traffic Light FISH assay be incorporated into the BSI strategy for rapid laboratory identification of GNB due to its excellent accuracy and ease of use.

4.5.2010 | Candida albicans cells could be identified in real time by using fluorescent in situ hybridization

4.2.2010 | There was 100% concordance between the two protocols for each assay (368/368 and 370/370) and 99.7% (367/368 and 369/370) agreement with routine laboratory techniques.

3.3.2010 | The sensitivity, specificity and negative and positive predictive values for the detection of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in 206 LIM enrichment broths using subculture, GBS PNA FISH, and...

1.19.2010 | PNA FISH results confirmed that the representative isolates from all five episodes were S. aureus

5.29.2007 | a rapid and accurate method for identification of E. coli directly from positive blood culture bottles and provides important information for selection of targeted antibiotic therapy.

5.29.2007 | a rapid and accurate method for identification of S. agalactiae directly from LIM broth culture. Zero false negative, and two false positive results were recorded, one equivocal result was not...

4.1.2007 | This new test can provide rapid and reliable detection results for five clinically relevant Candida species, leading to improvements in antifungal therapy.

4.1.2007 | S. aureus PNA FISH provides the possibility of same-day detection/identification of S. aureus from overnight broth cultures.

3.25.2007 | Deparaffinized sections were analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes.