Biomedical subjects

F D Vieira

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PubMed2006

The Star STING server: a multiplatform environment for protein structure analysis.

Star STING is the latest version of the STING suite of programs and corresponding database. We report on five important aspects of this package that have acquired some new characteristics, designed to add key advantages to the whole suite: 1) availability for most popular platforms and browsers, 2) introduction of the STING_DB quality assessment, 3) improvement in algorithms for calculation of three STING parameters, 4) introduction of five new STING modules, and 5) expansion of the existing modules. Star STING is freely accessible at: http://sms.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/, http://trantor.bioc.columbia.edu/SMS, http://www.es.embnet.org/SMS/, http://gibk26.bse.kyutech.ac.jp/SMS/ and http://www.ar.embnet.org/SMS.

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PubMed1999

Misclassification of susceptible strains of Staphylococcus aureus as methicillin-resistant S. aureus By a rapid automated susceptibility testing system.

Eight Staphylococcus aureus strains initially identified by Vitek GPS-BS or GPS-SA cards as resistant to oxacillin, but susceptible to most non-beta-lactam antibiotics, were found on further testing to be susceptible to oxacillin and ceftizoxime by disk diffusion tests. For all these strains, the MICs of oxacillin were </=0.5 microg/ml by agar dilution tests, and the strains were oxacillin susceptible when tested by the BBL Crystal MRSA ID and a Vitek machine with GPS-101 cards. None grew on oxacillin-salt agar screening plates. None were positive for mecA gene sequences by PCR. When S. aureus strains tested by Vitek GPS-SA or GPS-BS cards appear resistant to only penicillin and oxacillin, a confirmatory test such as the oxacillin-salt agar screening method should be performed.

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[Quality of bacillus identification tests in the Federal District (Brazil)--a reliability testing].

In Brazil, one of the priorities in the fight against the tuberculosis is the evaluation of laboratories' performance through the quality control of baciloscopic tests. This study was meant to evaluate the reliability of the tests carried out by the Tuberculosis Control Program of the Federal District, Brazil. It is a descriptive study, made out of revised glass slides at the reference laboratory, from 1988 up to 1999. A double-blind comparison of the results of the smear readings obtained in the outskirts and central laboratories was made. The concordances/discrepancies were analyzed through Kappa and the Confidence Interval (CI). From a total of 62,487 glass slides, we evaluated 7,756 baciloscopic tests. The discrepancy results represented 1.9% of false-positive and 0.8% of false-negative. Until 1997, 66.5% of the positive baciloscopic tests had been revised, but when the quality control was implemented the results grew up to 90.1%. The Kappa obtained a very good reliability but didn't match with the CI results. The quality control will increase the reliability of the tuberculosis diagnose although the evaluation depends on the use of sensitive reproducing tests.

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