To assess the diagnostic and operational performance of the InBiOS AMD rapid diagnostic test (RDT) (Seattle, USA) for the detection of B. pseudomallei in grown blood culture broth. The InBiOS RDT is a lateral flow immunoassay in a strip format detecting B. pseudomallei capsular polysaccharide in culture fluids, marketed for research only. Broth of blood culture bottles (BacT/Alert, bioMérieux, Marcy L’Etoile, France) sampled in adult patients at the Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during 2010–2017 and stored at − 80 °C was tested. They included samples grown with B. pseudomallei (n = 114), samples with no growth (n = 12), and samples with growth of other pathogens (n = 139, among which Burkholderia cepacia (n = 5)). Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were 96.5% [95% confidence interval (CI): 91.3–98.6%] and 100% [CI: 97.5–100%] respectively. Background clearance and line intensities were good and very good. The RDT’s test strip, not housed in a cassette, caused difficulties in manipulation and biosafety. The centrifugation step prescribed by the procedure challenged biosafety, but processing of 19 B. pseudomallei samples without centrifugation showed similar results for line intensity and background clearance, compared to centrifugation. The InBiOS RDT showed excellent accuracy for detection of B. pseudomallei in grown blood culture broth. Provided operational adaptations such as cassette housing, it has the potential to reduce time to diagnosis of melioidosis.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1007/s10096-018-3237-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

In this study, our purpose was to establish a UPLC method for the simultaneous determination of Paeoniflorin and Paeonol in Houyinan Tablet. The separation was performed on Acquity BEH C18 column(2.1mm×100mm,1.7μm), the mobile phase was acetonitrile-water with gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.2 mL•min-1, the detection wavelength was 230nm, the column temperature was 30°Cand the injection volume was 2μL. Paeoniflorin and Paeonol reached effective separation with the other components in this chromatographic conditions. Paeoniflorin and Paeonol were linear within the range of 0.0406~0.4064μg(r=0.9999) and 0.0426~0.4256μg (r=0.9999), respectively. The average recovery was 99.82% and 100.6%. The results of method validation indicated that the method was simple,quick,accurate, specific and less solvent consumption. It can be used for the quality control of Houyinan Tablet.

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In this study, our objective was to prepare levalbuterol hydrochloride drug-resin and investigate its characteristics. This work is basis for the study of the next levalbuterol hydrochloride sustained-release suspensions. The drug-resin was prepared by bath method. The effect of factors , including resin types, drug concentration, speed, temperatures and pH on evaluation index, was evaluate by Drug utilization rate and the resin loading. Then the Box-Behnken Design-response surface method was used to optimize the preparation. The drug content determined by UV method and drug-resin were characterize by IR and DSC．The best formulation of levalbuterol hydrochloride drug-resin was used the bath method IRP69 resin at 30°C. The drug concentration was 1.8 mg•ml-1, and the rotate speed was 250 rpm, the pH was 5.8. The preparation of levalbuterol hydrochloride drug-resin method is simple and feasible, and the drug combined with the resin by the chemisorption of ionic bond.