Oliva N. Walti Fernandez-Sampedro Hassan; Natl. Univ. of Scienecs and Technology, Army Med. Coll., Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

47 SUNDAY SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS Final Program D-161 PCR Assay to Detect Clostridium difficile tcdC Mutants is Valuable in Characterizing Hospital Epidemiology

A. Wilmer

1 , E. Lloyd-Smith 2 , V. Leung 2 , T. Wong 1 , G. Ritchie 3 , S. Cham- pagne 3 , M. Romney 3 ; 1 Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2 St. Paul’s Hosp., Vancouver, Canada, 3 St. Paul’s Hosp., Vancouver, Canada. D-162 Elevated Fecal Lactoferrin Levels Correlate with the Presence of Clostridium difficile Toxin

H. R. Totty

1 , J. H. Boone 1 , R. J. Carman 1 , T. M. Kerkering 2 , D. M. Lyerly 1 ; 1 Techlab, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, 2 Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA. D-163 Higher Lactoferrin, Increased WBC, Stool Toxin and 027 Infection are Associated with More Severe

C. difficile Disease

J. H. Boone

1 , C. McCoy 1 , J. DiPersio 2 , M. Tan 2 , S. Salstrom 2 , K. Wickham 1 , R. Carman 1 , D. Lyerly 1 ; 1 TechLab, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, 2 Summa Hlth. System, Akron, OH. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 012 D Poster Session Diagnosis of Infections of Implantable Devices and Biofilms Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Halls A-C Presentations: D-164 A Novel, Direct Susceptibility Testing Method of Vascular Prosthetic Grafts by E-Tests L. Stecken 1 , A. San Miguel 1 , F. M’zali 2 , A. Quinart 1 , X. Berard 1 , F. Sztark 1 ; 1 Bordeaux Teaching Hosp., Bordeaux, France, 2 Univ. of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. D-165 Sonication of Cardiac Devices and their Components: Mi- crobiological and Pathogenetic Implication in Cardiac Device Infections

A. Oliva

1 , B. Nguyen 1 , M. T. Mascellino 1 , M. Iannetta 1 , A. D’Abramo 1 , V. Malagnino 1 , A. Ciccaglioni 1 , V. Vullo 1 , C. M. Mastroianni 2 ; 1 Sapienza Univ., Rome, Italy, 2 Sapienza Univ., Latina, Italy. D-166 Diagnosis of Venous Access Port Colonization Requires Cul- tures from Multiple Sites M. Guembe, P. Martín-Rabadán, A. Echenagusia, F. Camúñez, G. Rodrí- guez-Rosales, G. Simó, M. Echenagusia, E. Bouza; Hosp. G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. D-167 Diagnosis of Intravascular Catheter Colonization and Central Venous Catheter-Related Infection: A Prospective Comparison of the Roll-Plate and Sonication Technique in 975 Central Venous Catheters S. Erb, K. Schrengenberger, M. Dangel, R. Frei, A. F. Widmer; Univ. Hosp. of Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland. D-168 Sonication of Cerebrospinal Fluid Catheter Tips for Improved Detection of Microorganism in Device Associated Infections

L. N. Walti

1 , G. Jost 2 , L. Mariani 2 , A. Trampuz 1 ; 1 Univ. Hosp., Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 Univ. Hosp., Basel, Switzerland. D-169 Diagnostic Tests for Prosthetic Joint Infection PJI

M. Fernandez-Sampedro

1 , C. Fariñas-Alvarez 2 , C. Salas-Venero 1 , M. Sumillera 1 , M. Fakkas Fernández 1 , J. Gómez-Román 1 , L. Martínez-Mar- tínez 1 , M. Fariñas 1 ; 1 Valdecilla Univ. Hosp., Santander, Spain, 2 Sierrallana Hosp., Torrelavega, Spain. D-170 Anaerobic Thioglycollate Broth Culture for Recovery of Propionibacterium Acnes PA from Shoulder Fluid and Tissue Specimens S. K. Shannon, J. Mandrekar, D. R. Gustafson, S. L. Rucinski, A. L. Dailey, R. E. Segner, M. K. Burman, K. J. Boelman, D. T. Lynch, J. E. Rosenblatt, R. Patel; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. D-171 Detection of Biofilm Formation Among the Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumanii

A. Hassan; Natl. Univ. of Scienecs and Technology, Army Med. Coll., Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 013 D Poster Session Diagnosis of Respiratory Tract Infections Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Halls A-C Presentations: D-172 Genomic Load from Sputum to Diagnose Pneumococcal Pneumonia W. C. Albrich 1,2 , S. A. Madhi 2,3 , P. V. Adrian 2,3 , P. Zhaoer 4 , M. Sidhu 5 , J. Telles 6 , G. Paranhos-Baccala 6 , K. U. Jansen 4 , G. Vernet 6 , K. P. Klugman 2,7 ; 1 Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland, 2 Vaccine Preventable Diseases Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Res. Unit, MRC, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 Natl. Inst. for Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Hlth. Sci., Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 Pfizer Vaccine Res., Pearl River, NY, 5 Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, 6 Emerging Pathogens Lab., Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France, 7 Rollins Sch. of Publ. Hlth. Div. of Infect. Dis., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA. D-173 Multiplex PCR on Bronchoalveolar Lavage BAL Markedly Improves the Microbiological Documentation of Severe Pneumo- nia for Patients with Ongoing Antimicrobial Treatment J. Baudel, J. Tankovic, F. Carrat, R. Dahoumane, A. Galbois, H. Ait Oufella, G. Offenstadt, B. Guidet, E. Maury; Univ. Hosp. Saint-Antoine, Paris, France. D-174 Direct Comparison of Real-Time PCR Using Roche Analyte Specific Reagents with Shell Vial Culture for Detection of Cyto- megalovirus in Lower Respiratory Specimens

K. R. Hawkins