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nd so they can be used interchangeably, with significantly lower computational time. Linear element types did not yield acceptable results.

Manual annotation of seizures and interictal-ictal-injury continuum (IIIC) patterns in continuous EEG (cEEG) recorded from critically ill patients is a time-intensive process for clinicians and researchers. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy and efficiency of an automated clustering method to accelerate expert annotation of cEEG.

We learned a local dictionary from 97 ICU patients by applying k-medoids clustering to 592 features in the time and frequency domains. We utilized changepoint detection (CPD) to segment the cEEG recordings. We then computed a bag-of-words (BoW) representation for each segment. We further clustered the segments by affinity propagation. EEG experts scored the resulting clusters for each patient by labeling only the cluster medoids. We trained a random forest classifier to assess validity of the clusters.

Mean pairwise agreement of 62.6% using this automated method was not significantly different from interrater agreements using manual labeling (63.8%), demonstrating the validity of the method. We also found that it takes experts using our method 5.31 ± 4.44 min to label the 30.19 ± 3.84 h of cEEG data, more than 45 times faster than unaided manual review, demonstrating efficiency.

Previous studies of EEG data labeling have generally yielded similar human expert interrater agreements, and lower agreements with automated methods.

Our results suggest that long EEG recordings can be rapidly annotated by experts many times faster than unaided manual review through the use of an advanced clustering method.

Our results suggest that long EEG recordings can be rapidly annotated by experts many times faster than unaided manual review through the use of an advanced clustering method.

Facing the emergence of a new RNA virus, clinical laboratories are often helpless in the case of a shortage of reagents recommended by Reference Centres.

To compare five open one step RT-qPCR reagents to the SuperScript™ III Platinum™ One-Step qRT-PCR kit (Invitrogen) considered as the reference one in France at the beginning of the pandemic for detection of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in respiratory specimens by using a laboratory-developed assay targeting the viral RNA dependant RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene.

A total of 51 NUCLISENS easyMAG extracts from respiratory specimens was tested on ABI 7500 thermocycler with TaqMan Fast Virus 1-Step Master Mix (Applied Biosystems), Luna® Universal Probe One-Step RT-qPCR Kit (New England Biolabs), GoTaq® Probe 1- Step RT-qPCR System (Promega), LightCycler® Multiplex RNA Virus Master (Roche) and One-step PrimeScript RT-PCR kit (Takara). Selleckchem Opevesostat The CT values obtained using the 5 challenged reagents were compared to those obtained using the reference assay.

The percentages of concordance were all above 95 %. When comparing the CT values of the 48 extracts exhibiting CT values < 35 obtained with the reference reagent, the results were similar between the reagents although the differences of CT values were quite dispersed.

All five reagents can be considered as alternative reagents to the reference for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA.

All five reagents can be considered as alternative reagents to the reference for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA.Two novel actinobacterial strains, designated as E257T and K478T, were isolated from hyper-arid soil samples collected in Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. Comparative analysis of 16S rRNA genes showed that strains E257T and K478T were assigned to the genus Motilibacter, being their closest relative M. rhizosphaerae RS-16T with 97.3% and 96.7% similarities, respectively. The sequence similarity between strain E257T and K478T was 98.9%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and phylogenomic analysis based on multiple genes of conserved core proteins exhibited that these two strains belonged to the genus Motilibacter and formed a robust cluster separated from the two type species of the genus Motilibacter. Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI), Average Amino acid Identity (AAI), digital DNA-DNA hybridization (dDDH) values and Percentage of Conserved Proteins (POCP) calculated from the complete genome sequences indicated strains E257T and K478T were assigned into genus Motilibacter but clearly separated from each other and from the other species of the genus Motilibacter with values below the thresholds for species delineation. The two isolates were found to have chemotaxonomic, cultural and morphological properties consistent with their classification in the genus Motilibacter and also confirmed the differentiation from their closest species. The obtained results demonstrated that strains E257T and K478T represent two novel species of the genus Motilibacter, for which the names Motilibacter desertisp. nov. (type strain E257T = JCM 33651T = CGMCC 1.17159T) and Motilibacter aurantiacus sp. nov. (type strain K478T =JCM 33652T =CGMCC 1.17229T) are proposed.In the appropriate clinical setting, the presence of interictal epileptiform abnormalities (IEAs) on EEG supports the diagnosis of epilepsy. However, the absence of epileptiform abnormalities on EEG cannot exclude a diagnosis of epilepsy. The goal of our study is to determine the prevalence of IEAs in patients with confirmed epilepsy, determined by having at least one epileptic seizure recorded during video-EEG monitoring. In addition, we aimed to analyze the time to recording IEAs and seizures in correlation with patient age, duration of epilepsy, and seizure focus localization. We retrospectively evaluate EEG data for all patients admitted to the epilepsy monitoring unit over a 2-year period. Of the 151 patients included, 129 (86%) patients had IEAs and 22 (14%) patients had no IEAs. Age and duration of epilepsy were not independent predictors of whether IEAs were present on EEG. The duration of EEG monitoring and time to first seizure did not influence IEA detection. In patients with IEAs, the mean time to the first IEA was 1.