Typing of Chlamydia trachomatis by restriction endonuclease analysis of the amplified major outer membrane protein gene.

abstract：:A multicenter cross-sectional survey was conducted comparing a commercially available chlamydial optical immunoassay (OIA) to the chlamydial ligase chain reaction (LCR). Endocervical samples from 415 outpatients visiting clinics from three hospitals in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, were evaluated. Relative to the LCR, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjaja S,Cohen S,Brady WE,O'reilly K,Susanto,Wibowo A,Cahyono,Graham RR,Porter KR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 serotype C was found in 545 of 712 Ethiopian patients by peptide enzyme immunoassay. Serotyping failed in 146 samples due to the absence of V3 antibodies or multiple reactivities. In 6 of 34 samples, discordant results were obtained by serotyping and genotyping, possibly due to dive...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sherefa K,Sällberg M,Johansson B,Salminen M,Sönnerborg A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides is a rare cause of keratitis usually associated with trauma. We report a case of corneal ulceration caused by N. asteroides in a patient with leprosy. This is the first case report of nocardial keratitis from Southeast Asia. The diminished corneal sensation in a patient with leprosy could be a pred...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tendolkar UM,Varaiya A,Ahuja AS,Motwane SA,Gogate AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to compare and evaluate antimicrobial susceptibility test results for enterococci obtained by six national committee disk diffusion procedures. Variations in the incidence of isolates in resistance categories and errors were associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin, r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cotter G,Adley CC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of a Pasteurella haemolytica-like bacterium were isolated from lesions of a progressive granuloma of cattle in southern Brazil. Their characteristics and their differentiation from P. haemolytica varieties and Actinobacillus lignieresii are described. The name "Pasteurella granulomatis" is proposed for t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ribeiro GA,Carter GR,Frederiksen W,Riet-Correa F

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne ehrlichial pathogens of animals and humans require a mammalian reservoir of infection from which ticks acquire the organism for subsequent transmission. In the present study, we examined the strain structure of Anaplasma marginale, a genogroup II ehrlichial pathogen, in both an acute outbreak and in persist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Palmer GH,Rurangirwa FR,McElwain TF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency with which clue cells could be detected in Gram-stained vaginal smears and/or cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smears was compared with the frequency of Corynebacterium vaginale (Haemophilus vaginalis) isolation in a group of 236 female patients, of whom 221 had vaginitis. Vaginal clue cells were found most o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith RF,Rodgers HA,Hines PA,Ray RM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kodak SureCell Herpes Test Kit (SC-HSV) was evaluated in a high-risk sexually transmitted disease clinic population. A total of 97 lesion specimens (from 94 patients) were tested for the presence of herpes simplex virus by SC-HSV and by spin-amplified tissue culture confirmed by an enzyme immunoassay. The overall ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dorian KJ,Beatty E,Atterbury KE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has revised several breakpoints since 2010 for bacteria that grow aerobically. In 2019, these revisions include changes to the ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin breakpoints for the Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, daptomycin breakpoints for Enterococcus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Humphries RM,Abbott AN,Hindler JA

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of coagulase-negative staphylococcal slime production and adherence with the development and outcome of bloodstream infections in two Finnish hospitals was evaluated. Analysis of 64 strains from 62 adult septicemias disclosed 34 (53%) adherent slime producers. In comparison, only 142 (29%) of 489 sing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kotilainen P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific PCR was used in six laboratories and a ligase detection reaction was used in one laboratory to detect the zidovudine-resistance mutation at codon 215 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase DNA. The genotypes of 27 different clinical samples, including cultured HIV-1 isol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shafer RW,Winters MA,Mayers DL,Japour AJ,Kuritzkes DR,Weislow OS,White F,Erice A,Sannerud KJ,Iversen A,Pena F,Dimitrov D,Frenkel LM,Reichelderfer PS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus terreus isolates collected from patients at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, and at The University Hospital of Innsbruck, Austria, were analyzed using random amplification of polymorphic DNA-PCR with three different primers. No strain similarity in either institution was detected, indicatin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lass-Flörl C,Grif K,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1995 to May 1998, 57 episodes of bacteremia due to viridans group streptococci were identified in 50 febrile neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies. Four patients experienced two separate episodes of streptococcal bacteremia, and one patient had four separate episodes of streptococcal bacterem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wisplinghoff H,Reinert RR,Cornely O,Seifert H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of three different commercial media was made to assess their recovery of anaerobic organisms from the blood stream. The three media used were the 50-ml brain heart infusion broth with added CO2 (Pfizer), the 50-ml Thiol broth with added CO2 (Difco), and the 50-ml prereduced, supplemented peptone broth in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mangels JI,Lindberg LH,Vosti KL

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia ficaria was first described in 1979 as part of the fig tree ecosystem (P.A.D. Grimont, F. Grimont, and M. P. Starr, Curr. Microbiol. 2:277-282, 1979). Since then, it has been isolated from clinical specimens from a few human patients (C. Bollet, J. Freney, P. de Micco, F. Grimont, and P.A.D. Grimont, Méd. Mal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Darbas H,Jean-Pierre H,Paillisson J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) assay for the detection of Plasmodium parasites has been developed. Primers and probes were selected on the basis of the sequence of the small-subunit rRNA gene. Quantification was achieved by coamplification of the RNA in the sample with one modified...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schoone GJ,Oskam L,Kroon NC,Schallig HD,Omar SA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Corynebacterium isolates submitted to the national reference laboratory in Spain, between 2014 and 2019, in order to describe the current situation and improve our knowledge regarding these emerging pathogens. Ep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoefer A,Pampaka D,Herrera-León S,Peiró S,Varona S,López-Perea N,Masa-Calles J,Herrera-León L

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid identification of blood culture isolates and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results play critical roles for the optimal treatment of patients with bloodstream infections. Whereas others have looked at the time to detection in automated culture systems, we examined the overall time from specimen coll...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tabak YP,Vankeepuram L,Ye G,Jeffers K,Gupta V,Murray PR

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture of autologous CD4 lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells compared favorably with two other methods for the measurement of cell-associated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). For subjects with undetectable HIV-1 RNA levels in plasma, there was a 10,000-fold range of cell-associated virus d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tremblay CL,Giguel F,Merrill DP,Wong JT,Rosenberg E,Kalams S,Walker BD,D'Aquila RT,Hirsch MS

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was the molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated in 21 hospitals in the Czech Republic in the period 2000-2002 and comparison with previous results from 1996-1997. Strains were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of SmaI ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Melter O,Aires de Sousa M,Urbásková P,Jakubů V,Zemlicková H,de Lencastre H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure to demonstrate immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IgM-IFA) in sera from some patients with acute acquired toxoplasmosis has recently been attributed to an inhibitory effect of high titers of IgG antibodies in these sera (Pyndiah et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 9:170-174, 1979). To con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Filice GA,Yeager AS,Remington JS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent advances, tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis remains imperfect in resource-limited settings due to its complexity and costs, poor sensitivity of available tests, or long times to reporting. We present a report on the use of colorimetric methods, based on the detection of mycobacterial growth using colorimetric...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boum Y 2nd,Orikiriza P,Rojas-Ponce G,Riera-Montes M,Atwine D,Nansumba M,Bazira J,Tuyakira E,De Beaudrap P,Bonnet M,Page AL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputa treated with cetyl-pyridinium chloride (CPC) and stored for 20 +/- 9 days was significantly higher than that from sputa that were untreated and processed by the N-acetyl-L-cisteine-NaOH method. Addition of CPC is useful for isolation of M. tuberculosis from sputa subje...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pardini M,Varaine F,Iona E,Arzumanian E,Checchi F,Oggioni MR,Orefici G,Fattorini L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A urease-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been developed for the detection of reagin antibodies in serum. Visuwell Reagin (ADI Diagnostics Inc., Rexdale, Ontario, Canada) is a non-treponemal screening test for the serodiagnosis of syphilis which has the benefits of large batch testing, automatabilit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： White TJ,Fuller SA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 101 isolates of penicillinase-producing and non-penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae with known nutritional requirements, plasmid content, and serovars, were examined for lectin agglutination patterns. These isolates were from outbreaks in Georgia, California, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. Cell suspens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalla WO,Whittington WL,Rice RJ,Larsen SA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, a variety of instrument-assisted bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test systems have been developed which permit provision of test results in a matter of hours rather than days, as has been the case with traditional overnight procedures. These newer rapid techniques are ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Doern GV,Vautour R,Gaudet M,Levy B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids encoding extended-spectrum beta-lactamases of the TEM, SHV, and AmpC families were introduced into common Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae hosts to create a homogeneous panel for evaluating the abilities of five test systems to detect resistance to eight beta-lactam antibiotics. Although MICs, as de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Katsanis GP,Spargo J,Ferraro MJ,Sutton L,Jacoby GA

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new direct immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (DFA) method (Genetic Systems, Inc., Seattle, Wash.) for identification of Pneumocystis carinii in induced sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens was compared in a blinded study with an established Giemsa stain method. We evaluated 148 consecutive clinical speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wolfson JS,Waldron MA,Sierra LS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,013 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were identified in parallel by the Repliscan (Cathra International, Ontario, Canada) and API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) systems. There was a 62% agreement at the genus level between the two systems. Of the 38% discrepant results, Repliscan classified 22% as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Quall CO,Fox JM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical importance of nondiphtherial Corynebacterium, a ubiquitous member of the normal human microflora of the skin and mucous membrane, for ocular surface infections has been recognized recently. We performed an antimicrobial susceptibility test with Etest strips for three fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, norfl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eguchi H,Kuwahara T,Miyamoto T,Nakayama-Imaohji H,Ichimura M,Hayashi T,Shiota H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00