Cross-reactions between Actinobacillus (Haemophilus) pleuropneumoniae strains of serotypes 1 and 9.

abstract：:Fresh urine pellets from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-seropositive individuals were examined for the presence of the HIV-1 genomic sequence and gene products. By using the polymerase chain reaction technique, HIV-1 DNA proviral sequences were detected in 53 of 80 (66.25%) fresh urine pellets from HIV-1-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li JJ,Huang YQ,Poiesz BJ,Zaumetzger-Abbot L,Friedman-Kien AE

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen Minnesota and Wisconsin dogs with granulocytic ehrlichosis were studied. The diagnoses were made by finding ehrlichia morulae in peripheral blood neutrophils. Eight dogs were studied retrospectively, and nine dogs were studied prospectively. The medical records of all dogs were reviewed. Eighty-eight percent...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greig B,Asanovich KM,Armstrong PJ,Dumler JS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Totals of 102 and 56 Clostridium difficile type 078 strains of human and porcine origins, respectively, from four European countries were investigated by an optimized multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) and for tetracycline susceptibility. Eighty-five percent of all isolates were genetically relat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bakker D,Corver J,Harmanus C,Goorhuis A,Keessen EC,Fawley WN,Wilcox MH,Kuijper EJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between (unculturable) gastrospirillum-like organisms (GLO) and ulcerative lesions in the pars oesophagea in stomachs of swine has been claimed. In dogs GLO detected by microscopy may represent several Helicobacter species or subspecies. Therefore we investigated which Helicobacter spp. are present in s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roosendaal R,Vos JH,Roumen T,van Vugt R,Cattoli G,Bart A,Klaasen HL,Kuipers EJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Kusters JG

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-house surveillance for healthcare-associated infection is no longer the recommended practice because of the large personnel time investment required. We developed a computer-based tracking system using microbiologic data as an aid in detecting potential outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections on a hospital...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hacek DM,Cordell RL,Noskin GA,Peterson LR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of a herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1-specific anti-glycoprotein C-1 monoclonal antibody (MAb) and a type 2-specific anti-glycoprotein G-2 MAb for typing of 2,400 clinical HSV-1 isolates and 2,400 clinical HSV-2 isolates, respectively, using an enzyme immunoas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liljeqvist JA,Svennerholm B,Bergström T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, it is clear that in vitro susceptibility testing can predict outcome in selected clinical situations. The clearest data are from the fluconazole-treated AIDS patients with oropharyngeal candidiasis. In this setting, the homogeneity of the underlying immune defect, combined with the ease of identification a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ghannoum MA,Rex JH,Galgiani JN

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization was assessed using combined nose and groin swabs in two commercial PCR assays (the Xpert MRSA assay and the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay). Compared to routine culture, both had similar sensitivities (87.0% versus 84.8%, respectively) and speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelley PG,Grabsch EA,Howden BP,Gao W,Grayson ML

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium complex strains isolated in a nosocomial outbreak were characterized at the molecular level. The strains were microbiologically characterized as Mycobacterium bovis. The mpt40 sequence was not present in chromosomal DNA from these strains, supporting the fact that they ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blázquez J,Espinosa de Los Monteros LE,Samper S,Martín C,Guerrero A,Cobo J,Van Embden J,Baquero F,Gómez-Mampaso E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended incubation of culture plates was studied to see if the recovery of Bordetella spp. from nasopharyngeal swabs could be improved. Forty-eight Bordetella isolates were recovered from 103 children (overall positive-culture rate, 46.6%) who met the clinical case definition of pertussis. Seven of 44 (16%) B. pertus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Katzko G,Hofmeister M,Church D

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira is a highly diverse genus comprising many species and serogroups in Brazil as well as all over the world. However, a study by arbitrarily primed PCR of 44 leptospiral strains isolated from humans during three different outbreaks in Brazilian urban centers reveals that 43 of 44 isolates exhibit very similar ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pereira MM,Matsuo MG,Bauab AR,Vasconcelos SA,Moraes ZM,Baranton G,Saint Girons I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 244 strains of Aerococcus, Enterococcus, and Streptococcus species were tested by the RapID STR system (Innovative Diagnostic Systems Inc., Atlanta, Ga.) for identification. Strains were identified without additional tests or with additional conventional tests suggested by the IDS compendium manual. Our dat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： You MS,Facklam RR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of concerns over an influenza pandemic, identification of virulent influenza A virus isolates must be obtained quickly for effective responses. Rapid subtype identification, however, is difficult even in well-equipped virology laboratories or is unobtainable in the field under more austere conditions. Here...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lodes MJ,Suciu D,Elliott M,Stover AG,Ross M,Caraballo M,Dix K,Crye J,Webby RJ,Lyon WJ,Danley DL,McShea A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While outbreaks of animal anthrax zoonoses still regularly occur in France, little is known about the epidemiology links between them. We have used the eight-locus multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis typing technique against a collection of 50 Bacillus anthracis isolates from France. There were eight dis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fouet A,Smith KL,Keys C,Vaissaire J,Le Doujet C,Lévy M,Mock M,Keim P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By DNA-DNA hybridization, we classified 26 human strains, 4 dog and cat strains, and 4 hamster strains putatively identified as Helicobacter cinaedi as well as 2 human strains and 2 animal strains of Helicobacter fennelliae. All but one human strain belonged to the same hybridization group as the type strain of H. cin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kiehlbauch JA,Brenner DJ,Cameron DN,Steigerwalt AG,Makowski JM,Baker CN,Patton CM,Wachsmuth IK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helcococcus kunzii was isolated by sonication and conventional cultures obtained from a case of infection following total knee prosthesis in an immunocompetent patient. The patient recovered uneventfully. This is the first known case of an H. kunzii prosthetic joint infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Jorge C,Cordero J,Marin M,Esteban J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) was used to analyze isolates from two major listeriosis outbreaks in the United States in 1998 and 2002 that were due to consumption of contaminated hot dogs and turkey deli meat, respectively. MVLST demonstrated high epidemiological relevance and indicated that the two ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Zhang W,Knabel SJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have amplified and sequenced the 5.8S and 28S ribosomal DNA genes and intergenic regions of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, strain Pb01. Using primers specifically designed for both ribosomal DNA regions, we were able to discriminate between P. brasiliensis and other human pathogenic fungi by PCR. The use of this mo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Motoyama AB,Venancio EJ,Brandão GO,Petrofeza-Silva S,Pereira IS,Soares CM,Felipe MS

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By comparing nucleic acid sequences determined for one of the most variable areas of 23S rRNA genes of 23 Campylobacter strains, we were able to identify regions specific for thermophilic Campylobacter strains. Oligonucleotide primers corresponding to these unique regions were synthesized and used in the polymerase ch...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eyers M,Chapelle S,Van Camp G,Goossens H,De Wachter R

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its theoretical advantages, direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing (DST) of urine specimens remains controversial largely because of concerns regarding its accuracy, particularly with mixed cultures. To evaluate the performance of DST in the setting of acute urinary tract infection (UTI), we performed DST...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson JR,Tiu FS,Stamm WE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential clinical value of colony counts determined by the lysis-centrifugation blood culture method was studied by reviewing the records of eight patients with persistent septicemia in whom colony counts were available on at least 3 days. Colony counts of the five patients who survived decreased steadily as the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whimbey E,Wong B,Kiehn TE,Armstrong D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man sustained a crush injury to the tibia, which subsequently became infected with Saksenaea vasiformis. He was treated with debridement and a free myocutaneous flap, but amputation was necessary because of mycotic osteomyelitis. S. vasiformis was recovered and identified on the basis of its characterist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pierce PF,Wood MB,Roberts GD,Fitzgerald RH Jr,Robertson C,Edson RS

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of synthetic oligonucleotide primers, designed from the gene encoding a 32-kDa intraerythrocytic piroplasm surface protein of Theileria sergenti, were used to amplify parasite DNA from the blood of T. sergenti-infected cattle by means of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR-amplified DNA was examined by ele...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tanaka M,Onoe S,Matsuba T,Katayama S,Yamanaka M,Yonemichi H,Hiramatsu K,Baek BK,Sugimoto C,Onuma M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a duplex, real-time PCR assay for detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (blaKPC) and New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (blaNDM) genes. Accuracy was assessed with 158 Gram-negative bacillary isolates, including 134 carbapenemase producers. The assay had 100% sensitivity and specificity compared with r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cunningham SA,Noorie T,Meunier D,Woodford N,Patel R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain analysis cannot be used for the investigation of active lyssavirus infection in healthy bats because most bat species are protected by conservation directives. Consequently, serology remains the only tool for performing virological studies on natural bat populations; however, the presence of antibodies merely re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Echevarría JE,Avellón A,Juste J,Vera M,Ibáñez C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of the genus Bartonella are currently recognized in growing numbers and are involved in an increasing variety of human diseases, mainly trench fever, Carrion's disease, bacillary angiomatosis, endocarditis, cat scratch disease, neuroretinitis, and asymptomatic bacteremia. Such a wide spectrum of infections mak...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Houpikian P,Raoult D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) analysis is a rapid and convenient technique for the detection of mutations and allelic variants. We have adapted this technique for the identification of bacteria by PCR with fluorescein-labeled primers chosen from the conserved regions of the 16S rRNA gene flank...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjojoatmodjo MN,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first case of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated thymic carcinoid tumor found by in situ hybridization (ISH) on paraffin-embedded sections. ISH revealed that both tumor cells and infiltrated lymphocytes were EBV positive, while a few EBV-infected lymphocytes were detected in 2 of 11 thymuses and 1 of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeuchi H,Fujita H,Iwasaki F,Takeuchi T,Imadome K,Okumiya T,Matsui T,Takahashi M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jena virus (JV) is a bovine enteric calicivirus that causes diarrhea in calves. The virus is approximately 30 nm in diameter and has a surface morphology similar to the human Norwalk virus. The genome sequence of JV was recently described, and the virus has been assigned to the genus Norovirus of the family CALICIVIRI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Batten CA,Liu BL,Lambden PR,Elschner M,Günther H,Otto P,Schnürch P,Eichhorn W,Herbst W,Clarke IN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 272 staphylococcal isolates from cases of bovine mastitis (159 Staphylococcus aureus) belonging to 12 different species were identified with ID32 STAPH galleries, and 51 of them were confirmed by 16S rRNA gene (rrs) sequencing. The same isolates were examined for their hemolytic activity on sheep blood agar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boerlin P,Kuhnert P,Hüssy D,Schaellibaum M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00