Preparation and evaluation of a noninfectious monkey pox virus vaccine.

abstract：:Endotoxin concentrations were determined in middle-ear effusions (MEEs) from 89 children with chronic otitis media by using the Limulu's amoebocyte lysate assay. Mean concentrations of endotoxin in Haemophilus influenzae-positive and Streptococcus pneumoniae-positive MEEs were 157 and 21.8 ng/ml, respectively, and wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeMaria TF,Prior RB,Briggs BR,Lim DJ,Birck HG

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemagglutination inhibition test (HAI) and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting antibody to rubella virus were compared by testing 25 sets of paired sera taken before and after infection and 10 sets of sera taken during acute and convalescent stages of the disease and by screening 700 serum ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shekarchi IC,Sever JL,Tzan N,Ley A,Ward LC,Madden D

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 regions in the rRNA gene were determined by directly sequencing PCR-amplified fragments for all of the species (17 species and five varieties) in the genus Trichosporon. Comparative sequence analysis suggests that six medically relevant species,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sugita T,Nishikawa A,Ikeda R,Shinoda T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of anti-hepatitis E virus (anti-HEV) antibodies is still enigmatic. There is no gold standard, and results obtained with different assays often diverge. Herein, five assays were compared for detection of anti-HEV IgM and IgG. Serum samples from 500 Swedish blood donors and 316 patients, of whom 136 had s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Norder H,Karlsson M,Mellgren Å,Konar J,Sandberg E,Lasson A,Castedal M,Magnius L,Lagging M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochrome b (cytb) gene quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay was developed to diagnose malaria in travelers. First, manual and automated DNA extractions were compared and automated DNA extraction of 400 μl of blood was found to be more efficient. Sensitivity was estimated using the WHO international standard for Plasmodiu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farrugia C,Cabaret O,Botterel F,Bories C,Foulet F,Costa JM,Bretagne S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocavirus (HBoV) was discovered in 2005 and is associated with respiratory tract symptoms in young children. Three additional members of the genus Bocavirus, HBoV2, -3, and -4, were discovered recently from fecal specimens, and early results indicate an association between HBoV2 and gastrointestinal disease. In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kantola K,Sadeghi M,Antikainen J,Kirveskari J,Delwart E,Hedman K,Söderlund-Venermo M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from goats suffering from caprine arthritis-encephalitis contained antibodies to virus proteins of 15, 17, 28, 40, and 130 kilodaltons in immunoblots of maedi-visna virus. We propose to use immunoblotting as a validation test for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and demonstrate that the specificity of indirect e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zanoni R,Krieg A,Peterhans E

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori virulence determinants have not previously been studied in detail in Latin Americans with H. pylori infections. We characterized the vacA (vacuolating cytotoxin gene A) and cagA (cytotoxin-associated gene A) types of more than 400 single-colony isolates from 20 patients in Mexico City. For 17 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morales-Espinosa R,Castillo-Rojas G,Gonzalez-Valencia G,Ponce de León S,Cravioto A,Atherton JC,López-Vidal Y

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15 to 35% of patients with a first episode of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea relapse within 2 months. Between 1994 and 1997, strains from 93 hospitalized patients with C. difficile recurrences were fingerprinted by using both serotyping and PCR-ribotyping. The results showed that 48.4% of clin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barbut F,Richard A,Hamadi K,Chomette V,Burghoffer B,Petit JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass spectrometry (MS) method that detects a serum disaccharide (DS) (MS-DS) was recently described for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections (IFI). We carried out a European collaborative study to evaluate this assay. Patients with the following IFI were selected according to the availability of sera obtained...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cornu M,Sendid B,Mery A,François N,Mikulska M,Letscher-Bru V,De Carolis E,Damonti L,Titecat M,Bochud PY,Alanio A,Sanguinetti M,Viscoli C,Herbrecht R,Guerardel Y,Poulain D

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspected outbreaks caused by pseudomonas aeruginosa in 19 hospitals and two motels were studied. On the basis of epidemiological analysis, serological typing, and antibiotic resistance patterns, 17 were classified as single-strain outbreaks. Six were classified as common-source outbreaks: of these, three were caused ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farmer JJ 3rd,Weinstein RA,Zierdt CH,Brokopp CD

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three variants of a Corynebacterium diphtheriae subsp. mitis strain belfanti, two toxigenic (phage types 7 and 11) and one nontoxigenic (phage type 7), were simultaneously isolated from the throat of an adult. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang DN,Laughren GS,Chalvardjian NE

更新日期：1978-12-01 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：:Ceftolozane-tazobactam (C/T) is a novel beta-lactam-beta-lactamase inhibitor combination antibiotic approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014 for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (in combination with metronidazole) and complicated urinary tract infections. In this study, we evalu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bailey AL,Armstrong T,Dwivedi HP,Denys GA,Hindler J,Campeau S,Traczewski M,Humphries R,Burnham CA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria from clinical specimens maintained in the Copan Venturi Transystem and the Becton Dickinson Port-a-Cul transport was assessed. Of 54 anaerobes, 53 were recovered after 4 h, and 52 were recovered after 24 h, from both systems. After 48 h, 45 and 50 were recovered from the two ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Citron DM,Warren YA,Hudspeth MK,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old diabetic female presented to a hospital in Jamaica with thermal burns. Trichosporon asahii was isolated from facial wounds, sputum, and a meningeal swab. Dissemination of the fungus was demonstrated in stained histological sections of the meninges and a brain abscess at autopsy. Pure growth of the fungus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Heslop OD,Nyi Nyi MP,Abbott SP,Rainford LE,Castle DM,Coard KC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have resulted in the proposal of a new species, Aeromonas schubertii (mannitol, sucrose, and indole negative), formerly termed Enteric Group 501, on the basis of the study of seven strains isolated from the southeastern and southwestern United States and Puerto Rico. We have isolated two phenotypically ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carnahan AM,Marii MA,Fanning GR,Pass MA,Joseph SW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium ulcerans has revealed two new insertion sequences (ISs), IS2404 and IS2606. IS2404 was identified by complete sequencing of a previously described repetitive DNA segment from M. ulcerans. This element is 1,274 bp long, contains 12-bp inverted repeats and a single open reading frame ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stinear T,Ross BC,Davies JK,Marino L,Robins-Browne RM,Oppedisano F,Sievers A,Johnson PD

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ATP-based biocide susceptibility assay for mycobacteria was developed by optimizing the cell lysis and assay conditions. Compared to the conventional agar plating method, the assay was rapid (1.5 h) and showed high sensitivity and specificity as determined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The te...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kapoor R,Yadav JS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood culture contamination greatly affects clinical decisions. Hence, it is of interest to assess the influence of factors such as the volume of blood drawn and the site of blood draw on the rates of blood culture contamination. In a retrospective study, blood cultures from infants and children up to 18 years of age ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gonsalves WI,Cornish N,Moore M,Chen A,Varman M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three commercial chromogenic agar media were evaluated for Streptococcus agalactiae screening in 200 vaginal swabs from pregnant women. The sensitivity and specificity were 94.3% and 100% for Granada medium (bioMérieux), 100% and 90.3% for Brilliance GBS medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100% and 98.8% for ChromI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Verhoeven PO,Noyel P,Bonneau J,Carricajo A,Fonsale N,Ros A,Pozzetto B,Grattard F

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a decade ago the first cryptococcal lateral flow assay (LFA) became available. This affordable point-of-care test has undeniably led to tremendous improvements in early detection of cryptococcosis (1,2). However, from several studies it must be concluded that the reliability of recently introduced LFA's falls sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shi D,Haas PJ,Boekhout T,Hahn RC,Hagen F

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a reverse line blot (RLB) assay, utilizing fungal species-specific oligonucleotide probes to hybridize with internal transcribed spacer 2 region sequences amplified using a nested panfungal PCR. Reference and clinical strains of 16 Candida species (116 strains), Cryptococcus neoformans (five strains of Cr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Playford EG,Kong F,Sun Y,Wang H,Halliday C,Sorrell TC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae continues to rise in Canada; however, antimicrobial resistance data are lacking for approximately 70% of gonorrhea infections that are diagnosed directly from clinical specimens by nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). We developed a molecular assay fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson SW,Martin I,Demczuk W,Bharat A,Hoang L,Wylie J,Allen V,Lefebvre B,Tyrrell G,Horsman G,Haldane D,Garceau R,Wong T,Mulvey MR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 525 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples submitted during the 2007 and 2008 enteroviral seasons were included in a study to determine the prevalence of and potential risk factors for invalid Cepheid GeneXpert enterovirus assay (GXEA) results, as well as possible solutions for the problem. The invalid GXEA resu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sefers SE,Raymer AK,Kilby JT,Persing DH,Tang YW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia and lower-respiratory-tract infections. Diagnosis has traditionally been obtained by serological diagnosis, but increasingly, molecular techniques have been applied. However, the number of studies actually comparing these assays is limited. The de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Templeton KE,Scheltinga SA,Graffelman AW,Van Schie JM,Crielaard JW,Sillekens P,Van Den Broek PJ,Goossens H,Beersma MF,Claas EC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Exophiala are often difficult to identify to the species level because of their variable morphological appearances. This paper describes the methods used to identify Exophiala mesophila and provides salient differential features for distinguishing other mesophilic members of the genus. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Porteous NB,Grooters AM,Redding SW,Thompson EH,Rinaldi MG,De Hoog GS,Sutton DA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio metschnikovii and Vibrio gazogenes are two new Vibrio species that have been little studied. Thirteen strains of V. metschnikovii were highly related to the type strain, NCTC 8443, by DNA-DNA hybridization. Relatedness values were 83 to 90% at 60 degrees C and 75 to 84% at the more stringent 75 degrees C. Diver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farmer JJ 3rd,Hickman-Brenner FW,Fanning GR,Gordon CM,Brenner DJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 10 to 15 years, Aerococcus-like organisms have been isolated from urinary tract specimens from hospitalized patients at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, with signs of urinary tract infection, and a single strain has been deposited at the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC 12142). An ad...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christensen JJ,Vibits H,Ursing J,Korner B

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular techniques are playing an important role in the diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. This case report describes a chronic soft tissue infection in an immunocompetent patient caused by a previously undescribed pigmented, rapidly growing Mycobacterium species, emphasizing the importance of cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turenne CY,Suchak AA,Wolfe JN,Kabani A,Nicolle LE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00