Synergistic lysis of erythrocytes by Propionibacterium acnes.

abstract：:A group of 300 clinically derived isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci were tested in parallel with the API STAPH-IDENT system (Analytab Products) and 14 conventional biochemical tests contained in Kloos and Schleifer's simplified scheme for identification of human Staphylococcus species. STAPH-IDENT is a mini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Almeida RJ,Jorgensen JH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various fixatives and treatments such as acetone, methanol, Bouin fixative, modified Bouin fixative, 10% Formalin, modified methacarn, periodate-lysine-paraformaldehyde, acetone-methyl benzoate-xylene, and EDTA were evaluated for their effect on the immunoreactivity of Coxiella burnetii in paraffin-embedded tissues by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baumgärtner W,Dettinger H,Schmeer N,Hoffmeister E

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidate live-virus vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus are being developed and are beginning to be evaluated in clinical trials. To distinguish candidate vaccine strains from wild-type strains isolated during these trials, we developed PCR assays specific to two sets of candidate vaccine strains. The two sets w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zheng H,Peret TC,Randolph VB,Crowley JC,Anderson LJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect hemagglutinating and immunofluorescent antibody responses to Herpesvirus hominis types 1 and 2 were compared to neutralizing antibody responses in infected humans from whom H. hominis type 1 or 2 was isolated. The indirect immunofluorescent antibody test was shown to be the most sensitive and specific for pri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson LD,Fuccillo DA,Stalder H,Oxman MA,Fraser CE,Madden DL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular techniques such as spa typing and multilocus sequence typing use DNA sequence data for differentiating Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Although spa typing is capable of detecting both genetic micro- and macrovariation, it has less discriminatory power than the more labor-intensive pulsed-field gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koreen L,Ramaswamy SV,Naidich S,Koreen IV,Graff GR,Graviss EA,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-specific enzyme immunoassays, cytotoxicity assays, and PCR were used to analyze 48 toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile isolates from various geographical sites around the world. All the isolates were negative by the TOX-A TEST and positive by the TOX A/B TEST. A deletion of approximately 1.7...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moncrief JS,Zheng L,Neville LM,Lyerly DM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains emerged as agents of human disease, two types of toxin were identified: Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) (almost identical to Shiga toxin produced by Shigella dysenteriae type 1) and the immunologically distinct type 2 (Stx2). Subsequently, numerous STEC strains have...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Scheutz F,Teel LD,Beutin L,Piérard D,Buvens G,Karch H,Mellmann A,Caprioli A,Tozzoli R,Morabito S,Strockbine NA,Melton-Celsa AR,Sanchez M,Persson S,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus and cynomolgus monkey kidney tissue cultures and two continuous lines, Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) and LLC-MK2, were compared in titrations and isolations of influenza and parainfluenza viruses. Tube cultures were inoculated with laboratory virus strains or stored patient specimens and observed for hemadso...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Frank AL,Couch RB,Griffis CA,Baxter BD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species display considerable antigenic polymorphism. In order to evaluate the importance of this antigenic heterogeneity in the serodiagnosis of Lyme disease, the serum immunoglobulin G response in 148 healthy individuals from an area in northern Sweden where Lyme disease is endemic and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bunikis J,Olsén B,Westman G,Bergstroöm S

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Fifty-eight fusaria isolated from 50 Italian patients between 2004 and 2007 were subject to multilocus DNA sequence typing to characterize the spectrum of species and circulating sequence types (STs) associated with dermatological infections, especially onychomycoses and paronychia, and other fusarioses in northern an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Migheli Q,Balmas V,Harak H,Sanna S,Scherm B,Aoki T,O'Donnell K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of amplified products resulting from polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) remains a complicated process. To simplify the detection procedures, we developed a colorimetric microtiter plate hybridization assay for the specific detection of 5'-biotinylated PCR fragments of Mycobacterium leprae DNA. For this as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Vliet GM,Hermans CJ,Klatser PR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs) are considered a serious threat to antibiotic therapy, as they confer resistance to carbapenems, which are used to treat extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria. Here, we describe the development and evaluation of a DNA microarray for the detection and gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peter H,Berggrav K,Thomas P,Pfeifer Y,Witte W,Templeton K,Bachmann TT

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a molecular typing system for Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli based on restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the flagellin gene,flaA (I.Nachamkin, K. Bohachick, and C.M. Patton, J. Clin. Microbiol. 31:1531-1536, 1993). We extended the typing system to 83 flagellin types...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nachamkin I,Ung H,Patton CM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preemptive ganciclovir (GCV) therapy is adopted increasingly in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients, but occasional cases of increasing cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia levels occur during preemptive GCV therapy. This prospective study investigated the incidence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park SY,Lee SO,Choi SH,Kim YS,Woo JH,Sung H,Kim MN,Kim DY,Lee JH,Lee JH,Lee KH,Kim SH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two brands of thiosulfate citrate bile salts sucrose agar and Monsur taurocholate tellurite gelatin (TTG) agar were compared with two newly developed media, sucrose tellurite teepol agar and Vibrio parahaemolyticus agar for isolation and identification of Vibrio cholerae. The thiosulfate citrate bile salts sucrose and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morris GK,Merson MH,Huq I,Kibrya AK,Black R

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat to TB control worldwide. Globally, only 40% of the 340,000 notified TB patients estimated to have multidrug-resistant-TB (MDR-TB) were detected in 2015. This study was carried out to evaluate the utility of high-resolution melt curve analysis (HRM) for the rapid and d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anthwal D,Gupta RK,Bhalla M,Bhatnagar S,Tyagi JS,Haldar S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis in recent years has become an important public health issue in Taiwan. The resistant strains that cause human infections are considered to be from pigs. In this study, we characterized 157 swine and 42 human Salmonella serovar Choleraesu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang CC,Lin YH,Chang CF,Yeh KS,Chiu CH,Chu C,Chien MS,Hsu YM,Tsai LS,Chiou CS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many laboratory workers prefer the rhodamine-auramine method of staining acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in primary specimen smears rather than carbol fuchsin stains because the stain is more readily interpreted and yields greater sensitivity. The increasing incidence of AFB infections serves as an impetus to optimize the rho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCarter YS,Robinson A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four methods for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in vaginal secretions from 88 symptomatic patients were compared: wet-mount examination, Kupferberg liquid medium, Hirsch charcoal agar, and the Papanicolaou smear. Hirsch diphasic slants and Kupferberg medium did not significantly differ in sensitivity from dire...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thomason JL,Gelbart SM,Sobun JF,Schulien MB,Hamilton PR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We systematically evaluated 5 methods for testing daptomycin versus 48 Enterococcus faecalis, 51 Enterococcus faecium, and 50 Staphylococcus aureus isolates using (i and ii) broth microdilution (BMD) with 50-mg/liter calcium medium supplementation (reference method) and 30-mg/liter calcium medium supplementation (BMD3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirn TJ,Onyeaso E,Syed M,Weinstein MP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first case of severe pneumonia possibly caused by Leptotrichia species with oral bacteria. This was found in a healthy but elderly subject whose bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. The combination of this method and microscopic observation provided useful info...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawanami T,Fukuda K,Yatera K,Kido T,Yoshii C,Taniguchi H,Kido M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a skin manifestation that usually develops after treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a major public health problem in India. The diagnosis and management of PKDL is complex. This is the first case report from India in which PKDL occurred after paromomycin treatment f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pandey K,Das VN,Singh D,Das S,Lal CS,Verma N,Bimal S,Topno RK,Siddiqui NA,Verma RB,Sinha PK,Das P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A uracil-to-cytosine mutation at nucleotide position 472 of oral poliovirus vaccine type 3 (OPV3) contributes to the development of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP). To analyze OPV3 shedding patterns, we previously used the multistep method of mutant analysis by PCR and enzyme cleavage (MAPREC). This ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gnanashanmugam D,Falkovitz-Halpern MS,Dodge A,Fang M,Wong LJ,Esparza M,Hammon R,Rivas-Merelles EE,Santos JI,Maldonado Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission from a MRSA index person to household contacts were assessed in this prospective study. Between January 2005 and December 2007, 62 newly diagnosed MRSA index persons (46 patients and 16 health care workers) and their ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mollema FP,Richardus JH,Behrendt M,Vaessen N,Lodder W,Hendriks W,Verbrugh HA,Vos MC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a new commercial separation column on whole test serum improved the method for detecting immunoglobulin M antibody to Epstein-Barr virus. The efficiency of this product in absorbing interfering immunoglobulin G was similar to that of another absorption product, staphylococcal protein A, but it has the advan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sumaya CV,Ench Y,Carrillo MA,Pope RM

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data pertaining to 20 strains of Yensinia enterocolitica isolated from the cecal content of swine slaughtered at Toronto Abattoirs are presented. Fifteen of 20 cultures belonged to the two predominant human serotypes in Ontario (i.e., serotype O:3 and O:5,27.) Seven cultures of Y. enterocolitica O:3 belonged to the "C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toma S,Deidrick VR

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several G8P[6] and G8P[8] rotavirus strains were isolated from hospitalized patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. To investigate their overall genomic relatedness and to determine to which genogroup they belonged, the complete genomes of strains DRC88 (G8P[8]) and DRC86 (G8P[6]) were determined. Genomi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Matthijnssens J,Rahman M,Yang X,Delbeke T,Arijs I,Kabue JP,Muyembe JJ,Van Ranst M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA genotypes have been used for almost a decade as stable entities to link the severity of gastritis and ulcer disease. We describe here microevolution of the two genomic islands, cag pathogenicity island (cagPAI; 40 kb) and tfs3 (16 kb) from isolates obtained at inclusion (one subclone)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alvi A,Devi SM,Ahmed I,Hussain MA,Rizwan M,Lamouliatte H,Mégraud F,Ahmed N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity among Borrelia burgdorferi isolates recovered from the skin of Lyme disease patients was assessed by ribosomal DNA (rDNA) spacer restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, genomic restriction site polymorphism analysis, and plasmid content analysis. There was a significant association between...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iyer R,Liveris D,Adams A,Nowakowski J,McKenna D,Bittker S,Cooper D,Wormser GP,Schwartz I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00