Novel gelatin particle agglutination test for serodiagnosis of leprosy in the field.

abstract：:In recent studies, antigenic divergence has been observed in Bordetella pertussis circulating isolates. We collected 80 Bordetella pertussis isolates in Taiwan from 1998 to 2004 and analyzed them using a combination of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and sequencing of the ptxS1 and prn genes. The incidence of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yao SM,Lin YC,Chou CY,Chen YY,Hsiao MJ,Chen HY,Yan JJ,Su HP,Li SY

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing number of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has stimulated the interest of investigators in finding a rapid method for susceptibility testing. We used commercially available rRNA DNA-bioluminescence-labelled probes (Accu-Probe, Gen Probe, Inc. San Diego, Calif.) for this purpose. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin-Casabona N,Xairó Mimó D,González T,Rossello J,Arcalis L

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 49 adenovirus type 3 (Ad3) strains from patients with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis at an eye clinic in Sapporo, Japan, from 1983 to 1986 were classified into either genome type Ad3f (26 strains) or Ad3g (23 strains). By the use of Hinf1 and TaqI restriction endonucleases, they were classified into 11 and 3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Itakura S,Aoki K,Sawada H,Shinagawa M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four isolates of Actinobacillus seminis were typed by PCR ribotyping, repetitive extragenic palindromic element (REP)-based PCR, and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-based PCR. Five types were distinguished by REP-PCR, and nine types were distinguished by ERIC-PCR. PCR ribotyping produced ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appuhamy S,Coote JG,Low JC,Parton R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Malassezia, lipophilic yeasts, are considered to be one of the exacerbating factors in atopic dermatitis (AD). We examined variation in cutaneous colonization by Malassezia species in AD patients and compared it with variation in healthy subjects. Samples were collected by applying transparent dre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sugita T,Suto H,Unno T,Tsuboi R,Ogawa H,Shinoda T,Nishikawa A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a broad-based PCR assay coupled with high-resolution melt analysis for rapid bacterial identification in patients with bacterial sepsis. With a reference library of 60 clinically relevant bacterial species, 52 positive blood culture samples were tested. Our assay identified 46/52 samples at the species le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Won H,Rothman R,Ramachandran P,Hsieh YH,Kecojevic A,Carroll KC,Aird D,Gaydos C,Yang S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 6-month study we critically evaluated the accuracy of the AutoMicrobic system Gram-Negative Identification Card (Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) in identifying glucose-nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli by testing 419 selected isolates in parallel with a conventional reference method. Of 356 isolates in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Plorde JJ,Gates JA,Carlson LG,Tenover FC

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma parvum and Ureaplasma urealyticum are sexually transmitted, opportunistic pathogens of the human urogenital tract. There are 14 known serovars distributed between the two species. For decades, it has been postulated based upon limited data that virulence is related to serotype specificity. The results were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xiao L,Paralanov V,Glass JI,Duffy LB,Robertson JA,Cassell GH,Chen Y,Waites KB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mycobacterium smegmatis and a limited number of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, the involvement of alterations of the 16S rRNA gene (rrs) in resistance to kanamycin has been shown. To investigate the extent to which mutations in a specific region of the rrs gene and the kanamycin-resistant phenotype in clinical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzuki Y,Katsukawa C,Tamaru A,Abe C,Makino M,Mizuguchi Y,Taniguchi H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and reliable detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers is crucial for the effective control of MRSA transmission in healthcare facilities. The aim of this study was to verify the performance of the IDI-MRSA real-time PCR assay for direct MRSA detection in diverse mucocutaneous swab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de San N,Denis O,Gasasira MF,De Mendonça R,Nonhoff C,Struelens MJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculovirus-expressed foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) nonstructural protein 3AB was used as the antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. This assay allowed the differentiation of vaccinated from infected pigs. Serial studies were performed using sera collected from pigs in the field. Positive reactions wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chung WB,Sorensen KJ,Liao PC,Yang PC,Jong MH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR was performed for the detection of Helicobacter pylori in feces from 24 patients with proven infections. Several precautions were taken to overcome possible inhibition of PCR with feces. In the first 12 patients, feces were examined shortly after endoscopy. In another group of 12 patients, who were treated during ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Zwet AA,Thijs JC,Kooistra-Smid AM,Schirm J,Snijder JA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for the diagnosis of melioidosis are based on bacteriological culture. A number of serological tests currently available lack specificity and sensitivity. This is largely due to the use of crude antigens which results in a significant cross-reactivity with sera from individuals infected with other bact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anuntagool N,Rugdech P,Sirisinha S

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:A clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) typing method has recently been developed and used for typing and subtyping of Salmonella spp., but it is complicated and labor intensive because it has to analyze all spacers in two CRISPR loci. Here, we developed a more convenient and efficient meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li H,Li P,Xie J,Yi S,Yang C,Wang J,Sun J,Liu N,Wang X,Wu Z,Wang L,Hao R,Wang Y,Jia L,Li K,Qiu S,Song H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semen plasma virus load is measured to ensure the safety of sperm processing during medically assisted procreation (MAP) for couples with a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected man. A practical, automated protocol using the COBAS Ampliprep CAP/CTM kit in the COBAS TaqMan96 system was developed to m...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pasquier C,Sauné K,Raymond S,Moinard N,Daudin M,Bujan L,Izopet J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) is a sensitive method for detection of RNA virus nucleic acid sequences in clinical respiratory specimens. Previous studies have focused on RT-PCR for a single virus, but this approach is limited by the inability to establish a specific etiology when the RT-PCR result is negative and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gilbert LL,Dakhama A,Bone BM,Thomas EE,Hegele RG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standardized broth microdilution method was compared to the E test and an agar dilution method for the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli isolates. A group of 47 human clinical isolates, 37 isolates from retail poultry, and 29 isolates from living turkeys (total, 113 isolates) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luber P,Bartelt E,Genschow E,Wagner J,Hahn H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibody induced by vaccination with recombinant gp160 (rgp160) to bind to native and recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoproteins was measured. Thirty-three HIV-1-seronegative healthy adult volunteers were injected four times with 40 or 80 micrograms of an HIV-1LAV env...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gorse GJ,Frey SE,Newman FK,Belshe RB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of disk susceptibility tests with ampicillin and ampicillin-sulbactam was not improved when the amount of ampicillin was increased from 10 to 20 or 30 micrograms per disk. For testing members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, ampicillin disk tests correlated better with broth microdilution tests when the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barry AL,Jones RN

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR detecting the protein D (hpd) and fuculose kinase (fucK) genes showed high sensitivity and specificity for identifying Haemophilus influenzae and differentiating it from H. haemolyticus. Phylogenetic analysis using the 16S rRNA gene demonstrated two distinct groups for H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Theodore MJ,Anderson RD,Wang X,Katz LS,Vuong JT,Bell ME,Juni BA,Lowther SA,Lynfield R,MacNeil JR,Mayer LW

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 113 Enterococcus faecium, 37 Enterococcus faecalis, 24 Enterococcus gallinarum, 15 Enterococcus raffinosus, and 13 Enterococcus casseliflavus clinical isolates and American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) strains were evaluated by contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis. Thirty-one of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Donabedian S,Chow JW,Shlaes DM,Green M,Zervos MJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional ribotyping detects genomic restriction fragment length polymorphisms by probing chromosomal DNA with rRNA. Although it is a powerful method for determining the molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens, technical difficulties limit its application. As an alternative, polymorphisms were sought in the 16...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kostman JR,Edlind TD,LiPuma JJ,Stull TL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHROMagar MRSA was evaluated for its ability to identify methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A well-defined collection consisting of 216 MRSA strains and 241 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates was used. The sensitivity of CHROMagar MRSA after 24 h of incubation was 95.4%, increasing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Diederen B,van Duijn I,van Belkum A,Willemse P,van Keulen P,Kluytmans J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium (colistin-oxolinic acid-blood agar) for streptococci is described. Streptococci of medical and veterinary importance grew well on the medium. Gram-negative organisms, staphylococci. Bacillus spp., and coryneforms are all inhibited. It was concluded that the medi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petts DN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined mutations in the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) genes of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis (P. carinii) strains isolated from 24 patients with P. carinii pneumonia (PCP) in Japan. DHPS mutations were identified at amino acid positions 55 and/or 57 in isolates from 6 (25.0%) of 24 patients. The underlyin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Hosoya N,Endo T,Nakamura T,Sakashita H,Kimura K,Ohnishi K,Nakamura Y,Iwamoto A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections with potent antiviral therapy often results in dramatic reductions in the levels of viremia to very low levels. Monitoring of serum HBV DNA levels is a consistent method for the assessment of antiviral potency; however, widely used hybridization ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lopez VA,Bourne EJ,Lutz MW,Condreay LD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared whole blood dried on filter paper to the standard assay with frozen cell-free plasma for use in the quantitation of the human immunodeficiency virus RNA load in blood. RNA values from filter paper, corrected for the hematocrit, gave results comparable to those of the standard assay in terms of sensitivity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fiscus SA,Brambilla D,Grosso L,Schock J,Cronin M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slightly modified Moeller medium for amino acid decarboxylase and dihydrolase testing by the replicator method correlated 96 to 99% with the reference Moeller broth method. False positive results were not encountered in this study. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jones RN,Fuchs PC,Sniderman S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirochetes of the genus Treponema were cultured from 7 of 10 cases of digital dermatitis in sheep. Two cultures comprised Treponema phagedenis-like and Treponema medium/Treponema vincentii-like spirochetes, respectively, while the remaining cultures comprised mixed populations of Treponema medium/Treponema vincentii-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sayers G,Marques PX,Evans NJ,O'Grady L,Doherty ML,Carter SD,Nally JE

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00