Comparison of two enzyme immunoassays to culture for the diagnosis of chlamydial conjunctivitis and respiratory infections in infants.

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：:Because of their biofilm-forming capacity, invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, which cause the majority of nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections (BSIs), are thought to be selected at the time of catheter insertion from a population of less virulent commensal strains. This fact allows the predict...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rohde H,Kalitzky M,Kröger N,Scherpe S,Horstkotte MA,Knobloch JK,Zander AR,Mack D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osiris is a video zone size reader for disk diffusion tests featuring a built-in extended expert system (EES). The efficacy of the EES for the identification of the beta-lactam susceptibility phenotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates was evaluated. Thirteen beta-lactams were tested in four laboratories by the disk...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bert F,Ould-Hocine Z,Juvin M,Dubois V,Loncle-Provot V,Lefranc V,Quentin C,Lambert N,Arlet G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent to which bacteria not detected by culture contribute to the microbial flora of the bowel of preterm infants with and without neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Fecal samples from 32 preterm infants in special care baby units including samples from 10 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Millar MR,Linton CJ,Cade A,Glancy D,Hall M,Jalal H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new principle that uses anti-immunoglobulin M-coated polystyrene microtiter plates for the detection of immunoglobulin M antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Duermeyer W,Wielaard F,van Gruijthuijsen H,Swinkels J

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans strains were isolated from cohorts of Brazilian nursery school children and genotyped by arbitrarily primed PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Of 24 children with two to five S. mutans isolates, 29% carried two or more genotypes. The presence of matching genotypes of S. mut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mattos-Graner RO,Li Y,Caufield PW,Duncan M,Smith DJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West African tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is difficult to diagnose due to the low number of spirochetes in the bloodstream of patients. Previously, the causative microorganism, Borrelia crocidurae, had never been cultured in vitro. TBRF was rapidly diagnosed for two patients returning from western Africa with fev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Dam AP,van Gool T,Wetsteyn JC,Dankert J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the diagnostic utility of eleven Toxoplasma gondii recombinant antigens (P22 [SAG2], P24 [GRA1], P25, P28 [GRA2], P29 [GRA7], P30 [SAG1], P35, P41 [GRA4], P54 [ROP2], P66 [ROP1], and P68) in immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM recombinant enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (Rec-ELISAs). Following an initi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aubert D,Maine GT,Villena I,Hunt JC,Howard L,Sheu M,Brojanac S,Chovan LE,Nowlan SF,Pinon JM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During February and March 1984, 207 fecal samples from infants and children with gastroenteritis were tested for rotavirus with four techniques: two enzyme immunoassays (Rotazyme; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill., and Enzygnost-Rotavirus; Calbiochem-Behring, La Jolla, Calif.) and two latex agglutination tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sambourg M,Goudeau A,Courant C,Pinon G,Denis F

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the identification, typing, and phylogenetic relationships of the most prevalent clinical Nocardia species in Spain, as determined via sequence analysis of their housekeeping genes gyrB and rpoB, with the results returned by the gold standard 16S rRNA method. gyrB and rpoB analyses identified Nocar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carrasco G,Valdezate S,Garrido N,Villalón P,Medina-Pascual MJ,Sáez-Nieto JA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining malaria transmission and known difficulties with current diagnostic tools for malaria, such as microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in particular at low parasite densities, still warrant the search for sensitive diagnostic tests. Molecular tests need substantial simplification before implementation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mens PF,de Bes HM,Sondo P,Laochan N,Keereecharoen L,van Amerongen A,Flint J,Sak JR,Proux S,Tinto H,Schallig HD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Even with the advancement of diagnostic tools, the causative agent of 20 to 30% of upper respiratory tract infections go undiagnosed. Recently, a newly identified human respiratory virus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV), was discovered...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Regev L,Hindiyeh M,Shulman LM,Barak A,Levy V,Azar R,Shalev Y,Grossman Z,Mendelson E

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes and macrophages and the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, an emerging zoonosis. The Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) has been implicated as the primary vector of E. chaffeensis. The present study examined the sensitivity of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Felek S,Unver A,Stich RW,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular fatty acid composition of Legionella feeleii was determined by capillary gas-liquid chromatography, and the ubiquinone content was determined by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography. As in other Legionella species, this new species is characterized by relatively large amounts of branched-chai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moss CW,Bibb WF,Karr DE,Guerrant GO,Lambert MA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity and specificity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-specific immunoglobulin G capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (BED-CEIA) were compared with those of the avidity index method to identify recent HIV infection using a panel of 148 samples (81 patients) representing durations of infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loschen S,Bätzing-Feigenbaum J,Poggensee G,Cordes C,Hintsche B,Rausch M,Dupke S,Gohlke-Micknis S,Rödig J,Hamouda O,Kücherer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four human coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43) are associated with a range of respiratory outcomes, including bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Their epidemiologies and clinical characteristics are poorly described and are often reliant on case reports. To address these problems, we conducted a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaunt ER,Hardie A,Claas EC,Simmonds P,Templeton KE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to detect genomic sequences of the positive-stranded RNA of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a member of the family Togaviridae. Using a set of 20-bp primers located within the conserved 3' region of the BVDV genome, we were able to consistently amplify a 205-bp target sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lopez OJ,Osorio FA,Donis RO

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first reported case of endocarditis due to the Lactobacillus-like vancomycin-resistant gram-positive bacillus Weissella confusa. Full identification and susceptibility testing of Lactobacillus-like organisms recovered in blood culture should be performed for patients with clinical presentations that sugges...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Flaherty JD,Levett PN,Dewhirst FE,Troe TE,Warren JR,Johnson S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative, indirect, fluorescence immunoassay (FIAX; Whittaker Bioproducts, Inc.) was compared with the conventional indirect fluorescent-antibody test for detection of serum antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi. FIAX correlated well with the indirect fluorescent-antibody test (r = 0.72). FIAX is a convenient and dep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pennell DR,Wand PJ,Schell RF

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a rhinovirus (RV)-RNA-specific reverse transcription (RT)-PCR assay is complicated by the close homology between the RV and enterovirus (EV) genomes in the highly conserved 5'-noncoding region, which is chosen for primer design in most RT-PCR assays. We have developed a sensitive, rapid, and RV-spec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steininger C,Aberle SW,Popow-Kraupp T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By quantitative gas-liquid chromatography of glucose-containing blood cultures at the moment of first signs of growth, a presumptive diagnosis of anaerobic bacteremia could be made in 24 out of 26 cultures yielding obligate anaerobes upon subsequent culture. With Bacteroides sp. (20 strains isolated), elevated levels ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wüst J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) has been considered a potential candidate for human vaccines because of its serotype-independent protective immunity. Nasopharyngeal (NP) pneumococcal colonization is highly prevalent in infants and precedes the invasive disease. Thus, prevention of NP colonization may reduce the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pimenta FC,Ribeiro-Dias F,Brandileone MC,Miyaji EN,Leite LC,Sgambatti de Andrade AL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the entire nucleotide sequence of phiSa2958-carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene, which was lysogenized in a sequence type 5 staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type II strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Based on the nucleotide sequences of PVL phages, we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ma XX,Ito T,Kondo Y,Cho M,Yoshizawa Y,Kaneko J,Katai A,Higashiide M,Li S,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has not been reported for many years in Japan, although a serological survey of sera from domestic animals suggested the presence of TBE foci in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Studies were conducted to prove the presence of an endemic focus of TBE virus in Japan by mean...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takashima I,Morita K,Chiba M,Hayasaka D,Sato T,Takezawa C,Igarashi A,Kariwa H,Yoshimatsu K,Arikawa J,Hashimoto N

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated three rapid identification systems-The Biomerieux rapid ID 32 STREP (ID32), the BBL Crystal rapid gram-positive identification (Crystal), and the Remel IDS RapID STR (IDS) systems-for their ability to identify 7 strains of Alloiococcus otitidis, 27 strains of Dolosigranulum pigrum, 3 strains of Ignavigran...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： LaClaire LL,Facklam RR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical evidence for failure with beta-lactam therapy has been lacking for patients with borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) infections. We describe a failure of cloxacillin for a patient with endocarditis due to BORSA. The isolate also had false-negative thermonuclease and coagulase test res...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Skinner S,Murray M,Walus T,Karlowsky JA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 700 bacterial species or phylotypes, of which over 50% have not been cultivated, have been detected in the oral cavity. Our purposes were (i) to utilize culture-independent molecular techniques to extend our knowledge on the breadth of bacterial diversity in the healthy human oral cavity, including not-yet-c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aas JA,Paster BJ,Stokes LN,Olsen I,Dewhirst FE

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:The Food and Drug Administration published a public health warning on the association of bacterial meningitis and cochlear implants in June 2002. This article reports the first case of group A streptococcal (GAS) meningitis in a cochlear-implanted patient, followed by a review on cochlear implantation and GAS meningit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pettersen G,Ovetchkine P,Tapiero B

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the E-Test and National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards standardized agar dilution MICs of ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, piperacillin, and tobramycin for Pseudomonas aeruginosa during tests of 100 rough and mucoid P. aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients. The levels of agreement (+/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marley EF,Mohla C,Campos JM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00