Enhancing effect of centrifugation on isolation of influenza virus from clinical specimens.

abstract：:To determine the excretion dynamics and genotypic characteristics of rotavirus A (RVA), a longitudinal observational study was performed in 10 pigs from 3 litters at a farrow-to-finish farm. A total of 400 fecal samples were directly collected from the rectums of individual pigs (aged 7 to 217 days) at 3- to 14-day in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miyazaki A,Kuga K,Suzuki T,Tsunemitsu H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis. In northeast Thailand, this gram-negative bacterium is a major cause of mortality from septicemia. The definitive diagnosis of this disease is made by bacterial culture. In this study, we produced a monoclonal antibody (MAb) specific to the 30-kDa protei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pongsunk S,Thirawattanasuk N,Piyasangthong N,Ekpo P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from patients with systemic infections caused by the opportunistic fungus Trichosporon beigelii have been shown to cross-react with anticryptococcal antibodies. We quantitatively compared the amounts of antigen produced and examined the expression of O-acetyl epitopes from 35 strains of T. beigelii isolated from ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lyman CA,Devi SJ,Nathanson J,Frasch CE,Pizzo PA,Walsh TJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the adoption of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) for Clostridium difficile diagnosis and their impact on stool rejection policies and C. difficile positivity rates. Of the laboratories with complete surveys, 51 (43%) reported using NAAT in 2011. Laboratories using NAAT had stricter rejection policie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cohen J,Limbago B,Dumyati G,Holzbauer S,Johnston H,Perlmutter R,Dunn J,Nadle J,Lyons C,Phipps E,Beldavs Z,Clark LA,Lessa FC,CDC's Clostridium difficile Infection Surveillance Investigators.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic use of a direct fluorescent-antibody test for detection of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli in human fecal specimens (n = 497) was compared with detection by culturing (specificity, 99.7%; sensitivity, 40%). Conjugates were prepared from immunoglobulin G antibody against 22 Lior C. jejuni and C. coli refere...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hodge DS,Prescott JF,Shewen PE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 6-year period, 24 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were collected from 18 patients living in a nursing home. These isolates had a delayed development of a red pigment and exhibited a similar antibiotype (resistance to all beta-lactams except for imipenem and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dubois V,Arpin C,Noury P,Andre C,Coulange L,Quentin C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 41 Brucella isolates, examined by standard biotyping procedures, were found to be similar to Brucella abortus biovar 2 in dye sensitivity but had a dominant M antigen. Oxidative metabolic tests performed on 39 of the isolates confirmed them as B. abortus. Additional biochemical and bacteriophage susceptibil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ewalt DR,Forbes LB

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) has been used as a confirmatory test in several ongoing and published studies of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood donors in the United States. Despite its use as a confirmatory test, few studies are available comparing RIPA to commercially available serologic test methods. Thus, we ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leiby DA,Wendel S,Takaoka DT,Fachini RM,Oliveira LC,Tibbals MA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery of bats with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related coronaviruses (CoVs) raised the specter of potential future outbreaks of zoonotic SARS-CoV-like disease in humans, which largely went unheeded. Nevertheless, the novel SARS-CoV-2 of bat ancestral origin emerged to infect humans in Wuhan, China, in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saif LJ,Jung K

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether rinsing with oral antiseptics before sputum collection would reduce contamination of mycobacterial cultures, 120 patients with suspected tuberculosis were randomly assigned to rinse with chlorhexidine or cetylpyridinium mouthwash before collection. The culture contamination rate was significantly low...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peres RL,Palaci M,Loureiro RB,Dietze R,Johnson JL,Golub JE,Ruffino-Netto A,Maciel EL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for efficient treatment and control of this pathogen. The amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) was used to detect mutations in the rifampin resistance-determining region of the rpoB gene. A total of 39 rifampin-resistant M. tuberc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fan XY,Hu ZY,Xu FH,Yan ZQ,Guo SQ,Li ZM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of Bartonella, a novel Bartonella clarridgeiae-like bacterium and B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, were isolated from rural dogs and gray foxes in northern California. A novel B. clarridgeiae-like species was isolated from 3 (1.7%) of 182 dogs and 22 (42%) of 53 gray foxes, while B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Henn JB,Gabriel MW,Kasten RW,Brown RN,Theis JH,Foley JE,Chomel BB

更新日期：2007-08-01 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 rapid phenotypic screening method for herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) thymidine kinase (TK) genes was developed for monitoring acyclovir-resistant viruses. This method determines the biochemical phenotype of the TK polypeptide, which is synthesized in vitro from viral DNA using a procedur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzutani T,Saijo M,Nagamine M,Ogasawara M,Azuma M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) encodes 11 envelope glycoproteins, of which glycoprotein G-1 (gG-1) induces a type-specific antibody response. Variability of the gG-1 gene among wild-type strains may be a factor of importance for a reliable serodiagnosis and typing of HSV-1 isolates. Here, we used a gG-1 type-spec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rekabdar E,Tunbäck P,Liljeqvist JA,Lindh M,Bergström T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coprological examination based on egg detection in stool samples is currently used as the gold standard for the diagnosis of human fascioliasis. However, this method is not effective during the acute phase of the disease and has poor sensitivity during the chronic phase. Serodiagnosis has become an excellent alternati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cabán-Hernández K,Gaudier JF,Ruiz-Jiménez C,Espino AM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of fungi produce the hydrolytic enzyme beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HexNAcase), which can be readily detected in assays by using p-nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide as a substrate. In the present study we developed a microtiter plate-based HexNAcase assay for distinguishing Candida albicans and Candi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Niimi K,Shepherd MG,Cannon RD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Abbott RealTime MTB (RT MTB) assay is a new automated nucleic acid amplification test for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in clinical specimens. In combination with the RealTime MTB INH/RIF (RT MTB INH/RIF) resistance assay, which can be applied to RT MTB-positive specimens as an add-on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hofmann-Thiel S,Molodtsov N,Antonenka U,Hoffmann H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isolate of Proteus mirabilis recovered from blood cultures of a diabetic patient was shown to be resistant to imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem by disk diffusion susceptibility testing. Amplification of whole-cell and/or plasmid DNA recovered from the isolate with primers specific for the bla(KPC) carbapenemase ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tibbetts R,Frye JG,Marschall J,Warren D,Dunne W

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis with probes derived from the insertion element IS6110, the direct repeat sequence, and the polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS) and a PCR-based typing method called spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) were used to strain type Mycobacterium bovis isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Costello E,O'Grady D,Flynn O,O'Brien R,Rogers M,Quigley F,Egan J,Griffin J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a study to evaluate Streck tissue fixative (STF) as a substitute for formalin and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in fecal preservation. A comparison of formalin, PVA, (mercuric chloride based), and STF was done by aliquoting fecal samples into each fixative. Stool specimens were collected in Haiti, and parasites...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nace EK,Steurer FJ,Eberhard ML

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an immunoblot assay (IB), we tested sera from 100 patients with erythema migrans (EM) seen in 1991 a the Westchester County Medical Center Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center. Convalescent-phase sera were available from 59 patients. Fifty-five pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aguero-Rosenfeld ME,Nowakowski J,McKenna DF,Carbonaro CA,Wormser GP

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two rapid, simple, and reliable procedures for routine purification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA from serum. HBV DNA could be purified from 24 serum samples in 1.5 to 2 h and was recovered in the initial reaction vessel. Both procedures have in common that HBV DNA is complexed with silica particles in th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boom R,Sol CJ,Heijtink R,Wertheim-van Dillen PM,van der Noordaa J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol was optimized for the isolation of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) from milk and colostrum, with parameters including chemical decontamination, antibiotics, and different culture media. This study demonstrates that the efficiency of MAP recovery from milk is highly dependent upon the cultu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bradner L,Robbe-Austerman S,Beitz DC,Stabel JR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell sonicates of Treponema pallidum, Nichols strain, were evaluated in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) for syphilis, and results were read in a Dynatek Microelisa Reader. The antigen was evaluated with sera from patients with syphilis, persons presumed normal, and biological false-positives. Two hu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pope V,Hunter EF,Feeley JC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxin is a major Staphylococcus aureus virulence factor. This study evaluated potential relationships between in vitro alpha-toxin expression of S. aureus bloodstream isolates, anti-alpha-toxin antibody in serum of patients with S. aureus bacteremia (SAB), and clinical outcomes in 100 hemodialysis and 100 postsu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sharma-Kuinkel BK,Wu Y,Tabor DE,Mok H,Sellman BR,Jenkins A,Yu L,Jafri HS,Rude TH,Ruffin F,Schell WA,Park LP,Yan Q,Thaden JT,Messina JA,Fowler VG Jr,Esser MT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a field trial conducted in cooperation with pediatricians in private practice, 198 nasopharyngeal swabs from children with suspected whooping cough were placed into charcoal-horse-blood transport medium with cephalexin (40 mg/liter). After preincubation at 36 degrees C for 1 to 2 days, the transport systems were ma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoppe JE,Weiss A,Wörz S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of filarial infections among individuals residing in areas where the disease is not endemic requires both strong clinical suspicion and expert training in infrequently practiced parasitological methods. Recently developed filarial molecular diagnostic assays are highly sensitive and specific but have lim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fink DL,Fahle GA,Fischer S,Fedorko DF,Nutman TB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infection of the thyroid is rare. Most reported cases have involved Aspergillus, Coccidioides, and Candida species in the setting of disseminated disease. Infection of the thyroid with Histoplasma capsulatum is rarely reported as part of disseminated disease, even in geographic areas where histoplasmosis is end...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Goldani LZ,Klock C,Diehl A,Monteiro AC,Maia AL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing salmonella isolates, Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, were analyzed. Both isolates produced the CTX-M-3 ESBL; however, their bla(CTX-M-3) genes were located on different plasmids. The serovar Typhimurium isolate a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baraniak A,Sadowy E,Hryniewicz W,Gniadkowski M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00