Murine monoclonal antibody specific for lipopolysaccharide of Salmonella serogroup A.

abstract：:Sepsis is a major health problem in newborns and children. Early detection of pathogens allows initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy that strongly correlates with positive outcomes. Multiplex PCR has the potential to rapidly identify bloodstream infections, compensating for the loss of blood culture sensitiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lucignano B,Ranno S,Liesenfeld O,Pizzorno B,Putignani L,Bernaschi P,Menichella D

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta and gamma genera of papillomaviruses consist of epidermodysplasia verruciformis-related human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and phylogenetically related cutaneous HPVs. Here, we have developed a consensus primer PCR assay and reverse line blot typing system coupled thereto (referred to as beta and gamma cutaneous H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brink AA,Lloveras B,Nindl I,Heideman DA,Kramer D,Pol R,Fuente MJ,Meijer CJ,Snijders PJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown by analysis with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that outer surface protein C (OspC) of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is highly heterogeneous. To determine if the heterogeneity has a genetic basis, the genes of 18 different B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains have been amplified by PCR, cloned, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jauris-Heipke S,Liegl G,Preac-Mursic V,Rössler D,Schwab E,Soutschek E,Will G,Wilske B

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Clostridium hathewayi is a newly described Clostridium species isolated from the feces of healthy human individuals, but its clinical significance is not known. We describe a case of human infection associated with C. hathewayi. The bacterium (strain HKU18) was isolated from the blood culture of a 39-year-old patient ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woo PC,Lau SK,Woo GK,Fung AM,Yiu VP,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays of virus-specific oligonucleotides may provide a method of screening samples for the presence or absence of a large variety of viruses simultaneously. Influenza viruses are ideal for evaluating such microarrays because of their genetic and host diversity, and the availability of an extensive sequence datab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sengupta S,Onodera K,Lai A,Melcher U

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achromobacter species are increasingly being detected in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, with an unclear epidemiology and impact. We studied a cohort of patients attending a Canadian adult CF clinic who had positive sputum cultures for Achromobacter species in the period from 1984 to 2013. Infection was categorized as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edwards BD,Greysson-Wong J,Somayaji R,Waddell B,Whelan FJ,Storey DG,Rabin HR,Surette MG,Parkins MD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared a recently developed PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) using three different Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains to understand whether repeated subculture in vitro and prolonged storage at room tempera...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shima K,Wu Y,Sugimoto N,Asakura M,Nishimura K,Yamasaki S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, relatively rapid silver impregnation stain has been found to stain Legionella pneumophila effectively in paraffin-embedded tissue sections while permitting visualization of histological detail. It may also be used to stain the organism in body fluids. The stain is not specific and thus must be confirmed by d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Faine S,Edelstein P,Kirby BD,Finegold SM

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica and toxigenic Pasteurella multocida are the etiologic agents of swine atrophic rhinitis. Methods currently used for their identification are time-consuming and suffer from a lack of sensitivity. We describe a colony lift-hybridization assay for detection of B. bronchiseptica and toxigenic P. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Register KB,Lee RM,Thomson C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of herpes simplex virus in clinical specimens by the suspension-infection technique was compared with detection by conventional cell culture. The sensitivity and specificity of the suspension-infection technique compared with those of conventional culture were 95.9 to 98.2% and 97.5 to 100%, respectively, de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luker G,Chow C,Richards DF,Johnson FB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimum essential medium supplemented with either 7% fetal bovine serum or 2% fetal bovine serum and 1.5% low protein serum replacement (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.) factor was used to evaluate the growth of Vero 76 cells (E-6 clone) in a cell culture bioreactor. Three different microcarriers, collagen-coated p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： White LA,Ades EW

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic, genotypic, and toxin gene analyses have not yet been done all in one for the Nigerian Staphylococcus aureus population. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the molecular epidemiology and genetic diversity of S. aureus strains at the largest university clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria. From 1,300 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ghebremedhin B,Olugbosi MO,Raji AM,Layer F,Bakare RA,König B,König W

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2012, we identified sampled dogs with elevated levels of antibodies (≥1:40) against A(H1N1)pdm09 virus by using a hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay (seroprevalence, 24.7%) and a microneutralization (MN) assay (seroprevalence, 10.8%). These high seroprevalences of A(H1N1)pdm09 among dogs without clinical si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Su S,Chen J,Jia K,Khan SU,He S,Fu X,Hong M,Sun L,Qi W,Gray GC,Li S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR method for the unequivocal assignment of Haemophilus influenzae capsular type (types a to f) was developed. PCR primers were designed from capsule type-specific DNA sequences cloned from the capsular gene cluster of each of the six capsular types. PCR product was amplified only from the capsular type for which t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falla TJ,Crook DW,Brophy LN,Maskell D,Kroll JS,Moxon ER

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High incidence rates of isoniazid-, rifampin-, and multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis have been reported in countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Genotypic (unlike phenotypic) drug resistance assays do not require viable cultures but require accurate knowledge of both the target gene and the mutations associat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nikolayevsky V,Brown T,Balabanova Y,Ruddy M,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a frequently fatal infection in immunocompromised patients that is difficult to diagnose. Present methods for detection of Aspergillus spp. in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid and in tissue vary in sensitivity and specificity. We therefore developed an A. fumigatus-specific ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Sullivan CE,Kasai M,Francesconi A,Petraitis V,Petraitiene R,Kelaher AM,Sarafandi AA,Walsh TJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen reference and 156 clinical strains of the genus Nocardia belonging to 12 taxonomic groups were studied for restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) by using an amplified 439-bp segment of the 65-kDa heat shock protein gene. Of 30 restriction endonucleases, digestion with MspI and then digestion with Bs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steingrube VA,Brown BA,Gibson JL,Wilson RW,Brown J,Blacklock Z,Jost K,Locke S,Ulrich RF,Wallace RJ Jr

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bacteriologic systems for detecting bacteria in blood were compared; the automated radiometric BACTEC and the conventional method used in our laboratory for many years. BACTEC consisted of two bottles with 30 ml and the conventional method with 50 ml of media for aerobes and anaerobes. The BACTEC bottles were inoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thiemke WA,Wicher K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For up to 20 to 40% of patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), the mode of transmission is still unknown. We demonstrate that tear fluid contains HCV RNA-carrying material with the properties of infectious virus and conclude that smear infection with tear fluid may play a role in HCV transmission. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feucht HH,Zöllner B,Schröter M,Altrogge H,Laufs R

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide study on candidemia was conducted in Iceland from 1980 to 1999. The annual incidence increased from 1.4 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year between 1980 and 1984 to 4.9 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year between 1995 and 1999 (P < 0.0001). Candidemia episodes at university hospitals increased from 0.15/1,000 admis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Asmundsdóttir LR,Erlendsdóttir H,Gottfredsson M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasopharyngeal Haemophilus influenzae flora of healthy children in a day care center was analyzed by repeated sampling during 4 winter months. The average carrier rate was 39%, but 74% of the children became colonized at some time during the study. The H. influenzae isolates were identified by capsular type, bioty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trottier S,Stenberg K,Svanborg-Edén C

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus type 4 is one of the major serotypes isolated from patients with adenoviral conjunctivitis. In 2001 we encountered nosocomial infections with epidemic conjunctivitis in the ophthalmology ward of one hospital in Sapporo, which is in the northern part of Japan. Adenoviruses were isolated from the patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ariga T,Shimada Y,Ohgami K,Tagawa Y,Ishiko H,Aoki K,Ohno S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ambient-temperature, dry plasma transport systems, ViveST tubes and RNASound RNA sampling cards, and two extraction methods were compared to frozen plasma for HIV-1 RNA recovery. Significant RNA loss occurred: ViveST+MiniMag > ViveST+QIAamp > RNASound+QIAamp. RNA loss and low specimen volumes may affect the sensit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Levine M,Beck I,Styrchak S,Pepper G,Frenkel L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus has widely evolved resistance to the most commonly used class of antifungal chemicals, the azoles. Current methods for identifying azole resistance are time-consuming and depend on specialized laboratories. There is an urgent need for rapid detection of these emerging pathogens at point-of-care t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu LS,Rodriguez-Manzano J,Moser N,Moniri A,Malpartida-Cardenas K,Miscourides N,Sewell T,Kochina T,Brackin A,Rhodes J,Holmes AH,Fisher MC,Georgiou P

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of eumycetoma in the legs. The infections could not be adequately diagnosed by classical mycology, but the causative agents were successfully identified as Madurella mycetomatis by species-specific PCR and DNA sequencing. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ahmed AO,Desplaces N,Leonard P,Goldstein F,De Hoog S,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AutoMicrobic system (AMS) is capable of identifying most Enterobacteriaceae within 8 h and many glucose-nonfermenting, gram-negative bacilli after 13 h of incubation. Early preliminary results can be readily obtained from the computer as the tests incubate. Data with 1,023 bacterial isolates were reviewed to deter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barry AL,Badal RE

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains possessing the cag pathogenicity island (PaI) are associated with the development of gastroduodenal diseases, including gastric cancer. cag PaI products induce the secretion of interleukin-8 (IL-8) from epithelial cells and facilitate the translocation of CagA into the cell cytosol. In East...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Argent RH,Letley DP,Thomas RJ,Atherton JC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated sequence analysis of a 410-bp region of the axyR gene in 105 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates identified a polymorphic nucleotide that differentiated Mycobacterium bovis isolates from other complex members. All 29 M. bovis isolates sequenced had an adenine residue at nucleotide 285, whereas all 76...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sreevatsan S,Escalante P,Pan X,Gillies DA 2nd,Siddiqui S,Khalaf CN,Kreiswirth BN,Bifani P,Adams LG,Ficht T,Perumaalla VS,Cave MD,van Embden JD,Musser JM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a rare but refractory complication of arthroplasty. Accurate identification of pathogens is a key step for successful treatment of PJI, which remains a challenge for clinicians and laboratory workers. We designed a combined culture method with sonication of implants and incubation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shen H,Tang J,Wang Q,Jiang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00