Monoclonal antibodies to Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 lipopolysaccharide: demonstration of antigenic similarities among several serotypes.

abstract：:Although the sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid amplification assays are high with smear-positive samples, the sensitivity with smear-negative and extrapulmonary samples for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in suspicious tuberculosis cases still remains to be investigated. This study evaluates the performance of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bicmen C,Gunduz AT,Coskun M,Senol G,Cirak AK,Ozsoz A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the relative levels of effectiveness of three commercial identification kits and three nucleic acid amplification tests for the identification of coryneform bacteria by testing 50 diverse isolates, including 12 well-characterized control strains and 38 organisms obtained from pediatric oncology patients at...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Adderson EE,Boudreaux JW,Cummings JR,Pounds S,Wilson DA,Procop GW,Hayden RT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PLEX-ID system is a novel technology that couples PCR amplification and electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry to identify pathogens directly in clinical specimens. The analytical performance of the PLEX-ID Broad Fungal assay was compared with that of traditional culture identification by using 91 characterized...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Simner PJ,Uhl JR,Hall L,Weber MM,Walchak RC,Buckwalter S,Wengenack NL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 4,000 clinical urine specimens were evaluated with an automated microbial detection/identification system compared to a standarized manual analysis and the routine modalities used in five peer-group laboratories. The comparison indicates that the automated system recognizes the nine groups of significant mic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Isenberg HD,Gavan TL,Sonnenwirth A,Taylor WI,Washington JA 2nd

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first vector-borne Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis case is presented. An immunocompetent male who denied any contact with canines and who worked in a sawmill was bitten on his neck by a large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis L.; Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Bacteriological diagnosis was confirmed by 16S rRNA gene seq...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tuuminen T,Viiri H,Vuorinen S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate species identification of enterococci has become important with the wide prevalence of acquired vancomycin resistance and the presence of less epidemiologically important, inherently vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Using a collection of enterococcal strains, we found that PCR amplification of the intergenic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tyrrell GJ,Bethune RN,Willey B,Low DE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus produced an inhibitory factor that suppressed slime formation by Psuudomonas aeruginosa but had little effect on the growth of the organism. The inhibitory factor was not found in broth cultures but could be extracted from cultures grown on solid agar. The inhibitory factor moderately inhibited g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shibl AM,Al-Sowaygh IA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 46 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates that were isolated from patients with Lyme borreliosis and infected animals or were extracted from ticks of the genus Ixodes were analyzed. Large restriction fragment patterns obtained after cleavage of genomic DNAs with MluI were analyzed by pulsed-field gel elec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Belfaiza J,Postic D,Bellenger E,Baranton G,Girons IS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniases are heterogenous entities. The Leishmania species that a given patient harbors usually cannot be determined clinically, and this identification is essential to prescribe the best species-specific therapeutic regimen. Our diagnosis procedure includes a real-time PCR assay targeted a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foulet F,Botterel F,Buffet P,Morizot G,Rivollet D,Deniau M,Pratlong F,Costa JM,Bretagne S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the abilities of three different avian influenza A viruses to attenuate the wild-type human influenza A/Korea/1/82 (H3N2) virus in squirrel monkeys, chimpanzees, and adult seronegative human volunteers. Two of these, avian influenza A/Mallard/NY/78 and A/Mallard/Alberta/76 viruses, appeared to be satisfac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Snyder MH,Clements ML,Herrington D,London WT,Tierney EL,Murphy BR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus C (GBV-C) markers were analyzed in two to three generations in three families with documented vertical transmission of GBV-C. None of the maternal grandparents had GBV-C markers, whereas the male spouses had GBV-C envelope 2 antibodies. Evidence was found for intrafamilial transmission but not for GBV-C trans...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen M,Fischler B,Hultgren C,Halasz R,Nemeth A,Sällberg M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new disposable plastic tube device and technique for ovum and parasite concentration, with upper and lower chambers separated by a fine screen, was compared with the standard gauze and open-funnel filtration technique as well as with the technique of direct smearing with an acid-fast stain. The new concentrator was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zierdt WS

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight clinical Acinetobacter isolates with different epidemic behavior were investigated for the presence of integrons and plasmids and for antibiotic susceptibility. Integrons were demonstrated in 50% of the strains by an integrase gene PCR. Epidemic strains of Acinetobacter baumannii were found to contain sign...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koeleman JG,Stoof J,Van Der Bijl MW,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Savelkoul PH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous cell lines were tested for their potential use in distinguishing pathogenic from nonpathogenic Listeria species. Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria ivanovii strains were lethal for mice, and culture filtrates were cytotoxic for cultured cells and hemolytic for sheep erythrocytes, while Listeria innocua, Li...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farber JM,Speirs JI

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recovery of Nocardia species from mixed cultures is facilitated by use of a selective medium. We show that buffered charcoal-yeast extract medium with polymyxin, anisomycin, and vancomycin can be used for the selective isolation of nocardiae from contaminated specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garrett MA,Holmes HT,Nolte FS

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of the 10-micrograms clindamycin disk was evaluated for susceptibility testing of anaerobes by the aerobic thioglycolate broth disk method. A good correlation between the aerobic thioglycolate broth disk method and the reference agar dilution procedure of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toohey KL,Kurzynski TA,Schell RF,Birk RJ,Zabransky RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative fecal lactoferrin was measured in 112 patients tested for toxigenic Clostridium difficile using glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and toxin immunoassays combined with tcdB PCR. Lactoferrin levels were higher in the GDH-positive/toxin-positive group (79 μg/ml) than in the GDH-positive/toxin-negative/PCR-positi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： LaSala PR,Ekhmimi T,Hill AK,Farooqi I,Perrotta PL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined clinical (pulmonary cryptococcosis and cryptococcal meningitis) and environmental (pigeon excreta) isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans (serotype A) in the southern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. The random amplified polymorphic DNA profiles obtained by using three primers revealed six pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Kohno S,Koga H,Kakeya H,Tomono K,Kaku M,Yamazaki T,Arisawa M,Hara K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal conditions for demonstrating the presence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PMCs) from seropositive individuals involved cocultivation of infected cells with phytohemagglutinin-stimulated PMCs from seronegative donors in the presence of 2 micrograms of Polybrene ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castro BA,Weiss CD,Wiviott LD,Levy JA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biotin-avidin-amplified indirect immunofluorescence method was used to demonstrate specific serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in nephropathia epidemica, the Scandinavian type of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The antigen in the test was the cross-reacting agent of Korean hemorrhagic fever, Hantaan viru...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Settergren B,Juto P,Wadell G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive meningococcal disease is mainly caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, B, C, X, W, and Y. The serogroup is typically determined by slide agglutination serogrouping (SASG) and real-time PCR (RT-PCR). We describe a whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based method to characterize the capsule polysaccharide syn...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marjuki H,Topaz N,Rodriguez-Rivera LD,Ramos E,Potts CC,Chen A,Retchless AC,Doho GH,Wang X

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:During a survey of Group G and C streptococcal infections of humans two epidemiologically unrelated Group G streptococcal isolates were identified, one from a case of bacteremia and one from a wound infection. These isolates were atypical among this sample in that the emm gene could not be amplified from them by PCR. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whatmore AM,Engler KH,Gudmundsdottir G,Efstratiou A

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Of 100 strains of enterococci, 83% reduced litmus milk within 4 h. None of the 100 non-enterococcal streptococci tested were positive. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schierl EA,Blazevic DJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:Serological markers for hepatitis B virus in male homosexuals demonstrated a high prevalence of past and present infection. Seropositivity of 91% for hepatitis B e antigen or antibody was demonstrated by radioimmunoassay in hepatitis B surface antigen-positive specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murphy BL,Schreeder MT,Maynard JE,Hadler SC,Sheller MJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for determination of human immunoglobulin G, A, and M class antibodies to Histoplasma capsulatum is reported. Yeast-phase antigen from H. capsulatum was adsorbed onto polyvinyl chloride microtiter plates as the solid phase. Human antibodies were allowed to react with this antigen, followed by additi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sprouse RF,Caldwell CW,Everett ED

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroplasma species are organisms that normally colonize plants and insects. We describe the first case of human systemic infection caused by Spiroplasma bacteria in a patient with hypogammaglobulinemia undergoing treatment with biological disease-modifying antirheumatic agents. Spiroplasma turonicum was identified th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aquilino A,Masiá M,López P,Galiana AJ,Tovar J,Andrés M,Gutiérrez F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of the purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS), in which the urinary catheter bag of some elderly patients develops intense purple coloration, was studied. The purple was found to be a mixture of indirubin dissolved in the plastic and indigo on its surface. Six patients with PUBS were studied, and Providencia st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dealler SF,Hawkey PM,Millar MR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to compare and evaluate antimicrobial susceptibility test results for enterococci obtained by six national committee disk diffusion procedures. Variations in the incidence of isolates in resistance categories and errors were associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin, r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cotter G,Adley CC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00