Rapid method for the differentiation of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria on membrane filters.

abstract：:We developed a strategy to determine the clinical impact associated with errors in clinical microbiology testing. Over a 9-month period, we used a sequential three-stage method to prospectively evaluate 480 consecutive corrected microbiology laboratory reports. The three stages were physician review of the corrected r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yuan S,Astion ML,Schapiro J,Limaye AP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine anaerobic subcultures of macroscopically negative blood culture bottles, performed within 1 day of receipt of the culture and after 5 days of incubation, were evaluated. Anaerobes were recovered from 207 (12.3%) of the total 1,688 positive cultures and, of these, 154 were only detected macroscopically, 11 only...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murray PR,Sondag JE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently tested serum from a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient for the presence of cryptococcal antigen using the Meridian latex agglutination (LA) test (Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System). Two pronase-treated serum specimens from the patient had LA titers of 80 and 160, but the patient ha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whittier S,Hopfer RL,Gilligan P

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy strains can be differentiated by their behavior in bioassays and by molecular analyses of the disease-associated prion protein (PrP) in a posttranslationally transformed conformation (PrPSc). Until recently, isolates from cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) appeared ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jacobs JG,Langeveld JP,Biacabe AG,Acutis PL,Polak MP,Gavier-Widen D,Buschmann A,Caramelli M,Casalone C,Mazza M,Groschup M,Erkens JH,Davidse A,van Zijderveld FG,Baron T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2011 to December 2013, a total of 262 samples, from 188 patients suspected of having syphilis were tested for the presence of treponemal DNA by PCR amplification of five chromosomal loci, including the polA (TP0105), tmpC (TP0319), TP0136, TP0548, and 23S rRNA genes. Altogether, 146 samples from 103 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grillová L,Pĕtrošová H,Mikalová L,Strnadel R,Dastychová E,Kuklová I,Kojanová M,Kreidlová M,Vaňousová D,Hercogová J,Procházka P,Zákoucká H,Krchňáková A,Vašků V,Šmajs D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superparamagnetic polymer particles precoated with sheep anti-mouse immunoglobulin G were coated with immunoglobulin G2 monoclonal antibodies to the K88 antigen of Escherichia coli (MAb-K88). These immunomagnetic particles (IMP) were used for isolation and identification of K88 antigen-positive (K88+) E. coli. The bac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lund A,Hellemann AL,Vartdal F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen strains of an anaerobic, catalase-negative, gram-positive diphtheroid-shaped bacterium recovered from human sources were characterized by phenotypic and molecular chemical and molecular genetic methods. The unidentified bacterium showed some resemblance to Actinomyces species and related taxa, but biochemical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hall V,Collins MD,Lawson PA,Hutson RA,Falsen E,Inganas E,Duerden B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive rolling-circle amplification (RCA)-based method utilizing species-specific padlock probes targeted to the internal transcribed spacer 2 region of the fungal ribosomal DNA gene complex was developed. The assay was rapid (2 hours) and specific. Of 28 fungal isolates (16 of Candida, six of Aspergillus, and si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhou X,Kong F,Sorrell TC,Wang H,Duan Y,Chen SC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains display remarkable genetic diversity, and the presence of strains bearing the toxigenic vacA s1 allele, a complete cag pathogenicity island (PAI), cagA alleles containing multiple EPIYA phosphorylation sites, and expressing the BabA adhesin correlates with development of gastroduodenal dise...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Talarico S,Gold BD,Fero J,Thompson DT,Guarner J,Czinn S,Salama NR

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the performance of three commercially available monoclonal antibodies for confirmation of the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in cell culture by examining their abilities to stain inclusions of eight strains of C. pneumoniae. The antibodies tested were two unconjugated C. pneumoniae-specific monoclonal r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montalban GS,Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex method using the SNaPshot technique was developed to screen for six common mycobacterial species: Mycobacteria tuberculosis, M. avium, M. intracellulare, M. chelonae, M. kansasii, and M. gordonae. A total of 468 mycobacterial clinical isolates were subjected to analysis for the presence of the six mycobact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang H,Yue J,Han M,Yang J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using blaZ PCR as the "gold standard," the sensitivities of CLSI penicillin zone edge and nitrocefin-based tests for β-lactamase production in Staphylococcus aureus were 64.5% and 35.5%, respectively, with specificity of 99.8% for both methods. In 2013, 13.5% of 3,083 S. aureus isolates from 31 U.S. centers were penic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richter SS,Doern GV,Heilmann KP,Miner S,Tendolkar S,Riahi F,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether individual milk samples can replace serum samples for the detection of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) glycoprotein E (gE)-specific antibodies. Serum and milk samples were collected at the same time from cattle in BHV1-free herds, cattle in unvaccinated herds, and cattle ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wellenberg GJ,Verstraten ER,Mars MH,Van Oirschot JT

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For recovery of brucellae from clinical specimens, a lysis-concentration procedure was superior to the procedure of Castañeda (M. R. Castañeda, Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 64:114-115, 1947). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Etemadi H,Raissadat A,Pickett MJ,Zafari Y,Vahedifar P

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：:We have developed and evaluated a new method to quantify human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) proviral DNA based on LightCycler real-time PCR. The assay has a detection limit of 5 copies/10(5) peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and is insensitive to HIV-2 strain variability: HIV-2 subtypes A and B are bo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Damond F,Descamps D,Farfara I,Telles JN,Puyeo S,Campa P,Leprêtre A,Matheron S,Brun-Vezinet F,Simon F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a highly homogeneous genetic composition, the subtyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis strains to an epidemiologically relevant level remains intangible for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). We reported previously on a highly discriminatory PFGE-based subtyping scheme for S. enterica serovar ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Keys CE,Zhao S,Ahmed R,Meng J,Brown EW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five serological assays were evaluated for the diagnosis of brucellosis in goats: the rose bengal test (RBT), complement fixation test (CFT), radial immunodiffusion (RID) with Brucella and Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 polysaccharides, counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) with cytosol, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Díaz-Aparicio E,Marín C,Alonso-Urmeneta B,Aragón V,Pérez-Ortiz S,Pardo M,Blasco JM,Díaz R,Moriyón I

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA macroarray containing 465 intragenic amplicons was designed to identify Staphylococcus aureus at the species level and to type S. aureus isolates. The genes selected included those encoding (i) S. aureus-specific proteins, (ii) staphylococcal and enterococcal proteins mediating antibiotic resistance and factors ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trad S,Allignet J,Frangeul L,Davi M,Vergassola M,Couve E,Morvan A,Kechrid A,Buchrieser C,Glaser P,El-Solh N

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nontoxigenic strain of Vibrio cholerae O group 1 was isolated in Florida from the stool of a patient with severe diarrhea. The strain had the same hemolytic and unique phage-sensitivity pattern as all toxigenic isolates from recent cases of cholera in Texas and Louisiana. Identical strains were transiently isolated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morris JG Jr,Picardi JL,Lieb S,Lee JV,Roberts A,Hood M,Gunn RA,Blake PA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is endemic in Europe and hyperendemic in southern France. Recent reports of a high prevalence of HEV RNA in blood donations and in culinary specialties from this geographical area confirmed the endemicity of HEV and sources of viral transmission in this geographical area. HEV causes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moal V,Legris T,Motte A,Vacher-Coponat H,Fages L,Jourde-Chiche N,Borentain P,Jaubert D,Gerolami R,Colson P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B therapy continues to be the "gold standard" in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised host. Although Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus flavus constitute the major species, several reports have described invasive pulmonary or disseminated disease due to the less common Asper...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sutton DA,Sanche SE,Revankar SG,Fothergill AW,Rinaldi MG

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the results of an 11-laboratory study to determine if a cefoxitin broth microdilution MIC test could predict the presence of mecA in staphylococci. Using breakpoints of < or = 4 microg/ml for mecA-negative and > or = 6 or 8 microg/ml for mecA-positive isolates, sensitivity and specificity based o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson JM,Brasso WB,Ferraro MJ,Hardy DJ,Knapp CC,Lonsway D,McAllister S,Reller LB,Sader HS,Shortridge D,Skov R,Weinstein MP,Zimmer BL,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of severe progressive subcutaneous abscesses and necrotizing tenosynovitis of the right arm of a 30-year-old woman caused by Rhodococcus aurantiacus is reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsukamura M,Hikosaka K,Nishimura K,Hara S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of an rRNA-derived oligonucleotide probe for Neisseria gonorrhoeae was tested with 187 N. gonorrhoeae isolates, 81 Neisseria meningitidis isolates, and several strains of other bacterial species. The probe proved to be 100% specific and 100% sensitive. N. gonorrhoeae cells could also be reliably identi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rossau R,Duhamel M,Van Dyck E,Piot P,Van Heuverswyn H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) are zoonotic infections. In Africa, the potential exists for additional cross-species transmissions from at least 33 different species of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected nonhuman primates (NHPs) through hunting and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndongmo CB,Switzer WM,Pau CP,Zeh C,Schaefer A,Pieniazek D,Folks TM,Kalish ML

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCCmec type V. Six methicilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kerttula AM,Lyytikäinen O,Vuopio-Varkila J,Ibrahem S,Agthe N,Broas M,Jägerroos H,Virolainen A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential PCR was performed to determine the copy number of rRNA genes in Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis. Two different reference genes, thymidylate synthase (TS) and beta-tubulin (BTU) genes, were used. Primers for the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear rRNA genes and either the TS or BTU gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tang X,Bartlett MS,Smith JW,Lu JJ,Lee CH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 128-member specimen pooling scheme for acute HIV infection (AHI) detection was evaluated using 21 AHI specimens (range, 1,520 to 500,000 copies/ml) previously identified by RNA testing of 16-member plasma pools. HIV-1 RNA was detectable in 128-member pools for all 21 specimens; however, one pool created from a speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sullivan TJ,Patel P,Hutchinson A,Ethridge SF,Parker MM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) was used to analyze isolates from two major listeriosis outbreaks in the United States in 1998 and 2002 that were due to consumption of contaminated hot dogs and turkey deli meat, respectively. MVLST demonstrated high epidemiological relevance and indicated that the two ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Zhang W,Knabel SJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00