Visuwell Reagin, a non-treponemal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the serodiagnosis of syphilis.

abstract：:Levels of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in the blood serve as an important marker in monitoring the disease progression and treatment efficacy of chronic HBV infection. Several commercial assays are available for accurate measurement of HBV genomic DNA, but many of them are hampered by relatively low sensitivity and lim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sum SS,Wong DK,Yuen MF,Yuan HJ,Yu J,Lai CL,Ho D,Zhang L

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple enzymatic assays to detect heat-labile enterotoxins whose modes of action are similar to that of cholera toxin were evaluated. The assays are performed by using an artificial substrate, diethylamino benzylidine-aminoguanidine, which is an ADP-ribose acceptor. The product, formed in the presence of NAD+, can be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Narayanan J,Hartman PA,Graves DJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has many potential applications in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. In particular, it has been successfully applied to the detection of pathogens present in low copy numbers such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Here we describe a time-resolved fluorescence-based hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dahlén PO,Iitiä AJ,Skagius G,Frostell A,Nunn MF,Kwiatkowski M

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Prototheca spp. are environmental algae that may cause serious infection in the immunocompromised patient. Clinical manifestations may mimic other diseases. We present a case of fatal infection in a 78-year-old cardiac transplant recipient and discuss pitfalls in the clinical and laboratory diagnoses. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMullan B,Muthiah K,Stark D,Lee L,Marriott D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirates have been cultured from 10 dental abscesses of endodontic origin, all of which had penetrated beyond the bony alveolus to produce fluctuant swelling. Sampling was by syringe aspiration. Strict anaerobic techniques, including the use of an anaerobic chamber, were used for serial dilution and plating. Randomly...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Williams BL,McCann GF,Schoenknecht FD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human (n = 33) and canine (n = 53) Campylobacter upsaliensis isolates from seven countries were genotyped by a new amplified fragment length polymorphism method. We observed 100% typeability and high overall diversity. The majority of human strains (23/33) clustered separately from canine strains, indicating that dogs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Damborg P,Guardabassi L,Pedersen K,Kokotovic B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Point source norovirus outbreaks can be difficult to track due to high background levels of the virus in the environment and the limited strain variation in some genotyping regions. However, rapid and accurate source identification can limit the spread of a foodborne outbreak and reduce the number of cases. Harmonizat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mattison K,Grudeski E,Auk B,Charest H,Drews SJ,Fritzinger A,Gregoricus N,Hayward S,Houde A,Lee BE,Pang XL,Wong J,Booth TF,Vinjé J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sputum obtained from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly viscous and often heterogeneous in bacterial distribution. Adding dithiothreitol (DTT) is the standard method for liquefaction prior to processing sputum for molecular detection assays. To determine if DTT treatment homogenizes the bacterial distributio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stokell JR,Khan A,Steck TR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An echovirus 3 (Echo3) strain (strain LR31G7) was isolated from a sewage treatment plant in Greece in 2005. Full-genome molecular, phylogenetic, and SimPlot analyses were conducted in order to reveal the evolutionary pathways of the isolate. Nucleotide and phylogenetic analyses of part of the VP1 genomic region reveal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kyriakopoulou Z,Dedepsidis E,Pliaka V,Tsakogiannis D,Pratti A,Levidiotou-Stefanou S,Markoulatos P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system cysticercosis is common in countries where Taenia solium occurs in pigs and the level of hygiene and sanitation is low. The clinical presentation may include epileptic seizures, focal neurological deficits, hydrocephalus, or aseptic meningitis. The disease is frequently seen in California reside...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mohammad IN,Heiner DC,Miller BL,Goldberg MA,Kagan IG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus are closely related pathogenic organisms that are difficult to differentiate phenotypically or genotypically. It is well known that vegetative and spore forms of bacilli are quite distinct both morphologically and chemically, but spore-specific chemical markers allowing these spe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fox A,Black GE,Fox K,Rostovtseva S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-restriction endonuclease analysis (PRA) was used for direct identification of Mycobacterium haemophilum in clinical specimens from immunocompromised patients. PRA correctly identified M. haemophilum in four smear-positive specimens. Direct identification by PRA takes 2 to 3 working days compared to the 3 to 5 week...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang SX,Sng LH,Leong HN,Tan BH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatase activity was found to be applicable as a criterion for the differentiation of Mycoplasma salivarium and Mycoplasma orale, predominant constituents of oral mycoplasmal flora. Therefore, a simple procedure for the phosphatase activity assay was established as a screening test for the differentiation of oral ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shibata K,Totsuka M,Watanabe T

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human erythrocyte receptor which mediates mannose-resistant hemagglutination by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli possessing colonization factor antigen II is not universally distributed among donors. Mannose-resistant hemagglutination-positive erythrocytes are more common among black donors than nonblack donors; t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans DJ Jr,Evans DG,Diaz SR,Graham DY

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially prepared fluorescein-labeled antihuman antibodies were labed with 125I and used to compre specific herpes simplex virus antibody titers as determined by indirect fluorescent antibody and radioimmunoassay techniques. Total virus-specific immunoglobulin and virus-specific immunoglobulin G titers did not var...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Parkinson AJ,Kalmakoff J

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched DNA (bDNA) assays to quantify human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) consist of three distinct steps, including sample processing, hybridization, and detection, and utilize the System 340 platform for plate incubation and washing. Sample processing differs: HIV-1 from 1 ml of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elbeik T,Markowitz N,Nassos P,Kumar U,Beringer S,Haller B,Ng V

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the population structure of Enterococcus faecalis from Polish hospitals, 291 isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and a novel multilocus sequence typing scheme (P. Ruiz-Garbajosa et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2220-2228, 2006). The isolates originated from geographically widespread medical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawalec M,Pietras Z,Daniłowicz E,Jakubczak A,Gniadkowski M,Hryniewicz W,Willems RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard broth microdilution (with and without bovine serum albumin [BSA] supplementation), tube dilution, and agar dilution susceptibility tests were compared for determining ramoplanin MICs. With a data base of 246 clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria from 33 U.S. sites, it was shown that (i) agar and tube di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kenny MT,Brackman MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial multiplex PCR (hyplex SuperBug ID) was tested with a collection of 132 clinical Enterobacteriaceae strains producing different carbapenemases. The sensitivity for the detection of KPC-, VIM-, NDM-, and OXA-48-encoding genes was 100%, whereas two IMP variants were missed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaase M,Szabados F,Wassill L,Gatermann SG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 54 unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from cerebrospinal fluid samples from neonates and 60 unrelated strains isolated from carriers that had been previously studied by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (R. Quentin, H. Huet, F.-S. Wang, P. Geslin, A. Goudeau, and R. K. Selander, J. Cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chatellier S,Ramanantsoa C,Harriau P,Rolland K,Rosenau A,Quentin R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum are dimorphic fungi that often cause self-limited respiratory infections. However, they may also cause severe disseminated disease, depending on the level of the exposure to the organism and the host immune status. In addition, patients with infections caused by thes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Babady NE,Buckwalter SP,Hall L,Le Febre KM,Binnicker MJ,Wengenack NL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VP1 sequences were determined for poliovirus type 1 isolates obtained over a 189-day period from a poliomyelitis patient with common variable immunodeficiency syndrome (a defect in antibody formation). The isolate from the first sample, taken 11 days after onset of paralysis, contained two poliovirus populations, diff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kew OM,Sutter RW,Nottay BK,McDonough MJ,Prevots DR,Quick L,Pallansch MA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that whole blood contains significantly more hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA than plasma. To validate the whole-blood-based HCV RNA detection method, a prospective comparison of HCV RNA detection in whole blood and plasma from 50 patients with chronic liver disease was undertaken. Whole-blood an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stapleton JT,Klinzman D,Schmidt WN,Pfaller MA,Wu P,LaBrecque DR,Han Jq,Phillips MJ,Woolson R,Alden B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because strains of Staphylococcus aureus that are resistant to penicillinase-resistant penicillins may be difficult to detect in the clinical laboratory, a variety of changes in methodology have been suggested to increase their detection. In 1984, the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center experienced...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mulligan ME,Citron DM,Kwok RY,Wheelock JP,Farrohi FK,Hindler JA,Johnston L

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that a modification of the color-coded antigen developed by Kasatiya and Lambert (Appl. Microbiol. 28:317-318, 1974) can be used as a substitute for other nontreponemal antigens used in screening tests for syphilis. The antigen is based on the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory antigen, with EDTA, chol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pettit DE,Larsen SA,Harbec PS,Feeley JC,Parham CE,Cruce DD,Hambie EA,Perryman MW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we present a case of rhino-orbital mucormycosis in a 57-year-old female with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. The only mold cultured at 25°C, 37°C, and 40°C from a specimen of the nasal crust was identified phenotypically and independently using nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data as Thamnostylum l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xess I,Mohapatra S,Shivaprakash MR,Chakrabarti A,Benny GL,O'Donnell K,Padhye AA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus serotype G9 is recognized as the most widespread of the emerging serotypes, emerging since 1996 as a frequent cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in children from many countries covering all continents of the world. This study characterized serotype G9 strains collected in three widely separated Australian...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirkwood C,Bogdanovic-Sakran N,Palombo E,Masendycz P,Bugg H,Barnes G,Bishop R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of residual plasma viremia in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-suppressed HIV-infected individuals is critical for characterizing the latent reservoir and evaluating the impact of cure interventions. Ultracentrifugation-based single-copy assays are sensitive but labor intensive. Fully automated replicate testing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bakkour S,Deng X,Bacchetti P,Grebe E,Montalvo L,Worlock A,Stone M,Deeks SG,Richman DD,Busch MP

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was adapted and optimized to study Haemophilus ducreyi isolates. A panel of 43 strains isolated from chancroid patients from different countries in Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia were characterized. The strains were also studied with respect to lipoolig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mbwana J,Bölin I,Lyamuya E,Mhalu F,Lagergård T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00