Specific circulating immune complexes in amoebic liver abscess.

abstract：:A 55-year-old man with severe peripheral vascular disease developed nosocomial septicemia which was caused by the gram-negative bacterium CDC group IV c-2, presumably from a plantar abscess on the left foot. Recovery followed amputation of the infected extremity and antibiotic therapy. This is the first reported case ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Crowe HM,Brecher SM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood was cultured in two vacuum bottles containing Columbia broth. Filtered air was admitted to one bottle (aerobic); the unvented bottle was considered anaerobic. Cultures were incubated at 35 C until growth occurred or for at least 7 days. Of 744 organisms isolated, 50% were isolated from both bottles, 30% from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blazevic DJ,Stemper JE,Matsen JM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularemia is a potentially fatal disease that is caused by the highly infectious and zoonotic pathogen Francisella tularensis. Despite the monomorphic nature of sequenced F. tularensis genomes, there is a significant degree of plasticity in the organization of genetic elements. The observed variability in these genome...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Larson MA,Fey PD,Bartling AM,Iwen PC,Dempsey MP,Francesconi SC,Hinrichs SH

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:The serological properties of six new pneumococcal capsular types are described. A table listing all 90 pneumococcal types and their cross-reactions is included. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Henrichsen J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the use of highly purified viral proteins in the solid-phase radioimmunoassay (SPRIA) procedure is not practical for routine diagnostic serology, the procedure was adapted for use with the crude antigens now commonly used to diagnose St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus infections. SLE and various other alpha- and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wolff KL,Muth DJ,Hudson BW,Trent DW

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with bone marrow cultures yielding Mycobacterium avium complex were encountered at the Mount Sinai Hospital between 1969 and 1976. One additional isolate of the same mycobacterial species was recovered from splenic cyst fluid of a seventh patient. Because none of the patients had illnesses apparently due ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kozinn WP,Damsker B,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：:Autopsy specimens of lung tissues from 15 patients that contracted legionellosis during the 1976 Philadelphia outbreak of Legionnaires disease were examined for the presence of Legionella organisms and soluble antigens by indirect fluorescent-antibody (IFA) testing and by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,Bibb WF,McKinney RM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By an immunomagnetic-bead (IMB) separation technique, isolation of Helicobacter pylori from gastrointestinal and fecal samples of gnotobiotic mice infected with the microorganism was tried. The isolation rate of H. pylori from stomach samples after IMB separation was not higher than that of direct culture of the sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Osaki T,Taguchi H,Yamaguchi H,Kamiya S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opinions differ on the value of microbiological testing of endoscopes, which varies according to the technique used. We compared the efficacy on bacterial biofilms of sampling solutions used for the surveillance of the contamination of endoscope channels. To compare efficacy, we used an experimental model of a 48-h Ps...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aumeran C,Thibert E,Chapelle FA,Hennequin C,Lesens O,Traoré O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the optimal conditions for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detection in microcultures, experiments were conducted with different ratios of patient and donor peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Donor/patient PBMC ratios ranged from 1:1 to 1:125. Optimal results were obtained when 1,500,000 donor ce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dimitrov DH,Melnick JL,Hollinger FB

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni isolates from stool samples of patients with domestically acquired sporadic infections and from chicken from retail shops were studied during seasonal peaks from June to September over a 3-year period from 1996 to 1998. A large number of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) genotypes (a combine...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hänninen ML,Perko-Mäkelä P,Pitkälä A,Rautelin H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the detection of Mycoplasma pulmonis contamination of isolates of cilia-associated respiratory (CAR) bacillus, we developed a nested PCR method using primers for 16S rRNA gene sequences. Of 140 samples of 16 different CAR bacillus isolates, 73 (52%) were inhibitory in the first PCR, as indicated by the abse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schoeb TR,Dybvig K,Keisling KF,Davidson MK,Davis JK

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight Staphylococcus aureus strains initially identified by Vitek GPS-BS or GPS-SA cards as resistant to oxacillin, but susceptible to most non-beta-lactam antibiotics, were found on further testing to be susceptible to oxacillin and ceftizoxime by disk diffusion tests. For all these strains, the MICs of oxacillin wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ribeiro J,Vieira FD,King T,D'Arezzo JB,Boyce JM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus and cynomolgus monkey kidney tissue cultures and two continuous lines, Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) and LLC-MK2, were compared in titrations and isolations of influenza and parainfluenza viruses. Tube cultures were inoculated with laboratory virus strains or stored patient specimens and observed for hemadso...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Frank AL,Couch RB,Griffis CA,Baxter BD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical analysis of serological data has provided the basis for a new serotyping routine. This paper describes the process whereby the results of agglutination reactions between the standard O antigens of Escherichia coli and rabbit antisera raised against them were used to produce a much simpler, faster, and c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thompson CJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a new colony hybridization assay with an established enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) expressing colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I). The tests were applied to 135 human ETEC strains. Of these isolates, 30 had previously been characterized for CFA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grewal HM,Sommerfelt H,Gaastra W,Svennerholm AM,Bhan MK,Hamers AM,Kumar R,Wiklund G,Bjorvatn B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of hospital-acquired and life-threatening infections. Active surveillance programs for MRSA utilize either molecular or culture-based methods. A prospective study was performed to compare the performance of selective and differential chromogenic media...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Denys GA,Renzi PB,Koch KM,Wissel CM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphadenopathy (LN) is the most common clinical manifestation of acute acquired toxoplasma infection in humans. The diagnosis of toxoplasmic lymphadenitis (TL) is established by serological methods and/or lymph node biopsy. In the United States, the differential agglutination (of acetone [AC]-fixed versus that of for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montoya JG,Berry A,Rosso F,Remington JS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA loads in paired leukocyte and plasma samples from 199 patient visits by 66 patients with CMV retinitis were determined. Leukocyte CMV load determinations had a greater range of values (mean, 24,587 copies/10(6) leukocytes; maximum, 539, 000) than did plasma CMV load determinations (mean, 10,3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jabs DA,Forman M,Enger C,Jackson JB

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared 14 molecular assays for their ability to detect the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples. Three approaches were followed. First, by using DNA from Mycobacterium bovis BCG, we determined the detection limits of the assays using routine molecular methods. Second, in orde...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Akkerman OW,van der Werf TS,de Boer M,de Beer JL,Rahim Z,Rossen JW,van Soolingen D,Kerstjens HA,van der Zanden AG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcus (GAS) species cause bacterial pharyngitis in both adults and children. Early and accurate diagnosis of GAS is important for appropriate antibiotic therapy to prevent GAS sequalae. The Revogene Strep A molecular assay (Meridian Bioscience Canada Inc, Quebec City, QC, Canada) is an automated real-t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Banerjee D,Michael J,Schmitt B,Salimnia H,Mhaissen N,Goldfarb DM,Lachance P,Faron ML,Aufderheide T,Ledeboer N,Weissfeld A,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:At the time indwelling urinary catheters were removed, the urethral flora was sampled by rolling the catheters onto culture plates. Cultures were obtained from 398 patients with sterile urine. Catheter surfaces were colonized less often in males than in females (16.8 and 67.0%, respectively) and yielded correspondingl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kunin CM,Steele C

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoglobulin M (IgM) capture enzyme immunoassay was used to detect major overlapping outbreaks of disease in South Australia caused by coxsackieviruses B5 (CBV-5) and B6 (CBV-6). CBV-5-specific IgM was detected in patients presenting in spring 1992 with acute febrile illnesses, rash, severe acute respiratory dise...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Goldwater PN

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of clinical NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates obtained from two surveillance networks of carbapenem-producing Enterobacterales from 2018-2019, namely Switzerland (NARA) and Germany (SurvCARE), were analyzed. The 33 NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates were highly resistant to β-lactams including the novel ß-lactam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chakraborty T,Sadek M,Yao Y,Imirzalioglu C,Stephan R,Poirel L,Nordmann P

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare methods for subtyping Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolates, 96 isolates obtained from various locations in the United States and northwestern Europe were subtyped by five methods: monoclonal antibody (MAb)-based serotyping and serosubtyping, DNA macrorestriction analysis by pulsed-field gel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swaminathan B,Matar GM,Reeves MW,Graves LM,Ajello G,Bibb WF,Helsel LO,Morales M,Dronavalli H,el-Swify M,DeWitt W,Hunter SB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study involved the rapid, direct identification of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Enterococcus sp., and Streptococcus agalactiae from positive blood culture bottles (BACTEC, Johnston Laboratories, Inc.) by using the AccuProbe (Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davis TE,Fuller DD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of three different commercial media was made to assess their recovery of anaerobic organisms from the blood stream. The three media used were the 50-ml brain heart infusion broth with added CO2 (Pfizer), the 50-ml Thiol broth with added CO2 (Difco), and the 50-ml prereduced, supplemented peptone broth in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mangels JI,Lindberg LH,Vosti KL

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbiased nontargeted metagenomic RNA sequencing (UMERS) has the advantage to detect known as well as unknown pathogens and, thus, can significantly improve the detection of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal sequences in public health settings. In particular, conventional diagnostic methods successfully identify ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fischer N,Indenbirken D,Meyer T,Lütgehetmann M,Lellek H,Spohn M,Aepfelbacher M,Alawi M,Grundhoff A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00