Bacterial chromosomal restriction endonuclease analysis of the homology of Bacteroides species.

abstract：:We have evaluated the GenoType blood culture assay (Hain Lifescience, Nehren, Germany) for the identification of bacteria in 233 positive blood cultures and assessed its suitability in the workflow of a routine microbiology laboratory. In 68/233 (29.2%) samples, the culture result could not be confirmed by the GenoTyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karumaa S,Kärpänoja P,Sarkkinen H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 1,486 men attending two sexually transmitted disease clinics, of whom 891 had no symptoms of urethritis, we compared an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Baxter-Bartels, formerly Northumbria AntigEnz) of urine sediment to urethral culture for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis. C. trachomatis prevalence by c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sanders JW,Hook EW 3rd,Welsh LE,Shepherd ME,Quinn TC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three antigenic variants of the H3N2 subtype of wild-type influenza A virus (representing the years 1968, 1972, and 1974) were examined for their sensitivity to interferon and for their ability to induce local respiratory tract interferon in volunteers. In addition, the time of appearance of symptoms in infected volun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richman DD,Murphy BR,Baron S,Uhlendorf C

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne ehrlichial pathogens of animals and humans require a mammalian reservoir of infection from which ticks acquire the organism for subsequent transmission. In the present study, we examined the strain structure of Anaplasma marginale, a genogroup II ehrlichial pathogen, in both an acute outbreak and in persist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Palmer GH,Rurangirwa FR,McElwain TF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 145 clinical strains of Candida species were tested by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M27-A3 methodology to determine if replacing water with dimethyl sulfoxide as the solvent for fluconazole and flucytosine impacted the in vitro potency. No significant differences in MIC values were observ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fothergill AW,Sanders C,Wiederhold NP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies established that neither cloth nor disposable diapers demonstrably contributed to the growth of Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, Staphylococcus aureus, or Candida albicans when urine was present as a growth medium. In a clinical study of 166 children, the microbial skin flora of children with atopi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Keswick BH,Seymour JL,Milligan MC

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty (1.4%) of 1,421 adult Ixodes pacificus ticks and 2 (20%) of 10 adult Ixodes neotomae ticks collected in five counties of northern California were found to contain spirochetes by direct immunofluorescence examination of their tissues with a polyvalent conjugate. Borreliae isolated from the tissues of nine of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lane RS,Pascocello JA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and conventional standard methods were compared for time to pathogen identification and impact on clinical outcomes in peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis patients. The MALDI-TOF MS method identified the causative microorga...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin WH,Hwang JC,Tseng CC,Chang YT,Wu AB,Yan JJ,Wu JJ,Wang MC

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between November 1983 and January 1984, 13 cases of Candida parapsilosis endophthalmitis occurred in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee in patients who had had an intraocular lens implantation (IOLI) or cataract extraction with an IOLI. This outbreak followed the introduction in July 1983 of a new brand of balanced salt ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCray E,Rampell N,Solomon SL,Bond WW,Martone WJ,O'Day D

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae is a technique generally confined to reference laboratories, as purchasing pneumococcal antisera is a huge investment. Many attempts have been made to modify serological agglutination techniques to make them more accessible, and more recently developments in serotyping have focused ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Batt SL,Charalambous BM,McHugh TD,Martin S,Gillespie SH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired bloodstream infections cause substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide, but microbiology capacity and surveillance limitations have challenged good descriptions of pathogen distribution in many regions, including Southeast Asia. Active surveillance for bloodstream infections has been conducted i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorakate P,Higdon M,Kaewpan A,Makprasert S,Yuenprakhon S,Tawisaid K,Dejsirilert S,Whistler T,Baggett HC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of malaria parasites is a key determinant of whether an infected individual develops fever. While the pyrogenic threshold for malaria parasite density has been well studied, there are no analogous data on the antigen levels associated with fever during infection. Samples from 797 afebrile and 457 febrile o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Plucinski MM,Rogier E,Dimbu PR,Fortes F,Halsey ES,Aidoo M,Smith T

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray for detection of Campylobacter spp. was recently developed and applied to detect Campylobacter spp. directly from chicken feces. Sixty-five pooled chicken cloacal swab samples from 650 individual broiler chickens were included in the study. The results of Campylobacter sp. detection obtained with DNA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Keramas G,Bang DD,Lund M,Madsen M,Bunkenborg H,Telleman P,Christensen CB

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Studies on the molecular epidemiologic characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains have demonstrated their genetic and geographical diversity. In addition, it has been reported that there are genetic differences between community-associated (CA) and health care-associated (HA) MRSA st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park C,Lee DG,Kim SW,Choi SM,Park SH,Chun HS,Choi JH,Yoo JH,Shin WS,Kang JH,Kim JH,Lee SY,Kim SM,Pyun BY

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis is the most prevalent nonviral sexually transmitted infection worldwide, and improved diagnostic methods are critical for controlling this pathogen. Diagnostic assays that can be used in conjunction with routine chlamydia/gonorrhea nucleic acid-based screening are likely to have the most impact o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Der Pol B,Williams JA,Taylor SN,Cammarata CL,Rivers CA,Body BA,Nye M,Fuller D,Schwebke JR,Barnes M,Gaydos CA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic variation within a bacterial clone (known as Shigella sonnei but in effect a clone of Escherichia coli) was examined by studying 46 clinical isolates that were epidemiologically unassociated and isolated from patients in different countries over a period of 41 years (1950 to 1991). Restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karaolis DK,Lan R,Reeves PR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A typing enzyme immunoassay (TYPE-EIA) was used to determine the antigenic types of 64 astrovirus-positive specimens from nine collections from seven countries. Six of the seven known astrovirus types were detected in the collections, with HAstV-1 predominating in all collections for one from the United Kingdom. Selec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Noel JS,Lee TW,Kurtz JB,Glass RI,Monroe SS

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has revised several breakpoints since 2010 for bacteria that grow aerobically. In 2019, these revisions include changes to the ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin breakpoints for the Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, daptomycin breakpoints for Enterococcus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Humphries RM,Abbott AN,Hindler JA

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vaginitis caused by Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extremely rare, in recent years we have experienced an increasing frequency of S. cerevisiae isolation from the vaginas of fertile-age women. In order to investigate the epidemiology of these vaginal infections, a total of 40 isolates of S. cerevisiae derived fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Posteraro B,Sanguinetti M,D'Amore G,Masucci L,Morace G,Fadda G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase antibody capture hemadsorption (SPACH) assay was developed to detect hepatitis A virus (HAV)-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in sera from humans recently infected with hepatitis. The assay is performed with microtiter plates coated with anti-human IgM antibodies to capture IgM antibodies from ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Summers PL,Dubois DR,Cohen WH,Macarthy PO,Binn LN,Sjogren MH,Snitbhan R,Innis BL,Eckels KH

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining malaria transmission and known difficulties with current diagnostic tools for malaria, such as microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in particular at low parasite densities, still warrant the search for sensitive diagnostic tests. Molecular tests need substantial simplification before implementation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mens PF,de Bes HM,Sondo P,Laochan N,Keereecharoen L,van Amerongen A,Flint J,Sak JR,Proux S,Tinto H,Schallig HD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemagglutination inhibition test (HAI) and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting antibody to rubella virus were compared by testing 25 sets of paired sera taken before and after infection and 10 sets of sera taken during acute and convalescent stages of the disease and by screening 700 serum ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shekarchi IC,Sever JL,Tzan N,Ley A,Ward LC,Madden D

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A TaqMan real-time PCR assay, the COBAS TaqMan human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (HPS-CTMHIV) PCR assay, recently developed for the quantification of HIV type 1 RNA in plasma, was evaluated in comparison with the licensed COBAS AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR (CAHIM) assay. In this study, we have analyzed the tests' sensitivi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Perrin L,Pawlotsky JM,Bouvier-Alias M,Sarrazin C,Zeuzem S,Colucci G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsiae were isolated by cell culture of buffy coat blood from six patients with spotted fever from southeastern Australia and Flinders Island in Bass Strait. The isolates were genetically compared with two previous Rickettsia australis patient isolates. The genus-specific 17-kDA genes from the isolates were compa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baird RW,Stenos J,Stewart R,Hudson B,Lloyd M,Aiuto S,Dwyer B

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of reported cases of infections with non-serogroup O1 Vibrio cholerae in the United States has increased recently. These cases have almost invariably been associated with travel, seawater exposure, or the ingestion of shellfish. We report a case of bacteremic cellulitis caused by non-O1 V. cholerae that was...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pitrak DL,Gindorf JD

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viridans streptococci (VS) are common etiologic agents of subacute infective endocarditis and are capable of causing a variety of pyogenic infections. Many species of VS are difficult to differentiate by phenotypic traits. An oligonucleotide array based on 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer (ITS) sequences was develo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen CC,Teng LJ,Kaiung S,Chang TC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 2009 H1N1 influenza A outbreak, 773 children were tested for influenza by direct fluorescent-antibody testing with PCR confirmation. Direct fluorescent-antibody testing has a specificity of 99.6% but a sensitivity of only 65.0%. Physicians should recognize diagnostic limitations of direct fluorescent-antibo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bakerman P,Balasuriya L,Fried O,Tellez D,Garcia-Filion P,Dalton H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally acquired infection of humans with a marine mammal-associated Brucella sp. has only been reported once previously in a study describing infections of two patients from Peru. We report the isolation and characterization of a strain of Brucella from a New Zealand patient that appears most closely related to str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McDonald WL,Jamaludin R,Mackereth G,Hansen M,Humphrey S,Short P,Taylor T,Swingler J,Dawson CE,Whatmore AM,Stubberfield E,Perrett LL,Simmons G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely diagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is critical for appropriate treatment of lower respiratory infection in young children. To facilitate diagnosis, we developed a rapid, specific, and sensitive TaqMan PCR method for detection of RSV A and RSV B. Two sets of primer-probe pairs were selected...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu A,Colella M,Tam JS,Rappaport R,Cheng SM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00