Sensitivity and specificity of viral immunoglobulin M determination by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

abstract：:In Brazil, the most common etiological agent of American tegumentary leishmaniasis is Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis. In general, diagnostic techniques envisage the visualization of the parasite, but that technique has a low sensitivity. The main purpose of the present work was to evaluate the PCR as a routine tool...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pirmez C,da Silva Trajano V,Paes-Oliveira Neto M,da-Cruz AM,Gonçalves-da-Costa SC,Catanho M,Degrave W,Fernandes O

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), usually used for diagnosis, almost invariably become detectable within 3 months of exposure. We report on a patient whose HIV infection was identified early by a combined antigen/antibody test, but seroconversion did not occur for 7 months, until the impl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chin BS,Lee SH,Kim GJ,Kee MK,Suh SD,Kim SS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new test principle for the simultaneous detection of total approximate titers and immunoglobulin M antibodies has been developed and applied to the detection of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen. The method is based on the combination of a competition radioimmunoassay, for the determination of total antibody tite...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Angarano G,Monno L,Santantonio TA,Pastore G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated that sodium gluconate was the factor causing false-positive galactomannan (GM) antigenemia of Plasma-Lyte hydration solution. Infusion of sodium gluconate-containing solution but not gluconate-free Plasma-Lyte resulted in positive serum GM antigenemia. Serum GM concentrations also correlated with the v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petraitiene R,Petraitis V,Witt JR 3rd,Durkin MM,Bacher JD,Wheat LJ,Walsh TJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis hominis is now gaining acceptance as an agent of human intestinal disease. A case-control study of the cause of gastroenteritis in children less than 6 years old was conducted. A total of 500 stool specimens were examined by wet mount preparation, formalin-ether concentration, Sheather's sugar flotation t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nimri LF

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of septicemia caused by Pseudomonas stutzeri belonging to the unusual biotype Vb-3 in a patient with multiple myeloma is described. The origin of the septicemia was attributed to a community-acquired pneumonia. The bacteriology and pathogenicity of P. stutzeri are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Potvliege C,Jonckheer J,Lenclud C,Hansen W

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes infections are among the most common sexually transmitted diseases and are the most common cause of genital ulcer disease in the United States. This study addresses the changing distribution of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 in patients presenting for evaluation of herpetic infections. Viral cult...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ribes JA,Steele AD,Seabolt JP,Baker DJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium ulcerans has revealed two new insertion sequences (ISs), IS2404 and IS2606. IS2404 was identified by complete sequencing of a previously described repetitive DNA segment from M. ulcerans. This element is 1,274 bp long, contains 12-bp inverted repeats and a single open reading frame ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stinear T,Ross BC,Davies JK,Marino L,Robins-Browne RM,Oppedisano F,Sievers A,Johnson PD

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the currently known typing methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were evaluated with regard to reproducibility, discrimination, and specificity. Therefore, 90 M. tuberculosis complex strains, originating from 38 countries, were tested in five restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kremer K,van Soolingen D,Frothingham R,Haas WH,Hermans PW,Martín C,Palittapongarnpim P,Plikaytis BB,Riley LW,Yakrus MA,Musser JM,van Embden JD

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the Helicobacter pylori ClariRes assay (Ingenetix, Vienna, Austria) for the detection of H. pylori infection and the simultaneous clarithromycin susceptibility testing of the H. pylori isolates in stool samples from 100 symptomatic children. The results obtained by this nov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lottspeich C,Schwarzer A,Panthel K,Koletzko S,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida auris is an emerging worldwide fungal pathogen. Over the past 20 years, 61 patient isolates of C. auris (4 blood and 57 ear) have been obtained from 13 hospitals in Korea. Here, we reanalyzed those molecularly identified isolates using two matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon YJ,Shin JH,Byun SA,Choi MJ,Won EJ,Lee D,Lee SY,Chun S,Lee JH,Choi HJ,Kee SJ,Kim SH,Shin MG

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI is the most common C. difficile strain in the United States. The Xpert C. difficile/Epi assay allows rapid, presumptive identification of C. difficile NAP1. We compared Xpert C. difficile/Epi to multilocus sequence typing for identification of C. difficile NAP1 and found "very good" a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMillen T,Kamboj M,Babady NE

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, dried antigen-coated latex preparation for the demonstration of infectious mononucleosis (IM) heterophile antibody (Dryspot IM kit; Oxoid, Ltd., Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom) was compared with the IM kit (a liquid latex reagent from the same source), an immunoassay (ImmunoCard Mono; Meridian Diagnosti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rogers R,Windust A,Gregory J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FUNGITEST method (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Paris, France) is a microplate-based procedure for the breakpoint testing of six antifungal agents (amphotericin B, flucytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and miconazole). We compared the FUNGITEST method with a broth microdilution test, performed accord...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davey KG,Holmes AD,Johnson EM,Szekely A,Warnock DW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mariPOC is a novel point-of-care test system for rapid detection of respiratory tract infections. We compared the performance of the mariPOC test to that of bacterial culture for detecting group A streptococcus (GAS) in 219 pharyngitis patients (ages 1-64 years) and 109 healthy asymptomatic controls (ages 19-69 years)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vakkila J,Koskinen JO,Brandt A,Muotiala A,Liukko V,Soittu S,Meriluoto S,Vesalainen M,Huovinen P,Irjala K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Leishmania infantum-specific antibodies and asymptomatic infection was assessed in a randomized sample of 526 healthy adults from a continental area of northwestern Italy where L. infantum is not endemic and where autochthonous cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) were recently reported. L. infantum-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biglino A,Bolla C,Concialdi E,Trisciuoglio A,Romano A,Ferroglio E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typing and in vitro cultivation of rotavirus-positive human stool samples stored unintentionally at ambient tropical temperatures for 2 1/2 months showed that rotavirus is stable and may still be infectious in vitro. This indicates that stool specimen collection for rotavirus studies can be performed in areas and sett...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fischer TK,Steinsland H,Valentiner-Branth P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular fatty acid composition of Brucella canis and Brucella suis was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. The presence of relatively large amounts of a 19-carbon cyclopropane fatty acid in B. suis was a major distinguishing feature between these organisms. The gas-liquid chromatography test for cellular fat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dees SB,Hollis DG,Weaver RE,Moss CW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral blood lymphocytes from 48 heparinized blood specimens from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-positive individuals were divided into two aliquots. One aliquot was reconstituted in one of the following five media. Medium 1 consisted of tryptose broth with 0.5% gelatin; medium 2 consisted of RPMI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gallo D,Kimpton JS,Johnson PJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that multiple consecutive isolates of Legionella pneumophila from two cardiac transplant patients remained genomically stable, despite exposure to host defenses and antimicrobial agents. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Bezanson GS,Burbridge S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviral meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in a patient with an immunodeficiency syndrome acquired after treatment with rituximab for a relapsed primary B-cell lymphoma. A second meningoencephalitic episode was diagnosed 6 months later and was successfully treated with a combination of immunoglobulins and pleconari...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Archimbaud C,Bailly JL,Chambon M,Tournilhac O,Travade P,Peigue-Lafeuille H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of osteomyelitis caused by Neosartorya pseudofischeri is reported. The patient, a 77-year-old male with a history of silicosis and tuberculosis, on X-ray examination revealed lytic lesions of L2 and L3 vertebrae suspicious for metastatic lesions. Histologic examination of biopsy specimens from vertebral...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Padhye AA,Godfrey JH,Chandler FW,Peterson SW

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:We developed a sensitive and specific sodB-based quantitative PCR assay to detect Ehrlichia spp. The assay's limit of detection was 5 copies/reaction, and it did not amplify nonspecific DNA. Compared with a 16S rRNA gene PCR target, the sodB target may offer an improved molecular diagnostic assay to detect Ehrlichia s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qurollo BA,Riggins D,Comyn A,Zewde MT,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis can identify sequence polymorphisms by comparing the melting curves of amplicons generated by real-time PCR amplification. We describe the application of this technique to identify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis types I, II, and III. The HRM approach was based on ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castellanos E,Aranaz A,De Buck J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood specimens collected from adult patients with suspected sepsis in four medical centers were inoculated into BACTEC Plus/F and BacT/Alert FAN aerobic culture bottles. Both bottles of 7,401 bottle pairs contained the prescribed blood volume of 8 to 12 ml. Bottles were incubated in their respective instruments for a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Mirrett S,McDonald LC,Murray PR,Weinstein MP,Fune J,Trippy CW,Masterson M,Reller LB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency with which clue cells could be detected in Gram-stained vaginal smears and/or cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smears was compared with the frequency of Corynebacterium vaginale (Haemophilus vaginalis) isolation in a group of 236 female patients, of whom 221 had vaginitis. Vaginal clue cells were found most o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith RF,Rodgers HA,Hines PA,Ray RM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MICs and minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) were evaluated for the four antibiotics azithromycin, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, and doxycycline against the three main genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. In MBC testing, statistically significant differences between the genospecies could be found in 7 ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sicklinger M,Wienecke R,Neubert U

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodotorula infections occur among patients with immunosuppression and/or central venous catheters. Using standardized methods (NCCLS M27-A), we determined the antifungal susceptibilities of 10 Rhodotorula bloodstream infection isolates. Patient information was collected for clinical correlation. The MICs of amphoteri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zaas AK,Boyce M,Schell W,Lodge BA,Miller JL,Perfect JR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00