Preparation of acid-fast microscopy smears for proficiency testing and quality control.

abstract：:Selective media for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, BTB-Teepol agar and modified arabinose-ammonium sulfate-cholate agar, were modified for use in immunological detection of the thermostable direct hemolysin produced by this organism. The modified BTB-Teepol agar and modified arabinose-ammonium sulfate-cholate agar were both...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Honda T,Sornchai C,Takeda Y,Miwatani T

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Corynebacterium ulcerans can mimic classical diphtheria, extrapharyngeal infections are extremely rare. Sequencing of the diphtheria toxin (DT)-encoding tox gene of two C. ulcerans isolates from extrapharyngeal infections revealed differences from C. diphtheriae DT sequences, mainly in the translocation and rece...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sing A,Hogardt M,Bierschenk S,Heesemann J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MAC-ELISA) serves as a valuable tool for the diagnosis of acute flaviviral infections, since IgM antibody titers are detectable early, peak at about 2 weeks postinfection, and subsequently decline to lower levels over the next few mo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holmes DA,Purdy DE,Chao DY,Noga AJ,Chang GJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because self-collected vaginal swabs (VS) are potentially very useful for screening asymptomatic women for Chlamydia trachomatis infection, a multicenter study evaluated that specimen with nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). The objective was to determine whether VS are equal to Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,McCormack WM,Chernesky MA,Martin DH,Van Der Pol B,Rice PA,Hook EW 3rd,Stamm WE,Quinn TC,Chow JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal secretions from adults and children were obtained in Stockholm, Sweden, for routine diagnosis of influenza A virus, influenza B virus, respiratory syncytial (RS) virus, parainfluenza type 3 virus, and adenovirus infections by demonstration of viral antigens directly in the specimens. The cells in nasoph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grandien M,Pettersson CA,Gardner PS,Linde A,Stanton A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of a limiting dilution assay (LDA) showed that the occurrence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-harboring cells in serially diluted samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of HIV-1-seropositive patients fits the model describing a single-hit Poisson distributi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu W,Manolikakis G,Andrieu JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norwalk virus (NV) and the Norwalk-like viruses are important human pathogens that cause epidemic acute viral gastroenteritis. Current techniques used to recover NV from clinical samples involve multistep viral extraction and elution procedures with subsequent viral detection by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schwab KJ,Estes MK,Neill FH,Atmar RL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gas-liquid chromatographic method which requires no chloroform extraction of the split products has been investigated for the detection of hippurate hydrolysis by Campylobacter spp. This technique gave better reproducibility than other tests also used in this study and allows the routine use of the gas-liquid chroma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bär W,Fricke G

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microagglutination test for Francisella tularensis, with 0.025-ml amounts of diluted sera and 0.025-ml amounts of safranin-O-stained antigen in U-bottom microtitration plates, was compared with a tube agglutination test by using 137 sera. There was 86.3% agreement (+/- 1 dilution variation) between the microagglutin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,McKinney FT,Klein GC,Jones WL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1999 and 2002, 496 invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) isolates from clinical microbiological departments in Denmark and subsequently 487 (98%) questionnaires from the clinicians treating the patients were received as part of a national surveillance. emm types and streptococcal superantigen (SAg) genes were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ekelund K,Skinhøj P,Madsen J,Konradsen HB

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in situ DNA hybridization kit for cytomegalovirus (CMV) was evaluated for the detection of CMV in centrifugation culture. Of 61 clinical specimens, 17 (27.8%) were positive for CMV by monoclonal antibody staining following centrifugation. Of the 17 positive specimens, 15 were detected by DNA hybridization (24.5%). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gleaves CA,Hursh DA,Rice DH,Meyers JD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three strains of Cryptococcus neoformans were isolated from clinical specimens, including specimens from AIDS patients in Brazil, and were classified into two serotypes; we detected 31 and 2 strains of serotypes A and B, respectively. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint pattern analyses of these...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aoki FH,Imai T,Tanaka R,Mikami Y,Taguchi H,Nishimura NF,Nishimura K,Miyaji M,Schreiber AZ,Branchini ML

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of staphylococcal exanthematous disease in a newborn due to a toxic shock syndrome toxin 1- and SEC-producing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain and alert neonatologists to the probable emergence in France of the neonatal toxic shock syndrome-like exanthematous disease in newborns prev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Mee-Marquet N,Lina G,Quentin R,Yaouanc-Lapalle H,Fièvre C,Takahashi N,Etienne J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated one sorbitol-nonfermenting (SNF) Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolate and five sorbitol-fermenting (SF) E. coli O157:H(-) isolates that do not contain Shiga toxin (Stx) genes (stx). Isolates originated from patients with diarrhea (n = 4) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) (n = 2). All isolates harbored a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmidt H,Scheef J,Huppertz HI,Frosch M,Karch H

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-eight isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans were collected from 30 patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from December 1987 through December 1994. The susceptibility of each isolate was determined against fluconazole, itraconazole, amphotericin B, and flucytosine. Of the 98 isolates, 53 were re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klepser ME,Pfaller MA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA detection between a PCR-based genechip (Easychip HPV Blot [hereafter referred to as HPV Blot]; King Car, Taiwan) method and Hybrid Capture II (HCII; Digene, Gaithersburg, MD) in women with previous normal (n = 146) or abnormal (> or =atypical squamous cells of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huang SL,Chao A,Hsueh S,Chao FY,Huang CC,Yang JE,Lin CY,Yan CC,Chou HH,Huang KG,Huang HJ,Wu TI,Tseng MJ,Qiu JT,Lin CT,Chang TC,Lai CH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of disk susceptibility tests with ampicillin and ampicillin-sulbactam was not improved when the amount of ampicillin was increased from 10 to 20 or 30 micrograms per disk. For testing members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, ampicillin disk tests correlated better with broth microdilution tests when the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barry AL,Jones RN

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularemia caused by Francisella tularensis is a zoonotic infection of the Northern Hemisphere that mainly affects the skin, lymph nodes, bloodstream, and lungs. Other manifestations of tularemia are very rare, especially those with musculoskeletal involvement. Presenting in 2016, we diagnosed two cases of periprosthet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chrdle A,Trnka T,Musil D,Fucentese SF,Bode P,Keller PM,Achermann Y

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaraldehyde-fixed sheep erythrocytes (GA-SRBC) were used in the indirect hemagglutination test for the detection of Pasteurella antibody. GA-SRBC were stable for at least 6 months. Heat extract or potassium thiocyanate extract antigens of Pasteurella strains could be adsorbed onto GA-SRBC or tanned GA-SRBC, respect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sawada T,Rimler RB,Rhoades KR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the BD Phoenix automated microbiology system to the Bruker Biotyper (version 2.0) matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) system for identification of gram-negative bacilli, using biochemical testing and/or genetic sequencing to resolve discordant resul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saffert RT,Cunningham SA,Ihde SM,Jobe KE,Mandrekar J,Patel R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a blood spot test for syphilis antibody using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technology. Dried blood was eluted by buffered saline or, for a supplementary confirmatory test, by treponemal-antibody test diluent. Eluates were diluted in an absorption buffer (Calypte Biomedical, Berkeley, Calif.) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stevens R,Pass K,Fuller S,Wiznia A,Noble L,Duva S,Neal M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and reproducible enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is described for the detection of immunoglobulin M and antibodies with specifity for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) early (CMV-EA) and late (CMV-LA) antigens. The emphasis is on the production of high-quality CMV antigens, CMV-EA and CMV-LA separately...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Middeldorp JM,Jongsma J,ter Haar A,Schirm J,The TH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was isolated from the blood of 192 of 410 seropositive individuals. Original isolations were made in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures, and only one-fifth of the HIV isolates could be adapted to replicate in continuous T-cell lines. Of the 192 HIV isolates, 42 had...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bolton V,Pedersen NC,Higgins J,Jennings M,Carlson J

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae continues to rise in Canada; however, antimicrobial resistance data are lacking for approximately 70% of gonorrhea infections that are diagnosed directly from clinical specimens by nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). We developed a molecular assay fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson SW,Martin I,Demczuk W,Bharat A,Hoang L,Wylie J,Allen V,Lefebvre B,Tyrrell G,Horsman G,Haldane D,Garceau R,Wong T,Mulvey MR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-chain fatty acids extracted from the whole cells of 12 clinically significant species of peptococci and peptostreptococci were characterized by gas-liquid chromatography. The resulting methylated fatty acid profiles (and some unidentified compounds) of 82 strains allowed the 12 species to be separated into fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wells CL,Field CR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to compare and evaluate antimicrobial susceptibility test results for enterococci obtained by six national committee disk diffusion procedures. Variations in the incidence of isolates in resistance categories and errors were associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin, r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cotter G,Adley CC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis, a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, emphasizes the need to improve the diagnostic tools for this disease. We established a LightCycler-based real-time PCR assay to detect and quantify rapidly, specifically, and sensitively Aspergillus fumigatu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Spiess B,Buchheidt D,Baust C,Skladny H,Seifarth W,Zeilfelder U,Leib-Mösch C,Mörz H,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate tissues from patients with prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) frequently contain histological inflammation, and a proportion of these patients show evidence of Propionibacterium acnes infection in the prostate gland. We developed a multicolor fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) assay ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alexeyev OA,Marklund I,Shannon B,Golovleva I,Olsson J,Andersson C,Eriksson I,Cohen R,Elgh F

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been found to be an accurate, rapid, and inexpensive method for the identification of bacteria and yeasts. Previous evaluations have compared the accuracy, time to identification, and costs of the MALDI-TOF MS method agains...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tan KE,Ellis BC,Lee R,Stamper PD,Zhang SX,Carroll KC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West African tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is difficult to diagnose due to the low number of spirochetes in the bloodstream of patients. Previously, the causative microorganism, Borrelia crocidurae, had never been cultured in vitro. TBRF was rapidly diagnosed for two patients returning from western Africa with fev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Dam AP,van Gool T,Wetsteyn JC,Dankert J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00