Rapid automated method for screening of enteric pathogens from stool specimens.

abstract：:PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) analysis is a rapid and convenient technique for the detection of mutations and allelic variants. We have adapted this technique for the identification of bacteria by PCR with fluorescein-labeled primers chosen from the conserved regions of the 16S rRNA gene flank...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjojoatmodjo MN,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for preparing smears for proficiency testing and quality control in acid-fast microscopy. The work was prompted by the increased demand for acid-fast bacilli positive smears with characteristic microscopic appearance and among-smear uniformity. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smithwick RW,Stratigos CB

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although numerous perioperative samples and culture media are required to diagnose prosthetic joint infection (PJI), their exact number and types have not yet been definitely determined with a high level of proof. We conducted a prospective multicenter study to determine the minimal number of samples and culture media...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bémer P,Léger J,Tandé D,Plouzeau C,Valentin AS,Jolivet-Gougeon A,Lemarié C,Kempf M,Héry-Arnaud G,Bret L,Juvin ME,Giraudeau B,Corvec S,Burucoa C,Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-articulaires du Grand Ouest (CRIOGO) Stu

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains resistant to third-generation cephalosporins. The resistant strains harbored blaCMY-2, a plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase. Genotyping of isolates revealed the possible spread of this problematic bacterium. Results suggested the importance of the inves...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawahara R,Seto K,Taguchi M,Nakajima C,Kumeda Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performance of Organon Teknika's NucliSens and Roche Diagnostic Systems' Monitor quantitative human immunodeficiency type 1 RNA assays. Both had similar linearity and sensitivity over most of the dynamic range of the assays, although the Monitor assay was superior at the low range of RNA values while t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dyer JR,Pilcher CD,Shepard R,Schock J,Eron JJ,Fiscus SA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the distribution in France of the Enterobacter aerogenes prevalent clone isolated in the hospitals of the Marseille area (A. Davin-Regli, D. Monnet, P. Saux, C. Bosi, R. Charrel, A. Barthelemy, and C. Bollet, J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:1474-1480, 1996). A total of 123 E. aerogenes is...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bosi C,Davin-Regli A,Bornet C,Mallea M,Pages JM,Bollet C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, Mycobacterium xenopi, and Mycobacterium gordonae were identified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of mycolic acids as bromophenacyl esters. HPLC criteria were used to develop a flow chart identification s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Butler WR,Thibert L,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the new Abbott TestPack (TP) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with cell culture and two commercial RSV EIAs (from Abbott Diagnostics and Kallestad Laboratories) by using split samples of fresh nasal washings from children with suspected RSV disease. Two tubes of HEp-2 cells were i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wren CG,Bate BJ,Masters HB,Lauer BA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance characteristics of three real-time influenza A/B virus reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assays and two real-time 2009 H1N1 RT-PCR assays were evaluated using previously characterized clinical specimens. A total of 150 respiratory specimens from children (30 influenza A/H1 virus-, 30 influenza A/H3 vi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Selvaraju SB,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, no agar-based susceptibility testing method has been standardized for testing dermatophytes. We describe a newly developed agar-based method employing disk diffusion assay to test the susceptibility of 47 isolates of dermatophytes against 8 antifungals. Our results show that the method is reproducible, is s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nweze EI,Mukherjee PK,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MMLVA) method was validated on Clostridium difficile-infected stool specimens from institutional outbreaks. The method allows simultaneous detection of toxin genes, deletions, and tandem repeats from cultured isolates or stool specimens. Results were us...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Broukhanski G,Low DE,Pillai DR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is an important pathogen in the etiology of severe periodontitis. For epidemiological studies on the prevalence of certain pathogenic clones and transmission of this bacterium, adequate typing methods are necessary. The purpose of this study was to compare six different typing meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Steenbergen TJ,Bosch-Tijhof CJ,van Winkelhoff AJ,Gmür R,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologies of a number of retinopathies, including serpiginous choroiditis and acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR), remain uncertain. Recently, we provided evidence that AZOOR is caused by Candida famata infection. The purpose of this article was to investigate the presence of fungal infection in five pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pisa D,Ramos M,García P,Escoto R,Barraquer R,Molina S,Carrasco L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case where a mite egg found in urine caused diagnostic confusion. The possibility of gut or bladder mite infection should be entertained only after repeated identification of mites in urine or stool samples from a symptomatic patient with no other cause for the symptoms and where the possibilities of conta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dini LA,Frean JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 100 strains of enterococci, 83% reduced litmus milk within 4 h. None of the 100 non-enterococcal streptococci tested were positive. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schierl EA,Blazevic DJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a nested PCR with Borrelia flagellin gene (flaB) primers and DNA sequencing to determine if Borrelia lonestari was present in Amblyomma americanum ticks removed from military personnel and sent to the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In our pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stromdahl EY,Williamson PC,Kollars TM Jr,Evans SR,Barry RK,Vince MA,Dobbs NA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The longus type IV pilus structural gene (lngA) was sought among 217 clinical enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains isolated in Argentina. lngA was present in 20.7% of the isolates and was highly associated with ETEC producing heat-stable toxin and the most common colonization factors. The prevalence of long...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pichel MG,Binsztein N,Qadri F,Girón JA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmic lymphadenopathy (TL) is the most common clinical manifestation of acute acquired toxoplasma infection in normal individuals. The diagnosis is established by serologic methods and lymph node biopsy. Recently, tests for avidity of toxoplasma immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies have been introduced to help disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montoya JG,Huffman HB,Remington JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing frequencies of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain isolation have been reported from many countries. The overall prevalence of MRSA in Norway is still very low. MRSA isolates (n = 67) detected between 1995 and 2003 in northern Norway were analyzed by pulsed-field gel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hanssen AM,Fossum A,Mikalsen J,Halvorsen DS,Bukholm G,Sollid JU

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from urine specimens submitted from both inpatients and outpatients to the clinical microbiology laboratory of a teaching hospital were identified with a biotyping system, with species then correlated by clinical features and antimicrobial susceptibility. Of 145 iso...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nicolle LE,Hoban SA,Harding GK

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a previous survey, five extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing enterobacteria (ESBLE) (two Enterobacter aerogenes isolates expressing TEM-24 b, two Escherichia coli isolates expressing TEM-21 or TEM-24 b, and one Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate expressing SHV-4/TEM-15) responsible for urinary tract inf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arpin C,Dubois V,Maugein J,Jullin J,Dutilh B,Brochet JP,Larribet G,Fischer I,Quentin C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for differentiation between wild and vaccine-derived strains of poliovirus are required, particularly in countries where wild and vaccine-related strains coexist. For this differentiation, we tested the method of Inouye and Hondo (S. Inouye and R. Hondo, Arch. Virol. 129:311-316, 1993) for discrimination of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeda N,Sakae K,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Hondo R,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio metschnikovii and Vibrio gazogenes are two new Vibrio species that have been little studied. Thirteen strains of V. metschnikovii were highly related to the type strain, NCTC 8443, by DNA-DNA hybridization. Relatedness values were 83 to 90% at 60 degrees C and 75 to 84% at the more stringent 75 degrees C. Diver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farmer JJ 3rd,Hickman-Brenner FW,Fanning GR,Gordon CM,Brenner DJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect fluorescent antibody technique has been developed for the serological diagnosis of gonorrhea. The selected strain(s) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a heat-labile surface antigen (L-antigen). Sera are diluted 1:10, and an aliquot is hear inactivated at 59 C for 30 min. The treated and untreated aliquots...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaafar HA,D'Arcangelis DC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae generally cannot be treated with penicillins and cephalosporins. However, some later-generation cephalosporins, including cefepime, are poorly hydrolyzed by specific ESBL enzymes, and certain strains demonstrate in vitro susceptibility to these agent...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith KP,Brennan-Krohn T,Weir S,Kirby JE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus, which consists of the two subspecies M. abscessus subspecies abscessus and M. abscessus subspecies bolletii, can produce rough or smooth colony morphologies. Here we analyzed 50 M. abscessus isolates cultured from the respiratory specimens of 34 patients, 28 (82%) of whom had cystic fibrosis (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rüger K,Hampel A,Billig S,Rücker N,Suerbaum S,Bange FC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate species identification of enterococci has become important with the wide prevalence of acquired vancomycin resistance and the presence of less epidemiologically important, inherently vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Using a collection of enterococcal strains, we found that PCR amplification of the intergenic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tyrrell GJ,Bethune RN,Willey B,Low DE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a nested PCR assay and microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films for detection and identification of Plasmodium spp. in blood specimens. PCR was more sensitive than microscopy and capable of identifying malaria parasites at the species level when microscopy was equivocal. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnston SP,Pieniazek NJ,Xayavong MV,Slemenda SB,Wilkins PP,da Silva AJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, it is clear that in vitro susceptibility testing can predict outcome in selected clinical situations. The clearest data are from the fluconazole-treated AIDS patients with oropharyngeal candidiasis. In this setting, the homogeneity of the underlying immune defect, combined with the ease of identification a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ghannoum MA,Rex JH,Galgiani JN

更新日期：1996-03-01 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