New selective agar medium for isolation of virulent Yersinia enterocolitica.

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) has occasionally been associated with cases of interstitial pneumonitis, mainly in individuals with impaired cellular immunity. Here we report for the first time severe interstitial pneumonitis with simultaneous HHV-6 and Pneumocystis carinii infections in the lung tissue of a young patient...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vuorinen T,Kotilainen P,Lautenschlager I,Kujari H,Krogerus L,Oksi J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida famata (teleomorph Debaryomyces hansenii) has been described as a medically relevant yeast, and this species has been included in many commercial identification systems that are currently used in clinical laboratories. Among 53 strains collected during the SENTRY and ARTEMIS surveillance programs and previousl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castanheira M,Woosley LN,Diekema DJ,Jones RN,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although TT virus (TTV) was isolated from a cryptogenic posttransfusion hepatitis patient, its pathogenic role remains unclear. It has been reported that the majority of the healthy population is infected with TTV. To elucidate the differences between TTV infection in patients with liver diseases and TTV infection in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kato T,Mizokami M,Mukaide M,Orito E,Ohno T,Nakano T,Tanaka Y,Kato H,Sugauchi F,Ueda R,Hirashima N,Shimamatsu K,Kage M,Kojiro M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Escherichia coli isolated from a child with diarrhea was biochemically similar and antigenically identical (O and K antigens) to the standard strain of E. coli O group 29 and was positive in the Serény test for invasiveness, which suggests that it can cause a Shigella-like illness. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toledo MR,Reis MH,Almeida RG,Trabulsi LR

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two difficult-to-cultivate group A coxsackieviruses (i.e., group A types other than A7, A9, and A16), collected primarily from throat swab specimens of patients suffering from fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, and cough during the 1986 enterovirus season, were isolated in less than 24-h-old suckling mice. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lipson SM,Walderman R,Costello P,Szabo K

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of hepatitis. We evaluated five HEV antibody diagnostic assays by using outbreak specimens. The Abbott immunoglobulin G (IgG), Genelabs IgG, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) IgM assays were about 90% sensitive; the Abbott IgG and WRAIR total Ig and IgM assays ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Myint KS,Endy TP,Gibbons RV,Laras K,Mammen MP Jr,Sedyaningsih ER,Seriwatana J,Glass JS,Narupiti S,Corwin AL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative sequence analysis was performed upon Bacillus anthracis and its closest relatives, B. cereus and B. thuringiensis. Portions of rpoB DNA from 10 strains of B. anthracis, 16 of B. cereus, 10 of B. thuringiensis, 1 of B. mycoides, and 1 of B. megaterium were amplified and sequenced. The determined rpoB sequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Kim JM,Kim JW,Jung BY,Kim W,Kim IJ,Kook YH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a PCR assay for one-step differentiation of the three complexes of New World Leishmania (Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania mexicana, and Leishmania donovani). This multiplex assay is targeted to the spliced leader RNA (mini-exon) gene repeats of these organisms and can detect all three complexes si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harris E,Kropp G,Belli A,Rodriguez B,Agabian N

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CMRSA) strains are being isolated with increasing frequency around the world. In Western Australia CMRSA are endemic in geographically remote communities and have been found to belong to five different contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Brien FG,Lim TT,Chong FN,Coombs GW,Enright MC,Robinson DA,Monk A,Saïd-Salim B,Kreiswirth BN,Grubb WB

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brevibacterium sp. was isolated from the blood of an acutely ill 18-year-old female with AIDS. The isolate was identified as Brevibacterium casei by use of carbohydrate assimilation tests. Treatment was successful with intravenously administered ciprofloxacin. To our knowledge, this is the first report of sepsis cause...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brazzola P,Zbinden R,Rudin C,Schaad UB,Heininger U

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:An estimated 41,200 people were newly infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 2016 in the United States. Screening tests for antibodies to HCV may generate up to 32% false positivity in low-risk populations. Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) screening recommendations do not require confirmatory...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kodani M,Martin M,de Castro VL,Drobeniuc J,Kamili S

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefaclor is less stable than most cephalosporins in media at 35 degrees C. We demonstrated that the activity of cefaclor in Mueller-Hinton agar diminishes continuously at 4 degrees C, resulting in a loss of two-thirds of the activity within 21 days. We recommend that agar dilution plates for this cephalosporin be prep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Surprenant AM,Preston DA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helcococcus kunzii, a nonvirulent member of the human skin flora, has recently been implicated in causing infections in immunosuppressed patients. We report a case of breast abscess associated with H. kunzii in an immunocompetant patient and discuss the criteria used in its identification and our observations of susce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chagla AH,Borczyk AA,Facklam RR,Lovgren M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared four methods for serotyping isolates of Haemophilus influenzae. Slide agglutination with commercial antisera (Difco Laboratories and Wellcome Diagnostics), coagglutination (Phadebact Haemophilus Test [Pharmacia Fine Chemicals]), latex agglutination with affinity-purified anticapsular antibody, and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Himmelreich CA,Barenkamp SJ,Storch GA

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic examination of a permanently stained fecal preparation revealed the unusual inclusion of a Giardia lamblia cyst within the cytoplasm of an Entamoeba coli trophozoite. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Logan AL,Turner WE,Price J Jr

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of staphylococcal alpha- or alpha-beta-toxins correlated well with production of coagulase or thermonuclease (or both) in 203 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from milk and should be reliable indicators of S. aureus in the absence of Staphylococcus intermedius. Failures to produce toxin, tube coagulase, or th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jasper DE,Infante F,Dellinger JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of cervical specimens in SurePath preservative fluid for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing with Roche cobas 4800 was determined using a panel of 308 pooled specimens from a colposcopy referral population. The SurePath specimens appeared to be stable for up to 10 weeks at ambient temperature for HPV test...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gilbert L,Oates E,Ratnam S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four methods for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in vaginal secretions from 88 symptomatic patients were compared: wet-mount examination, Kupferberg liquid medium, Hirsch charcoal agar, and the Papanicolaou smear. Hirsch diphasic slants and Kupferberg medium did not significantly differ in sensitivity from dire...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thomason JL,Gelbart SM,Sobun JF,Schulien MB,Hamilton PR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have resulted in the proposal of a new species, Aeromonas schubertii (mannitol, sucrose, and indole negative), formerly termed Enteric Group 501, on the basis of the study of seven strains isolated from the southeastern and southwestern United States and Puerto Rico. We have isolated two phenotypically ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carnahan AM,Marii MA,Fanning GR,Pass MA,Joseph SW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexagonal surface structure believed to be characteristic for influenza C virus was not initially observed for a newly isolated virus of this type. After a few additional egg passages of the virus, however, the hexagonal structure could be readily seen on many virions. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin ML,Palmer EL,Kendal AP

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA genotypes have been used for almost a decade as stable entities to link the severity of gastritis and ulcer disease. We describe here microevolution of the two genomic islands, cag pathogenicity island (cagPAI; 40 kb) and tfs3 (16 kb) from isolates obtained at inclusion (one subclone)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alvi A,Devi SM,Ahmed I,Hussain MA,Rizwan M,Lamouliatte H,Mégraud F,Ahmed N

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are recommended for the diagnosis of N. gonorrhoeae infections because of their superior sensitivity. Increasing NAAT use causes a decline in crucial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance data, which rely on culture. We analyzed the suitability of the ESwab system for NAA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wind CM,de Vries HJ,Schim van der Loeff MF,Unemo M,van Dam AP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large prospective comparison, the illumigene test detected Clostridium difficile in 98% of toxin-positive and 58% of toxin-negative samples confirmed positive by other methods. The Xpert was uniformly sensitive. Most samples with discrepant results had C. difficile concentrations below the illumigene limit of det...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gyorke CE,Wang S,Leslie JL,Cohen SH,Solnick JV,Polage CR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zygomycetous mold Cokeromyces recurvatus was isolated from the pleural and peritoneal fluids of a 64-year-old man with a history of peptic ulcer disease and alcohol abuse. The patient presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and a ruptured duodenal ulcer. This is one of the few times that C.recurvatus ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Munipalli B,Rinaldi MG,Greenberg SB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several problems remain before molecular biology-based techniques, such as PCR, are widely accepted for the detection of infectious agents. Among the most formidable of these problems are the inability of the tests to distinguish between viable and nonviable organisms. We approached this problem by using the fact that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jou NT,Yoshimori RB,Mason GR,Louie JS,Liebling MR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate identification of pathogenic species is important for early appropriate patient management, but growing diversity of infectious species/strains makes the identification of clinical yeasts increasingly difficult. Among conventional methods that are commercially available, the API ID32C, AuxaColor, and Vitek 2 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Posteraro B,Efremov L,Leoncini E,Amore R,Posteraro P,Ricciardi W,Sanguinetti M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of azole-resistant strains of Aspergillus fumigatus during treatment for aspergillosis occurs by a mutation selection process. Understanding how antifungal resistance mechanisms evolve in the host environment during infection is of great clinical importance and biological interest. Here, we used next-gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hagiwara D,Takahashi H,Watanabe A,Takahashi-Nakaguchi A,Kawamoto S,Kamei K,Gonoi T

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased incidence of nosocomial Legionnaires' disease in two hospitals prompted investigation of possible environmental sources. In the search for an effective DNA-typing technique for use in hospital epidemiology, the performance and convenience of three methods-SfiI macrorestriction analysis (MRA), amplified f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jonas D,Meyer HG,Matthes P,Hartung D,Jahn B,Daschner FD,Jansen B

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00