Nosocomial septicemia with CDC group IV c-2, an unusual gram-negative Bacillus.

abstract：:Salmonella typhi was isolated from 369 and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated from 6 of 515 Vietnamese patients with suspected enteric fever. Compared with conventional broth culture of blood, direct plating of the buffy coat had a diagnostic sensitivity of 99.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 97.1 to 100%). Blood ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wain J,Diep TS,Ho VA,Walsh AM,Nguyen TT,Parry CM,White NJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Roche Linear Array (LA) and Innogenetics INNO-LiPA human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping assays were compared for paraffin-embedded vulval tissues. The LA detected amplifiable DNA in 28 (57%) out of 49 biopsy specimens, 20 (40%) being HPV genotyped, compared to 49 (100%) and 41 (83%), respectively, detected by the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tan SE,Garland SM,Rumbold AR,Tabrizi SN

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus produced an inhibitory factor that suppressed slime formation by Psuudomonas aeruginosa but had little effect on the growth of the organism. The inhibitory factor was not found in broth cultures but could be extracted from cultures grown on solid agar. The inhibitory factor moderately inhibited g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shibl AM,Al-Sowaygh IA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening infection that mainly occurs in immunocompromised patients. Here, we compared the novel Aspergillus-specific galactomannoprotein (GP) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG) to the established Platelia Aspergillus galactom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dichtl K,Seybold U,Ormanns S,Horns H,Wagener J

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight blood cultures with a Gram stain result of Gram-positive cocci in pairs and/or chains were evaluated with the Nanosphere Verigene Gram-positive blood culture (BC-GP) assay. The overall concordance of the assay with culture was 89.7% (70/78 cultures), allowing for the development of a targeted treatment a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alby K,Daniels LM,Weber DJ,Miller MB

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population structure of 3,776 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was determined using variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing. The degree of clonality was so high that a more relaxed definition of clustering cannot be applied. Among recent immigrants with non-Euro-American isolates, transmission is overestima...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sloot R,Borgdorff MW,de Beer JL,van Ingen J,Supply P,van Soolingen D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Binax legionella urinary antigen (LUA) enzyme immunoassay (Binax, Portland, Maine) was evaluated in 159 patients with suspected or proven legionellosis and 209 controls. A positive LUA test was found in 37% of patients with suspected legionellosis overall and in 83% of those with proven Legionella pneumophila sero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kazandjian D,Chiew R,Gilbert GL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NucliSENS easyMAG automated system was compared to the column-based Qiagen method for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA extraction from whole blood before viral load determination using the corresponding R-gene amplification kits. Both extraction techniques exhibited a total agreement of 81.3% ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pillet S,Bourlet T,Pozzetto B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During measles outbreaks, it is important to be able to rapidly distinguish between measles cases and vaccine reactions to avoid unnecessary outbreak response measures such as case isolation and contact investigations. We have developed a real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method specific for genotype A meas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roy F,Mendoza L,Hiebert J,McNall RJ,Bankamp B,Connolly S,Lüdde A,Friedrich N,Mankertz A,Rota PA,Severini A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two commercially available reagents, latex particles (Bactigen) and Staphylococcus aureus suspensions (Phadebact), were compared for the detection of the capsular polyribitol phosphate antigen of Haemophilus influenzae type b in 18 pediatric patients with proven infections due to H. influenzae type b. Whereas both tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riera L

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta and gamma genera of papillomaviruses consist of epidermodysplasia verruciformis-related human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and phylogenetically related cutaneous HPVs. Here, we have developed a consensus primer PCR assay and reverse line blot typing system coupled thereto (referred to as beta and gamma cutaneous H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brink AA,Lloveras B,Nindl I,Heideman DA,Kramer D,Pol R,Fuente MJ,Meijer CJ,Snijders PJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1991, an outbreak of cholera started in Peru and spread throughout most of Latin America within 8 months. As of March 1992, over 450,000 cases and approximately 4,000 deaths have been reported to the Pan American Health Organization. The causative organism is toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 of the El Tor bioty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fields PI,Popovic T,Wachsmuth K,Olsvik O

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family members of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected hemodialysis patients had a high rate (8.1%) of HCV infection and were often infected by the same genotype of HCV as the renal patients. Renal patients who had a longer history of hemodialysis or more frequent arteriovenous shunt replacement posed a higher risk to the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ho MS,Yang CS,Chen PJ,Mau YC

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aspergillus galactomannan test was performed on cerebrospinal fluid and serum samples from 5 patients with probable cerebral aspergillosis and from 16 control patients. Cerebrospinal fluid galactomannan levels were significantly higher in aspergillosis patients, and most galactomannan was produced intrathecally. C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viscoli C,Machetti M,Gazzola P,De Maria A,Paola D,Van Lint MT,Gualandi F,Truini M,Bacigalupo A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-Probe AMPLIFIED Chlamydia Trachomatis Assay (AMP CT) uses transcription-mediated amplification and hybridization protection assay procedures to qualitatively detect Chlamydia trachomatis rRNA in urine, endocervical swab, and urethral specimens. The performance of the AMP CT was compared to that of cell culture...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferrero DV,Meyers HN,Schultz DE,Willis SA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium group JK organisms were isolated from lung fluid aspirated with a fine needle from one of four thick-walled cavitary lesions in a 72-year-old female. Cultures and stains for mycobacteria and fungi were negative. The patient was successfully treated with an 8-week course of vancomycin. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McNaughton RD,Villanueva RR,Donnelly R,Freedman J,Nawrot R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its theoretical advantages, direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing (DST) of urine specimens remains controversial largely because of concerns regarding its accuracy, particularly with mixed cultures. To evaluate the performance of DST in the setting of acute urinary tract infection (UTI), we performed DST...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson JR,Tiu FS,Stamm WE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida parapsilosis is an increasing cause of bloodstream infections (BSIs) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). It has been a persistent problem in the NICU of Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, since 1987. Fluconazole prophylaxis has been used to con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sarvikivi E,Lyytikäinen O,Soll DR,Pujol C,Pfaller MA,Richardson M,Koukila-Kähkölä P,Luukkainen P,Saxén H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunochromatographic test (ICT) kits for the rapid detection of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies to Burkholderia pseudomallei were compared to the indirect hemagglutination (IHA) assay. In 138 culture-confirmed melioidosis cases, sensitivities were 80, 77, and 88% for IHA, ICT IgG, and ICT IgM, respectively....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Brien M,Freeman K,Lum G,Cheng AC,Jacups SP,Currie BJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved primers were used to PCR amplify 95% of the Helicobacter hepaticus 16S rRNA gene. Its sequence was determined and aligned to those of related bacteria, enabling the selection of primers to highly diverged regions of the 16S rRNA gene and an oligonucleotide probe for the development of a PCR-liquid hybridizat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Battles JK,Williamson JC,Pike KM,Gorelick PL,Ward JM,Gonda MA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercially available endotoxin assay (CS-TAL) employing a chromogenic peptide and an amebocyte lysate from the Japanese horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, gave a positive result with aqueous extracts of all 15 strains of Candida albicans and 1 strain each of Candida tropicalis, Cryptococcus neoformans, and a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hodes DS,Heon D,Hass A,Hyatt AC,Hodes HL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the evaluation of recombinant severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) nucleocapsid protein enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based antibody tests for serodiagnosis of SARS-CoV pneumonia and compare the sensitivities and specificities of this ELISA for detection of immunoglobul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woo PC,Lau SK,Wong BH,Tsoi HW,Fung AM,Chan KH,Tam VK,Peiris JS,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were used to test sera taken from 102 patients in whom Helicobacter pylori infection status had been determined by means of biopsy culture, PCR, histology, and urease production and by 13C urea breath test. By those means, 61 patients had been found to be in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meijer BC,Thijs JC,Kleibeuker JH,van Zwet AA,Berrelkamp RJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information is available about the genetic variability of Leishmania populations and the possible correlations with ecoepidemiological features of leishmaniases. The present study was carried out in French Guiana, a country where cutaneous leishmaniases (CL) are endemic over the whole territory. The genetic pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rotureau B,Ravel C,Nacher M,Couppié P,Curtet I,Dedet JP,Carme B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxsackievirus (CV) strains CVA2, CVA4, CVA5, and CVA10 were isolated from patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease during a 2009 outbreak in China. Full genome sequences for four representative strains, CVA2/SD/CHN/09 (A2SD09), CVA4/SZ/CHN/09 (A4SZ09), CVA5/SD/CHN/09 (A5SD09), and CVA10/SD/CHN/09 (A10SD09), were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu YF,Yang F,Du J,Dong J,Zhang T,Wu ZQ,Xue Y,Jin Q

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gram-negative bacillus, SMC-8986(T), which was isolated from the purulent exudate of an epidermal cyst but could not be identified by a conventional microbiologic method, was characterized by a variety of phenotypic and genotypic analyses. Sequences of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that this bacterium belongs to the ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Peck KR,Oh WS,Lee NY,Lee JH,Song JH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 which were grown in the presence of 1 mg of benzalkonium chloride (BC) per ml caused only a mild conjunctivitis when they were dropped onto the scratched corneas of rabbits. In contrast, cells of the BC-sensitive parent strain induced a severe keratoconjunctivitis. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Adair FW,Liauw HL,Geftic SG,Gelzer J

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium species are opportunistic nosocomial pathogens that often cause fatal invasive mycoses. We designed a primer pair that amplifies by PCR a fragment of a gene coding for the rRNA of Fusarium species. The DNAs of the main Fusarium species and Neocosmospora vasinfecta but not the DNAs from 11 medically important ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hue FX,Huerre M,Rouffault MA,de Bievre C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared serial measurements of antibodies to mannan and to a cytoplasmic antigen (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays), detection of mannan and an unidentified candidal antigen (latex agglutination), and assays of mannose and arabinitol (gas chromatographic assay of per-O-acetylated aldonitrile derivatives). In a h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greenfield RA,Troutt DL,Rickard RC,Altmiller DH

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of the fungus Geotrichum candidum in humans has not been clearly defined. A patient with acute leukemia who developed a fatal disseminated G. candidum infection while neutropenic is described. At autopsy examination, this patient was misdiagnosed on the basis of histopathology as having disseminated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kassamali H,Anaissie E,Ro J,Rolston K,Kantarjian H,Fainstein V,Bodey GP

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00