Invasive strain of Escherichia coli belonging to O group 29.

abstract：:The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) a-sequence (a-seq) is located in the joining region between the long (L) and short (S) unique sequences of the virus (L-S junction), and this hypervariable junction has been used to differentiate HCMV strains. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zaia JA,Gallez-Hawkins G,Churchill MA,Morton-Blackshere A,Pande H,Adler SP,Schmidt GM,Forman SJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella henselae or Bartonella elizabethae DNA from EDTA-anticoagulated blood samples obtained from four dogs was amplified and sequenced. The results showed that B. elizabethae should be added to the list of Bartonella species (i.e., B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, B. henselae, and B. clarridgeiae) that are current...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mexas AM,Hancock SI,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most severe form of tuberculosis. Microbiological confirmation is rare, and treatment is often delayed, increasing mortality and morbidity. The GeneXpert MTB/RIF test was evaluated in a large cohort of patients with suspected tuberculous meningitis. Three hundred seventy-nine patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nhu NT,Heemskerk D,Thu do DA,Chau TT,Mai NT,Nghia HD,Loc PP,Ha DT,Merson L,Thinh TT,Day J,Chau Nv,Wolbers M,Farrar J,Caws M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moderately repetitive sequence Ca3 was used to fingerprint strains of Candida albicans isolated from vulvovaginal infections of 10 women and strains isolated from their male partners. The Dendron software package was then used to compare the DNA fingerprints of these strains with those of vaginal commensals from w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Rotman M,Reed B,Pierson CL,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the main pathogenic species of invasive cryptococcosis among the Cryptococcus species. Taxonomic studies have shown that these two taxa have different genotypes or molecular types with biological and ecoepidemiological peculiarities. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Siqueira LPM,Gimenes VMF,de Freitas RS,Melhem MSC,Bonfietti LX,da Silva AR Jr,Souza Santos LB,Motta AL,Rossi F,Benard G,de Almeida JN Jr

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies raised against purified Trypanosoma cruzi urinary antigens were used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) capture test for parasite antigens present in urine specimens of Argentinean and Brazilian patients with Chagas' disease. At diagnosis, antigenuria was demonstrated by ELISA in all...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Corral RS,Altcheh J,Alexandre SR,Grinstein S,Freilij H,Katzin AM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transrectal prostate biopsy is the most common procedure used to establish the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Prior to biopsy, patients are commonly given ciprofloxacin for prophylaxis. However, a complication of the procedure is infection with ciprofloxacin-resistant organisms, in particular resistant Escherichia co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liss MA,Nakamura KK,Peterson EM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a gp41 assay, created using reagents designed for use with the OpenGene DNA Sequencing System, was evaluated using a panel of plasma samples obtained from enfuvirtide-naive and -experienced human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected subjects. Resulting sequence data were highly accurate compared t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marcial M,Lu J,Deeks SG,Ziermann R,Kuritzkes DR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe enzyme immunoassays that use synthetic oligopeptides to discriminate serologically between human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I and II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) infections. The peptides represented 20-amino acid segments between residues 111 and 130 (MA1) and residues 116 and 135 (MA2) of the p19 gag proteins...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonis J,Baillou A,Barin F,Verdier M,Janvier B,Denis F

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologic methods are an important part of a clinical laboratory's portfolio of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests and are essential to the broader response to coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19), including epidemiological studies and vaccine development. There are currently ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loeffelholz MJ

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci were isolated from the nares and skin of 1- to 8-week-old healthy chickens in three flocks from a farm. Isolation of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci was positive for 72 (25.7%) of the 280 chickens tested, with the frequency varying from 2.2 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawano J,Shimizu A,Saitoh Y,Yagi M,Saito T,Okamoto R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four isolates of Actinobacillus seminis were typed by PCR ribotyping, repetitive extragenic palindromic element (REP)-based PCR, and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-based PCR. Five types were distinguished by REP-PCR, and nine types were distinguished by ERIC-PCR. PCR ribotyping produced ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appuhamy S,Coote JG,Low JC,Parton R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory and clinical diagnostic classification of seropositive individuals, followed by treatment and supportive therapy, is an established component of Chagas' disease control in areas where this disease is endemic. However, most Chagas' disease patients live in remote areas where neither equipped laboratories nor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roddy P,Goiri J,Flevaud L,Palma PP,Morote S,Lima N,Villa L,Torrico F,Albajar-Viñas P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four strains of Campylobacter jejuni and four strains of Campylobacter coli were used to compare the quantitative growth of Campylobacter cells on blood agar base no. 2 (Oxoid), brucella agar (BBL Microbiology Systems and Difco Laboratories), campylobacter agar base (Difco), Columbia blood agar base (Difco and Oxoid),...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ng LK,Stiles ME,Taylor DE

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria to survive on cotton swabs placed into a dry gassed-out CO2-filled tube (DGT), dry sterile aerobic tube (DAT), and a tube containing a modified Stuarts' transport medium (MST), was assessed. Pseudomonas aeruginosa increased in numbers by 2 and 3 logs when stored in MST a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yrios JW,Balish E,Helstad A,Field C,Inhorn S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the performance of a recently introduced commercial chessboard method using 12 antisera, in comparison with that of the 55-antiserum panel used in determining the serogroups and types (SGTs) of Streptococcus pneumoniae, both of which were carried out by a coagglutination technique. Of a total of 150 strai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lalitha MK,Thomas K,Kumar RS,Steinhoff MC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic arthritis of the knee developed in a 21-month-old child. The causative organism, isolated from two separate arthrocenteses, was identified as Capnocytophaga ochracea morphologically and by biochemical reactions. Previous human infections (bacteremias) have occurred in granulocytopenic hosts with concomitant ora...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Winn RE,Chase WF,Lauderdale PW,McCleskey FK

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative real-time PCR for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) RNA is increasingly used to study the causal role of RSV in lower airway disease. The objective of our study was to evaluate variations in RSV RNA loads at different steps in the RNA quantification process: (i) variation in RSV RNA load ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van de Pol AC,Wolfs TF,van Loon AM,Tacke CE,Viveen MC,Jansen NJ,Kimpen JL,Rossen JW,Coenjaerts FE

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis produces novel superantigenic toxins designated YPMa (Y. pseudotuberculosis-derived mitogen), YPMb, and YPMc and has a pathogenicity island termed HPI (high-pathogenicity island) and R-HPI (the right-hand part of the HPI with truncation in its left-hand part) on the chromosome. Analysis of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukushima H,Matsuda Y,Seki R,Tsubokura M,Takeda N,Shubin FN,Paik IK,Zheng XB

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1 and 2% of the population in the developed world experiences a nonhealing or chronic wound characterized by an apparent arrest in a stage dominated by inflammatory processes. Lately, research groups have proposed that bacteria might be involved in and contribute to the lack of healing of these wounds. To inve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirketerp-Møller K,Jensen PØ,Fazli M,Madsen KG,Pedersen J,Moser C,Tolker-Nielsen T,Høiby N,Givskov M,Bjarnsholt T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alpha-toxin disk test is described in which group B streptococci completed the hemolysis of sheep erythrocytes partially lysed by the alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens. The test was performed satisfactorily on the sheep blood agar primary isolation plate, as well as on pure cultures. A total of 95% of strains ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith JA,Ngui-Yen JH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A normalized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the determination of immunoglobulin G antibodies to cytomegalovirus is described. The rapid assay involves three 30-min incubations and permits the quantitation of antibody levels with a single-specimen dilution in conjunction with a reference antibody preparation. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kiefer DJ,Phelps DA,Halbert SP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 513 blood specimens, predominantly from organ transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients, and bone marrow transplant recipients, were tested for cytomegalovirus (CMV) by culture and pp65 antigenemia across four test sites. Peripheral blood leukocytes were examined by using both th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： St George K,Boyd MJ,Lipson SM,Ferguson D,Cartmell GF,Falk LH,Rinaldo CR,Landry ML

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep and guinea pigs were immunized with cellular and extracellular antigen from Legionella pneumophila bacteria. After immunization, the animals developed immunoglobulin G titers against the immunizing agent. The same sera were also tested in a Mycoplasma pneumoniae complement fixation test. All the preimmunization ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berdal BP,Eng J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Autobac IDX system (General Diagnostics, Warner-Lambert Co., Morris Plains, N.J.) for rapid, semiautomated identification of gram-negative bacilli was compared with the identification methods in routine use in four laboratories. The study included 1,515 organisms representing 30 species of enteric and nonenteric b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelly MT,Matsen JM,Morello JA,Smith PB,Tilton RC

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1994 outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Israel was caused by an enterovirus 70 strain that was distinct from previously reported strains. Characterization was by electron microscopy (eye washes), reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR; eyewash, specimens, eye swabs, and tears), and sequence analysis of RT-PC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shulman LM,Manor Y,Azar R,Handsher R,Vonsover A,Mendelson E,Rothman S,Hassin D,Halmut T,Abramovitz B,Varsano N

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：: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：:Stable dwarf forms of Staphylococcus aureus have been identified in clinical specimens as the sole or predominant isolate in eight cases. These organisms have been shown to be menadione or thiamine dependent, i.e., cultivation in the presence of one of these agents has permitted growth of colonies which appear typical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Acar JF,Goldstein FW,Lagrange P

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because relatively few caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV)-infected animals exhibit clinical signs of illness, efforts to control and eradicate this virus will depend heavily on a sensitive diagnostic test that can be easily carried out. The currently utilized tests are of limited usefulness because of relativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Archambault D,East N,Perk K,Dahlberg JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00