Detection by gas chromatography of 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid and L-glycero-D-manno-heptose in whole cells of Neisseria elongata.

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：:Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) were produced against the specific Bordetella pertussis antigen pertussis toxin (PT). In preliminary studies, one MAb (IB12) was selected and used in an enzyme-linked dot blot immunoassay to evaluate the ability of the method to detect known amounts of PT in control experiments and to test ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Friedman RL,Paulaitis S,McMillan JW

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one reference strains and 88 clinical isolates of Aerococcus, Enterococcus, and Streptococcus species were tested for reactions in the Rapid Strep (RS) and modified conventional tests. We conclude that some but not all of the tests in the RS system could be used to substitute for conventional tests. RS tests fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fertally SS,Facklam R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new Salmonella serotypes belonging to Kauffmann's subgenus I (F. Kauffmann, The Bacteriology of Enterobacteriaceae, 1966) were identified. These serotypes were Salmonella brazos 6,14,18:a:e,n,z15, Salmonella midway 6,14,24:d:1,7, and Salmonella balboa 48a, 48b:z41:monophasic. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sutch KE,Blackburn BO

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 32 patients for whom highly active antiretroviral therapy was failing, a good agreement between drug resistance-associated mutations in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was found (k = 0.85). The mutations with the lowest agreement were 20R, 63P, and 84V in the protease gene and 184V in the reve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sarmati L,Nicastri E,Uccella I,D'Ettorre G,Parisi SG,Palmisano L,Galluzzo C,Concia E,Vullo V,Vella S,Andreoni M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supposedly first outbreak of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in Sweden occurred among intravenous drug addicts in the Malmö area in the mid-1970s. Stored sera from this outbreak were used for viral RNA extraction and analysis. By sequence comparisons, the HDV genomes from those Swedish patients fell into two sep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang YY,Hansson BG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae is an important cause of pneumonia in pigs around the world, but confirming its presence in (or absence from) pigs can be difficult. Culture for diagnosis is impractical, and seroconversion is often delayed after natural infection, limiting the use of serology. Numerous PCR assays for the dete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strait EL,Madsen ML,Minion FC,Christopher-Hennings J,Dammen M,Jones KR,Thacker EL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four commercial kits, Oxi/Ferm (OF), API 20E (AP), Minitek (MT; BBL Microbiology Systems), and Flow N/F (NF), were evaluated, without additional tests, for identification of 258 gram-negative nonfermentative rods. OF and MT were read after 48 h of incubation, and AP and NF were read after both 24 and 48 h of incubatio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appelbaum PC,Stavitz J,Bentz MS,von Kuster LC

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a satisfactory means to reliably distinguish between the two closely related species Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis in the clinical mycology laboratory has proved difficult because these two species are phenotypically so similar. In this study, we have detected homologues of the pH-regula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurzai O,Heinz WJ,Sullivan DJ,Coleman DC,Frosch M,Mühlschlegel FA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proficiency testing scheme for the leptospirosis microscopic agglutination test was provided to 37 laboratories in 23 countries in 2002 (round 1) and to 60 laboratories in 34 countries in 2003 (round 2). Thirty-four laboratories participated in both rounds. Each panel consisted of five rabbit serum samples, four of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chappel RJ,Goris M,Palmer MF,Hartskeerl RA

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:This report describes the results of an 11-laboratory study to determine if a cefoxitin broth microdilution MIC test could predict the presence of mecA in staphylococci. Using breakpoints of < or = 4 microg/ml for mecA-negative and > or = 6 or 8 microg/ml for mecA-positive isolates, sensitivity and specificity based o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson JM,Brasso WB,Ferraro MJ,Hardy DJ,Knapp CC,Lonsway D,McAllister S,Reller LB,Sader HS,Shortridge D,Skov R,Weinstein MP,Zimmer BL,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen metabolically deficient dwarf-colony mutants of Escherichia coli were isolated from urine culture and represented about 2% of all E. coli isolated during the same period. In 14 cases, mutants were isolated from debilitated patients: elderly persons or patients in the terminal stages of a chronic disease. In 15...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Borderon E,Horodniceanu T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudobacteremias in blood cultures performed on the BACTEC radiometric blood culture system have been reported. We report three cases of cross contamination with Mycobacterium avium that occurred when mycobacteria were cultured with the BACTEC 460 TB system. Malfunction of the needle sterilization heating block was d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vannier AM,Tarrand JJ,Murray PR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of Vitek MS mass spectrometric identifications was assessed for 206 clinically significant isolates of aerobic Gram-positive bacilli representing 20 genera and 38 species. The Vitek MS identifications were correct for 85% of the isolates (56.3% to the species level, 28.6% limited to the genus level), with...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Navas M,Pincus DH,Wilkey K,Sercia L,LaSalvia M,Wilson D,Procop GW,Richter SS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected aneurysms caused by Yersinia are very uncommon and are principally due to Yersinia enterocolitica. We describe the first case of an infected aneurysm caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in an elderly patient with a history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hadou T,Elfarra M,Alauzet C,Guinet F,Lozniewski A,Lion C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis was diagnosed in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient by a newly developed method in which bacterial DNA is amplified directly from sputum Gram-stained slides. The validation of the method is described along with an additional new PCR-based assay that can distinguish between B. pertussi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vielemeyer O,Crouch JY,Edberg SC,Howe JG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 16,191 strains of Candida against posaconazole and voriconazole, using the CLSI M27-A3 broth microdilution (BMD) method (24-h incubation), in order to define wild-type (WT) populations and epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs). From 2001 to 2009, 8,619 isolates of Candida albicans, 2,415 isolates of C. glabra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Boyken L,Hollis RJ,Kroeger J,Messer SA,Tendolkar S,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and RNA electropherotypes of rotavirus in stools or rectal swabs of children with diarrhea were studied for three rotavirus seasons (1981 through 1984) in Philadelphia, Pa. We used a simplified RNA analysis method involving polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by silver staining. Phosphate-buffere...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dolan KT,Twist EM,Horton-Slight P,Forrer C,Bell LM Jr,Plotkin SA,Clark HF

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae serotype O1 organisms that do not produce cholera toxin and, in fact, lack the genetic material encoding the enterotoxin have recently been detected in coastal regions of the United States. Although these organisms have been assumed to be nonpathogenic, they have been considered a potential reservoir o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnston JM,McFarland LM,Bradford HB,Caraway CT

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has become an increasing burden on health care resources since their discovery over 20 years ago. Current techniques employed for their detection include time-consuming and laborious phenotypic methods or molecular methods requiring costly equipment and consumables...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffin PM,Price GR,Schooneveldt JM,Schlebusch S,Tilse MH,Urbanski T,Hamilton B,Venter D

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:Acute and convalescent-phase sera obtained from 10 patients infected with a Japanese strain of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsia were tested by the indirect immunoperoxidase test, the Weil-Felix test, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and immunoblotting. By the Weil-Felix test, the reactivity of these s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Amano K,Hatakeyama H,Okuta M,Suto T,Mahara F

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential clinical value of colony counts determined by the lysis-centrifugation blood culture method was studied by reviewing the records of eight patients with persistent septicemia in whom colony counts were available on at least 3 days. Colony counts of the five patients who survived decreased steadily as the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whimbey E,Wong B,Kiehn TE,Armstrong D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We first noted the appearance of thymidine-requiring, gram-negative bacilli in clinical specimens 2 years ago. Since then we have seen 10 patients colonized or infected with these organisms. These strains do not grow on Mueller-Hinton media, growth on MacConkey agar is variable, and growth in API 20E (Analytab Product...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： King CH,Shlaes DM,Dul MJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a rare case of Francisella novicida bacteremia following a near-drowning event in seawater. We highlight the challenges associated with laboratory identification of F. novicida and differences in the epidemiology of F. novicida and Francisella tularensis infections. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brett M,Doppalapudi A,Respicio-Kingry LB,Myers D,Husband B,Pollard K,Mead P,Petersen JM,Whitener CJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity and specificity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-specific immunoglobulin G capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (BED-CEIA) were compared with those of the avidity index method to identify recent HIV infection using a panel of 148 samples (81 patients) representing durations of infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loschen S,Bätzing-Feigenbaum J,Poggensee G,Cordes C,Hintsche B,Rausch M,Dupke S,Gohlke-Micknis S,Rödig J,Hamouda O,Kücherer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most common diseases in high-performance German Holstein dairy cows is left-sided displacement of the abomasum (LDA). Hypomotility of the abomasum is detrimental during the pathogenesis of LDA. It is known that improper interactions between the gut microbiota and the enteric nervous system contribute to dys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Song ES,Jung SI,Park HJ,Seo KW,Son JH,Hong S,Shim M,Kim HB,Song KH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten characteristic strains of spirochetes (HT2, HT7, HT10, HT15, HT17, HT19, HT20, HT22, HT32, and HT59) isolated from Ixodes persulcatus adult ticks in Hokkaido, Japan, were selected and analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukunaga M,Sohnaka M,Takahashi Y,Nakao M,Miyamoto K

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00