Persistence of immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M antibodies after postnatal rubella infection determined by solid-phase radioimmunoassay.

abstract：:A case of pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) due to Rhodococcus equi in an immunocompetent individual was successfully treated by combining surgery and antibiotics. The R. equi-targeted antimicrobial agents erythromycin and rifampin were used only after surgical resection of the lesion and identification of the infective or...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Napoleão F,Damasco PV,Camello TC,do Vale MD,de Andrade AF,Hirata R Jr,de Mattos-Guaraldi AL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective case record study was conducted that established a scoring tool based on clinical and iQ200 parameters, able to predict or rule out the clinical diagnosis of UTI in the majority of adult patients in an academic hospital. Automated standardized quantitative urine analysis, such as iQ200 analysis, is on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foudraine DE,Bauer MP,Russcher A,Kusters E,Cobbaert CM,van der Beek MT,Stalenhoef JE

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic susceptibility studies were compared by the quantitative minimum inhibitory concentration and Autobac I. Four hundred common isolates from clinical materials including both gram-negative and -positive organisms were evaluated. Results demonstrate that the Autobac I method can provide reliable semiquantitati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jacob CV,Kleineman J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera representing 16 different primate species were surveyed by indirect immunofluorescence for evidence of antibody to Legionella pneumophila. The presence of antibody in Old and New World monkeys and in apes supports previous observations of the ubiquity of Legionella pneumophila. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Helmke RJ,Kalter SS,Heberling RL

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in anogenital carcinogenesis is firmly established, but evidence that supports a similar role in skin remains speculative. Immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients have an increased incidence of viral warts and nonmelanoma skin cancer, and the presence of HPV DNA in these les...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harwood CA,Spink PJ,Surentheran T,Leigh IM,de Villiers EM,McGregor JM,Proby CM,Breuer J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid dot blot hybridization assay for the detection of B19 parvovirus DNA in human sera was developed. Small portions of four serum samples were mixed, filtered onto a nylon membrane, and hybridized with a digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe; for each membrane, 380 serum samples could be tested. When a dot was positive b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zerbini M,Musiani M,Venturoli S,Gallinella G,Gibellini D,Gentilomi G,La Placa M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description and evaluation of a PCR-based assay for the detection and species identification of the eight known human herpesviruses are presented. Two primer pairs targeting well-conserved regions of the genome allowed the amplification of the DNAs of all known human herpesviruses at a high level of sensitivity (1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson G,Nelson S,Petric M,Tellier R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormographiella aspergillata, a filamentous basidiomycete, has rarely been involved in human infections. We describe 2 febrile neutropenic patients who developed a severe pulmonary infection due to H. aspergillata while receiving empirical caspofungin therapy for presumed fungal pneumonia. After introduction of liposo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suarez F,Olivier G,Garcia-Hermoso D,Randriamalala E,Ghez D,Bruneau J,Kauffmann-Lacroix C,Bougnoux ME,Lortholary O

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method has been developed for demonstration of heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin produced by Escherichia coli. This method is based upon the release of LT from bacteria grown directly onto agar plates which have been coated with ganglioside GM1. Toxin bound to the GM1 solid state is subsequently demonstrated by means...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Czerkinsky CC,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that multiple consecutive isolates of Legionella pneumophila from two cardiac transplant patients remained genomically stable, despite exposure to host defenses and antimicrobial agents. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Bezanson GS,Burbridge S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease with a high case fatality risk and is caused by the SFTS virus (SFTSV). A retrospective study conducted after the first identification of an SFTS patient in Japan revealed that SFTS is endemic to the region, and the virus exists indig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yoshikawa T,Fukushi S,Tani H,Fukuma A,Taniguchi S,Toda S,Shimazu Y,Yano K,Morimitsu T,Ando K,Yoshikawa A,Kan M,Kato N,Motoya T,Kuzuguchi T,Nishino Y,Osako H,Yumisashi T,Kida K,Suzuki F,Takimoto H,Kitamoto H,Ma

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INNO-LiPA and PapType human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping assays were compared for detection of HPV genotypes on archival vulvar tissue. The INNO-LiPA assay detected 49 HPV-16 infections, compared with 47 detected by the PapType assay. The INNO-LiPA assay detected amplifiable DNA in 59 (91%) biopsy specimens, compar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

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

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to human papilloma virus (HPV) type 16 (HPV-16) E6 and E7 proteins in serum are markers for HPV-associated invasive cervical carcinoma. We compared two assays, a radioimmunoprecipitation assay with in vitro-translated HPV-16 E6 and E7 proteins and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with E6 and E7 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sun Y,Shah KV,Müller M,Muñoz N,Bosch XF,Viscidi RP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-testing algorithms for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should be optimized to minimize the risk of drug resistance, the time off PrEP required to evaluate false-positive screening results, and costs and to expedite the start of therapy for those confirmed to be infected. HIV rapid tests (RTs) for anti-HIV antibodie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Guanira JV,Leigler T,Kallas E,Schechter M,Sharma U,Glidden D,Grant RM,iPrEx Study Team.

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of catheter-related bloodstream infection by Tsukamurella inchonensis, identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, in a patient with myelofibrosis who underwent a bone marrow transplant. Tsukamurella species infections are rare. To our knowledge, this is the first case of T. inchonensis bloodstream inf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takebe I,Sawabe E,Ohkusu K,Tojo N,Tohda S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand the role of Mycobacterium leprae nasal carriage in the maintenance of infection reservoirs and transmission of leprosy, we applied a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that detected a 531-bp fragment of the pra gene of M. leprae on nasal swab specimens collected through a total population su...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klatser PR,van Beers S,Madjid B,Day R,de Wit MY

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of pathogens in patients with bacterial keratitis remains problematic because standard diagnostic tests are negative for 40 to 60% of patients. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine if PCR and sequence analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) could be used to detect bacterial pathogens in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Knox CM,Cevellos V,Dean D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of the source of Clostridium difficile strains is of importance for the control of the nosocomial spread of this microorganism. For this purpose, vaginal and rectal swabs from 183 mothers, duplicate fecal samples (taken on days 1 and 4 after birth) from 183 neonates, and 94 environmental samples were culture...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martirosian G,Kuipers S,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A,Meisel-Mikolajczyk F

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Binax NOW assay (Binax, Inc., Portland, Maine) and the BD Directigen EZ assay (Becton Dickinson and Company, Sparks, Md.), two new rapid immunoassays for detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), as well as the BD Directigen RSV assay (DRSV) (Becton Dickinson and Company) and direct immunofluorescence staini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ohm-Smith MJ,Nassos PS,Haller BL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal recently caused large epidemics of cholera-like disease in Bangladesh and India. We compared the restriction fragment length polymorphisms of ctxA and rRNA genes (ribotypes) in 27 isolates of V. cholerae O139 from patients in Bangladesh and India with those of 48 isolates of V. chol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Faruque SM,Abdul Alim AR,Roy SK,Khan F,Nair GB,Sack RB,Albert MJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR has greatly facilitated pertussis diagnosis due to the speed, sensitivity, and specificity of this assay compared to other detection methods. Various single-target PCR assays are currently utilized, but none is universally considered to be the "gold standard." Our aim was to assess the use of multitarget versus si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qin X,Galanakis E,Martin ET,Englund JA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By two PCR-based diagnostic methods, Plasmodium malariae infections have been rediscovered at two foci in the Sichuan province of China, a region where no cases of P. malariae have been officially reported for the last 2 decades. In addition, a variant form of P. malariae which has a deletion of 19 bp and seven substi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu Q,Zhu S,Mizuno S,Kimura M,Liu P,Isomura S,Wang X,Kawamoto F

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have introduced a time-resolved fluorometry (TRF)-based microwell hybridization assay for PCR products in detection of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. TRF is a sensitive nonradioactive detection technique which involves the use of lanthanide chelates as fluorescent labels. We used...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hukkanen V,Rehn T,Kajander R,Sjöroos M,Waris M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of three aminoglycosides and six beta-lactam antibiotics on strains of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and enterococci was studied. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs), the minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs), and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lorian V,Atkinson BA

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using blaZ PCR as the "gold standard," the sensitivities of CLSI penicillin zone edge and nitrocefin-based tests for β-lactamase production in Staphylococcus aureus were 64.5% and 35.5%, respectively, with specificity of 99.8% for both methods. In 2013, 13.5% of 3,083 S. aureus isolates from 31 U.S. centers were penic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richter SS,Doern GV,Heilmann KP,Miner S,Tendolkar S,Riahi F,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of 58 multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Germany and 55 susceptible strains from a reference collection comprising major phylogenetic lineages confirmed that variations in Rv2629, 191A/C and 965C/T, are specific for genotypes Beijing and Ghana, respectively, but not i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Homolka S,Köser C,Archer J,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Niemann S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bla(OXA-51-like) was sought in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter species in a multiplex PCR, which also detects bla(OXA-23-like) and class 1 integrase genes. All isolates that gave a band for bla(OXA-51-like) identified as A. baumannii. This gene was detected in each of 141 isolates of A. baumannii but not in those o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turton JF,Woodford N,Glover J,Yarde S,Kaufmann ME,Pitt TL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated cultivation system for mycobacteria, the MGIT 960 system (MGIT system), was compared in the clinical routine with two variants of Löwenstein-Jensen (L-J) medium. A total of 152 isolates were recovered from 2,015 specimens: 139 (91%) with the MGIT system and 127 (84%) with L-J media (P = 0.05). These inclu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Katila ML,Katila P,Erkinjuntti-Pekkanen R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a novel strategy for the detection of mRNA targets derived from Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts by the use of oligonucleotide-gold nanoparticles. Gold nanoparticles are functionalized with oligonucleotides which are complementary to unique sequences present on the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) DNA/RNA targ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Javier DJ,Castellanos-Gonzalez A,Weigum SE,White AC Jr,Richards-Kortum R

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microagglutination test for Francisella tularensis, with 0.025-ml amounts of diluted sera and 0.025-ml amounts of safranin-O-stained antigen in U-bottom microtitration plates, was compared with a tube agglutination test by using 137 sera. There was 86.3% agreement (+/- 1 dilution variation) between the microagglutin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,McKinney FT,Klein GC,Jones WL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00