Bacteriology of dental abscesses of endodontic origin.

abstract：:The clinical value of immunoenzymatic (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) detection of anti-Toxoplasma immunoglobulin E (IgE) was assessed by studying 2,036 sera from 792 subjects, comprising seronegative controls and subjects with acute, active, reactivated, or congenital toxoplasmosis. Included were nonimmunized adu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foudrinier F,Villena I,Jaussaud R,Aubert D,Chemla C,Martinot F,Pinon JM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNAs of human papillomaviruses (HPV) 16 and 18 were detected in cancer-derived cell lines and genital tract biopsy specimens by a novel hybridization assay. Biotinylated whole genomic HPV DNA probes were hybridized in solution to extracted total nucleic acids. Hybrids between the labeled probes and RNA transcripts we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coutlée F,Shah KV,Rader JS,Currie JL,Viscidi RP

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five serological assays were evaluated for the diagnosis of brucellosis in goats: the rose bengal test (RBT), complement fixation test (CFT), radial immunodiffusion (RID) with Brucella and Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 polysaccharides, counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) with cytosol, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Díaz-Aparicio E,Marín C,Alonso-Urmeneta B,Aragón V,Pérez-Ortiz S,Pardo M,Blasco JM,Díaz R,Moriyón I

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for blastomycosis was evaluated with 65 human sera from culturally or histologically proven cases of blastomycosis, 53 sera from humans with heterologous infections, and 115 sera from apparently normal people. The diagnostic value of the ELISA was compared with that of the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turner S,Kaufman L,Jalbert M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of gastroduodenal diseases is related to the diversity of Helicobacter pylori strains. CagA-positive strains are more likely to cause gastric cancer than CagA-negative strains. Based on EPIYA (Glu-Pro-Ile-Tyr-Ala) motifs at the carboxyl terminus corresponding to phosphorylation sites, H. pylori CagA i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Truong BX,Mai VT,Tanaka H,Ly le T,Thong TM,Hai HH,Van Long D,Furumatsu K,Yoshida M,Kutsumi H,Azuma T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture techniques are limited in the ability to detect multiple Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in nasopharyngeal (NP) secretions. We developed an immunoblot (IB) method with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to detect S. pneumoniae and to identify serotypes. NP specimens stored in skim milk-tryptone-gluco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bronsdon MA,O'Brien KL,Facklam RR,Whitney CG,Schwartz B,Carlone GM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a sensitive and specific sodB-based quantitative PCR assay to detect Ehrlichia spp. The assay's limit of detection was 5 copies/reaction, and it did not amplify nonspecific DNA. Compared with a 16S rRNA gene PCR target, the sodB target may offer an improved molecular diagnostic assay to detect Ehrlichia s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qurollo BA,Riggins D,Comyn A,Zewde MT,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:A recent case report of a child infected with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of serotype O118:H16 in Bavaria, in association with the isolation of a bovine O118 strain on the same farm (A. Weber, H. Klie, H. Richter, P. Gallien, M. Timm, and K. W. Perlberg, Berl. Muench. Tieraerztl. Wochenschr. 110:211-213,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wieler LH,Busse B,Steinrück H,Beutin L,Weber A,Karch H,Baljer G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In specific-pathogen-free dogs experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi by tick exposure, treatment with high doses of amoxicillin or doxycycline for 30 days diminished but failed to eliminate persistent infection. Although joint disease was prevented or cured in five of five amoxicillin- and five of six doxy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Straubinger RK,Summers BA,Chang YF,Appel MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-eight isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans were collected from 30 patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from December 1987 through December 1994. The susceptibility of each isolate was determined against fluconazole, itraconazole, amphotericin B, and flucytosine. Of the 98 isolates, 53 were re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klepser ME,Pfaller MA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified CAMP test was used to identify 973 Vibrio cholerae isolates by phenotype. Eltor and non-O1 strains were CAMP positive; classical strains were CAMP negative. Sausage-shaped zones of hemolysis of eltor strains were easily distinguished from narrower bands of non-O1 isolates. For O1 isolates, there was 100% ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lesmana M,Subekti D,Tjaniadi P,Pazzaglia G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a polymorphic microsatellite locus was applied to 85 Candida albicans strains from healthy individuals. Comparison with strains from nonhealthy individuals previously analyzed in our laboratory showed an overall similarity, suggesting that all commensal strains have the ability to develop as pathogens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dalle F,Dumont L,Franco N,Mesmacque D,Caillot D,Bonnin P,Moiroux C,Vagner O,Cuisenier B,Lizard S,Bonnin A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we describe the assembly of a synthetic gene coding for several antigenic determinants found in different Leishmania infantum antigens. Selected epitopes were derived from the ribosomal proteins LiP2a, LiP2b, and LiP0 and from the histone H2A. The resulting gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli eith...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Soto M,Requena JM,Quijada L,Alonso C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 221 adults drawn from an impoverished urban population with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence (35%) to determine the prevalence of gastroduodenal pathology and its relationship to serological markers of Helicobacter pylori virulence proteins and other potential environmental and im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fernando N,Holton J,Zulu I,Vaira D,Mwaba P,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taeniasis due to Taenia solium is a disease with important public health consequences, since the larval stage is not exclusive to the animal intermediate, the pig, but also infects humans, causing neurocysticercosis. Early diagnosis and treatment of T. solium tapeworm carriers is important to prevent human cysticercos...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mayta H,Gilman RH,Prendergast E,Castillo JP,Tinoco YO,Garcia HH,Gonzalez AE,Sterling CR,Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is associated with the development of periodontitis. Here we describe the development of a highly specific protease-based diagnostic method for the detection of P. gingivalis in gingival crevicular fluid. Screening of a proteolytic peptide substrate library, including fluorogenic dipeptides th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaman WE,Galassi F,de Soet JJ,Bizzarro S,Loos BG,Veerman EC,van Belkum A,Hays JP,Bikker FJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was collected from children with bullous impetigo in 2003 and 2004. One strain collected in 2003 was Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) positive. In 2004, a multiple-drug-resistant PVL(+) CA-MRSA strain was isolated from an athlete with a cutaneou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takizawa Y,Taneike I,Nakagawa S,Oishi T,Nitahara Y,Iwakura N,Ozaki K,Takano M,Nakayama T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria are ubiquitous in the environment but rarely infect immunocompetent patients. We describe a pediatric case of Mycobacterium simiae complex lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent child and review the natural history, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and current management of the disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cruz AT,Goytia VK,Starke JR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude extracts of Dolichos biflorus can be coupled to polystyrene particles to yield an agglutination reagent for the detection of group C streptococcal antigen extracts. The reagent is relatively inexpensive and simple to prepare and can be employed for the definitive identification of this beta-hemolytic streptococc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Slifkin M,Gil GM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for carriers of Streptococcus pneumoniae among 573 children was undertaken. Throat and nasopharyngeal cultures from 303 children disclosed pneumococci in 89 (29.4%) nasopharyngeal swabs but in only 8 (2.6%) throat specimens. Carriers of pneumococci were detected with frequencies of 84.4 and 79.9% on aerobical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Robins-Browne RM,Kharsany AB,Ramsaroop UG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Enigma MiniLab assay for influenza A and B viruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was compared to a centralized laboratory respiratory virus panel. The positive and negative percent agreement for influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and RSV were 79.2% (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Douthwaite ST,Walker C,Adams EJ,Mak C,Vecino Ortiz A,Martinez-Alier N,Goldenberg SD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although substantial epidemiologic evidence links Streptococcus mutans to caries, the pathobiology of caries may involve more complex communities of bacterial species. Molecular methods for bacterial identification and enumeration now make it possible to more precisely study the microbiota associated with dental carie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker MR,Paster BJ,Leys EJ,Moeschberger ML,Kenyon SG,Galvin JL,Boches SK,Dewhirst FE,Griffen AL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria is highly endemic in the three most affected countries in the current epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa. As EVD and malaria are clinically indistinguishable, both remain part of the differential diagnosis of ill travelers from returning from areas of EVD transmission. W...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lau R,Wang A,Chong-Kit A,Ralevski F,Boggild AK

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried blood spot (DBS) specimens were assessed as an alternative to plasma for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) serotyping by V3 loop peptide enzyme immunoassay. Nested PCR capable of distinguishing HIV-1 subtypes B and E was used as the reference standard. Ninety-two percent of DBS samples were typeable as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chanbancherd P,Brown AE,Trichavaroj R,Tienamporn P,Puthakird P,Limpairojn N,VanCott TC,de Souza MS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous chylothorax is rare in adults. We present an unusual case that was complicated by Prevotella bivia empyema. Full recovery was achieved with chest tube drainage and prompt treatment with intravenous clindamycin. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Di Marco Berardino A,Inchingolo R,Smargiassi A,Re A,Torelli R,Fiori B,d'Inzeo T,Corbo GM,Valente S,Sanguinetti M,Spanu T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and porcine enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli were cultivated in tryptone-yeast extract medium or brain heart infusion broth and tested for production of heat-labile enterotoxin by the GM1 ganglioside enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (GM1-ELISA) and the Y1 adrenal cell assay. When testing for enteroto...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gustafsson B,Möllby R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To select a method for detecting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nasal swabs, we compared BD GeneOhm MRSA PCR and various culture media (mannitol salt agar with cefoxitin, MRSASelect, CHROMagar MRSA, and Spectra MRSA). While PCR detection of MRSA was more rapid, MRSASelect and Spectra MRSA demons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bischof LJ,Lapsley L,Fontecchio K,Jacosalem D,Young C,Hankerd R,Newton DW

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:A simple new agar medium containing L-canavanine, glycine, and bromthymol blue was found to give a clearer and more accurate distinction between serotype A or D (Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans) and serotype B or C (C. neoformans var. gattii) than creatinine-dextrose-bromthymol blue or glycine-cycloheximide-ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon-Chung KJ,Polacheck I,Bennett JE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00