Hospital outbreaks caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: importance of serogroup O11.

abstract：:The OmpK36 porin plays a role in carbapenem resistance and may contribute to bacterial virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of different groups of K. pneumoniae separated by ompK36 typing. Among 226 nonduplicate K. pneumoniae bloodstream isolates collected at a Taiwan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yan JJ,Zheng PX,Wang MC,Tsai SH,Wang LR,Wu JJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First-catch early morning urine samples from patients attending a genitourinary medicine clinic were tested by three different enzyme immunoassays. The results suggest significant differences in the sensitivities and specificities of the different assays. The direct visualization of elementary bodies in urine deposits...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paul ID,Caul EO

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical toxin variant of Clostridium botulinum (strain 657) was isolated from the feces of a 6-week-old female infant whose symptoms and clinical history were consistent with infant botulism. Toxin detected in the feces and the toxin produced by isolates from the feces and from two rectal swabs could be neutralize...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hatheway CL,McCroskey LM,Lombard GL,Dowell VR Jr

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR for protein D (hpd#3) was used to differentiate nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) from Haemophilus haemolyticus. While 90% of nasopharyngeal specimens and 100% of lower-airway specimens from 84 Indigenous Australian children with bronchiectasis had phenotypic NTHI isolates confirmed as H. influenzae, onl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hare KM,Binks MJ,Grimwood K,Chang AB,Leach AJ,Smith-Vaughan H

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:We evaluated a new rapid influenza diagnostic test for the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus by using real-time reverse transcription-PCR (rRT-PCR) and viral culture. The sensitivities were 68.5% and 64.5%, and the specificities were 98.4% and 97.6%, respectively. This kit should be used with caution, and negative ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon D,Shin K,Kwon M,Oh HB,Kang C,Lee JY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance in proficiency testing (PT) schemes is an objective measure of a laboratory's best performance. We examined the performance of participants in two parasitology PT schemes in South Africa from 2004 through 2010. The average rates of acceptable scores over the period were 58% and 66% for the stool and blood ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poonsamy B,Dini L,Frean J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the Echinococcus multilocularis metacestode, represents one of the most frequently fatal zoonoses. Early diagnosis significantly reduces morbidity and mortality associated with AE. Diagnosis of AE largely depends on a combination of imaging and serological tests due to its minim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ahn CS,Cai H,Kim JG,Han X,Ma X,Bae YA,Yang HJ,Kang I,Wang H,Kong Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1971 epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) in south Texas, 203 suspect VEE cases were evaluated by the Center for Disease Control. Sixty-seven were confirmed as cases of VEE. Laboratory confirmation was accomplished by isolation of VEE virus from a serum specimen taken during the acute illne...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bowen GS,Calisher CH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens is a well-known cause of nosocomial infections and outbreaks, particularly in critically ill neonates and immunocompromised patients. Numerous methods have been proposed for typing. We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing to analyze an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miranda G,Kelly C,Solorzano F,Leanos B,Coria R,Patterson JE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By DNA-DNA hybridization, we classified 26 human strains, 4 dog and cat strains, and 4 hamster strains putatively identified as Helicobacter cinaedi as well as 2 human strains and 2 animal strains of Helicobacter fennelliae. All but one human strain belonged to the same hybridization group as the type strain of H. cin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kiehlbauch JA,Brenner DJ,Cameron DN,Steigerwalt AG,Makowski JM,Baker CN,Patton CM,Wachsmuth IK

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a real-time PCR assay to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with ciprofloxacin resistance in specimens submitted for nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). All three single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) targets produced high sensitivity and specificity values. The presence of ≥2 SNPs wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson SW,Martin I,Demczuk W,Bharat A,Hoang L,Wylie J,Allen V,Lefebvre B,Tyrrell G,Horsman G,Haldane D,Garceau R,Wong T,Mulvey MR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of bloodstream infection (BSI) isolates across the continental United States, 162 Candida albicans isolates were fingerprinted with the species-specific probe Ca3 and the patterns were analyzed for relatedness with a computer-assisted system. The results demonstrate that particular BSI strains are more hig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Lockhart SR,Pujol C,Swails-Wenger JA,Messer SA,Edmond MB,Jones RN,Wenzel RP,Soll DR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercially available diagnostic tests for Chagas' disease employ whole extracts or semipurified fractions of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes. Considerable variation in the reproducibility and reliability of these tests has been reported by different research laboratories, mainly due to cross-reactivity with othe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Umezawa ES,Bastos SF,Camargo ME,Yamauchi LM,Santos MR,Gonzalez A,Zingales B,Levin MJ,Sousa O,Rangel-Aldao R,da Silveira JF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis with probes derived from the insertion element IS6110, the direct repeat sequence, and the polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS) and a PCR-based typing method called spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) were used to strain type Mycobacterium bovis isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Costello E,O'Grady D,Flynn O,O'Brien R,Rogers M,Quigley F,Egan J,Griffin J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified procedure for serotyping Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli on the basis of thermostable antigens was developed and tested for its applicability as a routine typing method. The assay involves the sensitization of erythrocytes with an antigenic extract and performance of a slide agglutination assa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mills SD,Congi RV,Hennessy JN,Penner JL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pncA gene allows for pyrazinamide susceptibility testing. We summarize data on pncA polymorphisms that do not confer resistance at a susceptibility breakpoint of 100 μg/ml pyrazinamide in MGIT within a cohort of isolates from South Africa and the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whitfield MG,Warren RM,Streicher EM,Sampson SL,Sirgel FA,van Helden PD,Mercante A,Willby M,Hughes K,Birkness K,Morlock G,van Rie A,Posey JE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of neonatal infection caused by Enterobacter sakazakii are reported from the Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, the National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland. These infections occurred during a 9-month period in 1986 and 1987. Two of the neonates, who were normal at birth, survived but were left...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biering G,Karlsson S,Clark NC,Jónsdóttir KE,Lúdvígsson P,Steingrímsson O

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis, a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, emphasizes the need to improve the diagnostic tools for this disease. We established a LightCycler-based real-time PCR assay to detect and quantify rapidly, specifically, and sensitively Aspergillus fumigatu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Spiess B,Buchheidt D,Baust C,Skladny H,Seifarth W,Zeilfelder U,Leib-Mösch C,Mörz H,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slightly modified Moeller medium for amino acid decarboxylase and dihydrolase testing by the replicator method correlated 96 to 99% with the reference Moeller broth method. False positive results were not encountered in this study. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jones RN,Fuchs PC,Sniderman S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral blood lymphocytes from 48 heparinized blood specimens from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-positive individuals were divided into two aliquots. One aliquot was reconstituted in one of the following five media. Medium 1 consisted of tryptose broth with 0.5% gelatin; medium 2 consisted of RPMI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gallo D,Kimpton JS,Johnson PJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Leishmania infantum-specific antibodies and asymptomatic infection was assessed in a randomized sample of 526 healthy adults from a continental area of northwestern Italy where L. infantum is not endemic and where autochthonous cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) were recently reported. L. infantum-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biglino A,Bolla C,Concialdi E,Trisciuoglio A,Romano A,Ferroglio E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several problems remain before molecular biology-based techniques, such as PCR, are widely accepted for the detection of infectious agents. Among the most formidable of these problems are the inability of the tests to distinguish between viable and nonviable organisms. We approached this problem by using the fact that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jou NT,Yoshimori RB,Mason GR,Louie JS,Liebling MR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread use of conjugate pneumococcal polysaccharide-protein vaccines may alter the spectrum of pneumococci producing invasive disease. Novel sensitive diagnostic methods would be valuable for monitoring the epidemiology of pneumococcal disease within populations and vaccine recipients. Ideally, these methods shoul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leeming JP,Cartwright K,Morris R,Martin SA,Smith MD,South-West Pneumococcus Study Group.

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate, rapid, and inexpensive method was developed for detecting and enumerating bacteria adherent to Foley urinary catheters based on malachite green staining of acridine orange-prestained specimens. This method has proven to be quick and reliable and will find application in quantitative studies of biomaterial...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ladd TI,Schmiel D,Nickel JC,Costerton JW

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has many potential applications in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. In particular, it has been successfully applied to the detection of pathogens present in low copy numbers such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Here we describe a time-resolved fluorescence-based hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dahlén PO,Iitiä AJ,Skagius G,Frostell A,Nunn MF,Kwiatkowski M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the MicroScan Pos MIC Type 6 panel and AMS-Vitek Gram Positive Susceptibility Card (GPS-TA) to agar dilution screen plates for the detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in 182 enterococcal isolates. The specificity of the two commercial systems was 100%, with the exception of one susceptible is...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Szeto S,Louie M,Low DE,Patel M,Simor AE

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of a herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1-specific anti-glycoprotein C-1 monoclonal antibody (MAb) and a type 2-specific anti-glycoprotein G-2 MAb for typing of 2,400 clinical HSV-1 isolates and 2,400 clinical HSV-2 isolates, respectively, using an enzyme immunoas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liljeqvist JA,Svennerholm B,Bergström T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) seroprevalence in 68 patients with AIDS was 77% by Western blot (immunoblot) and 44% by glycoprotein G-2 immunoassay. Each of 16 patients with culture-proven HSV-2 infection was positive by Western blot versus 8 by glycoprotein G-2 immunoassay. No differences in age, race, duration ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Safrin S,Arvin A,Mills J,Ashley R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BHI agars supplemented with vancomycin 4 (BHI-V4) and 3 (BHI-V3) mg/liter have been proposed for screening vancomycin intermediately susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) and heteroresistant (hVISA) phenotypes, respectively, but growth interpretation criteria have not been established. We reviewed the growth result...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khatib R,Riederer K,Sharma M,Shemes S,Iyer SP,Szpunar S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00