Current trends of Yersinia enterocolitica isolates in the New York City area.

abstract：:Pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa toxin is one of several proposed virulence factors which may be responsible for chronic P. aeruginosa infections in these patients. With a highly specific, sensitive, and quantita...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cukor G,Blacklow NR,Nowak NA,Rich CM,Braverman LE,Fischer RA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of wild rats from a known scrub typhus focus in the Philippines with cyclophosphamide did not significantly enhance the isolation rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi using mouse inoculation techniques. Similarly, cyclophosphamide treatment of mice inoculated with organs of wild rats did not increase the recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Peenen PF,Ho CM,See R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most important causes of nosocomial infections worldwide. After the spread of strains resistant to beta-lactams at the end of the previous century, the diffusion of isolates resistant to carbapenems and colistin is now reducing treatment options and the con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Onori R,Gaiarsa S,Comandatore F,Pongolini S,Brisse S,Colombo A,Cassani G,Marone P,Grossi P,Minoja G,Bandi C,Sassera D,Toniolo A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent microassay using nitrocellulose paper as the solid-phase support was developed for the detection of peste-des-petits-ruminants virus antigens in infected caprine tissue homogenates. Dots of tissue homogenates were applied to nitrocellulose papers, and any unreacted sites were blocked wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Obi TU,Ojeh CK

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide chips targeting the bacterial internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of the 16S-23S rRNA gene, which contains genus- and species-specific regions, were developed and evaluated. Forty-three sequences were designed consisting of 1 universal, 3 Gram stain-specific, 9 genus-specific, and 30 species-speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim CM,Song ES,Jang HJ,Kim HJ,Lee S,Shin JH,Kim SJ,Jeong SH,Jeong J,Koh K,Choi GE,Lee EY,Chang CL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and reliable detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers is crucial for the effective control of MRSA transmission in healthcare facilities. The aim of this study was to verify the performance of the IDI-MRSA real-time PCR assay for direct MRSA detection in diverse mucocutaneous swab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de San N,Denis O,Gasasira MF,De Mendonça R,Nonhoff C,Struelens MJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Digene Hybrid Capture System (DHCS) is a solution hybridization antibody capture assay for the chemiluminescent detection and quantitation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA in leukocytes. This assay was compared with the CMV antigenemia assay and shell vial and tube cultures for the detection of CMV in 234 blood specim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mazzulli T,Wood S,Chua R,Walmsley S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interfering substances have been reported to inhibit PCR assays for the direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens. Using an internal control, we determined that 52% of respiratory specimens interfered with our PCR assay. On the basis of these findings, we tried to circumvent the problem by s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Forbes BA,Hicks KE

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic tests for respiratory viral infections have traditionally been performed on nasopharyngeal swabs or washings. Reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) is rapid, sensitive, and specific for viral infection diagnosis but is rarely applied to sputum samples. Thus, we evaluated the diagnostic yield of RT-PCR for dete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falsey AR,Formica MA,Walsh EE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A washing procedure that removed maximum numbers of contaminating microorganisms from whole surgical gloves was developed. Washing, coupled with membrane filtration, proved to be a simple and effective method for bioburden determinations on whole gloves. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lammerding AM,Day DF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A convenient assay combining solution hybridization and enzyme immunoassay for DNA-RNA hybrids (polymerase chain reaction-enzyme immunoassay [PCR-EIA]) was developed to detect human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) provirus amplified by the PCR and was compared with oligomer hybridization with 32P-labeled SK19. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coutlée F,Saint-Antoine P,Olivier C,Voyer H,Kessous-Elbaz A,Berrada F,Bégin P,Giroux L,Viscidi R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of clinical NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates obtained from two surveillance networks of carbapenem-producing Enterobacterales from 2018-2019, namely Switzerland (NARA) and Germany (SurvCARE), were analyzed. The 33 NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates were highly resistant to β-lactams including the novel ß-lactam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chakraborty T,Sadek M,Yao Y,Imirzalioglu C,Stephan R,Poirel L,Nordmann P

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific PCR was used in six laboratories and a ligase detection reaction was used in one laboratory to detect the zidovudine-resistance mutation at codon 215 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase DNA. The genotypes of 27 different clinical samples, including cultured HIV-1 isol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shafer RW,Winters MA,Mayers DL,Japour AJ,Kuritzkes DR,Weislow OS,White F,Erice A,Sannerud KJ,Iversen A,Pena F,Dimitrov D,Frenkel LM,Reichelderfer PS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of two novel human papillomavirus (HPV) types, HPV68 and HPV70, were cloned from a low-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and a vulvar papilloma, respectively, and partially sequenced. Both types are related to HPV39, a potentially oncogenic virus. HPV68 and HPV70 were also detected in genital intrae...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Longuet M,Beaudenon S,Orth G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a reverse line blot (RLB) assay, utilizing fungal species-specific oligonucleotide probes to hybridize with internal transcribed spacer 2 region sequences amplified using a nested panfungal PCR. Reference and clinical strains of 16 Candida species (116 strains), Cryptococcus neoformans (five strains of Cr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Playford EG,Kong F,Sun Y,Wang H,Halliday C,Sorrell TC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and selective subsequent use of an HHV-8 immunofluorescence assay (IFA) was tested in persons unlikely to be infected with HHV-8 and those who had HHV-8 detected in their saliva. The IFA was performed on samples within a range of EIA optical den...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Casper C,Krantz E,Taylor H,Dalessio J,Carrell D,Wald A,Corey L,Ashley R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Analytab Products, Inc. (API), anaerobic multitest microsystem (MICRO) was compared with the Center for Disease Control conventional (CONV) thioglycolate (supplemented with hemin and vitamin K1) system and with pre-reduced anaerobically sterilized (PRAS) media as recommended by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moore HB,Sutter VL,Finegold SM

更新日期：1975-01-01 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

abstract：:In recent years testing responsibilities for high-consequence pathogens have been expanded from national reference laboratories into networks of local and regional laboratories in order to support enhanced disease surveillance and to test for surge capacity. This movement of testing of select agents and high-consequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hietala SK,Crossley BM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2011 to December 2013, a total of 262 samples, from 188 patients suspected of having syphilis were tested for the presence of treponemal DNA by PCR amplification of five chromosomal loci, including the polA (TP0105), tmpC (TP0319), TP0136, TP0548, and 23S rRNA genes. Altogether, 146 samples from 103 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grillová L,Pĕtrošová H,Mikalová L,Strnadel R,Dastychová E,Kuklová I,Kojanová M,Kreidlová M,Vaňousová D,Hercogová J,Procházka P,Zákoucká H,Krchňáková A,Vašků V,Šmajs D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblots were used to study the immunoglobulin G response to Borrelia burgdorferi in experimentally and naturally exposed dogs. Adsorption studies confirmed that the antibodies were specific for B. burgdorferi. Experimentally exposed dogs were asymptomatic. Naturally exposed dogs included both asymptomatic animals ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greene RT,Walker RL,Nicholson WL,Heidner HW,Levine JF,Burgess EC,Wyand M,Breitschwerdt EB,Berkhoff HA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether targeted or universal decolonization strategies for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) select for resistance to decolonizing agents is unresolved. The REDUCE-MRSA trial (ClinicalTrials registration no. NCT00980980) provided an opportunity to investigate this question. REDUCE-MRSA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hayden MK,Lolans K,Haffenreffer K,Avery TR,Kleinman K,Li H,Kaganov RE,Lankiewicz J,Moody J,Septimus E,Weinstein RA,Hickok J,Jernigan J,Perlin JB,Platt R,Huang SS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of amplified products resulting from polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) remains a complicated process. To simplify the detection procedures, we developed a colorimetric microtiter plate hybridization assay for the specific detection of 5'-biotinylated PCR fragments of Mycobacterium leprae DNA. For this as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Vliet GM,Hermans CJ,Klatser PR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of the human RNA viruses, calicivirus and astrovirus, requires high sensitivity and broad reactivity. A novel single-tube nested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method is described here, in which all of the required reagents are included in the one tube; however, those required for the nested amplific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ratcliff RM,Doherty JC,Higgins GD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latex particle agglutination (LPA) testing for antigen to group B streptococcus (GBS) has been useful in the diagnosis of GBS sepsis in newborns. However, recent reports have demonstrated that the sensitivity of LPA assays may be as low as 27 to 54%. The purposes of the present study were to directly compare the abili...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greenberg DN,Ascher DP,Yoder BA,Hensley DM,Heiman HS,Keith JF 3rd

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium prolificans is a soil saprophyte that is associated with a large variety of infectious processes and with respiratory colonization in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report the first described case of S. prolificans keratouveitis associated with the intraocular long-term retention of a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arthur S,Steed LL,Apple DJ,Peng Q,Howard G,Escobar-Gomez M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to extended-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics has led to a greater reliance upon carbapenems, but the expression of carbapenemases threatens to limit the utility of these drugs. Current methods to detect carbapenemase activity are suboptimal, requiring prolonged incubations during which ineffective therapy may ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kulkarni MV,Zurita AN,Pyka JS,Murray TS,Hodsdon ME,Peaper DR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A blind volunteer was inoculated in one eye with an isolate of Chlamydia trachomatis in 1961 and followed for 20 years. During this time, many observations were made of his clinical responses to the first inoculation and several subsequent inoculations with the same and other strains, chlamydial shedding, and antibody...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hanna L,Jawetz E,Dawson CR,Thygeson P

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hafnia alvei strains which possess the attachment-effacement gene (eaeA) may have clinical importance as new diarrhea-causing pathogens and should therefore be differentiated from other H. alvei strains. We characterized diarrheal H. alvei strains, which were positive in the PCR test for the eaeA gene, using biochemic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ridell J,Siitonen A,Paulin L,Lindroos O,Korkeala H,Albert MJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole chromosomal DNA probes were used to identify clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, and Mycobacterium gordonae. The probe for M. tuberculosis was prepared from Mycobacterium bovis BCG, which has been shown to be closely related to M. tuberculosis. A probe for the M. avium c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roberts MC,McMillan C,Coyle MB

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00