Characterization of coagulase-negative staphylococci from urinary tract specimens.

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：:Early diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections is important with regard to patients' health and infectivity. We report the development of a specific and sensitive TaqMan assay for the detection of N. gonorrhoeae in clinical samples. The target sequence is a 76-bp fragment of the 5' untranslated region of the opa ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Geraats-Peters CW,Brouwers M,Schneeberger PM,van der Zanden AG,Bruisten SM,Weers-Pothoff G,Boel CH,van den Brule AJ,Harmsen HG,Hermans MH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty human clinical Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex strains isolated in Greece were characterized to the species level by PCR with three sets of primers specific for one or both species. M. avium predominated in both human immunodeficiency virus-positive and -negative patients, but the frequency of M. i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kyriakopoulos AM,Tassios PT,Matsiota-Bernard P,Marinis E,Tsaousidou S,Legakis NJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease analysis of virulence plasmid DNA was used to study the epidemiology of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infections. The origin of Y. pseudotuberculosis could be divided into two focus areas: Eastern Asia and Europe. Wild animals were an important reservoir for the Y. pseudotuberculosis seen in inf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukushima H,Gomyoda M,Kaneko S,Tsubokura M,Takeda N,Hongo T,Shubin FN

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid dimethyl sulfoxide modification of an acid-fast technique was applied to direct fecal smears to monitor cryptosporidiosis in nonhuman primates. Brilliantly stained pink oocysts against a pale green background demonstrated well-preserved internal morphology and facilitated rapid, simple, noninvasive diagnosis w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bronsdon MA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the performance characteristics of a new, real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) assay that incorporates molecular beacon technology for detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The quantitative results were comparable to those obtained with three leading commercially...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McClernon DR,Vavro C,St Clair M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actinomycete Rhodococcus equi is an important pathogen of horses and an emerging opportunistic pathogen of humans. Identification of R. equi by classical bacteriological techniques is sometimes difficult, and misclassification of an isolate is not uncommon. We report here on a specific PCR assay for the rapid and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ladrón N,Fernández M,Agüero J,González Zörn B,Vázquez-Boland JA,Navas J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a new colony hybridization assay with an established enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) expressing colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I). The tests were applied to 135 human ETEC strains. Of these isolates, 30 had previously been characterized for CFA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grewal HM,Sommerfelt H,Gaastra W,Svennerholm AM,Bhan MK,Hamers AM,Kumar R,Wiklund G,Bjorvatn B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first outbreak of Candida haemulonii fungemia is described. The seven isolates from the blood of four neonates were identified by DNA sequencing of the ribosomal DNA. They were all resistant to amphotericin B, fluconazole, and itraconazole. This report highlights the emergence of C. haemulonii as an opportunistic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khan ZU,Al-Sweih NA,Ahmad S,Al-Kazemi N,Khan S,Joseph L,Chandy R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) has been considered a potential candidate for human vaccines because of its serotype-independent protective immunity. Nasopharyngeal (NP) pneumococcal colonization is highly prevalent in infants and precedes the invasive disease. Thus, prevention of NP colonization may reduce the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pimenta FC,Ribeiro-Dias F,Brandileone MC,Miyaji EN,Leite LC,Sgambatti de Andrade AL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VlsE, the variable surface antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi, contains an immunodominant conserved region named IR(6). In the present study, the diagnostic performance of a peptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on a 26-mer synthetic peptide (C(6)) with the IR(6) sequence was explored. Sensitivity was a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liang FT,Steere AC,Marques AR,Johnson BJ,Miller JN,Philipp MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During February and March 1984, 207 fecal samples from infants and children with gastroenteritis were tested for rotavirus with four techniques: two enzyme immunoassays (Rotazyme; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill., and Enzygnost-Rotavirus; Calbiochem-Behring, La Jolla, Calif.) and two latex agglutination tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sambourg M,Goudeau A,Courant C,Pinon G,Denis F

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sputum specimens received for the diagnosis of tuberculosis or other mycobacterial infections were tested by a ligase chain reaction (LCR)-based assay and acid-fast stain and culture techniques. Results from the LCR assay (Abbott LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis [MTB] Assay) were compared to results from standard cultur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moore DF,Curry JI

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 2 decades, a variety of different molecular typing methods have been developed to differentiate strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. The most successful techniques are based on insertion sequences, repetitive loci, comparative genomics, or single nucleotide polymorphisms. In the present ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffiths TA,Rioux K,De Buck J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) remains the most common cause of abnormal vaginal discharge in women of reproductive age and is associated with increased susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted infections and preterm delivery. Present diagnostic methods require access to microscopy and laborat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bradshaw CS,Morton AN,Garland SM,Horvath LB,Kuzevska I,Fairley CK

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is one of the major causative agents of adult periodontitis. One of the features of this periodontal pathogen is its ability to attach to a variety of oral bacterial surfaces and to colonize subgingival dental plaque. We have shown that Streptococcus cristatus CC5A inhibits expression of fimA,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang BY,Wu J,Lamont RJ,Lin X,Xie H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta and gamma genera of papillomaviruses consist of epidermodysplasia verruciformis-related human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and phylogenetically related cutaneous HPVs. Here, we have developed a consensus primer PCR assay and reverse line blot typing system coupled thereto (referred to as beta and gamma cutaneous H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brink AA,Lloveras B,Nindl I,Heideman DA,Kramer D,Pol R,Fuente MJ,Meijer CJ,Snijders PJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inconsistent quality control results in disk diffusion testing of cefaclor, cefamandole, cefonicid, and cefuroxime with Haemophilus influenzae ATCC 49247 and Haemophilus test medium (HTM) prompted a search for an alternative control strain that would provide more reliable results. A five-laboratory study was conducted...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Barry AL,Doern GV,Ferraro MJ,Murray PR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of cure of Trypanosoma cruzi infection by antibody seroconversion usually involves several years of follow-up. Parasitological negativity is useless for cure assessment, since even untreated patients mostly show negative results; conversely, positive tests are of great value because they indicate treatment ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galvão LM,Chiari E,Macedo AM,Luquetti AO,Silva SA,Andrade AL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples collected from 68 patients (age, mean +/- the standard deviation [SD], 56.3 +/- 12.8 years) at admission who were subsequently molecularly diagnosed as having hepatitis E and from 2,781 individuals who were assumed not to have been recently infected with hepatitis E virus (HEV; negative controls; 52.9 +/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Kusakai S,Mizuo H,Suzuki K,Fujimura K,Masuko K,Sugai Y,Aikawa T,Nishizawa T,Okamoto H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-nine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains, isolated during 1980 to 1990, were classified as MRSA Aggl- (14 strains) and MRSA Aggl+ (65 strains) strains on the basis of test results in slide agglutination assays designed to detect fibrinogen-binding protein (clumping factor) and protein A ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuusela P,Hildén P,Savolainen K,Vuento M,Lyytikäinen O,Vuopio-Varkila J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that regulate cytomegalovirus (CMV) excretion from the genitourinary tract are poorly understood. To assess the role of cell-mediated immunity in such excretion, a CMV-specific mononuclear blastogenesis assay was used to study a predominantly lower-socioeconomic-status population of 92 healthy nonpregnant ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Faix RG,Zweig SE,Kummer JF,Moore D,Lang DJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery of bats with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related coronaviruses (CoVs) raised the specter of potential future outbreaks of zoonotic SARS-CoV-like disease in humans, which largely went unheeded. Nevertheless, the novel SARS-CoV-2 of bat ancestral origin emerged to infect humans in Wuhan, China, in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saif LJ,Jung K

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates with low-level mupirocin resistance can serve as recipients of a pSK41-like plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance without substantial fitness cost. Our results suggest that acquisition of the plasmid conferrin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mongkolrattanothai K,Pumfrey L,Mankin P,Gray BM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used to better characterize the genotypic relatedness among medically important Candida species. By using short oligomer primers (10-mers) with arbitrarily chosen sequences in the polymerase chain reaction, distinctive and reproducible sets of polymerase chain reaction produ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lehmann PF,Lin D,Lasker BA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A duplex real-time SYBR Green LightCycler PCR (LC-PCR) assay with DNA extraction using the QIAamp DNA Stool Mini kit was evaluated with regard to detection of 8 of 17 species of food- or waterborne pathogens in five stool specimens in 2 h or less. The protocol used the same LC-PCR with 20 pairs of specific primers. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukushima H,Tsunomori Y,Seki R

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum samples has been extensively studied. However, the performance of the Xpert assay as applied to other readily accessible body fluids such as exhaled breath condensate (EBC), saliva, urine, and blood has not been es...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shenai S,Amisano D,Ronacher K,Kriel M,Banada PP,Song T,Lee M,Joh JS,Winter J,Thayer R,Via LE,Kim S,Barry CE 3rd,Walzl G,Alland D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics and the isolation rates of the two Lancefield group C streptococcal species (S. equisimilis and S. anginosus) from patients with pharyngitis and asymptomatic controls were compared. Some 239 strains of beta-hemolytic group C streptococci were isolated from 1,480 patients (209 strains) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fox K,Turner J,Fox A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a colorimetric polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay in kit form to detect directly human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) proviral gag sequences in peripheral blood cells from 68 healthy blood donors, 51 subjects at risk for HIV infection, 122 patients with HIV-1 infection, 11 patients with indeter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pane F,Buttò S,Gobbo ML,Franco M,Butteroni C,Pastore L,Maiorano G,Foggia M,Cataldo PT,Guarino A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal disease caused by N. meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) has been endemic in Brazil since 1997. In this study, we determined the prevalence of serosubtypes of MenB isolated in 10 Brazilian states and the Federal District during 1997 and 1998 and investigated the extent of PorA VR sequence variation among the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sacchi CT,Lemos AP,Popovic T,De Morais JC,Whitney AM,Melles CE,Brondi LM,Monteiro LM,Paiva MV,Solari CA,Mayer LW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00