Role of a cefoxitin-inducible beta-lactamase in a case of breakthrough bacteremia.

abstract：:A serum immunoglobulin G enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for Helicobacter pylori antibodies already in use in adults was evaluated with 99 pediatric serum samples to determine its usefulness for the study of H. pylori disease in children. The reference method used was either the (13)C-urea breath test or a biopsy culture of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sunnerstam B,Kjerstadius T,Jansson L,Giesecke J,Bergström M,Ejderhamn J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative, indirect, fluorescence immunoassay (FIAX; Whittaker Bioproducts, Inc.) was compared with the conventional indirect fluorescent-antibody test for detection of serum antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi. FIAX correlated well with the indirect fluorescent-antibody test (r = 0.72). FIAX is a convenient and dep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pennell DR,Wand PJ,Schell RF

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1998 and 2001, tissues from four captive white-tailed deer were observed to have histologic lesions of systemic lymphocytic vasculitis. These lesions suggested malignant catarrhal fever, although epizootic hemorrhagic disease and bluetongue were included in the differential diagnosis. Initial diagnostic effort...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kleiboeker SB,Miller MA,Schommer SK,Ramos-Vara JA,Boucher M,Turnquist SE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparent outbreak of serious Candida albicans infections (n = 6) occurred in a surgical intensive care unit over a 4-week period. Four patients developed C. albicans bloodstream infections. An additional patient developed catheter-related C. albicans infection; the sixth patient developed an infection of cerebrospi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Voss A,Pfaller MA,Hollis RJ,Rhine-Chalberg J,Doebbeling BN

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of a total of 1043 macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected from 24 countries as part of PROTEKT 1999-2000, 71 isolates tested positive for both the mef(A) and erm(B) genes. Of 69 isolates subjected to further molecular investigations, all were resistant to tetracycline, 63 (91.3%) were resistan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farrell DJ,Morrissey I,Bakker S,Morris L,Buckridge S,Felmingham D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single multiplexed assays could replace the standard 2-tiered (STT) algorithm recommended for the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease if they perform with a specificity and a sensitivity superior or equal to those of the STT algorithm. We used human serum rigorously characterized to be sera from patients with acute- ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arumugam S,Nayak S,Williams T,di Santa Maria FS,Guedes MS,Chaves RC,Linder V,Marques AR,Horn EJ,Wong SJ,Sia SK,Gomes-Solecki M

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona was not frequently encountered in Finland until an increase in rates of isolation among animal and feed was seen in 1994. A small outbreak among cattle farms in the regions of Oulu and Vaasa in northwestern Finland in 1994-1995 included eight farms. After the outbreak,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lindqvist N,Siitonen A,Pelkonen S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of the genus Bartonella are currently recognized in growing numbers and are involved in an increasing variety of human diseases, mainly trench fever, Carrion's disease, bacillary angiomatosis, endocarditis, cat scratch disease, neuroretinitis, and asymptomatic bacteremia. Such a wide spectrum of infections mak...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Houpikian P,Raoult D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel PCR restriction analysis method using the RNA polymerase beta-subunit- coding gene (rpoB) was employed to both detect and identify Helicobacter pylori in biopsy specimens and culture isolates. The rpoB DNAs (458 bp) were specifically amplified by PCR with the Helicobacter-specific primers (HF and HR). Based on...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lim CY,Lee KH,Cho MJ,Chang MW,Kim SY,Myong NH,Lee WK,Rhee KH,Kook YH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a disk diffusion test using broth from positive blood cultures as inoculum (direct disk diffusion [dDD]) was evaluated for a collection of 20 challenge isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates seeded into human blood were inoculated into Bactec Plu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Abbott A,Campeau S,Zimmer BL,Weinstein M,Thrupp L,Hejna J,Walker L,Ammann T,Kirn T,Patel R,Humphries RM

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite attempts to control avian mycoplasmosis through management, vaccination, and surveillance, Mycoplasma gallisepticum continues to cause significant morbidity, mortality, and economic losses in poultry production. Live attenuated vaccines are commonly used in the poultry industry to control avian mycoplasmosis; ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ricketts C,Pickler L,Maurer J,Ayyampalayam S,García M,Ferguson-Noel NM

更新日期：2016-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterocytozoon bieneusi, a microsporidian parasite, has been recognized since 1985 as an agent of intestinal microsporidiosis leading to malabsorption syndrome, diarrhea, and weight loss in AIDS patients. Recently, however, we have identified E. bieneusi spores in the sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage, and stool samples ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： del Aguila C,Lopez-Velez R,Fenoy S,Turrientes C,Cobo J,Navajas R,Visvesvara GS,Croppo GP,Da Silva AJ,Pieniazek NJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of real-time quantitative PCR (5' nuclease PCR assay) as a tool to study the gastrointestinal microflora that adheres to the colonic mucosa was evaluated. We developed primers and probes based on the 16S ribosomal DNA gene sequences for the detection of Escherichia coli and Bacteroides vulgatus. DNA was isolat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huijsdens XW,Linskens RK,Mak M,Meuwissen SG,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Savelkoul PH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alere i Influenza A&B assay is a newly developed rapid molecular assay which has the potential to generate results within 15 min from sample collection. In this study, we evaluated the Alere i Influenza A&B assay by using salvaged frozen respiratory specimens that were collected in viral transport medium from chil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bell JJ,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of synthetic oligonucleotide primers, designed from the gene encoding a 32-kDa intraerythrocytic piroplasm surface protein of Theileria sergenti, were used to amplify parasite DNA from the blood of T. sergenti-infected cattle by means of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR-amplified DNA was examined by ele...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tanaka M,Onoe S,Matsuba T,Katayama S,Yamanaka M,Yonemichi H,Hiramatsu K,Baek BK,Sugimoto C,Onuma M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hominis most frequently causes diseases of the genitourinary tract. Extragenital infections are uncommon, with almost all occurring in immunosuppressed persons or those predisposed due to trauma or surgery. We present the case of a previously well man who developed an M. hominis-associated parapharyngeal ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kennedy KJ,Prince S,Makeham T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus sequence typing was successfully completed on 494 isolates of Streptococcus uberis from clinical mastitis cases in a study of 52 commercial dairy herds over a 12-month period. In total, 195 sequence types (STs) were identified. S. uberis mastitis cases that occurred in different cows within the same herd an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davies PL,Leigh JA,Bradley AJ,Archer SC,Emes RD,Green MJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study suggested that delayed sample preparation can cause a false-positive plasma cytomegalovirus (CMV) PCR. We evaluated 78 samples submitted for CMV testing, and we report that a 24-h delay in plasma separation did not affect viral quantitation by real-time PCR. Laboratories should evaluate specimen handl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nesbitt SE,Cook L,Jerome KR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine-, cytochalasin B-, and cycloheximide-treated and untreated McCoy cells were inoculated with representative strains of Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes, as well as with clinical specimens from a pediatric population, and the quality and quantity of the cytoplasmic inclusions were ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： La Scolea LJ Jr,Keddell JE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrovirus infections were detected by enzyme immunoassay in 12 (5%) of 251 stool samples from children with gastroenteritis from Bogota, Colombia. In addition, astroviruses were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 3 (10%) of 29 stool samples negative for other enteric pathogens collected in Caracas, Venezuela, f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Medina SM,Gutierrez MF,Liprandi F,Ludert JE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocavirus (HBoV) was discovered in 2005 and is associated with respiratory tract symptoms in young children. Three additional members of the genus Bocavirus, HBoV2, -3, and -4, were discovered recently from fecal specimens, and early results indicate an association between HBoV2 and gastrointestinal disease. In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kantola K,Sadeghi M,Antikainen J,Kirveskari J,Delwart E,Hedman K,Söderlund-Venermo M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood was cultured in two vacuum bottles containing Columbia broth. Filtered air was admitted to one bottle (aerobic); the unvented bottle was considered anaerobic. Cultures were incubated at 35 C until growth occurred or for at least 7 days. Of 744 organisms isolated, 50% were isolated from both bottles, 30% from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blazevic DJ,Stemper JE,Matsen JM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) that are often resistant to most, if not all, classes of antibiotics is a major public health concern. The NDM-1 carbapenemase is among the most worrisome carbapenemases given its rapid worldwide spread. We have developed and evaluated a lateral flo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boutal H,Naas T,Devilliers K,Oueslati S,Dortet L,Bernabeu S,Simon S,Volland H

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metronidazole and tetracycline E tests were compared to an agar dilution method for the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Helicobacter pylori. Sixteen strains were tested by using tetrazolium egg yolk (TEY) agar. The characteristic E test inhibition ellipse was clearer on TEY agar than on standard blood agar and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Valdez Y,Velapatiño B,Gilman RH,Gutierrez V,León C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains resistant to third-generation cephalosporins. The resistant strains harbored blaCMY-2, a plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase. Genotyping of isolates revealed the possible spread of this problematic bacterium. Results suggested the importance of the inves...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawahara R,Seto K,Taguchi M,Nakajima C,Kumeda Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis. In northeast Thailand, this gram-negative bacterium is a major cause of mortality from septicemia. The definitive diagnosis of this disease is made by bacterial culture. In this study, we produced a monoclonal antibody (MAb) specific to the 30-kDa protei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pongsunk S,Thirawattanasuk N,Piyasangthong N,Ekpo P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a 4-h nested polymerase chain reaction assay that detected a region of the plasminogen activator gene of Yersinia pestis in 100% of 43 Y. pestis strains isolated from humans, rats, and fleas yet was unreactive with the closely related species Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Campbell J,Lowe J,Walz S,Ezzell J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal conditions for demonstrating the presence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PMCs) from seropositive individuals involved cocultivation of infected cells with phytohemagglutinin-stimulated PMCs from seronegative donors in the presence of 2 micrograms of Polybrene ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castro BA,Weiss CD,Wiviott LD,Levy JA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their first detection in 1988, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates have rapidly spread in Iceland to account for close to 20% of all pneumococcal disease in that country by 1993. The major component (70%) of the resistant pneumococci identified from 1989 to 1992 was the progeny of a single mul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vilhelmsson SE,Tomasz A,Kristinsson KG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic Neisseria species N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae possess an outer membrane lipoprotein, designated Lip, which is present in all strains tested. The predicted protein sequence of Lip consists of a consensus AAEAP amino acid repeat. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of using...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trees DL,Schultz AJ,Knapp JS

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00