Comparison of hemagglutination inhibition test and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for determining antibody to rubella virus.

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of one of the immediate-early genes of human herpesvirus 6 variant B was determined and compared with that of variant A reported by Martin et al. (M.D. Martin, J. Nicholas, B. J. Thomson, C. Newman, and R. W. Honess, J. Virol. 65:5381-5390, 1991). While it was reported that two open re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yamamoto T,Mukai T,Kondo K,Yamanishi K

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) are zoonotic infections. In Africa, the potential exists for additional cross-species transmissions from at least 33 different species of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected nonhuman primates (NHPs) through hunting and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndongmo CB,Switzer WM,Pau CP,Zeh C,Schaefer A,Pieniazek D,Folks TM,Kalish ML

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrophialophora fusispora is an emerging opportunistic fungus capable of causing human infections. The taxonomy of the genus is not yet resolved and, in order to facilitate identification of clinical specimens, we have studied a set of clinical and environmental Acrophialophora isolates by morphological and molecular ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sandoval-Denis M,Gené J,Sutton DA,Wiederhold NP,Guarro J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of 45 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans revealed an unusually high incidence of C. neoformans var. gattii in South Australia (65%) and in the Northern Territory (95%). In assessing all the available data from Australian isolates of C. neoformans, there appeared to be an endemic focus for the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ellis DH

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathozyme-Myco G (Myco G), M, A, and TB complex plus (Omega Diagnostics Ltd., Alloa, Scotland) were evaluated for the serological diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in an Argentinean population. Sera from 58 patients with pulmonary TB, 24 subjects with pulmonary mycobacteriosis or mycoses (pulmonary MM group), a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Imaz MS,Comini MA,Zerbini E,Sequeira MD,Latini O,Claus JD,Singh M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All medical and high-risk surgical patients were screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization over 3.5 years. The sensitivities of nasal and rectal swabs were 68% and 62%, respectively. Naris and open-skin-site swabs detected 467 (74%) of 627 adult carriers identified. Rectal swabs detected an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Currie A,Davis L,Odrobina E,Waldman S,White D,Tomassi J,Katz KC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to cervical cancer, integration of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA into the host genome has been considered a rare event in cancer precursor lesions (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN]). With our new real-time PCR method, we demonstrated that integrated HPV type 16 (HPV16) is already present in CIN le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peitsaro P,Johansson B,Syrjänen S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time PCR shows the widespread presence of Coxiella burnetii DNA in a broad range of commercially available milk and milk products. MLVA genotyping shows that this is the result of the presence of a predominant C. burnetii genotype in the dairy cattle population. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tilburg JJ,Roest HJ,Nabuurs-Franssen MH,Horrevorts AM,Klaassen CH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mumps virus is a negative-strand RNA virus in the family Paramyxoviridae. Mumps infection results in an acute illness with symptoms including fever, headache, and myalgia, followed by swelling of the salivary glands. Complications of mumps can include meningitis, deafness, pancreatitis, orchitis, and first-trimest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boddicker JD,Rota PA,Kreman T,Wangeman A,Lowe L,Hummel KB,Thompson R,Bellini WJ,Pentella M,Desjardin LE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) early protein, p41, encoded by the U27 gene has been detected in oligodendrocytes of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients by using a monoclonal antibody (MAb to p41/38). We here report the antigenic epitope of HHV-6 p41 recognized by this MAb. First, we established that the MAb to p41/38 re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xu Y,Linde A,Dahl H,Winberg G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first World Health Organization (WHO) international standards (ISs) for nucleic acid amplification techniques were established two decades ago, with the initial focus on blood screening for three major viral targets, i.e., hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, and human immunodeficiency virus 1. These reference ma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baylis SA,Wallace P,McCulloch E,Niesters HGM,Nübling CM

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is an important human respiratory pathogen. Classification of C. pneumoniae isolates into distinguishable serovars or genotypes has not yet been reported. To determine whether antigenic or molecular variants among C. pneumoniae isolates exist, six strains were studied via immunoblot analysis and D...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jantos CA,Heck S,Roggendorf R,Sen-Gupta M,Hegemann JH

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis spores have been used as a biological weapon in the United States. We wanted to develop a safe, rapid method of sample preparation that provided safe DNA for the detection of spores in environmental and clinical specimens. Our method reproducibly detects B. anthracis in samples containing <10 spores...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luna VA,King D,Davis C,Rycerz T,Ewert M,Cannons A,Amuso P,Cattani J

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar mitis sequence type 136 (ST136) strain was recovered from a toe infection of an unvaccinated patient recently returned from India. The isolate was resistant to clindamycin, erythromycin (ermX positive), tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, intermediate to ceft...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mina NV,Burdz T,Wiebe D,Rai JS,Rahim T,Shing F,Hoang L,Bernard K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early identification of tuberculosis in the clinical setting is of great importance in order for specific therapy to be swiftly initiated. MB REDOX (Heipha Diagnostika), a growth-based medium without radioactive materials, was evaluated and was compared to the BACTEC system for detection of mycobacteria, including the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu YC,Huang TS,Huang WK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially available latex agglutination and coagglutination reagents were evaluated for their ability to detect bacterial antigens in the sera of 165 patients to determine their suitability for rapid diagnosis of pneumonia. These reagents were used to detect the polysaccharide capsular antigens of Haemophilus influ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin SJ,Hoganson DA,Thomas ET

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormographiella aspergillata, a filamentous basidiomycete, has rarely been involved in human infections. We describe 2 febrile neutropenic patients who developed a severe pulmonary infection due to H. aspergillata while receiving empirical caspofungin therapy for presumed fungal pneumonia. After introduction of liposo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suarez F,Olivier G,Garcia-Hermoso D,Randriamalala E,Ghez D,Bruneau J,Kauffmann-Lacroix C,Bougnoux ME,Lortholary O

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 41 Brucella isolates, examined by standard biotyping procedures, were found to be similar to Brucella abortus biovar 2 in dye sensitivity but had a dominant M antigen. Oxidative metabolic tests performed on 39 of the isolates confirmed them as B. abortus. Additional biochemical and bacteriophage susceptibil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ewalt DR,Forbes LB

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new latex agglutination test (Pastorex Staph-Plus, Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur), consisting of a mixture of latex particles coated with fibrinogen and immunoglobulin G for the detection of clumping factor and protein A and latex particles sensitized with monoclonal antibodies directed to Staphylococcus aureus serotyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fournier JM,Bouvet A,Mathieu D,Nato F,Boutonnier A,Gerbal R,Brunengo P,Saulnier C,Sagot N,Slizewicz B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant Helicobacter pylori strains circulating among geographic locations differ in regard to genomic structure. The association of the cagA-positive, vacA s1 genotypes with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and gastric cancer was reported in Western countries but not in East Asian countries. Strains from Western co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saribasak H,Salih BA,Yamaoka Y,Sander E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the Abbott enzyme immunoassay for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen with the reverse transcriptase assay (RTA) as a means of monitoring HIV infection during an antiviral trial. The Abbott enzyme immunoassay detected HIV earlier than RTA whether or not the patients were antigenemic and appears to b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burger H,Paul D,Siegal FP,Wendel I,Neff S,Eilbott D,Gehan K,Grimson R,Weiser B

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reverse transcription-seminested PCR (RT-snPCR) assay was developed for the detection and identification of enterovirus (EV) RNA in clinical specimens. Three conserved protein motifs were identified by aligning the VP3 and VP1 sequences of prototype EV strains. Consensus degenerate primers were designed from a conse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nix WA,Oberste MS,Pallansch MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confirmative diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is still a challenge at the primary health care facilities in most of the rural areas of endemicity in the Indian subcontinent. Conventional methods for parasitological confirmation are risky and require skilled personnel, and hence they are unavailable to the poor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salam MA,Khan MG,Bhaskar KR,Afrad MH,Huda MM,Mondal D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococci) in nine Alaskan communities and used an algorithm combining microbiologic, serologic, and sequential multiplex PCR (MP-PCR) techniques to serotype the isolates. After microbiological identification as pneumococci, isolates (n = 1,135) were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miernyk K,Debyle C,Harker-Jones M,Hummel KB,Hennessy T,Wenger J,Rudolph K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyomavirus BK (BKV) causes asymptomatic latent infection in the human host that is reactivated during periods of immune suppression. Detection by conventional tube cell culture is difficult and time consuming because BKV exhibits slow growth with late (14 to 28 days) and subtle cytopathic effects. We developed a she...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marshall WF,Telenti A,Proper J,Aksamit AJ,Smith TF

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A direct comparison of two automated blood culture systems was conducted to compare their ability to detect Candida growth. The systems evaluated were the BACTEC 9240 (Bactec) and BacT/ALERT 3D (BacT). The aerobic, anaerobic, and mycology media for each system were evaluated: Bactec Plus Aerobic/F, Plus Anaerobic/F, a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Horvath LL,George BJ,Murray CK,Harrison LS,Hospenthal DR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative microdilution plate hybridization was used to identify 22 Mycobacterium species. DNAs of clinical strains were rapidly extracted and labeled with photoreactive biotin. Labeled DNAs were distributed into wells of a microdilution plate in which reference DNAs had been immobilized. After 2 h of hybridization...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kusunoki S,Ezaki T,Tamesada M,Hatanaka Y,Asano K,Hashimoto Y,Yabuuchi E

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:The Porphyromonas gingivalis collagenase-specific serum immunoglobulin A (IgA), IgM, and IgG responses from 20 patients with early-onset periodontitis (EOP), 20 patients with adult periodontitis, (AP), and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were examined by immunoblot analysis. A recombinant collagenase antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wittstock M,Flemmig TF,Schmidt H,Mutters R,Karch H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of pneumonia with a fatal outcome caused by a nonhemolytic strain of Streptococcus pyogenes. This strain was isolated in pure growth from blood cultures and was fully identified biochemically. Such strains will be difficult to recognize and isolate from sites with heavy growth of normal flora. This ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Taylor MB,Barkham T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00