Detection of pneumococci in the upper respiratory tract: comparison of media and culture techniques.

abstract：:A total of 137 strains of Staphylococcus species were blindly tested by four rapid serological assays, and the results were compared with those of the tube coagulase assay. For the S. aureus isolates, the Sero-STAT Staph assay gave six false-negative results, four of which were for methicillin-resistant strains. The A...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aldridge KE,Kogos C,Sanders CV,Marier RL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 1-year survey of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) prevalence in central France, 2,143 samples were investigated by PCR for Shiga toxin-encoding genes. A total of 330 (70%) of 471 fecal samples collected from healthy cattle at the Clermont-Ferrand slaughterhouse, 47 (11%) of 411 beef samples, 60 (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pradel N,Livrelli V,De Champs C,Palcoux JB,Reynaud A,Scheutz F,Sirot J,Joly B,Forestier C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic granulomatous disease have a marked defect in neutrophil oxidative metabolism and microbicidal activity. Asymptomatic mothers of males with the disease can usually be identified as heterozygous carriers by intermediate leukocyte function. Most mothers of females with the disease, however, have no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mills EL,Rholl KS,Quie PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunofluorescent-antibody test was developed for rapid detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in blood cultures. The test uses a murine monoclonal antibody specific for all strains of P. aeruginosa. In initial tests, bright uniform immunofluorescence signals were seen when each of the 17 international serotypes, as w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Counts GW,Schwartz RW,Ulness BK,Hamilton DJ,Rosok MJ,Cunningham MD,Tam MR,Darveau RP

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the rate at which IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns in Mycobacterium tuberculosis change over time, we applied a smooth nonparametric survival model to several data sets, including data from previous publications on the rate of change. The results strongly suggest a simple pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eilers PH,Van Soolingen D,Thi Ngoc Lan N,Warren RM,Borgdorff MW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Veillonella parvula lumbar discitis and secondary bacteremia confirmed by molecular characterization of the 16S rRNA genes. Identification of the organism was essential for an appropriate choice of antimicrobial therapy following the failure of empirical flucloxacillin. Veillonella spp. are normal ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marriott D,Stark D,Harkness J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of MicroScan rapid panels (Baxter MicroScan, West Sacramento, Calif.) to detect oxacillin resistance in 92 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 103 coagulase-negative staphylococci was evaluated by comparing results with those of MicroScan 24-h MIC panels and, to resolve discrepancies, oxacillin ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woods GL,LaTemple D,Cruz C

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an immunoblot assay (IB), we tested sera from 100 patients with erythema migrans (EM) seen in 1991 a the Westchester County Medical Center Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center. Convalescent-phase sera were available from 59 patients. Fifty-five pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aguero-Rosenfeld ME,Nowakowski J,McKenna DF,Carbonaro CA,Wormser GP

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elimination of leprosy continues to be a challenge, with the disease remaining endemic in several countries. India accounts for the highest number of cases, and the identification of child cases indicates recent transmission. Genetic markers, like variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs) and single-nucleotide polymo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuruwa S,Vissa V,Mistry N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For broth microdilution susceptibility tests of Francisella tularensis, Mueller-Hinton broth with 2% Isovitalex is recommended. Using that medium, we studied three standard control strains tested with nine antimicrobial agents potentially efficacious for treating tularemia. An eight-laboratory collaborative study gene...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SD,Krisher K,Traczewski MM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for the diagnosis of melioidosis are based on bacteriological culture. A number of serological tests currently available lack specificity and sensitivity. This is largely due to the use of crude antigens which results in a significant cross-reactivity with sera from individuals infected with other bact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anuntagool N,Rugdech P,Sirisinha S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we designed an internally controlled quantitative nested real-time (QNRT) PCR assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in order to rapidly diagnose tuberculous meningitis. This technique combined the high sensitivity of nested PCR with the accurate quantification of real-time PCR. In this study, we attempt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Tamura M,Asami Y,Kitamura E,Saito K,Suzuki T,Takahashi SN,Matsumoto K,Sawada S,Yokoyama E,Takasu T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively evaluated a new PCR-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit (Onychodiag; BioAdvance, France) for the diagnosis of dermatophytic onychomycosis by testing nail samples from 438 patients with suspected onychomycosis and from 108 healthy controls in three independent laboratories. In two laboratories, sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Savin C,Huck S,Rolland C,Benderdouche M,Faure O,Noacco G,Menotti J,Candolfi E,Pelloux H,Grillot R,Coupe S,Derouin F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of centrifugation (700 x g, 60 min) in a plaque assay markedly increased (mean, 2.9-fold) the infectivity of all 42 influenza virus strains tested, compared with no centrifugation. Of 13 influenza virus strains isolated from 390 clinical specimens, 9 (69%) were efficiently isolated by the centrifugation assay ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Seno M,Kanamoto Y,Takao S,Takei N,Fukuda S,Umisa H

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae was obtained from flea pools and individual ticks collected at three sites in northwestern Peru within the focus of an outbreak of febrile disease in humans attributed, in part, to SFG rickettsia infections. Molecular identification of the etiologic agents from these s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blair PJ,Jiang J,Schoeler GB,Moron C,Anaya E,Cespedes M,Cruz C,Felices V,Guevara C,Mendoza L,Villaseca P,Sumner JW,Richards AL,Olson JG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was developed for the detection of poliovirus antigen. Rabbit and guinea pig antisera for the assay were raised against purified poliovirus type 3/Fin (strain 3/Fin/K) isolated from a fecal specimen from a meningitis patient during an outbreak of poliomyelitis in Finland in 1984....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ukkonen P,Huovilainen A,Hovi T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using blaZ PCR as the "gold standard," the sensitivities of CLSI penicillin zone edge and nitrocefin-based tests for β-lactamase production in Staphylococcus aureus were 64.5% and 35.5%, respectively, with specificity of 99.8% for both methods. In 2013, 13.5% of 3,083 S. aureus isolates from 31 U.S. centers were penic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richter SS,Doern GV,Heilmann KP,Miner S,Tendolkar S,Riahi F,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates that were obtained from patients' sputa on diagnosis and during follow-up after short-course chemotherapy in Madras, India, have either no copy or only a single copy of IS6110. This poses a limitation for DNA fingerprinting with an IS6110-based probe to determine th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sahadevan R,Narayanan S,Paramasivan CN,Prabhakar R,Narayanan PR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization was assessed using combined nose and groin swabs in two commercial PCR assays (the Xpert MRSA assay and the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay). Compared to routine culture, both had similar sensitivities (87.0% versus 84.8%, respectively) and speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelley PG,Grabsch EA,Howden BP,Gao W,Grayson ML

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term outbreak of urinary tract-associated multiply resistant Providencia stuartii occurred in a large medical facility that included a 513-bed chronic care unit. The unique characteristics of this outbreak were that from within a single medical facility, P. stuartii with multiple serotypes, biotypes, and antibi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kocka FE,Srinivasan S,Mowjood M,Kantor HS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen strains of nutritionally variant streptococci (NVS) were tested for bacteriolytic activity and for their production of and sensitivity to streptococcal bacteriocinlike inhibitory substances (BLIS). None appeared to produce BLIS. An inverse relationship was found between the sensitivity to BLIS and the product...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tagg JR,van de Rijn I

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of 58 multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Germany and 55 susceptible strains from a reference collection comprising major phylogenetic lineages confirmed that variations in Rv2629, 191A/C and 965C/T, are specific for genotypes Beijing and Ghana, respectively, but not i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Homolka S,Köser C,Archer J,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Niemann S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we compared typed F. nucleatum strains with isolates from various human periodontal diseases, canines, and a Macaca mulatta monkey. All isolates displayed biochemical reactions similar to those of the typed strains in the API 20A system (Analytab Products, Plainville, N.Y.). The human and monkey ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vincent JW,Falkler WA Jr,Craig JA

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:During the past decade, a variety of instrument-assisted bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test systems have been developed which permit provision of test results in a matter of hours rather than days, as has been the case with traditional overnight procedures. These newer rapid techniques are ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Doern GV,Vautour R,Gaudet M,Levy B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroplasma species are organisms that normally colonize plants and insects. We describe the first case of human systemic infection caused by Spiroplasma bacteria in a patient with hypogammaglobulinemia undergoing treatment with biological disease-modifying antirheumatic agents. Spiroplasma turonicum was identified th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aquilino A,Masiá M,López P,Galiana AJ,Tovar J,Andrés M,Gutiérrez F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human group C rotavirus was identified in central Australia in each of eight years over a 16-year period between 1982 and 1997. Cases occurred either sporadically but over a relatively short period of time or as clustered outbreaks. These are the only reports of human group C rotavirus in Australia other than that of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schnagl RD,Boniface K,Cardwell P,McCarthy D,Ondracek C,Coulson B,Erlich J,Morey F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ambient-temperature, dry plasma transport systems, ViveST tubes and RNASound RNA sampling cards, and two extraction methods were compared to frozen plasma for HIV-1 RNA recovery. Significant RNA loss occurred: ViveST+MiniMag > ViveST+QIAamp > RNASound+QIAamp. RNA loss and low specimen volumes may affect the sensit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Levine M,Beck I,Styrchak S,Pepper G,Frenkel L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the clinical performance of Check-Direct CPE for carbapenemase detection directly from 301 perirectal swabs (258 patients) in a nonoutbreak setting. Culture of a PCR-confirmed, carbapenemase-containing organism, or history of colonization with such organism within the previous 2 weeks, was used as the ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lau AF,Fahle GA,Kemp MA,Jassem AN,Dekker JP,Frank KM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad-spectrum analysis for pathogens in patients with respiratory tract infections is becoming more relevant as the number of potential infectious agents is still increasing. Here we describe the new multiparameter RespiFinder assay, which is based on the multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) techno...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Reijans M,Dingemans G,Klaassen CH,Meis JF,Keijdener J,Mulders B,Eadie K,van Leeuwen W,van Belkum A,Horrevorts AM,Simons G

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00