Immunological detection of the Kanagawa phenomenon of vibrio parahaemolyticus on modified selective media.

abstract：:Respiratory diphtheria, characterized by a firmly adherent pseudomembrane, is caused by toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, with similar illness produced occasionally by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans or, rarely, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis While diphtheria laboratory confirmation requir...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Williams MM,Waller JL,Aneke JS,Weigand MR,Diaz MH,Bowden KE,Simon AK,Peng Y,Xiaoli L,Cassiday PK,Winchell J,Tondella ML

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard broth microdilution (with and without bovine serum albumin [BSA] supplementation), tube dilution, and agar dilution susceptibility tests were compared for determining ramoplanin MICs. With a data base of 246 clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria from 33 U.S. sites, it was shown that (i) agar and tube di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kenny MT,Brackman MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoretic (PFGE) analysis of Helicobacter pylori isolates is not commonly employed because of the inability to compare the typing with other typing systems. We adapted the PFGE analysis for H. pylori by using EcoRI and slightly modified our laboratory methods to improve the typing of isolates (t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hosaka Y,Irinoda K,Nakano R,Tanabe S,Koizumi W,Saigenji K,Inoue M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gas-liquid chromatographic method which requires no chloroform extraction of the split products has been investigated for the detection of hippurate hydrolysis by Campylobacter spp. This technique gave better reproducibility than other tests also used in this study and allows the routine use of the gas-liquid chroma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bär W,Fricke G

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative evaluations of immune status for rubella virus are described for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, hemagglutination inhibition, and indirect hemagglutination. A 92.1% agreement between enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and indirect hemagglutination assay was demonstrated for rubella immune status. Enzyme-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Truant AL,Barksdale BL,Huber TW,Elliott LB

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium amycolatum has not been reported as a cause of human infections up to now, but usually the bacterium is misidentified in clinical specimens as Corynebacterium xerosis. We report the first case of neonatal sepsis due to Corynebacterium amycolatum with a fatal outcome in a premature infant. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berner R,Pelz K,Wilhelm C,Funke A,Leititis JU,Brandis M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent to which bacteria not detected by culture contribute to the microbial flora of the bowel of preterm infants with and without neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Fecal samples from 32 preterm infants in special care baby units including samples from 10 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Millar MR,Linton CJ,Cade A,Glancy D,Hall M,Jalal H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to cytomegalovirus-induced late antigens by an indirect immunofluorescence assay was improved by the use of monoclonal antibodies to human IgM. Nonspecific background fluorescence was absent, facilitating the reading of the slides and the detection of a specific fluor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zerbini M,Musiani M,Gentilomi G,La Placa M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four pneumococci with various MICs of penicillin (38 with MICs of less than or equal to 0.06 micrograms/ml [susceptible], 35 with MICs of 0.12 to 1.0 micrograms/ml [relatively resistant], and 11 with MICs of greater than 1.0 micrograms/ml [resistant] ) were screened by a disk diffusion test using oxacillin and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson JM,Hill BC,Thornsberry C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further investigate the pathogenic potential of different Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies, specimens from 27 patients with different manifestations of Lyme borreliosis were analyzed by PCR and reverse line blotting (RLB). In samples from Lyme arthritis patients, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto was predominantly ident...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lünemann JD,Zarmas S,Priem S,Franz J,Zschenderlein R,Aberer E,Klein R,Schouls L,Burmester GR,Krause A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of neonatal infection caused by Enterobacter sakazakii are reported from the Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, the National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland. These infections occurred during a 9-month period in 1986 and 1987. Two of the neonates, who were normal at birth, survived but were left...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biering G,Karlsson S,Clark NC,Jónsdóttir KE,Lúdvígsson P,Steingrímsson O

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa representing 12 serogroups in the serogrouping schema used in the People's Republic of China were compared with serogroups in the International Antigenic Typing System (IATS). The first eight groups originated in the People's Republic of China, and group II appears to have a ne...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu PV

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:A total of 1,298 nonfermentative gram-negative rods were used to evaluate the performance of the individual biochemical tests in the N/F System and to determine whether the observed results included sufficient key reactions for rapid identification. The system included an oxidase test, two screening tubes providing 5 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barnishan J,Ayers LW

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight blood cultures with a Gram stain result of Gram-positive cocci in pairs and/or chains were evaluated with the Nanosphere Verigene Gram-positive blood culture (BC-GP) assay. The overall concordance of the assay with culture was 89.7% (70/78 cultures), allowing for the development of a targeted treatment a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alby K,Daniels LM,Weber DJ,Miller MB

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matched vaginal and cervical specimens from 96 subjects were analyzed by quantitative PCR for the presence and concentration of bacterial vaginosis-associated microbes and commensal Lactobacillus spp. Detection of these microbes was 92% concordant, indicating that microbial floras at these body sites are generally sim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith WL,Hedges SR,Mordechai E,Adelson ME,Trama JP,Gygax SE,Kaunitz AM,Hilbert DW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on a major surface protein 5 (MSP5) B-cell epitope conserved among Anaplasma species was used to detect goats infected with Anaplasma ovis. We examined strains of A. ovis isolated from goats in Kenya and demonstrated that MSP5 and the target B-ce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndung'u LW,Aguirre C,Rurangirwa FR,McElwain TF,McGuire TC,Knowles DP,Palmer GH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region surrounding mecA in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is highly variable. We describe an approach for the rapid genotyping of MRSA by assaying for the presence or absence of variable or mobile elements previously shown to be associated with the mecA region. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huygens F,Nimmo GR,Schooneveldt J,Munckhof WJ,Giffard PM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of maxillary sinusitis caused by Actinomucor elegans in an 11-year-old patient. Histopathological and mycological examinations of surgical maxillary sinuses samples showed coenocytic hyphae characteristic of mucoraceous fungi. The fungi recovered had stolons and rhizoids, nonapophyseal and glo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davel G,Featherston P,Fernández A,Abrantes R,Canteros C,Rodero L,Sztern C,Perrotta D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ImmunoCard STAT! Cryptosporidium/Giardia rapid assay (Meridian Bioscience, Inc.) is a solid-phase qualitative immunochromatographic assay that detects and distinguishes between Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum in aqueous extracts of human fecal specimens (fresh, frozen, unfixed, or fixed in 5 or 10% form...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garcia LS,Shimizu RY,Novak S,Carroll M,Chan F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA detection between a PCR-based genechip (Easychip HPV Blot [hereafter referred to as HPV Blot]; King Car, Taiwan) method and Hybrid Capture II (HCII; Digene, Gaithersburg, MD) in women with previous normal (n = 146) or abnormal (> or =atypical squamous cells of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huang SL,Chao A,Hsueh S,Chao FY,Huang CC,Yang JE,Lin CY,Yan CC,Chou HH,Huang KG,Huang HJ,Wu TI,Tseng MJ,Qiu JT,Lin CT,Chang TC,Lai CH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections exhibit similar clinical symptoms; however, the therapies for these two types of infections are different. Therefore, the rapid and accurate identification of M. tuberculosis and NTM species is very important for the control of tuber...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xiao G,He X,Zhang S,Liu Y,Liang Z,Liu H,Zhang J,Ou M,Cai S,Lai W,Zhang T,Ren L,Zhang G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards has recently changed the oxacillin breakpoint from >/=4 mg/liter to >/=0. 5 mg/liter to detect methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) because the previous breakpoint lacked sensitivity. To determine the correlation between the new oxacilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hussain Z,Stoakes L,Massey V,Diagre D,Fitzgerald V,El Sayed S,Lannigan R

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrolysis of esculin in the presence of bile has been utilized for many years for the identification of bacteria. It is especially useful in differentiating species of the genus Streptococcus. The procedure is a two-step one. First, the bacterium must grow in a particular concentration of bile, and second, it mus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edberg SC,Trepeta RW,Kontnick CM,Torres AR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Yersinia to digest polypectate may be of some value in differentiating Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis from some of the other fermenting gram-negative bacilli, such as Enterobacter agglomerans, with which they can be confused. Pectolytic activity in Yersinia may also have some teleologic or ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： von Riesen VL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 120 sera from blood donors was screened by complement fixation and commercially available immunofluorescence, solid-phase fluorescence immunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and indirect hemagglutination tests. Twenty-four of the sera were positive by three or more of the five tests and judged to b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Phipps PH,Grégoire L,Rossier E,Perry E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent models have been developed to study the pathogenesis of diseases caused by Helicobacter pylori, as well as by other gastric and intestinal Helicobacter spp., but some murine enteric Helicobacter spp. cause hepatobiliary and intestinal tract diseases in specific inbred strains of laboratory mice. To identify the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nilsson HO,Ouis IS,Stenram U,Ljungh A,Moran AP,Wadström T,Al-Soud WA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A premarket trial of the Becton Dickinson Directigen respiratory syncytial virus membrane-based enzyme immunoassay compared the test with virus isolation for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus in 583 nasopharyngeal aspirates. After modification, the Directigen test showed a sensitivity of 83% and a specifici...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kok T,Barancek K,Burrell CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten characteristic strains of spirochetes (HT2, HT7, HT10, HT15, HT17, HT19, HT20, HT22, HT32, and HT59) isolated from Ixodes persulcatus adult ticks in Hokkaido, Japan, were selected and analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukunaga M,Sohnaka M,Takahashi Y,Nakao M,Miyamoto K

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires disease, and related organisms have previously been characterized primarily by conventional bacteriological methods, DNA-DNA hybridization, antigenic analysis, and fatty acid analysis. By capillary gas chromatographic analysis for carbohydrates, we have shown...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fox A,Lau PY,Brown A,Morgan SL,Zhu ZT,Lema M,Walla MD

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00