Comparative evaluation of three different commercial blood culture media for recovery of anaerobic organisms.

abstract：:First-catch early morning urine samples from patients attending a genitourinary medicine clinic were tested by three different enzyme immunoassays. The results suggest significant differences in the sensitivities and specificities of the different assays. The direct visualization of elementary bodies in urine deposits...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paul ID,Caul EO

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a case of conjunctivitis caused by a nutritionally variant streptococcus in a newborn infant. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barrios H,Bump CM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports of natural paratuberculosis (or Johne's disease) in rabbits, foxes, and stoats has focused debate on the presence and importance of wildlife reservoirs in the epidemiology of this disease. This paper describes an extensive study investigating 18 nonruminant wildlife species for evidence of paratuberculo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beard PM,Daniels MJ,Henderson D,Pirie A,Rudge K,Buxton D,Rhind S,Greig A,Hutchings MR,McKendrick I,Stevenson K,Sharp JM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study to compare the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test with the cell culture method in diagnosing urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infections was performed. From 497 patients (212 women, 285 men) attending an outpatient clinic for sexually transmitted diseases, a total of 814 samples (female patients, cervix and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vogels WH,van Voorst Vader PC,Schröder FP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free growth medium for the opportunistic pathogenic ameba Balamuthia mandrillaris is presented. This represents an advance over the use of monkey kidney cells for growth of the amebas and can be helpful in isolation of these amebas from brain tissue from cases in which amebic meningoencephalitis is a diagnostic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schuster FL,Visvesvara GS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from patients with verified systemic staphylococcal infection contained antibodies reactive with peptidoglycan (PG) from Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Micrococcus lysodeikticus, Bacillus subtilis, and Escherichia coli. The presence of anti-PG cross-reactive antibodies ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wergeland HI,Endresen C

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA gene PCR in the diagnosis of bone and joint infections has not been systematically tested. Five hundred twenty-five bone and joint samples collected from 525 patients were cultured and submitted to 16S rRNA gene PCR detection of bacteria in parallel. The amplicons with mixed sequences were also cloned. Wh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenollar F,Roux V,Stein A,Drancourt M,Raoult D

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is the main cause of postdiarrheal hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening clinical complication characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure that mainly affects children. A relevant feature of STEC strains is the productio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Melli LJ,Zylberman V,Hiriart Y,Lauche CE,Baschkier A,Pardo R,Miliwebsky E,Chinen I,Rivas M,Goldbaum FA,Ugalde JE,Comerci DJ,Ciocchini AE

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified indirect hemagglutination test which enabled Pasteurella haemolytica to be serotyped in 3 h is described. There was 100% correlation with the conventional test for both the 15 prototype strains and the 50 field isolates. It was found that nonviable cultures could also be serotyped. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fraser J,Donachie W,Quirie M,Gilmour NJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a skin manifestation that usually develops after treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a major public health problem in India. The diagnosis and management of PKDL is complex. This is the first case report from India in which PKDL occurred after paromomycin treatment f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pandey K,Das VN,Singh D,Das S,Lal CS,Verma N,Bimal S,Topno RK,Siddiqui NA,Verma RB,Sinha PK,Das P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infection with the coelomycetous fungus Nattrassia mangiferae is a very rare disease affecting only the immunocompromised host. We report the first case of a disseminated infection with spondylodiscitis and granular skin lesions due to N. mangiferae in a renal transplant patient. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Willinger B,Kopetzky G,Harm F,Apfalter P,Makristathis A,Berer A,Bankier A,Winkler S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of DNA-based typing procedures for Aspergillus fumigatus isolates have been developed over the last five years. The procedures are random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) detection, and Southern hybridizations with various repetitive sequence-based pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson MJ,Gull K,Denning DW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name Psychrobacter immobilis recently has been proposed for a group of chiefly psychrotrophic, aerobic, gram-negative, nonmotile, oxidase-positive coccobacilli commonly found associated with fish, processed meat, and poultry products. This article reports an ocular infection in a 12-day-old newborn who acquired th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gini GA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the new Abbott TestPack (TP) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with cell culture and two commercial RSV EIAs (from Abbott Diagnostics and Kallestad Laboratories) by using split samples of fresh nasal washings from children with suspected RSV disease. Two tubes of HEp-2 cells were i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wren CG,Bate BJ,Masters HB,Lauer BA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and markers conveying drug resistance can have a beneficial impact on preventive public health actions. We describe here a new molecular point-of-care (POC) system, the Genedrive, which is based on simple sample preparation combined with PCR to detect MTBC a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castan P,de Pablo A,Fernández-Romero N,Rubio JM,Cobb BD,Mingorance J,Toro C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era after the introduction of the meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine, from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010, serogroup B meningococci were the major cause of invasive meningococcal disease in the province of Québec, Canada, being responsible for 72% of all meningococcal disease cases. Of the 334 inva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Lefebvre B,Deng S,Gilca R,Deceuninck G,Law DK,De Wals P,Tsang RS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for seven genomic loci was developed for Enterococcus faecalis. MLVA and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) resulted in 37 and 31 genotypes among 83 strains, respectively. Both typing schemes were highly concordant (90.4%). MLVA is an excellent alternative ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Titze-de-Almeida R,Willems RJ,Top J,Rodrigues IP,Ferreira RF 2nd,Boelens H,Brandileone MC,Zanella RC,Felipe MS,van Belkum A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable dwarf forms of Staphylococcus aureus have been identified in clinical specimens as the sole or predominant isolate in eight cases. These organisms have been shown to be menadione or thiamine dependent, i.e., cultivation in the presence of one of these agents has permitted growth of colonies which appear typical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Acar JF,Goldstein FW,Lagrange P

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three molecular typing methods were used to study the relationships among 184 Campylobacter strains isolated from humans, cattle, and chickens. All strains were genotyped by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and sequence analysis of a genomic region with short t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schouls LM,Reulen S,Duim B,Wagenaar JA,Willems RJ,Dingle KE,Colles FM,Van Embden JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant cows were successfully hyperimmunized with all four human rotavirus serotypes, resulting in a 100-fold increase in neutralizing milk antibody titers over those of controls. Milk antibodies were isolated batchwise from 1,000 kg of pooled milk for the first 10 lactation days, yielding 10 kg of freeze-dried milk...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brüssow H,Hilpert H,Walther I,Sidoti J,Mietens C,Bachmann P

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with infection from bacteremic Bartonella spp., tested using Bartonella Alphaproteobacteria growth medium (BAPGM), were retrospectively categorized into one of two groups that included those whose blood was collected once (group 1; n = 55) or three times (group 2; n = 36) within a 1-week period. Overall, 19 p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pultorak EL,Maggi RG,Mascarelli PE,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vidas Chlamydia test (CHL) is an automated enzyme-linked immunofluorescence assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis. Positive and equivocal results are confirmed with a blocking assay. A mouse monoclonal antibody directed against the chlamydial lipopolysaccharides was used for the test. The CHL assay is w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,Jones RB,Butler RC,Rice B,Brooks D,Van der Pol B,Gray M,Moncada J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains represents a major threat for hospitalized patients. We document the dissemination and control of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clones in a Greek hospital. During a 3-year study period (January 2009 to December 2011), carbapenem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poulou A,Voulgari E,Vrioni G,Xidopoulos G,Pliagkos A,Chatzipantazi V,Markou F,Tsakris A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to isolate and propagate influenza virus is an essential tool for the yearly surveillance of circulating virus strains and to ensure accurate clinical diagnosis for appropriate treatment. The suitability of MDCK-SIAT1 cells, engineered to express increased levels of alpha-2,6-linked sialic acid receptors, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oh DY,Barr IG,Mosse JA,Laurie KL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causative agent of Johne's disease is Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. This is a chronic, debilitating gastrointestinal disorder that affects ruminants and is responsible for significant economic loss. The specimen processing method that combines C(18)-carboxypropylbetaine (CB-18) treatment and lytic e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thornton CG,MacLellan KM,Stabel JR,Carothers C,Whitlock RH,Passen S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of vancomycin resistance among enterococci is increasing in the United States and elsewhere in the world, but automated susceptibility testing methods have difficulty detecting resistance expressed by certain strains. The agar screening method described by Willey et al. (B. M. Willey, B. N. Kreiswirth, A...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson JM,Clark NC,Ferraro MJ,Sahm DF,Doern G,Pfaller MA,Reller LB,Weinstein MP,Zabransky RJ,Tenover FC

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcus (GAS) species cause bacterial pharyngitis in both adults and children. Early and accurate diagnosis of GAS is important for appropriate antibiotic therapy to prevent GAS sequalae. The Revogene Strep A molecular assay (Meridian Bioscience Canada Inc, Quebec City, QC, Canada) is an automated real-t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Banerjee D,Michael J,Schmitt B,Salimnia H,Mhaissen N,Goldfarb DM,Lachance P,Faron ML,Aufderheide T,Ledeboer N,Weissfeld A,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time PCR with melting curve analysis of PCR products is a rapid procedure for detecting and genotyping herpes simplex virus (HSV). When testing mucocutaneous samples for HSV by a real-time PCR assay targeting the DNA polymerase gene, we found that some PCR products had atypical melting curves that did not conform...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson TP,Werno AM,Beynon KA,Murdoch DR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moderately repetitive sequence Ca3 was used to fingerprint strains of Candida albicans isolated from vulvovaginal infections of 10 women and strains isolated from their male partners. The Dendron software package was then used to compare the DNA fingerprints of these strains with those of vaginal commensals from w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Rotman M,Reed B,Pierson CL,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00