The L1 major capsid protein of human papillomavirus type 16 variants affects yield of virus-like particles produced in an insect cell expression system.

abstract：:A standardized broth microdilution method was compared to the E test and an agar dilution method for the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli isolates. A group of 47 human clinical isolates, 37 isolates from retail poultry, and 29 isolates from living turkeys (total, 113 isolates) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luber P,Bartelt E,Genschow E,Wagner J,Hahn H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty staphylococcal strains that produced toxic shock syndrome (TSS) toxin 1 and that were isolated from patients with TSS were characterized. One strain had more properties that were characteristic of Staphylococcus hyicus than of Staphylococcus aureus. Forty-four strains had the same properties or differed in only ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aliu B,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony phenotype and genetic similarity were assessed within and between groups of commensal and pathogenic strains of Candida albicans collected from the oral cavities of individuals in a single geographical locale. Thirty-eight percent of pathogenic isolates contained predominant or minor variant colony morphologies...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hellstein J,Vawter-Hugart H,Fotos P,Schmid J,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, isolated from ticks and vertebrate animals in Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, were identified and characterized by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer amplicons. A total of 241 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin T,Oliver JH Jr,Gao L,Kollars TM Jr,Clark KL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the performance of a recently introduced commercial chessboard method using 12 antisera, in comparison with that of the 55-antiserum panel used in determining the serogroups and types (SGTs) of Streptococcus pneumoniae, both of which were carried out by a coagglutination technique. Of a total of 150 strai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lalitha MK,Thomas K,Kumar RS,Steinhoff MC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes, a major human pathogen, is still considered susceptible to beta-lactams, but for other relevant antibiotics, highly variable resistance rates have been reported. Since no data were available from Iran, we tested 1,335 throat isolates from two different regions of the country for their antibioti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jasir A,Tanna A,Noorani A,Mirsalehian A,Efstratiou A,Schalen C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracking the spread of noroviruses during outbreaks of gastroenteritis is hampered by the lack of sequence diversity in those regions of the genome chosen for virus detection and characterization. Sequence analysis of regions of the genes encoding the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and the S domain of the capsid does no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xerry J,Gallimore CI,Iturriza-Gómara M,Allen DJ,Gray JJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 840-bp fragment of the 18S rRNA gene was used to identify Cryptosporidium spp. recovered from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and -uninfected patients from Kenya, Malawi, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. Initial identification was by Ziehl-Neelsen acid-fast staining. Confirmation was by nested P...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gatei W,Greensill J,Ashford RW,Cuevas LE,Parry CM,Cunliffe NA,Beeching NJ,Hart CA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia brasiliensis, the second most frequently isolated aerobic actinomycete in the clinical laboratory, is usually associated with localized cutaneous infections. However, 22% of 238 N. brasiliensis isolates from the United States and 12% of 66 isolates from Queensland, Australia, which had been collected over a 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wallace RJ Jr,Brown BA,Blacklock Z,Ulrich R,Jost K,Brown JM,McNeil MM,Onyi G,Steingrube VA,Gibson J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven isolates representing five distinct outbreaks of pneumococcal conjunctivitis were examined for phenotypic and genetic characteristics. None of the strains possessed capsules, and all strains were susceptible to optochin, bile soluble, and Gen-Probe AccuProbe test positive. All 11 isolates were confirmed as Stre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carvalho MG,Steigerwalt AG,Thompson T,Jackson D,Facklam RR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young immunocompetent patient was admitted for a febrile illness with malaise, arthralgias, painful leg swelling, and polyserositis. Shortly prior to becoming ill, the patient had traveled to the Northern African desert. The symptoms disappeared during treatment with antibiotics (doxycycline and ceftriaxone) but rec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iten A,Graf S,Egger M,Täuber M,Graf J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum has been associated with urethritis in men, obstetric problems in women, and respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants. U. urealyticum can be divided into two biovars comprising 14 serovars. Partial sequences of genes encoding the multiple-banded antigens of the cell surface are known. Us...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pitcher D,Sillis M,Robertson JA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen strains of an anaerobic, catalase-negative, gram-positive diphtheroid-shaped bacterium recovered from human sources were characterized by phenotypic and molecular chemical and molecular genetic methods. The unidentified bacterium showed some resemblance to Actinomyces species and related taxa, but biochemical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hall V,Collins MD,Lawson PA,Hutson RA,Falsen E,Inganas E,Duerden B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical observation has been made that there might be an unacceptable number of false-positive enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test results for IgM among persons suspected of having coccidioidomycosis. Patients with a positive result for IgM by EIA are thought to have a diagnosis of acute coccidioidomycosis. However, th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuberski T,Herrig J,Pappagianis D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples collected from 68 patients (age, mean +/- the standard deviation [SD], 56.3 +/- 12.8 years) at admission who were subsequently molecularly diagnosed as having hepatitis E and from 2,781 individuals who were assumed not to have been recently infected with hepatitis E virus (HEV; negative controls; 52.9 +/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Kusakai S,Mizuo H,Suzuki K,Fujimura K,Masuko K,Sugai Y,Aikawa T,Nishizawa T,Okamoto H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supposedly first outbreak of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in Sweden occurred among intravenous drug addicts in the Malmö area in the mid-1970s. Stored sera from this outbreak were used for viral RNA extraction and analysis. By sequence comparisons, the HDV genomes from those Swedish patients fell into two sep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang YY,Hansson BG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure nasal-wash and serum isotype-specific hemagglutinin antibody responses in 109 seronegative (hemagglutination-inhibiting titer less than or equal to 1:8) adults vaccinated intranasally with live attenuated A/Washington/897/80 (H3N2) or A/California/10/78 (H1N1) c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clements ML,Murphy BR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces viscosus is a gram-positive, non-acid-fact, facultative, catalase-positive, filamentous, or diphtheroidal microorganism. It was isolated from six canine infections during a period of 1.5 years. The organism was cultured from exudate and flaky granules aspirated from infectious granulomas and empyemas. All ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davenport AA,Carter GR,Patterson MJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHROMagar Candida is a selective and differential chromogenic medium that has been shown to be useful for identification of Candida albicans, Candida krusei, Candida tropicalis, and perhaps Candida glabrata. Colony morphology and color have been well defined when CHROMagar Candida has been used to isolate yeast direct...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Horvath LL,Hospenthal DR,Murray CK,Dooley DP

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid dimethyl sulfoxide modification of an acid-fast technique was applied to direct fecal smears to monitor cryptosporidiosis in nonhuman primates. Brilliantly stained pink oocysts against a pale green background demonstrated well-preserved internal morphology and facilitated rapid, simple, noninvasive diagnosis w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bronsdon MA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time PCR assay was developed targeting the bla(KPC) responsible for Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-mediated carbapenem resistance and was validated for testing colonies or enrichment broth cultures. The assay accurately detects KPC-containing strains with high analytical specificity and sensitivity. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mangold KA,Santiano K,Broekman R,Krafft CA,Voss B,Wang V,Hacek DM,Usacheva EA,Thomson RB Jr,Kaul KL,Peterson LR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia lusitaniae is a species within the complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and is infrequently isolated in Europe. In contrast, this species is by far the most predominant in North Africa and in Portugal. In this study, we analyzed the genetic diversity, at several loci, of a large population of isolates from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Younsi H,Sarih M,Jouda F,Godfroid E,Gern L,Bouattour A,Baranton G,Postic D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple sample-processing methods for PCR detection of Porphyromonas gingivalis, a major pathogen causing adult periodontitis, from saliva were studied. The ability to detect P. gingivalis from 118 salivary samples by PCR after boiling and Chelex 100 processing was compared with bacterial culture. P. gingivalis was det...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mättö J,Saarela M,Alaluusua S,Oja V,Jousimies-Somer H,Asikainen S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining malaria transmission and known difficulties with current diagnostic tools for malaria, such as microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in particular at low parasite densities, still warrant the search for sensitive diagnostic tests. Molecular tests need substantial simplification before implementation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mens PF,de Bes HM,Sondo P,Laochan N,Keereecharoen L,van Amerongen A,Flint J,Sak JR,Proux S,Tinto H,Schallig HD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection of mycobacterial disease is essential. Using multiple specimen types and concentrations of mycobacteria, we compared two commercial auramine O stains. The more rapid stain permitted consistent acid-fast bacillus quantitation and exhibited less debris staining, and the staining procedure required less t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hendry C,Dionne K,Hedgepeth A,Carroll K,Parrish N

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple new agar medium containing L-canavanine, glycine, and bromthymol blue was found to give a clearer and more accurate distinction between serotype A or D (Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans) and serotype B or C (C. neoformans var. gattii) than creatinine-dextrose-bromthymol blue or glycine-cycloheximide-ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon-Chung KJ,Polacheck I,Bennett JE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pncA gene allows for pyrazinamide susceptibility testing. We summarize data on pncA polymorphisms that do not confer resistance at a susceptibility breakpoint of 100 μg/ml pyrazinamide in MGIT within a cohort of isolates from South Africa and the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whitfield MG,Warren RM,Streicher EM,Sampson SL,Sirgel FA,van Helden PD,Mercante A,Willby M,Hughes K,Birkness K,Morlock G,van Rie A,Posey JE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid tests for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage are important to limit the transmission of MRSA in the health care setting. We evaluated the performance of the BD GeneOhm MRSA real-time PCR assay using a diverse collection of MRSA isolates, mainly from Copenhagen, Denmark, but ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bartels MD,Boye K,Rohde SM,Larsen AR,Torfs H,Bouchy P,Skov R,Westh H

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new commercial method intended to exclude the presence of Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., and Yersinia enterocolitica and to presumptively identify Salmonella isolates within 2 h after primary isolation from stool specimens was evaluated. This system is marketed in Europe as API Z and in the United States as Rapid S...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Teti G,Burdash NM,Zamboni C,Fava C,Tomasello F,Mastroeni P

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the SIGNAL (Oxoid Ltd., Basingstoke, United Kingdom) blood culture system, gas produced by bacterial metabolism displaces medium from the culture bottle into an upper reservoir via a hollow needle. Displacement of media may provide a visual indication of the presence of both aerobic and anaerobic organisms in a sin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trombley C,Anderson JD

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00