Positive result by serology indicates active Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with atrophic gastritis.

abstract：:Herpesviruses isolated from either domesticated or wild carnivores should be immunologically compared with known viruses of this group which could have been included in the diet of the animal before being considered to be previously undescribed herpesviruses native to the carnivore in question. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Porter DD,Larsen AE,Cox NA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of cerebral phaeohyphomycosis in a 36-year-old male caused by the neurotropic fungus Ramichloridium obovoideum (Matushima) de Hoog 1977 (Ramichloridium mackenziei Campbell et Al-Hedaithy 1993). This man resided in the Middle East, where the fungus appears to be endemic and, possibly, geographically re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sutton DA,Slifkin M,Yakulis R,Rinaldi MG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct inoculation onto Granada medium (GM) in plates and tubes was compared to inoculation into a selective Todd-Hewitt broth (with 8 microg of gentamicin per ml and 15 microg of nalidixic acid per ml) for detection of group B streptococci (GBS) in pregnant women with 800 vaginal and 450 vaginoanorectal samples. Comp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rosa-Fraile M,Rodriguez-Granger J,Cueto-Lopez M,Sampedro A,Gaye EB,Haro JM,Andreu A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent Lassa virus strains from Nigeria were completely or partially sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis revealed the predominance of lineage II and III strains, the existence of a previously undescribed (sub)lineage in Nigeria, and the directional spread of virus in the southern part of the country. The Bayesian analysi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ehichioya DU,Hass M,Becker-Ziaja B,Ehimuan J,Asogun DA,Fichet-Calvet E,Kleinsteuber K,Lelke M,ter Meulen J,Akpede GO,Omilabu SA,Günther S,Olschläger S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine that susceptibility of AMPLICOR Chlamydia trachomatis PCR to inhibitory factors possibly present in cervical specimens, we obtained cervical specimens from 200 gynecology patients attending our outpatient clinic. The prevalence of C. trachomatis infection was 4.1%, as determined by cell culture. All AMPLI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Verkooyen RP,Luijendijk A,Huisman WM,Goessens WH,Kluytmans JA,van Rijsoort-Vos JH,Verbrugh HA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API Staph-Ident system was evaluated as a means for identifying the species of bovine strains of staphylococci routinely isolated from quarter-milk samples. The species identity of 314 of 581 (54%) isolates of staphylococci was correctly determined by this method. The API Staph-Ident system was more accurate in co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Langlois BE,Harmon RJ,Akers K

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of broth cultures of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) by bacterial species other than Mycobacterium species frequently occurs. Many of these contaminated cultures require redecontamination and reincubation before the appropriate tests can be performed for identification, significantly affecting the turnaround tim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zheng X,Pang M,Engler HD,Tanaka S,Reppun T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of porphyrins produced from omega-aminolevulinic acid was evaluated for use in speciation of the Haemophilus. Two hundred and forty-eight clinical isolates of nonhemolytic Haemophilus were tested concurrently for porphyrin production and for X and V requirements. The porphyrin production test was more ra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lund ME,Blazevic DJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major cause of bacterial meningitis. We report a case of meningitis due to a mixed infection with two distinct strains of S. pneumoniae: one penicillin-resistant strain of serotype 9V and one penicillin-susceptible strain of serotype 7. The two strains exhibited different pulsed-field g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chaves F,Campelo C,Sanz F,Otero JR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard culture methods for diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia take at least 24 h. The BinaxNOW urine-based test for S. pneumoniae (BinaxNOW-SP) takes only 15 min to conduct, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis and targeted treatment. This study was conducted to assess whether the use of BinaxNOW-SP a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sinclair A,Xie X,Teltscher M,Dendukuri N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate identification of mycobacterial species and subspecies is essential to evaluate their significance and to perform epidemiological studies. The subspecies of Mycobacterium avium have different attributes but coincide in their zoonotic potential. Our knowledge about M. avium subsp. silvaticum is limited, since ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rónai Z,Csivincsik Á,Dán Á

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Swedish bovine and a Dutch human phage set for coagulase-negative staphylococci were used to phage type coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk from Minnesota dairy herds. A comparison was also made of the deoxyribonuclease activity of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holmberg O,Lyon RH,Price D,Farnsworth RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel gelatin particle agglutination test (MLPA) for the serodiagnosis of leprosy; this test is especially useful for clinical practice and epidemiological surveys of leprosy in countries in which the disease is endemic. The antigen used in the test is the chemically synthesized trisaccharide moiety of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Izumi S,Fujiwara T,Ikeda M,Nishimura Y,Sugiyama K,Kawatsu K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FUNGITEST method (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Paris, France) is a microplate-based procedure for the breakpoint testing of six antifungal agents (amphotericin B, flucytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and miconazole). We compared the FUNGITEST method with a broth microdilution test, performed accord...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davey KG,Holmes AD,Johnson EM,Szekely A,Warnock DW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) assay for the detection of Plasmodium parasites has been developed. Primers and probes were selected on the basis of the sequence of the small-subunit rRNA gene. Quantification was achieved by coamplification of the RNA in the sample with one modified...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schoone GJ,Oskam L,Kroon NC,Schallig HD,Omar SA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitive peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PXAPX) method individually and in conjunction with the Papanicolaou (PAP) stain was used to detect herpes simplex virus (HSV) in specimens from human female genitalia. Initial studies using a model system of HSV-1 or HSV-2-infected Vero cells established (i) acetone as the most...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pearson NS,Fleagle G,Docherty JJ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography was evaluated as a rapid means of identifying obligately anaerobic gram-positive cocci of medical interest. Isolates were inoculated into a defined chemical medium consisting primarily of amino acids and were incubated aerobically for 1 h at 35 degrees C. After removal of organis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harpold DJ,Wasilauskas BL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria from clinical specimens maintained in the Copan Venturi Transystem and the Becton Dickinson Port-a-Cul transport was assessed. Of 54 anaerobes, 53 were recovered after 4 h, and 52 were recovered after 24 h, from both systems. After 48 h, 45 and 50 were recovered from the two ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Citron DM,Warren YA,Hudspeth MK,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current studies indicate that a significant percentage of healthy blood donors carry Chlamydia pneumoniae in their blood. Although the clinical significance of such findings is unknown, eradication of such bacteria from blood components may contribute to transfusion safety. Deletion of C. pneumoniae in Red Blood Cell ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ikejima H,Friedman H,Leparc GF,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection is a common complication in late-stage AIDS. We describe a patient seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus with a disseminated infection caused by mycobacteria. Acid-fast rods were visible by microscopy in stool and bone marrow and in specimens from skin, liver, spleen,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirschner P,Vogel U,Hein R,Böttger EC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis in recent years has become an important public health issue in Taiwan. The resistant strains that cause human infections are considered to be from pigs. In this study, we characterized 157 swine and 42 human Salmonella serovar Choleraesu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang CC,Lin YH,Chang CF,Yeh KS,Chiu CH,Chu C,Chien MS,Hsu YM,Tsai LS,Chiou CS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of an auxanographic method used in yeast species identification to determine potassium nitrate (KNO3) assimilation resulted in a simple and inexpensive KNO3 assimilation test medium. The medium provided accurate and reliable results in less than 24 h. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pincus DH,Salkin IF,Hurd NJ,Levy IL,Kemna MA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for differentiation between wild and vaccine-derived strains of poliovirus are required, particularly in countries where wild and vaccine-related strains coexist. For this differentiation, we tested the method of Inouye and Hondo (S. Inouye and R. Hondo, Arch. Virol. 129:311-316, 1993) for discrimination of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeda N,Sakae K,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Hondo R,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of a limiting dilution assay (LDA) showed that the occurrence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-harboring cells in serially diluted samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of HIV-1-seropositive patients fits the model describing a single-hit Poisson distributi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu W,Manolikakis G,Andrieu JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) with purified recombinant antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Western blot analyses with whole cells of this spirochete were used to test human sera to determine which antigens were diagnostically important. In analyses for immunoglobulin M (IgM...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Magnarelli LA,Ijdo JW,Padula SJ,Flavell RA,Fikrig E

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood cultures (BCs) are the standard method for diagnosis of bloodstream infections (BSIs). However, the average BC contamination rate (CR) in U.S. hospitals is 2.9%, potentially resulting in unnecessary antibiotic use and excessive therapy costs. Several studies have compared various skin antisepsis agents without a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Story-Roller E,Weinstein MP

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 192 hybridomas were developed from mice immunized with Rickettsia japonica, a newly identified spotted fever group rickettsia pathogenic for humans. Of these hybridomas, 101 were species specific, 37 were spotted fever group reactive, and the other 54 were also reactive with one or more of the other pathoge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Uchiyama T,Uchida T,Walker DH

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) is associated with respiratory infections worldwide, mainly in children. Similar to other parvoviruses, it is believed that HBoV1 can persist for long periods of time in humans, probably through maintaining concatemers of the virus single-stranded DNA genome in the nuclei of infected cells. R...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Proenca-Modena JL,Paula FE,Buzatto GP,Carenzi LR,Saturno TH,Prates MC,Silva ML,Delcaro LS,Valera FC,Tamashiro E,Anselmo-Lima WT,Arruda E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning occurred among attendees of a firehouse luncheon. The predominant symptoms of diarrhea (100%) and abdominal pain (81%) among case-patients, the mean incubation period (13.4 h), and the mean duration of illness (21.2 h) were all characteristic of C. perfringens ente...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gross TP,Kamara LB,Hatheway CL,Powers P,Libonati JP,Harmon SM,Israel E

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel recombinant baculovirus which expresses Ebola virus (EBO) nucleoprotein (NP) under the control of the cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter was constructed. HeLa cells abortively infected with the baculovirus expressed EBO NP, and this was used as an immunofluorescent (IF) antigen to detect EBO immunoglobul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saijo M,Niikura M,Morikawa S,Kurane I

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00