Detection of bovine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein E antibodies in individual milk samples by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

abstract：:Infections due to small-colony variants (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with chronic and recurrent infections are an emerging problem; however, studies with this subpopulation are hampered by the fact that SCVs may exhibit unstable phenotypes, making them difficult to study, particularly in broth media. In...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker K,Laham NA,Fegeler W,Proctor RA,Peters G,von Eiff C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA by L1 consensus primer systems (e.g., MY09/11 or GP5(+)/6(+)) can detect as few as 10 to 100 molecules of HPV targets from a genital sample. However, genotype determination by dot blot hybridization is laborious and requires at least 27 separate hybridizations for substa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gravitt PE,Peyton CL,Apple RJ,Wheeler CM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A typing enzyme immunoassay (TYPE-EIA) was used to determine the antigenic types of 64 astrovirus-positive specimens from nine collections from seven countries. Six of the seven known astrovirus types were detected in the collections, with HAstV-1 predominating in all collections for one from the United Kingdom. Selec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Noel JS,Lee TW,Kurtz JB,Glass RI,Monroe SS

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a major health problem in newborns and children. Early detection of pathogens allows initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy that strongly correlates with positive outcomes. Multiplex PCR has the potential to rapidly identify bloodstream infections, compensating for the loss of blood culture sensitiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lucignano B,Ranno S,Liesenfeld O,Pizzorno B,Putignani L,Bernaschi P,Menichella D

更新日期：2011-06-01 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 increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis, a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, emphasizes the need to improve the diagnostic tools for this disease. We established a LightCycler-based real-time PCR assay to detect and quantify rapidly, specifically, and sensitively Aspergillus fumigatu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Spiess B,Buchheidt D,Baust C,Skladny H,Seifarth W,Zeilfelder U,Leib-Mösch C,Mörz H,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and application of nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) assays for the detection of West Nile (WN) and St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) viruses are reported. Two unique detection formats were developed for the NASBA assays: a postamplification detection step with a virus-specific internal capt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lanciotti RS,Kerst AJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a rapid test to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing isolates and specifically strain GC1237, coming from a sub-Saharan country, is needed due to its alarming wide spread on Gran Canaria Island (Spain). A rapid test that detects IS6110 present between dnaA and dnaN in the Beijing strains and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Millán-Lou MI,Alonso H,Gavín P,Hernández-Febles M,Campos-Herrero MI,Copado R,Cañas F,Kremer K,Caminero JA,Martín C,Samper S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of clinical isolates of Nocardia to the species level is important for defining the spectrum of disease produced by each species and for predicting antimicrobial susceptibility. We evaluated the usefulness of PCR amplification of a portion of the Nocardia 16S rRNA gene and subsequent restriction endonuc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Conville PS,Fischer SH,Cartwright CP,Witebsky FG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid tests are sensitive and specific and provide a rapid diagnosis, making them invaluable for patient and outbreak management. Multiplex PCR assays have additional advantages in providing an economical and comprehensive panel for many common respiratory viruses. Previous reports have shown the utility of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pabbaraju K,Wong S,Tokaryk KL,Fonseca K,Drews SJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of viridans streptococci isolated from the blood cultures of 86 patients was determined. Isolates that were significant or suggestive of infection represented only 21% of the cases. Among 54 isolates for which the species was known, Streptococcus sanguis II was the most common. However, a sig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson FJ,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opisthorchis viverrini is an important food-borne trematode in Southeast Asia. The infection causes significant morbidity in terms of hepatobiliary diseases and cholangiocarcinoma. The aim of this study was to improve the sensitivity of the PCR-based diagnosis of O. viverrini infection. A new fecal DNA extraction prot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Duenngai K,Sithithaworn P,Rudrappa UK,Iddya K,Laha T,Stensvold CR,Strandgaard H,Johansen MV

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Current nucleic acid amplification methods to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis are complex, labor-intensive, and technically challenging. We developed and performed the first analysis of the Cepheid Gene Xpert System's MTB/RIF assay, an integrated hands-free sputum-processing and real-time PCR system with rapid on-de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Helb D,Jones M,Story E,Boehme C,Wallace E,Ho K,Kop J,Owens MR,Rodgers R,Banada P,Safi H,Blakemore R,Lan NT,Jones-López EC,Levi M,Burday M,Ayakaka I,Mugerwa RD,McMillan B,Winn-Deen E,Christel L,Dailey P,Perkins

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 2009 H1N1 virus infection with a high viral load in a previously healthy infant who presented with complex febrile seizures and improved on oseltamivir without neurologic sequelae. Febrile seizures may be a complication in young children experiencing infection with high viral loads of 2009 H1N1 influenza...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Leary MF,Chappell JD,Stratton CW,Cronin RM,Taylor MB,Tang YW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii is a saprophyte, sometimes a pathogen, of the human oral cavity. Very few extra-oral infections related to this agent have been described. We report the first instance of A. naeslundii as an etiological agent of pelvic actinomycosis in a user of an intrauterine device, an infection so far exclus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonnez W,Lattimer G,Mohanraj NA,Johnson TH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Corynebacterium ulcerans can mimic classical diphtheria, extrapharyngeal infections are extremely rare. Sequencing of the diphtheria toxin (DT)-encoding tox gene of two C. ulcerans isolates from extrapharyngeal infections revealed differences from C. diphtheriae DT sequences, mainly in the translocation and rece...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sing A,Hogardt M,Bierschenk S,Heesemann J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four human coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43) are associated with a range of respiratory outcomes, including bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Their epidemiologies and clinical characteristics are poorly described and are often reliant on case reports. To address these problems, we conducted a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaunt ER,Hardie A,Claas EC,Simmonds P,Templeton KE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aerobically incubated, agar-based medium was developed for amino acid decarboxylase testing of Enterobacteriaceae family members by replica-plating methods. Results with the new medium agreed 97 to 99% with the reference broth method of Moeller, and no false-positive reactions were encountered. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maccani JE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine vaginal cytobrush specimens were analyzed for the presence of Chlamydia spp. by a high-sensitivity, high-specificity quantitative PCR. The 53% prevalence of low-level Chlamydia psittaci and C. pecorum genital infection detected in virgin heifers suggests predominantely extragenital transmission of Chlamydia in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeGraves FJ,Gao D,Hehnen HR,Schlapp T,Kaltenboeck B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal bite wounds are often infected with bacteria from the animal's oral flora. We report what we believe to be the first case of bacteremia with Bacteroides pyogenes resulting from an infected cat bite. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Madsen IR,Justesen US

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three strains of Cryptococcus neoformans were isolated from clinical specimens, including specimens from AIDS patients in Brazil, and were classified into two serotypes; we detected 31 and 2 strains of serotypes A and B, respectively. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint pattern analyses of these...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aoki FH,Imai T,Tanaka R,Mikami Y,Taguchi H,Nishimura NF,Nishimura K,Miyaji M,Schreiber AZ,Branchini ML

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bla(OXA-51-like) was sought in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter species in a multiplex PCR, which also detects bla(OXA-23-like) and class 1 integrase genes. All isolates that gave a band for bla(OXA-51-like) identified as A. baumannii. This gene was detected in each of 141 isolates of A. baumannii but not in those o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turton JF,Woodford N,Glover J,Yarde S,Kaufmann ME,Pitt TL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 271 Enterobacter blood culture isolates from 12 hospitals, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) prevalence varied between 0% and 30% per hospital. High prevalence was associated with dissemination, indicating the potential relevance of infection control measures. Screening with cefepime or Vitek 2, followed by a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stuart JC,Diederen B,Al Naiemi N,Fluit A,Arents N,Thijsen S,Vlaminckx B,Mouton JW,Leverstein-van Hall M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not always possible to culture feces immediately, and appropriate methods for transport of human specimens, unlike those from animals, have not been fully evaluated. Therefore, we took serial subcultures in two phases from six transport media inoculated with human diarrheal stools known to be positive for Campyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang WL,Reller LB,Smallwood B,Luechtefeld NW,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 drug resistance (HIVDR) assays are important tools in clinical management of HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and surveillance of drug-resistant variants at population levels. The high cost associated with commercial assays hinders their use in resource-limited settings. We adopted and valid...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Inzaule S,Yang C,Kasembeli A,Nafisa L,Okonji J,Oyaro B,Lando R,Mills LA,Laserson K,Thomas T,Nkengasong J,Zeh C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Arabinitol (DA) is a useful diagnostic marker for candidiasis in patients with neutropenia and other high-risk groups, but its use in unselected patients with a broad range of underlying diseases and conditions has not been studied. We used an automated enzymatic fluorometric assay to measure serum DA/creatinine rat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yeo SF,Huie S,Sofair AN,Campbell S,Durante A,Wong B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

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：:To halt the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) epidemic requires interventions that can prevent transmission of numerous HIV-1 subtypes. The most frequently transmitted viruses belong to the subtypes A, B, and C and the circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) AE and AG. A fast one-tube assay that identifies and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de Baar MP,Timmermans EC,Bakker M,de Rooij E,van Gemen B,Goudsmit J

更新日期：2001-05-01 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