Laboratory diagnosis of central nervous system infections with herpes simplex virus by PCR performed with cerebrospinal fluid specimens.

abstract：:Six separate human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with cryptococcal meningitis were each found to have been infected with a unique strain of Cryptococcus neoformans on the basis of genomic DNA finger-printing analysis with the microsatellite sequence-containing oligonucleotide probe (GGAT)4 and by random amp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sullivan D,Haynes K,Moran G,Shanley D,Coleman D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic value of RT-PCR of amniotic fluid (AF) for prenatal diagnosis of congenital rubella virus infection in 45 pregnant women with confirmed primary infection was assessed. Specificity of RT-PCR was 100% and sensitivity ranged between 83 and 95%. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Macé M,Cointe D,Six C,Levy-Bruhl D,Parent du Châtelet I,Ingrand D,Grangeot-Keros L

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of DNA banding pattern polymorphism exhibited by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREM) strains isolated on a renal unit over an 11-month period was investigated. Thirty VREM strains from different patients were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE; with extended run and optimal puls...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morrison D,Woodford N,Barrett SP,Sisson P,Cookson BD

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Nineteen isolates of leptospires recovered from patients during three epidemics that occurred at different places and different times in the Andaman Islands and eight isolates from sporadic cases were characterized using serological and molecular genetic techniques. Group sera and monoclonal antibodies were used for a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vijayachari P,Ahmed N,Sugunan AP,Ghousunnissa S,Rao KR,Hasnain SE,Sehgal SC

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Viridans streptococci (VS) are common etiologic agents of subacute infective endocarditis and are capable of causing a variety of pyogenic infections. Many species of VS are difficult to differentiate by phenotypic traits. An oligonucleotide array based on 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer (ITS) sequences was develo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen CC,Teng LJ,Kaiung S,Chang TC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new immunochromatographic rapid test, Determine HIV-1/2, for the detection of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2 in human whole blood, serum, and plasma was evaluated. Determine HIV-1/2 is a sandwich immunoassay and uses a nitrocellulose strip with a capture site for the patient's re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arai H,Petchclai B,Khupulsup K,Kurimura T,Takeda K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodotorula species are emerging pathogens in immunocompromised patients. We report the in vitro activities of eight antifungals against 64 Rhodotorula isolates collected in surveillance programs between 1987 and 2003. Rhodotorula strains are resistant in vitro to fluconazole (MIC at which 50% of the isolates tested a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Diekema DJ,Petroelje B,Messer SA,Hollis RJ,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we present a case of rhino-orbital mucormycosis in a 57-year-old female with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. The only mold cultured at 25°C, 37°C, and 40°C from a specimen of the nasal crust was identified phenotypically and independently using nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data as Thamnostylum l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xess I,Mohapatra S,Shivaprakash MR,Chakrabarti A,Benny GL,O'Donnell K,Padhye AA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of cerebrospinal fluid from 103 patients with aseptic meningitis were tested by PCR for detection of leptospires, and the results were compared with those of the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of immunoglobulin M (ELISA-IgM). Of these samples, 39.80%...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Romero EC,Billerbeck AE,Lando VS,Camargo ED,Souza CC,Yasuda PH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical toxin variant of Clostridium botulinum (strain 657) was isolated from the feces of a 6-week-old female infant whose symptoms and clinical history were consistent with infant botulism. Toxin detected in the feces and the toxin produced by isolates from the feces and from two rectal swabs could be neutralize...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hatheway CL,McCroskey LM,Lombard GL,Dowell VR Jr

更新日期：1981-12-01 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：:Azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is an increasing worldwide problem with major clinical implications. Surveillance is warranted to guide clinicians to provide optimal treatment to patients. To investigate azole resistance in clinical Aspergillus isolates in our institution, a Belgian university hospital, we condu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montesinos I,Argudín MA,Hites M,Ahajjam F,Dodémont M,Dagyaran C,Bakkali M,Etienne I,Jacobs F,Knoop C,Patteet S,Lagrou K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that whole blood contains significantly more hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA than plasma. To validate the whole-blood-based HCV RNA detection method, a prospective comparison of HCV RNA detection in whole blood and plasma from 50 patients with chronic liver disease was undertaken. Whole-blood an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stapleton JT,Klinzman D,Schmidt WN,Pfaller MA,Wu P,LaBrecque DR,Han Jq,Phillips MJ,Woolson R,Alden B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae is a technique generally confined to reference laboratories, as purchasing pneumococcal antisera is a huge investment. Many attempts have been made to modify serological agglutination techniques to make them more accessible, and more recently developments in serotyping have focused ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Batt SL,Charalambous BM,McHugh TD,Martin S,Gillespie SH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 27-year-old male who presented with respiratory distress that required mechanical ventilation. Transbronchial biopsy revealed adiaspores of the fungus Emmonsia crescens within granulomata, a condition known as adiaspiromycosis. The patient received amphotericin products and corticosteroids, follo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anstead GM,Sutton DA,Graybill JR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly specific and sensitive latex agglutination test for cryptococcal antigen detection in cerebrospinal fluid is routine in many hospitals. Contamination of cerebrospinal fluid by a minute amount of syneresis fluid (surface condensation) from agar gave a strongly positive reaction which was heat stable, was not...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boom WH,Piper DJ,Ruoff KL,Ferraro MJ

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) made to coxsackievirus B-3 were tested against a panel of enteroviruses by indirect immunofluorescence. The MAbs included seven which reacted with coxsackievirus B-3 only, five which reacted with more than one enterovirus included in the panel, one which reacted with broad enterovi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yagi S,Schnurr D,Lin J

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pseudooutbreak of cryptococcal meningitis was caused by the use of contaminated albumin solution used in the preparation of Papanicolaou-stained slides of cerebrospinal fluid. Organisms were seen in cytocentrifuge preparations, but not in India ink preparations of cerebrospinal fluid specimens. Cryptococcal antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hopfer RL,Katz RL,Fainstein V

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of latently infected cell lines from primary effusion lymphomas (PEL) presently is the most efficient system for the propagation of clinical strains of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in culture. Here we describe a new approach to culture productively replicating HHV-8 from patient samples. A BJAB-derived B-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gasperini P,Barbierato M,Martinelli C,Rigotti P,Marchini F,Masserizzi G,Leoncini F,Chieco-Bianchi L,Schulz TF,Calabrò ML

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:To assess whether rinsing with oral antiseptics before sputum collection would reduce contamination of mycobacterial cultures, 120 patients with suspected tuberculosis were randomly assigned to rinse with chlorhexidine or cetylpyridinium mouthwash before collection. The culture contamination rate was significantly low...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peres RL,Palaci M,Loureiro RB,Dietze R,Johnson JL,Golub JE,Ruffino-Netto A,Maciel EL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a failure of the real-time reverse transcriptase PCR H7 subtyping protocol currently used in national avian influenza surveillance programs. Significant substitutions in primer and probe target sequences were identified, especially in wild bird viruses. The protocol, originally designed for detecting H7 infl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xing Z,Cardona C,Dao P,Crossley B,Hietala S,Boyce W

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple agar-well diffusion bioassay suitable for measurement of flucytosine or ketoconazole was developed by using Candida pseudotropicalis ATCC 46764 as the assay organism. A test medium composed of (per liter) 7 g of Trypticase peptone, 7 g of YNB (yeast-nitrogen base), 15 g of glucose, and 15 g of agar was seeded...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bodet CA 3rd,Jorgensen JH,Drutz DJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Tularemia caused by Francisella tularensis is a zoonotic infection of the Northern Hemisphere that mainly affects the skin, lymph nodes, bloodstream, and lungs. Other manifestations of tularemia are very rare, especially those with musculoskeletal involvement. Presenting in 2016, we diagnosed two cases of periprosthet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chrdle A,Trnka T,Musil D,Fucentese SF,Bode P,Keller PM,Achermann Y

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA Sequencing System are designed to sequence the protease (PR)- and reverse transcriptase (RT)-coding regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pol. Studies were undertaken to determine the accuracy of this assay system in detecting resistance-associated mut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuritzkes DR,Grant RM,Feorino P,Griswold M,Hoover M,Young R,Day S,Lloyd RM Jr,Reid C,Morgan GF,Winslow DL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of immunomagnetic separation (IMS) and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure was used for direct isolation and identification of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 and Shigella flexneri from feces. Immunomagnetic particles were coated with monoclonal antibody MASFB, which is specific for a common epitope ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Islam D,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1992-11-01 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