Diagnostic accuracy of a rapid whole-blood test for detection of Helicobacter pylori.

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis causes Johne's disease, a systemic infection and chronic inflammation of the intestine that affects many species, including primates. Infection is widespread in livestock, and human populations are exposed. Johne's disease is associated with immune dysregulation, with involv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Scanu AM,Bull TJ,Cannas S,Sanderson JD,Sechi LA,Dettori G,Zanetti S,Hermon-Taylor J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of a reference strain of Yersinia enterocolitica serovar O15, Ye614, was examined for its chemical structure and antigenicity. The O15 LPS was partially hydrolyzed with diluted acetic acid and fractionated on a Sephadex G-50 column. Only one peak was detected at fractions where the R-core olig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawaoka Y,Wauters G,Otsuki K,Tsubokura M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on 16S rRNA gene PCR, no significant difference was observed in rates of detection of Helicobacter species in intestinal biopsy specimens from 160 Chinese inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients (10%) and 80 controls (6.3%). By using a [(13)C]urea breath test, the H. pylori infection rate in 208 Chinese IBD pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang S,Zhong B,Chao K,Xiao Y,Cui Y,Gao X,Chen B,He Y,Hu P,Chen M,Mitchell HM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microhematocrit concentration method (MH) for immediate diagnosis of Chagas' disease during the acute stage or in congenital cases was standardized. Parasitemia as low as 1,000 parasites per ml was detected, after centrifugation of six 50-microliters capillary tubes, by 10-min microscopic observation of each buffy c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feilij H,Muller L,Gonzalez Cappa SM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is the most common cause of human and canine urinary tract infection (UTI). Clonal groups, often with high levels of antimicrobial resistance, are a major component of the E. coli population that causes human UTI. While little is known about the population structure of E. coli that causes UTI in dogs,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： LeCuyer TE,Byrne BA,Daniels JB,Diaz-Campos DV,Hammac GK,Miller CB,Besser TE,Davis MA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 10 to 15 years, Aerococcus-like organisms have been isolated from urinary tract specimens from hospitalized patients at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, with signs of urinary tract infection, and a single strain has been deposited at the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC 12142). An ad...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christensen JJ,Vibits H,Ursing J,Korner B

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis can identify sequence polymorphisms by comparing the melting curves of amplicons generated by real-time PCR amplification. We describe the application of this technique to identify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis types I, II, and III. The HRM approach was based on ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castellanos E,Aranaz A,De Buck J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We described the molecular epidemiology of expanded-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant gram-negative bacilli (RGN) recovered from inanimate surfaces. RGN were isolated from 9% of environmental cultures. Numerous species, each with multiple unique strains, were recovered. Epidemiological links between environmental, pers...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： D'Agata EM,Venkataraman L,DeGirolami P,Samore M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide study on candidemia was conducted in Iceland from 1980 to 1999. The annual incidence increased from 1.4 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year between 1980 and 1984 to 4.9 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year between 1995 and 1999 (P < 0.0001). Candidemia episodes at university hospitals increased from 0.15/1,000 admis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Asmundsdóttir LR,Erlendsdóttir H,Gottfredsson M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Staphylococcus aureus to clot plasma through conformational activation of prothrombin by staphylocoagulase is used to distinguish S. aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci. We show that while the direct thrombin inhibitor dabigatran inhibits staphylocoagulase activity, the clinical use of dabigatr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vanassche T,Verhaegen J,Peetermans WE,Hoylaerts MF,Verhamme P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium complex strains isolated in a nosocomial outbreak were characterized at the molecular level. The strains were microbiologically characterized as Mycobacterium bovis. The mpt40 sequence was not present in chromosomal DNA from these strains, supporting the fact that they ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blázquez J,Espinosa de Los Monteros LE,Samper S,Martín C,Guerrero A,Cobo J,Van Embden J,Baquero F,Gómez-Mampaso E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To simplify the serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a dot bot assay has been developed and compared with the standard quellung reaction in 1,082 isolates. The technique has been demonstrated to be sensitive, specific, easy to perform, and inexpensive. The dot blot assay could be useful when large numbers of pneumo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenoll A,Jado I,Vicioso D,Casal J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium species are saprophytic molds which cause disseminated or localized infections in humans. Disseminated Fusarium infection can cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. We present a case of disseminated fusariosis caused by Fusarium verticillioides in a patient with acute lymphob...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tezcan G,Ozhak-Baysan B,Alastruey-Izquierdo A,Ogunc D,Ongut G,Yildiran ST,Hazar V,Cuenca-Estrella M,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of rapid-cycle PCR combined with colorimetric microwell hybridization for detecting Bordetella pertussis was investigated. Rapid cycling was performed with an air thermocycler (model 1605; Idaho Technology, Idaho Falls, Idaho). Although the instrument was originally designed to be used with capillary tubes, an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Buck GE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 375 Escherichia coli O157 strains were tested by colony hybridization with the eae probe from the central portion of the eaeA gene of the classical enteropathogenic E. coli strain E2348/69. They were also tested with a probe, eaeO157, from the C-terminal end of the eae gene homolog from a Vero cytotoxin (VT...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Willshaw GA,Scotland SM,Smith HR,Cheasty T,Thomas A,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence of sensitized bacterial suspensions, reactive with either fluorescein-labeled or rhodamine-labeled antiglobulins, could be quantitatively distinguished in dual-labeled preparations by fluorescence immunoassay. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gillis TP,Thompson JJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter cross-sectional survey was conducted comparing a commercially available chlamydial optical immunoassay (OIA) to the chlamydial ligase chain reaction (LCR). Endocervical samples from 415 outpatients visiting clinics from three hospitals in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, were evaluated. Relative to the LCR, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjaja S,Cohen S,Brady WE,O'reilly K,Susanto,Wibowo A,Cahyono,Graham RR,Porter KR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum is a commensal organism of the lower genital tract of females, but in a subpopulation of individuals, it can invade the upper genital tract. It is a significant cause of chorioamnionitis and neonatal morbidity and mortality. There are 14 recognized serovars of U. urealyticum; these can be divide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Teng LJ,Zheng X,Glass JI,Watson HL,Tsai J,Cassell GH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains of multilocus sequence type 141 (ST141) cause both urinary tract infections and diarrhea in humans and are phylogenetically positioned between STEC and UPEC strains. We used comparative genomic analysis of 85 temporally and s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gati NS,Middendorf-Bauchart B,Bletz S,Dobrindt U,Mellmann A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercially available endotoxin assay (CS-TAL) employing a chromogenic peptide and an amebocyte lysate from the Japanese horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, gave a positive result with aqueous extracts of all 15 strains of Candida albicans and 1 strain each of Candida tropicalis, Cryptococcus neoformans, and a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hodes DS,Heon D,Hass A,Hyatt AC,Hodes HL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of hepatitis. We evaluated five HEV antibody diagnostic assays by using outbreak specimens. The Abbott immunoglobulin G (IgG), Genelabs IgG, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) IgM assays were about 90% sensitive; the Abbott IgG and WRAIR total Ig and IgM assays ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Myint KS,Endy TP,Gibbons RV,Laras K,Mammen MP Jr,Sedyaningsih ER,Seriwatana J,Glass JS,Narupiti S,Corwin AL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the Abbott enzyme immunoassay for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen with the reverse transcriptase assay (RTA) as a means of monitoring HIV infection during an antiviral trial. The Abbott enzyme immunoassay detected HIV earlier than RTA whether or not the patients were antigenemic and appears to b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burger H,Paul D,Siegal FP,Wendel I,Neff S,Eilbott D,Gehan K,Grimson R,Weiser B

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of bacteremia caused by Janibacter melonis, a recently described aerobic actinomycete originally isolated from a spoiled oriental melon. Our patient's blood culture isolate was identified by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the first report of the recovery of Janibacter species from humans. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elsayed S,Zhang K

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:We enrolled 22 patients with gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess in a study to assess the mechanism of gas formation. Klebsiella pneumoniae was cultured from specimens from all patients. Gas and pus samples from abscesses revealed four major components: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen; this implicates mi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee HL,Lee HC,Guo HR,Ko WC,Chen KW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have resulted in the proposal of a new species, Aeromonas schubertii (mannitol, sucrose, and indole negative), formerly termed Enteric Group 501, on the basis of the study of seven strains isolated from the southeastern and southwestern United States and Puerto Rico. We have isolated two phenotypically ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carnahan AM,Marii MA,Fanning GR,Pass MA,Joseph SW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry with a Bruker Daltonics microflex LT system was applied to 90 well-characterized catalase-negative, Gram-positive cocci not belonging to the streptococci or enterococci. Biotyper version 2.0.43.1 software was used singly or in com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christensen JJ,Dargis R,Hammer M,Justesen US,Nielsen XC,Kemp M,Danish MALDI-TOF MS Study Group.

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal discharge specimens from 105 women were examined by wet mount, culture, and a new direct immunofluorescence assay to detect Trichomonas vaginalis. The organism was detected by culture in 31 patients, by direct immunofluorescence in 26 patients, and by wet mount in 21 patients. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith RF

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of dermatophytes are classified into three anamorphic (asexual) genera, Epidermophyton, Microsporum, and Trichophyton. Conventional methods used to identify dermatophytes are often lengthy and may be inconclusive because of atypical microscopic or colony morphology. Based on the internal transcribed spacer 1 (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li HC,Bouchara JP,Hsu MM,Barton R,Chang TC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B therapy continues to be the "gold standard" in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised host. Although Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus flavus constitute the major species, several reports have described invasive pulmonary or disseminated disease due to the less common Asper...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sutton DA,Sanche SE,Revankar SG,Fothergill AW,Rinaldi MG

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00