Comparison of PCR and culture to the indirect fluorescent-antibody test for diagnosis of Potomac horse fever.

abstract：:A new blood lysis-filtration culture technique revealed a high incidence of Staphylococcus epidermidis in the blood of patients and of healthy people. Of 2,004 blood cultures from patients, the blood lysis method grew S. epidermidis in 233 (11.6%), whereas a conventional two-bottle culture system grew this organism in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zierdt CH

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in the blood serve as an important marker in monitoring the disease progression and treatment efficacy of chronic HBV infection. Several commercial assays are available for accurate measurement of HBV genomic DNA, but many of them are hampered by relatively low sensitivity and lim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sum SS,Wong DK,Yuen MF,Yuan HJ,Yu J,Lai CL,Ho D,Zhang L

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：: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：:The carbohydrate fermentation test in cystine trypticase agar (BBL)-tubed medium was compared with a simple method using commercially available carbohydrate impregnated disks on culture inoculated Thayer-Martin medium with and without (vancomycin, colistimethate, and nystatin) inhibitors. There was 100% agreement betw...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Valu JA

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 15-month period, two methods for detection of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in 699 clinical specimens were compared: (i) 24-well-plate centrifugation (24WPC) with MRC-5 cells and staining with type-specific monoclonal antibodies (Syva Co., Palo Alto, Calif.) after incubation for 16 to 18 h and (ii) conventional ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woods GL,Mills RD

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic periodontitis is a common infectious disease in the adult population. The etiology is clearly bacterial, and a small number of bacterial species have been consistently associated with periodontitis, including Bacteroides forsythus and Porphyromonas gingivalis. Comparatively little attention has been paid to th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leys EJ,Lyons SR,Moeschberger ML,Rumpf RW,Griffen AL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was performed comparing the fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen (FAMA) test and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for identifying susceptibility and seroconversion to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection. A total of 75 sera were collected from index cases and from sibling and par...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iltis JP,Castellano GA,Gerber P,Le C,Vujcic LK,Quinnan GV Jr

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To differentiate the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies, LightCycler real-time PCR was used for the fluorescence (SYBR Green I) melting curve analysis of borrelial recA gene PCR products. The specific melting temperature analyzed is a function of the GC/AT ratio, length, and nucleotide sequence of the amplifi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pietilä J,He Q,Oksi J,Viljanen MK

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1994, a cross-contamination problem leading to false-positive cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was revealed in a mycobacteriology laboratory processing 30,000 to 35,000 samples per year. Molecular strain typing based on restriction fragment length polymorphism confirmed the contaminations. Out of 1,439 po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bauer J,Thomsen VO,Poulsen S,Andersen AB

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cases of typhoid fever occurred between 24 August and 1 September 1986 in the vicinity of Silver Spring, Md. Shrimp salad served in a fast-food restaurant was implicated as the source of infection. Stool cultures were obtained from 104 employees, and serum Vi antibodies were assayed in 97 of the employees. Salmone...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin FY,Becke JM,Groves C,Lim BP,Israel E,Becker EF,Helfrich RM,Swetter DS,Cramton T,Robbins JB

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 606 specimens for cytomegalovirus infection. Fifty-two specimens were positive by conventional culture versus forty-three by pre-cytopathic effect detection. Twenty-nine specimens were positive by both methods. Because of toxicity, specimens should be set up on both conventional and shell vial culture system...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rabella N,Drew WL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the electrophoretic profiles of the outer membrane proteins could be used to differentiate Campylobacter jejuni (16 strains) from Campylobacter coli (10 strains). This observation was confirmed by the study of DNA homology obtained by a quantitative filter hybridization method. The hippurate hydrolysis tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Derclaye I,Delor I,Van Bouchaute M,Moureau P,Wauters G,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bovine group B rotavirus strains were detected from diarrheic calves during a surveillance study of rotaviral diarrhea in West Bengal, India. The sequence analysis of VP7 and NSP5 genes of these strains demonstrates a high degree of sequence variation from other group B rotavirus strains, indicating the emergenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barman P,Ghosh S,Das S,Varghese V,Chaudhuri S,Sarkar S,Krishnan T,Bhattacharya SK,Chakrabarti A,Kobayashi N,Naik TN

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of inactivating mycoplasma contaminants in sera by using binary ethyleneimine was tried. When used at the concentration recommended for inactivating viruses, 0.001 M, binary ethyleneimine inactivated only two of five mycoplasma species. Even at a concentration of 0.01 M, the compound did not consistently inac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christianson GG,Pemberton JR,Koski TA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray for detection of Campylobacter spp. was recently developed and applied to detect Campylobacter spp. directly from chicken feces. Sixty-five pooled chicken cloacal swab samples from 650 individual broiler chickens were included in the study. The results of Campylobacter sp. detection obtained with DNA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Keramas G,Bang DD,Lund M,Madsen M,Bunkenborg H,Telleman P,Christensen CB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-performance liquid chromatography method that utilized fluorescence detection (HPLC-FL) of mycolic acid 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin esters was developed to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and M. avium complex (MAC) directly from fluorochrome stain smear-positive sputum specimens and young BACTEC 12B culture...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jost KC Jr,Dunbar DF,Barth SS,Headley VL,Elliott LB

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic granulomatous disease have a marked defect in neutrophil oxidative metabolism and microbicidal activity. Asymptomatic mothers of males with the disease can usually be identified as heterozygous carriers by intermediate leukocyte function. Most mothers of females with the disease, however, have no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mills EL,Rholl KS,Quie PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a follow-up study, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections in 145 children from two communities located in northeastern Argentina were monitored for 2 years. The occurrence of diarrhea was monitored by weekly household visits. Of 730 fecal specimens collected, 137 (19%) corresponded to diarrheal episodes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viboud GI,Jouve MJ,Binsztein N,Vergara M,Rivas M,Quiroga M,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have spurred intense research efforts around the world to deal with the serious threat to health posed by this novel coronavirus. A rapid, reliable diagnostic assay is needed for monitoring the spread of the disease. Here we report a method for eliminating f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hui RK,Zeng F,Chan CM,Yuen KY,Peiris JS,Leung FC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have speculated on the possible role of the mother in transmitting Helicobacter pylori infection to their children. In an attempt to either prove or disprove this supposition, we investigated the rates of infection of children born to H. pylori-positive mothers from birth to 5 years of age using serolog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Konno M,Fujii N,Yokota S,Sato K,Takahashi M,Sato K,Mino E,Sugiyama T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor (ET), the cause of the current 7th pandemic, has recently been replaced in Asia and Africa by an altered ET biotype possessing cholera toxin (CTX) of the classical (CL) biotype that originally caused the first six pandemics before becoming extinct in the 1980s. Until recently, the ET ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alam M,Nusrin S,Islam A,Bhuiyan NA,Rahim N,Delgado G,Morales R,Mendez JL,Navarro A,Gil AI,Watanabe H,Morita M,Nair GB,Cravioto A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified CAMP test was used to identify 973 Vibrio cholerae isolates by phenotype. Eltor and non-O1 strains were CAMP positive; classical strains were CAMP negative. Sausage-shaped zones of hemolysis of eltor strains were easily distinguished from narrower bands of non-O1 isolates. For O1 isolates, there was 100% ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lesmana M,Subekti D,Tjaniadi P,Pazzaglia G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment was made of the necessity of performing routine screening for Staphylococcus aureus in stool specimens. A total of 527 stool specimens were evaluated. Because of the rare incidence of staphylococcal enterocolitis and the high ($2.50) screening cost, the results of this evaluation suggest that such a scre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cashman JS,Smith CB,Weidner M,Matsen JM

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first documented case of endocarditis in a man infected with Bartonella alsatica, which causes bacteremia in healthy wild rabbits. B. alsatica was identified by serology and culture and by PCR of an aortic valve specimen. B. alsatica should be added to the list of zoonotic agents of blood culture-negativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Raoult D,Roblot F,Rolain JM,Besnier JM,Loulergue J,Bastides F,Choutet P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new latex agglutination test (Pastorex Staph-Plus, Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur), consisting of a mixture of latex particles coated with fibrinogen and immunoglobulin G for the detection of clumping factor and protein A and latex particles sensitized with monoclonal antibodies directed to Staphylococcus aureus serotyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fournier JM,Bouvet A,Mathieu D,Nato F,Boutonnier A,Gerbal R,Brunengo P,Saulnier C,Sagot N,Slizewicz B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection via perinatal transmission is common in the Asia-Pacific region, but related quasispecies (QS) characteristics are not yet defined. To investigate the homologous, full-length HBV QS after perinatal infection and their clinical implications, five pairs of mother-daughter patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu F,Yu DM,Huang SY,Yu JL,Zhang DH,Gong QM,Zhang XX

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on cultural and biochemical tests, a total of 84 strains (72 clinical and 12 environmental isolates from the Caribbean Isles, Europe, and the Indian subcontinent) were identified as members of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). They were further characterized with MAC, M. avium, and M. intracellulare probes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Devallois A,Picardeau M,Paramasivan CN,Vincent V,Rastogi N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a commercially available, rapid membrane enzyme immunoassay for influenza A and B virus detection was compared to that of viral culture in 4,092 respiratory specimens collected from patients presenting with respiratory symptoms during the 2002-2003 influenza season. The test's overall sensitivity wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cazacu AC,Chung SE,Greer J,Demmler GJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the predominant cause of urinary tract infection in both hospital and community settings. The recent emergence of multidrug-resistant clones like the O25b:H4-ST131 lineage represents a significant threat to health, and numerous studies have explored the virulence potential of t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gibreel TM,Dodgson AR,Cheesbrough J,Bolton FJ,Fox AJ,Upton M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00