Performance characteristics of the Gen-Probe Probe Competition Assay used as a supplementary test for the Gen-Probe PACE 2 and 2C assays for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis.

abstract：:The currently available diagnostics for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have major limitations. Despite mounting evidence that toxin detection is paramount for diagnosis, conventional toxin immunoassays are insufficiently sensitive and cytotoxicity assays too complex; assays that detect toxigenic organisms (toxi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Song L,Zhao M,Duffy DC,Hansen J,Shields K,Wungjiranirun M,Chen X,Xu H,Leffler DA,Sambol SP,Gerding DN,Kelly CP,Pollock NR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 122 adenovirus type 4 (Ad4) strains isolated from patients with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis at an eye clinic in Sapporo, Japan, from 1985 to 1989 were identified as Ad4a. By the use of HinfI and TaqI restriction endonucleases, these Ad4a strains were classified into 12 subgenome types. During this observa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Itakura S,Aoki K,Sawada H,Ishiguro N,Shinagawa M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cloned segments of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA which are promising as clinical probes were identified. An MboI digest of DNA from a clinical isolate of M. tuberculosis was cloned into bacteriophage M13. To identify recombinants specific for the M. tuberculosis complex, plaque lifts were hybridized with M. bov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eisenach KD,Crawford JT,Bates JH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen strains of an anaerobic, catalase-negative, gram-positive diphtheroid-shaped bacterium recovered from human sources were characterized by phenotypic and molecular chemical and molecular genetic methods. The unidentified bacterium showed some resemblance to Actinomyces species and related taxa, but biochemical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hall V,Collins MD,Lawson PA,Hutson RA,Falsen E,Inganas E,Duerden B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unusual pathogen associated with post-traumatic meningitis. Haemophilus influenzae type D was isolated from both cerebrospinal fluid and blood of this patient with meningitis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viner JP,Massanari RM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of resistance during therapy with cefamandole contributes to treatment failure. A simple cefoxitin disk test was recently described which detects a cefamandole-active inducible beta-lactamase not otherwise detectable with cefamandole as the inducer. A case of breakthrough Enterobacter bacteremia due to se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beckwith DG,Jahre JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative amounts of D-arabinitol (fungal origin) and L-arabinitol (part of normal human metabolism) in urine were determined by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry from 61 hospitalized patients with hematological malignancies. Seventeen neutropenic patients with acute leukemia (with 53 samples) had disseminated y...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lehtonen L,Anttila VJ,Ruutu T,Salonen J,Nikoskelainen J,Eerola E,Ruutu P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingerprinting by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was used to differentiate Scedosporium prolificans isolates. A total of 59 arbitrary primers were screened with six unrelated S. prolificans isolates, and a panel of 12 primers was selected. The 12 primers were then used to detect DNA polymorphisms a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： San Millán R,Quindós G,Garaizar J,Salesa R,Guarro J,Pontón J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of an unknown, multidrug-resistant coryneform, gram-positive rod were isolated from blood, bronchial aspirate, and abscess specimens. Four of the five strains isolated were highly resistant to antimicrobial agents, including beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, macrolides, quinolones, and tetracyclines, except ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Otsuka Y,Kawamura Y,Koyama T,Iihara H,Ohkusu K,Ezaki T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates of animal and human origin, matched by phage type, antimicrobial resistance pattern, and place of isolation, were analyzed by microbiological and molecular techniques, including pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and plasmid profiling. PFGE identified 10 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cooke FJ,Wain J,Fookes M,Ivens A,Thomson N,Brown DJ,Threlfall EJ,Gunn G,Foster G,Dougan G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document for the first time an infectious but nonarthritogenic variant of Borrelia burgdorferi. Strain 25015, previously isolated from an Ixodes dammini larva collected in upstate New York, was infectious but failed to produce arthritis or carditis in laboratory rats and mice. By contrast, pathogenic strain N40 inv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson JF,Barthold SW,Magnarelli LA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mold Aureobasidium pullulans was isolated on several nutrient media from a splenic abscess in a patient with disseminated lymphoma. Examination of stained smears and paraffin sections revealed fungal structures characteristic of this organism. This is the first reported association of A. pullulans with an opportun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salkin IF,Martinez JA,Kemna ME

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiogram typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with selected antibiotics was evaluated as a primary epidemiological typing tool and compared with ribotyping. Antibiograms were derived with the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method by using erythromycin, clindamycin, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, and ciprof...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blanc DS,Lugeon C,Wenger A,Siegrist HH,Francioli P

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Sputum obtained from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly viscous and often heterogeneous in bacterial distribution. Adding dithiothreitol (DTT) is the standard method for liquefaction prior to processing sputum for molecular detection assays. To determine if DTT treatment homogenizes the bacterial distributio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stokell JR,Khan A,Steck TR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) genome is a linear double-stranded DNA of 152 kpb. It is divided into long and short regions of unique sequences termed U(L) and U(S), respectively, and these are flanked by regions of inverted internal and terminal repeats. Microsatellites are short tandem repeats of 1- to 6-nu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Deback C,Boutolleau D,Depienne C,Luyt CE,Bonnafous P,Gautheret-Dejean A,Garrigue I,Agut H

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of 18 different Legionella sp. strains and 76 different yeast isolates was tested on buffered charcoal yeast extract medium supplemented with alpha-ketoglutarate (BCYE alpha medium) and with natamycin, an antifungal agent. Bacterial growth was no different on BCYE alpha medium made with or without natamycin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:An examination of 45 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans revealed an unusually high incidence of C. neoformans var. gattii in South Australia (65%) and in the Northern Territory (95%). In assessing all the available data from Australian isolates of C. neoformans, there appeared to be an endemic focus for the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ellis DH

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid and sensitive assay for the detection of Salmonella serovars in veterinary clinical specimens. This method utilizes a short cultivation period followed by PCR. For detection of the amplified product, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA) was u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stone GG,Oberst RD,Hays MP,McVey S,Chengappa MM

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:The etiology of the purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS), in which the urinary catheter bag of some elderly patients develops intense purple coloration, was studied. The purple was found to be a mixture of indirubin dissolved in the plastic and indigo on its surface. Six patients with PUBS were studied, and Providencia st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dealler SF,Hawkey PM,Millar MR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity and specificity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-specific immunoglobulin G capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (BED-CEIA) were compared with those of the avidity index method to identify recent HIV infection using a panel of 148 samples (81 patients) representing durations of infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loschen S,Bätzing-Feigenbaum J,Poggensee G,Cordes C,Hintsche B,Rausch M,Dupke S,Gohlke-Micknis S,Rödig J,Hamouda O,Kücherer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1994 outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Israel was caused by an enterovirus 70 strain that was distinct from previously reported strains. Characterization was by electron microscopy (eye washes), reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR; eyewash, specimens, eye swabs, and tears), and sequence analysis of RT-PC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shulman LM,Manor Y,Azar R,Handsher R,Vonsover A,Mendelson E,Rothman S,Hassin D,Halmut T,Abramovitz B,Varsano N

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type e biotype 4 was isolated from a single antemortem blood culture obtained from a 60-year-old, white male with abdominal carcinomatosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cawthern TH,Marraro RV,McCleskey FK

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of wild rats from a known scrub typhus focus in the Philippines with cyclophosphamide did not significantly enhance the isolation rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi using mouse inoculation techniques. Similarly, cyclophosphamide treatment of mice inoculated with organs of wild rats did not increase the recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Peenen PF,Ho CM,See R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection has greatly increased in the Asian Pacific region since 1997. Several large outbreaks, caused by different subgenogroups of EV71, occurred with high rates of morbidity and a substantial number of deaths. In 2007, 58 cases of EV71 infection requiring hospitalization were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Sanden S,Koopmans M,Uslu G,van der Avoort H,Dutch Working Group for Clinical Virology.

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 309 Helicobacter pylori isolates from 18 different countries were analyzed with a previously developed lectin typing system. The system was developed by using a proteolytic pretreatment to enhance the carbohydrate fraction of the sample. Four lectins from Ulex europaeus, Lotus tetragonolobus, Erythrina cris...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hynes SO,Broutet N,Wadström T,Mikelsaar M,O'Toole PW,Telford J,Engstrand L,Kamiya S,Mentis AF,Moran AP,Eurohepygast Study Group.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genotyping of strains of Trichophyton rubrum and T. mentagrophytes from patients with onychomycosis of the toes was performed to ascertain whether the fungal genotype changes over the course of time as sequential samples were obtained from patients receiving antifungal therapy and during follow-up. Sixty-six...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gupta AK,Kohli Y,Summerbell RC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a new rapid influenza diagnostic test for the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus by using real-time reverse transcription-PCR (rRT-PCR) and viral culture. The sensitivities were 68.5% and 64.5%, and the specificities were 98.4% and 97.6%, respectively. This kit should be used with caution, and negative ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon D,Shin K,Kwon M,Oh HB,Kang C,Lee JY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00