Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in a colony of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

abstract：:Clinical Clostridium difficile isolates of patients with diarrhea or pseudomembranous colitis usually produce both toxin A and toxin B, but an increasing number of reports mention infections due to toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive (A(-)/B(+)) strains. Thirty-nine clinical toxin A(-)/B(+) isolates, and 12 other unrel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van den Berg RJ,Claas EC,Oyib DH,Klaassen CH,Dijkshoorn L,Brazier JS,Kuijper EJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified indirect hemagglutination test for the detection of treponemal antibodies was developed for use with finger-prick blood. By using paired serum and absorbed finger-prick blood from 58 patients from an area previously endemic for yaws and 12 patients without yaws, the modified hemagglutination test was compar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Backhouse JL,Lee MH,Nesteroff SI,Hudson BJ,Hamilton PA

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has proved to be a useful diagnostic method for identifying conventional bacteria. In the case of mycobacteria, a good protein extraction protocol is essential in order to obtain reliable identification results. To date, no suc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodriguez-Temporal D,Perez-Risco D,Struzka EA,Mas M,Alcaide F

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblots were used to study the immunoglobulin G response to Borrelia burgdorferi in experimentally and naturally exposed dogs. Adsorption studies confirmed that the antibodies were specific for B. burgdorferi. Experimentally exposed dogs were asymptomatic. Naturally exposed dogs included both asymptomatic animals ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greene RT,Walker RL,Nicholson WL,Heidner HW,Levine JF,Burgess EC,Wyand M,Breitschwerdt EB,Berkhoff HA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis (AAHC) is associated with Klebsiella oxytoca. This study analyzed whether cytotoxic properties are linked to specific subtypes of K. oxytoca. Klebsiella isolates from stools of AAHC patients, healthy carriers, and diarrhea patients as well as from infections of other organs we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Joainig MM,Gorkiewicz G,Leitner E,Weberhofer P,Zollner-Schwetz I,Lippe I,Feierl G,Krause R,Hinterleitner T,Zechner EL,Högenauer C

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:We report transmission of an azole-resistant, isogenic strain of Candida albicans in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected family of two children with symptomatic oropharyngeal candidiasis and a mother with asymptomatic colonization over a 5-year period. These findings were confirmed by three different molecul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Müller FM,Kasai M,Francesconi A,Brillante B,Roden M,Peter J,Chanock SJ,Walsh TJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A VIM metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Aeromonas hydrophila strain carrying an integron-borne bla(VIM-4) gene was isolated from a cirrhotic patient's fecal sample in a Budapest hospital. The variable region of this integron is identical with that of a previously characterized integron from Pseudomonas aeruginosa clini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Libisch B,Giske CG,Kovács B,Tóth TG,Füzi M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, Mycobacterium xenopi, and Mycobacterium gordonae were identified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of mycolic acids as bromophenacyl esters. HPLC criteria were used to develop a flow chart identification s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Butler WR,Thibert L,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared serial measurements of antibodies to mannan and to a cytoplasmic antigen (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays), detection of mannan and an unidentified candidal antigen (latex agglutination), and assays of mannose and arabinitol (gas chromatographic assay of per-O-acetylated aldonitrile derivatives). In a h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greenfield RA,Troutt DL,Rickard RC,Altmiller DH

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimated the regional and age- and gender-specific seroprevalences of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 in Ontario, Canada. Stored serum specimens from subjects aged 15 to 44 years, including men (n = 979), women not under prenatal care (n = 638), and women under prenatal care (n = 701) submitt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Howard M,Sellors JW,Jang D,Robinson NJ,Fearon M,Kaczorowski J,Chernesky M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia rubidaea biotype 1 was isolated from the bile and blood of a patient with a bile tract carcinoma obstructing the common bile duct and who underwent invasive procedures. The infection was cleared after adequate treatment with antibiotics. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ursua PR,Unzaga MJ,Melero P,Iturburu I,Ezpeleta C,Cisterna R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes the use of the automated BACTEC 9240 blood culture system, the Serum Separator Tube (SST), and the BD PHOENIX Automated Microbiology System in combination for the direct identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of gram-negative rods (GNRs) from positive blood cultures (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Funke G,Funke-Kissling P

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of 61 Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi C isolates from six countries gave five distinct clusters. Twenty-four isolates from five countries were susceptible to 10 antimicrobials tested and gave similar restriction endonuclease digest patterns of the 38-MDa plasmid. In contr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kariuki S,Cheesbrough J,Mavridis AK,Hart CA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of bloodstream infection (BSI) isolates across the continental United States, 162 Candida albicans isolates were fingerprinted with the species-specific probe Ca3 and the patterns were analyzed for relatedness with a computer-assisted system. The results demonstrate that particular BSI strains are more hig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Lockhart SR,Pujol C,Swails-Wenger JA,Messer SA,Edmond MB,Jones RN,Wenzel RP,Soll DR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis-specific 5' Taq nuclease PCR assay using a 3' minor groove binder-DNA probe (TaqMan MGB) was developed based on a subspecies-specific fragment of unknown identity (S. Hum, K. Quinn, J. Brunner, and S. L. On, Aust. Vet. J. 75:827-831, 1997). The assay specifically detected four C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMillen L,Fordyce G,Doogan VJ,Lew AE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid identification of blood culture isolates and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results play critical roles for the optimal treatment of patients with bloodstream infections. Whereas others have looked at the time to detection in automated culture systems, we examined the overall time from specimen coll...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tabak YP,Vankeepuram L,Ye G,Jeffers K,Gupta V,Murray PR

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of Sendai virus, pneumonia virus of mice, and SV5 was investigated in tracheal organ cultures from 2- to 4-day-old and 2- and 4-week-old hamsters, and viral infectivity in tracheal explants was compared with that in tissue culture monolayers. Explants from 2- to 4-day-old hamsters produced higher titers of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schiff LJ

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A matched case-control study was conducted in the Maternal and Child Health Clinic (MCH) in Ifakara, Tanzania, during the rainy season in order to elucidate the risk factors for and etiology of diarrheal diseases in children under 5 years of age. Cases (103) and controls (206) were matched for sex and age group. Preco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gascón J,Vargas M,Schellenberg D,Urassa H,Casals C,Kahigwa E,Aponte JJ,Mshinda H,Vila J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report Campylobacter fetus meningitis associated with endocarditis in a 75-year-old diabetic man after he consumed raw liver. C. fetus was isolated from blood samples and cerebrospinal fluid. Cure was obtained with combined intravenous imipenem-gentamicin for 4 weeks; no relapse occurred after 6 months of follow-up...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suy F,Le Dû D,Roux AL,Hanachi M,Dinh A,Crémieux AC

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region surrounding mecA in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is highly variable. We describe an approach for the rapid genotyping of MRSA by assaying for the presence or absence of variable or mobile elements previously shown to be associated with the mecA region. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huygens F,Nimmo GR,Schooneveldt J,Munckhof WJ,Giffard PM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species-specific molecular beacon real-time PCR assay was developed for rapid diagnosis of Exserohilum rostratum infection. As low as 100 fg of E. rostratum DNA can be reliably detected in the presence of 50 ng of human DNA, with a dynamic linear quantification range from 20 ng to 200 fg. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhao Y,Petraitiene R,Walsh TJ,Perlin DS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared 14 molecular assays for their ability to detect the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples. Three approaches were followed. First, by using DNA from Mycobacterium bovis BCG, we determined the detection limits of the assays using routine molecular methods. Second, in orde...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Akkerman OW,van der Werf TS,de Boer M,de Beer JL,Rahim Z,Rossen JW,van Soolingen D,Kerstjens HA,van der Zanden AG

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:In a multi-health center study, a new rapid optical immunoassay (OIA) for the detection of Shiga toxin types 1 and 2, the BioStar OIA SHIGATOX kit (Inverness Medical Professional Diagnostics, Inc.), was used to prospectively screen 742 fresh fecal samples for Shiga toxins in parallel with the Premier enterohemorrhagic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Teel LD,Daly JA,Jerris RC,Maul D,Svanas G,O'Brien AD,Park CH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid tests for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage are important to limit the transmission of MRSA in the health care setting. We evaluated the performance of the BD GeneOhm MRSA real-time PCR assay using a diverse collection of MRSA isolates, mainly from Copenhagen, Denmark, but ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bartels MD,Boye K,Rohde SM,Larsen AR,Torfs H,Bouchy P,Skov R,Westh H

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of reports concerning Escherichia coli clinical isolates that produce glutathione S-transferases responsible for fosfomycin resistance (FR-GSTs) has been increasing. We have developed a disk-based potentiation test in which FR-GST producers expand the growth inhibition zone around a Kirby-Bauer disk contain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakamura G,Wachino J,Sato N,Kimura K,Yamada K,Jin W,Shibayama K,Yagi T,Kawamura K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) is naturally resistant to several antiretroviral drugs, including all of the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the entry inhibitor T-20, and may have reduced susceptibility to some protease inhibitors. These resistance properties make treatment of HIV-2 pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jallow S,Kaye S,Schutten M,Brandin E,Albert J,McConkey SJ,Corrah T,Whittle H,Vanham G,Rowland-Jones S,Janssens W

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective case record study was conducted that established a scoring tool based on clinical and iQ200 parameters, able to predict or rule out the clinical diagnosis of UTI in the majority of adult patients in an academic hospital. Automated standardized quantitative urine analysis, such as iQ200 analysis, is on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foudraine DE,Bauer MP,Russcher A,Kusters E,Cobbaert CM,van der Beek MT,Stalenhoef JE

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00