Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing to study an outbreak of infection due to Serratia marcescens in a neonatal intensive care unit.

abstract：:An outbreak of folliculitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O:7 occurred among the guests of a hotel in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, and the source of the infection was traced to the hotel whirlpool. Of 36 persons who used the whirlpool, 26 (72%) developed folliculitis within 1 to 5 days after exposure;...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ratnam S,Hogan K,March SB,Butler RW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional phage typing scheme proposed by S. Basu and S. Mukerjee (Experientia 24:299-300, 1968) has been used routinely for identification of the strains at the Vibrio Phage Reference Laboratory since 1968. However, because of limitations of this scheme, a new phage typing scheme using five newly isolated phag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chattopadhyay DJ,Sarkar BL,Ansari MQ,Chakrabarti BK,Roy MK,Ghosh AN,Pal SC

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) has been considered a potential candidate for human vaccines because of its serotype-independent protective immunity. Nasopharyngeal (NP) pneumococcal colonization is highly prevalent in infants and precedes the invasive disease. Thus, prevention of NP colonization may reduce the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pimenta FC,Ribeiro-Dias F,Brandileone MC,Miyaji EN,Leite LC,Sgambatti de Andrade AL

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) seroprevalence in 68 patients with AIDS was 77% by Western blot (immunoblot) and 44% by glycoprotein G-2 immunoassay. Each of 16 patients with culture-proven HSV-2 infection was positive by Western blot versus 8 by glycoprotein G-2 immunoassay. No differences in age, race, duration ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Safrin S,Arvin A,Mills J,Ashley R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the genetic and the antigenic variability within the env gene of peripheral blood human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 (HIV-1) group O populations during the natural course of a female heterosexual infection. Our data revealed the existence of a significant increase in amino acid sequence variability ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Andréoletti L,Réveil B,Moret H,Brodard V,Philbert F,Tabary T,Cohen JH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of nosocomial pneumonia. To characterize pathogen-derived and host-related factors in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with MRSA pneumonia, we evaluated the Improving Medicine through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneum...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque NZ,Arshad S,Peyrani P,Ford KD,Perri MB,Jacobsen G,Reyes K,Scerpella EG,Ramirez JA,Zervos MJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 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 Autobac IDX system (General Diagnostics, Warner-Lambert Co., Morris Plains, N.J.) for rapid, semiautomated identification of gram-negative bacilli was compared with the identification methods in routine use in four laboratories. The study included 1,515 organisms representing 30 species of enteric and nonenteric b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelly MT,Matsen JM,Morello JA,Smith PB,Tilton RC

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small round-structured viruses (SRSVs) or Norwalk-like viruses have been implicated as an important causative agent of gastroenteritis outbreaks. We used the relatively newly developed recombinant enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) to determine the seroprevalence of Norwalk virus (NV) and Mexico virus (MxV) in a family-based ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smit TK,Steele AD,Peenze I,Jiang X,Estes MK

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) plays a key role in the development of cervical and laryngeal cancers. The aim of our study was to compare the performance of a new hydrogel-based HPV genotyping biochip assay (Biochip) to a commercially available and CE-marked conventional PCR followed by reverse hybridization (GenID-PCR). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schenk T,Brandstetter T,Zur Hausen A,Alt-Mörbe J,Huzly D,Rühe J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four methods for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in vaginal secretions from 88 symptomatic patients were compared: wet-mount examination, Kupferberg liquid medium, Hirsch charcoal agar, and the Papanicolaou smear. Hirsch diphasic slants and Kupferberg medium did not significantly differ in sensitivity from dire...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thomason JL,Gelbart SM,Sobun JF,Schulien MB,Hamilton PR

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disk diffusion and broth microdilution (BMD) were used to perform clindamycin (CLI) induction testing on 128 selected nonduplicate isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Disk diffusion testing involved placing CLI and erythromycin (ERY) disks approximately 12 mm apart (measured edge to edge) on a Mueller-Hinton agar plate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steward CD,Raney PM,Morrell AK,Williams PP,McDougal LK,Jevitt L,McGowan JE Jr,Tenover FC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a nested PCR assay and microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films for detection and identification of Plasmodium spp. in blood specimens. PCR was more sensitive than microscopy and capable of identifying malaria parasites at the species level when microscopy was equivocal. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnston SP,Pieniazek NJ,Xayavong MV,Slemenda SB,Wilkins PP,da Silva AJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IS200-like insertion sequence (IS) is a 708-bp element recently found in Yersinia pestis. Its nucleotide sequence is 85% identical to that of IS200 recovered in most Salmonella enterica isolates. It is also present in multiple copies in Y. pseudotuberculosis. In contrast, this IS is found in some (biotype 1B strai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Odaert M,Berche P,Simonet M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an unusual case of culture-proven pneumococcal and meningococcal mixed meningitis in an 18-month-old girl. The patient responded well to antimicrobial therapy and recovered completely without sequelae. No underlying condition could be demonstrated except a rhinitis of unknown etiology 2 days before the onset...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marchandin H,Ventura V,Alonso JM,Van de Perre P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a disk diffusion test using broth from positive blood cultures as inoculum (direct disk diffusion [dDD]) was evaluated for a collection of 20 challenge isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates seeded into human blood were inoculated into Bactec Plu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Abbott A,Campeau S,Zimmer BL,Weinstein M,Thrupp L,Hejna J,Walker L,Ammann T,Kirn T,Patel R,Humphries RM

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A qualitative multiplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and liquid hybridization assay for the detection of human enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, parechoviruses, and Aichi virus was developed. Furthermore, a separate assay for the recognition of hepatitis A virus was established to complement the test pattern so that all ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jokela P,Joki-Korpela P,Maaronen M,Glumoff V,Hyypiä T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife and feral species is a potential source of infection for livestock and a threat to protected and endangered species. The aim of this study was to identify Spanish wild animal species infected with M. bovis through bacteriological culture and spacer oligonucleotide typing (spol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aranaz A,De Juan L,Montero N,Sánchez C,Galka M,Delso C,Alvarez J,Romero B,Bezos J,Vela AI,Briones V,Mateos A,Domínguez L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis represents a pathogen of great public health importance in both developed and developing countries. Resistance to some antimicrobial agents used either for therapy of invasive infections or for prophylaxis of case contacts has long been recognized, although specific guidelines for susceptibility...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Crawford SA,Fiebelkorn KR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental role for the endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia pipientis in the pathogenesis of Dirofilaria immitis infections has emerged in recent years. Diagnostic opportunities arising from this breakthrough have not yet been fully exploited. This study was aimed at developing conventional and real-time PCR assays to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turba ME,Zambon E,Zannoni A,Russo S,Gentilini F

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for differentiation between wild and vaccine-derived strains of poliovirus are required, particularly in countries where wild and vaccine-related strains coexist. For this differentiation, we tested the method of Inouye and Hondo (S. Inouye and R. Hondo, Arch. Virol. 129:311-316, 1993) for discrimination of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeda N,Sakae K,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Hondo R,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four HIV rapid tests were subjected to field validation in Panama and compared to an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay/Multispot-based testing algorithm. The sensitivities of Determine, Uni-Gold, SD Bioline, and INSTI were 99.8%. The specificities of Determine, SD-Bioline, and Uni-Gold were 100%, and the specificity o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Juarez SI,Nuñez AE,Aranda MM,Mojica D,Kim AA,Parekh B

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rapid one-step immunochromatographic test using monoclonal antibodies for detection of Helicobacter pylori antigen in stool in children was evaluated on coded stool samples from 159 children (mean age, 9.7 +/- 5.0 years; 118 from Munich, 41 from Vienna): 86 children were H. pylori infected defined by positive cu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Antos D,Crone J,Konstantopoulos N,Koletzko S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 452 samples that were positive by the Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay and MGIT 960 system (MGIT), 440 and 10 Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples were detected as rifampin susceptible and rifampin resistant, respectively. Two isolates that were rifampin susceptible by the MGIT system were rifampin resistant by the Xpe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mokaddas E,Ahmad S,Eldeen HS,Al-Mutairi N

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii is a saprophyte, sometimes a pathogen, of the human oral cavity. Very few extra-oral infections related to this agent have been described. We report the first instance of A. naeslundii as an etiological agent of pelvic actinomycosis in a user of an intrauterine device, an infection so far exclus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonnez W,Lattimer G,Mohanraj NA,Johnson TH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonfermenting coryneform bacteria identified as Brevibacterium spp. were isolated from routine clinical specimens. Four strains were derived from peritoneal fluid and has presumably been involved in the pathogenesis of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis peritonitis. Another five isolates most probably represent...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gruner E,Pfyffer GE,von Graevenitz A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most important causes of nosocomial infections worldwide. After the spread of strains resistant to beta-lactams at the end of the previous century, the diffusion of isolates resistant to carbapenems and colistin is now reducing treatment options and the con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Onori R,Gaiarsa S,Comandatore F,Pongolini S,Brisse S,Colombo A,Cassani G,Marone P,Grossi P,Minoja G,Bandi C,Sassera D,Toniolo A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, an outbreak of systemic infections caused by Bacillus cereus occurred in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Three neonates developed sepsis with positive blood cultures. One neonate died, and the other two neonates recovered. An environm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Der Zwet WC,Parlevliet GA,Savelkoul PH,Stoof J,Kaiser AM,Van Furth AM,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate oral yeast colonization and oral yeast strain diversity in irradiated (head and neck), dentate, xerostomic individuals. Subjects were recruited from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma clinic and were segregated into group A (age, <60 years [n = 25; average age +/- standard deviation (S...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leung WK,Dassanayake RS,Yau JY,Jin LJ,Yam WC,Samaranayake LP

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00