Modified thioglycolate medium: a simple and reliable means for detection of Trichomonas vaginalis.

abstract：:Polymyxins are relied upon for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections, but polymyxin resistance is increasing. Only broth microdilution is recommended for polymyxin susceptibility testing, but this method is impractical for most clinical microbiology laboratories. An article in this i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Satlin MJ

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume of blood sampled for blood culture determines its sensitivity. We measured low mean blood volumes in submitted aerobic (8.38 ± 3.88 ml) and anaerobic (7.16 ± 3.83 ml) blood culture bottles. Educational seminars were held for phlebotomy teams, and renewed measurements thereafter revealed significantly higher...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Ingen J,Hilt N,Bosboom R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyomavirus BK (BKV) establishes latent infection in various human tissues, including the kidney. Reactivation following renal transplantation (RT) may cause BKV-associated nephropathy, leading to graft loss. BKV reactivation is often associated with extensive rearrangements in the BKV noncoding regulatory region (NC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Perets TT,Silberstein I,Rubinov J,Sarid R,Mendelson E,Shulman LM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA Sequencing System are designed to sequence the protease (PR)- and reverse transcriptase (RT)-coding regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pol. Studies were undertaken to determine the accuracy of this assay system in detecting resistance-associated mut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuritzkes DR,Grant RM,Feorino P,Griswold M,Hoover M,Young R,Day S,Lloyd RM Jr,Reid C,Morgan GF,Winslow DL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medium described is a simple yeast extract broth capable of growing large number of Legionella neumophila, the causative organism of Legionnaires disease. Filtration was chosen as a means of sterilization, since medium that was autoclaved did not support growth without the presence of Norite A. The filtered medium...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ristroph JD,Hedlund KW,Allen RG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel IS711 chromosomal location that is specific for the Brucella genotype ST27 previously associated with Pacific marine mammals and human zoonotic infection in New Zealand and Peru. Our data support the previous observation that this peculiar genotype is distinct from those commonly isolated from the At...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cloeckaert A,Bernardet N,Koylass MS,Whatmore AM,Zygmunt MS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare ranging from 10(-1) to 10(3) CFU/ml were added to blood, placed in Isolator tubes, and held at room temperature for intervals ranging from 4 h to 56 days before being processed (centrifugation and culture on Middlebrook 7H10 agar). At all concentrations tested, M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： von Reyn CF,Hennigan S,Niemczyk S,Jacobs NJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass spectrometry (MS) method that detects a serum disaccharide (DS) (MS-DS) was recently described for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections (IFI). We carried out a European collaborative study to evaluate this assay. Patients with the following IFI were selected according to the availability of sera obtained...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cornu M,Sendid B,Mery A,François N,Mikulska M,Letscher-Bru V,De Carolis E,Damonti L,Titecat M,Bochud PY,Alanio A,Sanguinetti M,Viscoli C,Herbrecht R,Guerardel Y,Poulain D

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection continues to be a challenge for many clinical microbiology laboratories. A new lateral flow assay, the C.Diff Quik Chek Complete assay, which tests for the presence of both glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and C. difficile toxins A and B, was evaluated for its ability to d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sharp SE,Ruden LO,Pohl JC,Hatcher PA,Jayne LM,Ivie WM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in anogenital carcinogenesis is firmly established, but evidence that supports a similar role in skin remains speculative. Immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients have an increased incidence of viral warts and nonmelanoma skin cancer, and the presence of HPV DNA in these les...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harwood CA,Spink PJ,Surentheran T,Leigh IM,de Villiers EM,McGregor JM,Proby CM,Breuer J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since January 1996, and over a 3-year time span, a significant spread of serotype 6B multidrug-resistant (MDR) pneumococci, susceptible to penicillin and resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, was noted in young carriers living in central and southern ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Syrogiannopoulos GA,Bogaert D,Grivea IN,Beratis NG,De Groot R R,Hermans PW

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine bacterial cultures of corneal scrapings from seven cats with either ulcerative feline keratitis, keratomalacia, or both yielded colonies which were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Mycoplasma felis (six cases) and Mycoplasma gateae (one case). Identification of the pathogens allowed the use of less em...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gray LD,Ketring KL,Tang YW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has eight genotypes which have distinct geographical distributions. Studies comparing differences in the clinical outcomes of infections caused by strains with genotype-related variations in the HBV genome have largely compared genotypes B and C and genotypes A and D but not all four genotypes....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kidd-Ljunggren K,Myhre E,Bläckberg J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the 81-bp rifampin resistance-determining region (RRDR) of the rpoB gene were analyzed by DNA sequencing of 50 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates (44 resistant and 6 sensitive) from various parts of India. Fifty-three mutations of 18 different kinds, 17 point mutations and one deletion, were obs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mani C,Selvakumar N,Narayanan S,Narayanan PR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we describe the assembly of a synthetic gene coding for several antigenic determinants found in different Leishmania infantum antigens. Selected epitopes were derived from the ribosomal proteins LiP2a, LiP2b, and LiP0 and from the histone H2A. The resulting gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli eith...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Soto M,Requena JM,Quijada L,Alonso C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of DNA banding pattern polymorphism exhibited by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREM) strains isolated on a renal unit over an 11-month period was investigated. Thirty VREM strains from different patients were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE; with extended run and optimal puls...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morrison D,Woodford N,Barrett SP,Sisson P,Cookson BD

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of a clinically daptomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate occurred during treatment of methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteremia and probable vertebral osteomyelitis. The breakthrough isolate was indistinguishable from pretreatment daptomycin-susceptible isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marty FM,Yeh WW,Wennersten CB,Venkataraman L,Albano E,Alyea EP,Gold HS,Baden LR,Pillai SK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using PCR-based denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analyses of oral bacterial samples in 20 mother-child dyads, this study demonstrated a high degree of similarity of bacterial compositions between the mothers and their children; the two may share as much as 94% of their oral bacterial spectra, including cariogen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li Y,Ismail AI,Ge Y,Tellez M,Sohn W

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three nasal swab samples that tested positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on initial testing by the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay (BD-MRSA PCR; BD GeneOhm, San Diego, CA) were culture positive only for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) from an enrichment broth. The 23 recovered isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stamper PD,Louie L,Wong H,Simor AE,Farley JE,Carroll KC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the clinical performance of Check-Direct CPE for carbapenemase detection directly from 301 perirectal swabs (258 patients) in a nonoutbreak setting. Culture of a PCR-confirmed, carbapenemase-containing organism, or history of colonization with such organism within the previous 2 weeks, was used as the ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lau AF,Fahle GA,Kemp MA,Jassem AN,Dekker JP,Frank KM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family members of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected hemodialysis patients had a high rate (8.1%) of HCV infection and were often infected by the same genotype of HCV as the renal patients. Renal patients who had a longer history of hemodialysis or more frequent arteriovenous shunt replacement posed a higher risk to the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ho MS,Yang CS,Chen PJ,Mau YC

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes respiratory infections in humans. Ongoing molecular surveillance of B. pertussis acellular vaccine (aP) antigens is critical for understanding the interaction between evolutionary pressures, disease pathogenesis, and vaccine effectiveness. Methods currently...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marchand-Austin A,Tsang RSW,Guthrie JL,Ma JH,Lim GH,Crowcroft NS,Deeks SL,Farrell DJ,Jamieson FB

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) genotyping is the most widely used genotyping method to study the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, due to the complexity of the IS6110 RFLP genotyping technique, and the interpretation of RFLP data, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-va...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hanekom M,van der Spuy GD,Gey van Pittius NC,McEvoy CR,Hoek KG,Ndabambi SL,Jordaan AM,Victor TC,van Helden PD,Warren RM

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Determination of the G and P serotypes of group A bovine rotaviruses from 149 samples of feces or intestinal contents collected from calves showing clinical signs of neonatal diarrhea was performed by a nested reverse transcription-PCR typing assay. The G6 serotype was the most prevalent, accounting for viruses in 55....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falcone E,Tarantino M,Di Trani L,Cordioli P,Lavazza A,Tollis M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method for the detection of acetylneuraminyl hydrolase, EC 3.2.1.18 (sialidase or neuraminidase), was developed by using 2'-(4-methylumbelliferyl)alpha-D-N-acetylneuraminic acid as substrate in a filter paper spot test. The method was compared to conventional assays that use 2'-(4-methylumbelliferyl)alpha-D-N-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moncla BJ,Braham P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of delta antigen (HDAg) and anti-delta antibody (anti-HD) was analyzed in 22 acute delta hepatitis infections (11 coinfections and 11 superinfections), with an enzyme immunoassay developed by Organon Teknika and with two commercially available assays: Deltassay, a test for HDAg from Noctech and Abbott ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dubois F,Goudeau A

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an 8.5-year period (1974 to 1982), 56 Yersinia enterocolitica isolates from patients residing mainly in the New York City area were studied. Evaluation of these isolates revealed a marked increase in bacteremic episodes caused by strains of serogroups of O:3 and O:5,27 and the overall emergence of serogroup O:3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bottone EJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agglutination test for immunoglobulin G (IgG) Toxoplasma antibodies with acetone-fixed tachyzoites (AC antigens; AC agglutination test) was positive only with sera from patients during the acute stage of their infection. In contrast, when the test was performed with Formalin-fixed tachyzoites (HS antigens; HS agglu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzuki Y,Thulliez P,Desmonts G,Remington JS

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods offer several advantages in assessing past or recent exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, but there persist many pitfalls in the use of these methods for determining specific immunoglobulin M (IgM). The efficiency of absorption of sera by IgG-coated latex beads,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Joassin L,Reginster M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00