Diagnosis of viral respiratory tract infections in children by using a reverse transcription-PCR panel.

abstract：:In a prospective volume-controlled study, the sensitivity of the BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC medium was similar to that of the Peds Plus/F and Plus Aerobic/F vials for detecting Brucella melitensis bacteremia, but the time to detection with the MYCO/F LYTIC medium (101.4 +/- 46.7 h) was significantly longer than that with the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yagupsky P

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of calves with bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) results in transient immunosuppression that may lead to bacterium-induced pneumonia and, occasionally, death. Although sensory neurons in the trigeminal ganglia (TG) are the primary site of BHV-1 latency, viral genomes are detected in the tonsils of latently infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Perez S,Inman M,Doster A,Jones C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation was undertaken to determine the optimal method for testing the susceptibilities of 100 clinical isolates and two reference strains of Enterococcus spp. to vancomycin in vitro. Six testing methods were studied by using the following media and incubation times: agar screen with the Synergy Quad Plate (Reme...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kohner PC,Patel R,Uhl JR,Garin KM,Hopkins MK,Wegener LT,Cockerill FR 3rd

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening infection of the heart endothelium and valves. Staphylococcus aureus is a predominant cause of severe IE and is frequently associated with infections in health care settings and device-related infections. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa typing, and virulence gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nethercott C,Mabbett AN,Totsika M,Peters P,Ortiz JC,Nimmo GR,Coombs GW,Walker MJ,Schembri MA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and reproducible enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is described for the detection of immunoglobulin M and antibodies with specifity for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) early (CMV-EA) and late (CMV-LA) antigens. The emphasis is on the production of high-quality CMV antigens, CMV-EA and CMV-LA separately...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Middeldorp JM,Jongsma J,ter Haar A,Schirm J,The TH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to find a relationship between the microbiological properties of bloodstream isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the efficacy of vancomycin in the treatment of bacteremia. Vancomycin susceptibility testing was performed, and bactericidal activity was determined for 30 isolat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sakoulas G,Moise-Broder PA,Schentag J,Forrest A,Moellering RC Jr,Eliopoulos GM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage catheters, we reviewed retrospectively fluid specimens that had been collected through catheters in place for at least 2 days. These specimens were taken from patients at a large tertiary-care hospital. A total of 974 specimens representing 620 pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Everts RJ,Heneghan JP,Adholla PO,Reller LB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We serotyped 222 Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from swine lungs at slaughter. Capsular serotypes A and D were determined by the hyaluronidase sensitivity and acriflavin agglutination tests, respectively. Somatic antigens were determined by gel diffusion against standard antisera. Capsular serotype A was found...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pijoan C,Morrison RB,Hilley HD

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV 16) plays a cardinal role in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer. HPV 16 has intratypic variants which show different geographical distributions and different oncogenic potentials. To analyze the presence of sequence variations of HPV 16 variants in northeast China, 71 cervical carcin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shang Q,Wang Y,Fang Y,Wei L,Chen S,Sun Y,Li B,Zhang F,Gu H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a rapid test to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing isolates and specifically strain GC1237, coming from a sub-Saharan country, is needed due to its alarming wide spread on Gran Canaria Island (Spain). A rapid test that detects IS6110 present between dnaA and dnaN in the Beijing strains and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Millán-Lou MI,Alonso H,Gavín P,Hernández-Febles M,Campos-Herrero MI,Copado R,Cañas F,Kremer K,Caminero JA,Martín C,Samper S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p1 genes of 60 Mycoplasma pneumoniae clinical isolates were sequenced and compared to previously reported p1 gene sequences. An AGT trinucleotide variable-number tandem repeat was identified that ranged in copy number from 5 to 14 among the isolates. In addition, a novel p1 gene variant named 2c was identified in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhao F,Cao B,Li J,Song S,Tao X,Yin Y,He L,Zhang J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated two commercial F1 antigen capture-based immunochromatographic dipsticks, Yersinia Pestis (F1) Smart II and Plague BioThreat Alert test strips, in detecting plague bacilli by using whole-blood samples from mice experimentally infected with Yersinia pestis CO92. To assess the specificities of these dipstick...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sha J,Endsley JJ,Kirtley ML,Foltz SM,Huante MB,Erova TE,Kozlova EV,Popov VL,Yeager LA,Zudina IV,Motin VL,Peterson JW,DeBord KL,Chopra AK

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA probes (Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif.) directed at the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex were used to identify acid-fast bacilli directly from specimens grown in BACTEC 12B bottles (Becton Dickinson and Co., Towson, Md.). Clinical specimens were inoculated directly...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson EM,Lu R,Floyd C,Nakasone A,Friedly G,de la Maza LM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach, short-oligonucleotide-ligation assay on DNA chip (SOLAC), is developed to detect mutations in rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The method needs only four common probes to detect 15 mutational variants of the rpoB gene within 12 h. Fifty-five rifampin-resistant M. tuberculosis isolates wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Deng JY,Zhang XE,Lu HB,Liu Q,Zhang ZP,Zhou YF,Xie WH,Fu ZJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium marneffei is recognized as one of the most frequently detected opportunistic pathogens of AIDS patients in northern Thailand. We undertook a genomic epidemiology study of 64 P. marneffei isolates collected from immunosuppressed patients by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with restriction enzyme Not...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trewatcharegon S,Sirisinha S,Romsai A,Eampokalap B,Teanpaisan R,Chaiyaroj SC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2011 to December 2013, a total of 262 samples, from 188 patients suspected of having syphilis were tested for the presence of treponemal DNA by PCR amplification of five chromosomal loci, including the polA (TP0105), tmpC (TP0319), TP0136, TP0548, and 23S rRNA genes. Altogether, 146 samples from 103 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grillová L,Pĕtrošová H,Mikalová L,Strnadel R,Dastychová E,Kuklová I,Kojanová M,Kreidlová M,Vaňousová D,Hercogová J,Procházka P,Zákoucká H,Krchňáková A,Vašků V,Šmajs D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance (PMCR) is a global public health concern, given its ease of transmissibility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two methods for the detection of PMCR from bacterial colonies: (i) the NG-Test MCR-1 lateral flow immunoassay (LFA; NG Biotech, Guipry, France) and (ii) the EDTA-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenwick AJ,Bergman Y,Lewis S,Yee R,Uhlemann AC,Cole N,Kohner P,Ordak C,Green DA,Schuetz AN,Humphries R,Simner PJ

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparative studies, Hemo-De (PMP Medical Industries, Inc., Irving, Tex.) was found to be a suitable replacement for ethyl acetate in the Formalin-ethyl acetate concentration technique. With essentially equivalent recovery rates for both procedures, the Formalin-Hemo-De concentration technique is considered to be t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neimeister R,Logan AL,Gerber B,Egleton JH,Kleger B

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of viridans streptococci isolated from the blood cultures of 86 patients was determined. Isolates that were significant or suggestive of infection represented only 21% of the cases. Among 54 isolates for which the species was known, Streptococcus sanguis II was the most common. However, a sig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson FJ,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BACTEC MGIT 960 system, a fully automated, nonradiometric, noninvasive system for detection and drug susceptibility testing of mycobacteria, was evaluated for the ability to test susceptibilities to second-line drugs. In this study, which was carried out in three phases (phase I, mostly susceptible strains; phase ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rüsch-Gerdes S,Pfyffer GE,Casal M,Chadwick M,Siddiqi S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 30-micrograms cefprozil disk and the cephalosporin class (30-micrograms cephalothin) disk were compared for their abilities to predict cefprozil susceptibility by agar disk diffusion testing. High error (5.02% major and 14.11% minor) rates were encountered with the cephalothin disk and were most frequently observe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fung-Tomc J,Stickle T,Doyle C,Huczko E,Kessler RE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed and evaluated a new method to quantify human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) proviral DNA based on LightCycler real-time PCR. The assay has a detection limit of 5 copies/10(5) peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and is insensitive to HIV-2 strain variability: HIV-2 subtypes A and B are bo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Damond F,Descamps D,Farfara I,Telles JN,Puyeo S,Campa P,Leprêtre A,Matheron S,Brun-Vezinet F,Simon F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of a direct sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting Aspergillus galactomannan was compared with that of the Pastorex Aspergillus antigen latex agglutination (LA) test by using 532 serum samples from 61 patients at risk for invasive aspergillosis. The ELISA gave positive results...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Verweij PE,Stynen D,Rijs AJ,de Pauw BE,Hoogkamp-Korstanje JA,Meis JF

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old woman with a 15-year history of HIV-hepatitis C virus coinfection had aortic valve and ascending aorta replacement in 2007. She presented with abdominal pain, episodic diarrhea, and profuse sweating in 2010. Thoracoabdominal positron emission tomography-computed tomography finally suggested infectious ao...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rougemont M,Ratib O,Wintsch J,Schrenzel J,Hirschel B

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple new agar medium containing L-canavanine, glycine, and bromthymol blue was found to give a clearer and more accurate distinction between serotype A or D (Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans) and serotype B or C (C. neoformans var. gattii) than creatinine-dextrose-bromthymol blue or glycine-cycloheximide-ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwon-Chung KJ,Polacheck I,Bennett JE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings from a preliminary assessment of a new instrument designed for the inoculation and spreading of specimens for microbiological analysis onto agar plates are described. The study found that the instrument was able to select full or biplates from a number of input cassettes, each containing different agar ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Glasson JH,Guthrie LH,Nielsen DJ,Bethell FA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with atrophic corpus gastritis and elevated Helicobacter pylori antibody titers but 13C-urea breath test (13C-UBT) and histology results negative for H. pylori were randomized into eradication therapy or follow-up only. Antibody levels decreased significantly in six out of seven patients in the eradication gr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kokkola A,Rautelin H,Puolakkainen P,Sipponen P,Färkkilä M,Haapiainen R,Kosunen TU

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that whole blood contains significantly more hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA than plasma. To validate the whole-blood-based HCV RNA detection method, a prospective comparison of HCV RNA detection in whole blood and plasma from 50 patients with chronic liver disease was undertaken. Whole-blood an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stapleton JT,Klinzman D,Schmidt WN,Pfaller MA,Wu P,LaBrecque DR,Han Jq,Phillips MJ,Woolson R,Alden B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined several factors for their effects on the serological reactivity of Legionella antigens used for direct or indirect fluorescent-antibody tests. These factors included media, methods of killing, strain differences, and the nature of the reactivity with diverse human sera. The maximum serological reactivities...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Benson RF,Malcolm GB,Pine L,Harrell WK

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00