Use of DNA analysis of Pasteurella haemolytica biotype T isolates to monitor transmission in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis).

abstract：:A production model of the semi-automated PASCO MIC-ID system (PASCO Laboratories, Wheat Ridge, Colo.) was evaluated with 122 groups or species of gram-negative bacilli, which included typical (499 cultures) and atypical (37 cultures) strains of fermenters and nonfermenters. The PASCO system identified 90.9% of 536 cul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rhoden DL,Schable B,Smith PB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme was developed for Klebsiella pneumoniae. Sequences of seven housekeeping genes were obtained for 67 K. pneumoniae strains, including 19 ceftazidime- and ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates. Forty distinct allelic profiles were identified. MLST data were validated against ribotyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Diancourt L,Passet V,Verhoef J,Grimont PA,Brisse S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we determined the sequence of the EcoRI-PstI fragment of the plasmid pCVD432, also termed the enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) probe. A primer pair complementary to this probe was designed for PCR amplification of a 630-bp region. Comparison of the analysis of the EAggEC probe sequence with t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmidt H,Knop C,Franke S,Aleksic S,Heesemann J,Karch H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leifson staining method was used to diagnose Helicobacter pylori infection and was compared to histology, culture, and the rapid urease test (RUT). Histology gave the best sensitivity (98%), compared to Leifson staining (97%), culture (92%), and RUT (85%) (P < 0.005). Leifson staining is a sensitive, rapid, econom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Piccolomini R,Di Bonaventura G,Neri M,Di Girolamo A,Catamo G,Pizzigallo E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the plasmid profiles of 136 Shigella isolates in Bangladesh to determine whether plasmid profiles could be used for differentiation of strains for epidemiological studies. Many different plasmid patterns were observed within each species, indicating that many genetically different strains of Shigella are re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tacket CO,Shahid N,Huq MI,Alim AR,Cohen ML

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrovirus infections were detected by enzyme immunoassay in 12 (5%) of 251 stool samples from children with gastroenteritis from Bogota, Colombia. In addition, astroviruses were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 3 (10%) of 29 stool samples negative for other enteric pathogens collected in Caracas, Venezuela, f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Medina SM,Gutierrez MF,Liprandi F,Ludert JE

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor (ET), the cause of the current 7th pandemic, has recently been replaced in Asia and Africa by an altered ET biotype possessing cholera toxin (CTX) of the classical (CL) biotype that originally caused the first six pandemics before becoming extinct in the 1980s. Until recently, the ET ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alam M,Nusrin S,Islam A,Bhuiyan NA,Rahim N,Delgado G,Morales R,Mendez JL,Navarro A,Gil AI,Watanabe H,Morita M,Nair GB,Cravioto A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic relationship of Rhinosporidium seeberi with other organisms remained controversial for over a century. Recently, molecular studies have shown R. seeberi to be a protistal microbe in the newly described class Mesomycetozoea at the animal-fungal boundary. Phylogenetic analyses of R. seeberi using 18S small...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silva V,Pereira CN,Ajello L,Mendoza L

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:The Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay permits rapid near-patient detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum; however, the test sensitivity remains suboptimal in paucibacillary specimens that are negative for acid-fast bacilli using smear microscopy. Xpert testing includes dilution with sample reagent, and when proces...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dharan NJ,Amisano D,Mboowa G,Ssengooba W,Blakemore R,Kubiak RW,Armstrong DT,Jones M,Manabe YC,Joloba ML,Ellner JJ,Dorman SE,Alland D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was recoved from 20% (36/180) of women attending a venereal disease clinic. All infected women had chlamydial antibodies in their serum and cervical secretions. However, the background rates of chlamydial antibody in chlamydia-negative women were very high. Measurement of antibodies in serum (com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,Cles L,Ray R,Hines PA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was collected from children with bullous impetigo in 2003 and 2004. One strain collected in 2003 was Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) positive. In 2004, a multiple-drug-resistant PVL(+) CA-MRSA strain was isolated from an athlete with a cutaneou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takizawa Y,Taneike I,Nakagawa S,Oishi T,Nitahara Y,Iwakura N,Ozaki K,Takano M,Nakayama T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal discharge in reproductive-age women. BV has been associated with poor reproductive outcomes such as preterm delivery, the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and pelvic inflammatory disease. BV represents the acquisition of a diver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coleman JS,Gaydos CA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of candidemia caused by Candida albicans and Candida glabrata is constantly increasing and is accompanied by the rising use of the few available antifungals. The widespread use of echinocandins and azoles for the treatment of invasive candidemia has enhanced the development of antifungal resistance, resu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vatanshenassan M,Boekhout T,Lass-Flörl C,Lackner M,Schubert S,Kostrzewa M,Sparbier K

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the abilities of three different avian influenza A viruses to attenuate the wild-type human influenza A/Korea/1/82 (H3N2) virus in squirrel monkeys, chimpanzees, and adult seronegative human volunteers. Two of these, avian influenza A/Mallard/NY/78 and A/Mallard/Alberta/76 viruses, appeared to be satisfac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Snyder MH,Clements ML,Herrington D,London WT,Tierney EL,Murphy BR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement fixation (CF) test is the current reference serologic test for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. However, it is reported to be insensitive and nonspecific, and it is labor intensive. To determine if a faster and more sensitive diagnosis of M. pneumoniae could be obtained, we examined 50 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thacker WL,Talkington DF

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 215 typical strains of Candida albicans were studied for their ability to assimilate 11 carbon compounds. All isolates assimilated lactic acid, ribitol, succinic acid, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside. None of the isolates assimilated cellobiose and salicin; 1.9% of the isolates assimilated L-arabinose. Citri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Syverson RE

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of the Roche AMPLICOR Mycobacterium tuberculosis test (AMPLICOR MTB) for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis was evaluated by testing 956 respiratory specimens from 502 patients and comparing results with results by culture and medical history. Of those 135 specimens that were culture positive for ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bergmann JS,Woods GL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain analysis cannot be used for the investigation of active lyssavirus infection in healthy bats because most bat species are protected by conservation directives. Consequently, serology remains the only tool for performing virological studies on natural bat populations; however, the presence of antibodies merely re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Echevarría JE,Avellón A,Juste J,Vera M,Ibáñez C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern identification techniques at the genomic level have greatly improved the taxonomic knowledge of mycobacteria. In adjunct to nucleic acid sequences, mycobacterial identification has been endorsed by investigation of the lipidic patterns of unique mycolic acids in such organisms. In the present investigation, the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tortoli E,Bartoloni A,Böttger EC,Emler S,Garzelli C,Magliano E,Mantella A,Rastogi N,Rindi L,Scarparo C,Urbano P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of coagulase-negative staphylococcal slime production and adherence with the development and outcome of bloodstream infections in two Finnish hospitals was evaluated. Analysis of 64 strains from 62 adult septicemias disclosed 34 (53%) adherent slime producers. In comparison, only 142 (29%) of 489 sing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kotilainen P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new molecular biological approach for the identification of bacteria is described. This approach employs PCR of bacterial cell lysates with conserved primers located in the 16S rRNA sequence flanking a variable region, and analysis of the amplified product was based on the principle of single-strand conformation pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjojoatmodjo MN,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies on the detection of bovine serum immunoglobulin G antibodies to bluetongue virus with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, an immunodiffusion method, and a serum neutralization assay demonstrated complete concordance between the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the serum neutralization assay ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poli G,Stott J,Liu YS,Manning JS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred ninety single sera from adults in Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea were tested for antibodies to human calicivirus (HCV) by a radioimmunoassay blocking test. A high prevalence of antibodies was observed in samples collected in Japan and Southeast Asia. Of 240 serum specimens collected fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakata S,Chiba S,Terashima H,Nakao T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a positive coagulase test with certain isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, inoculation of 0.5 ml of coagulase plasma with at least two colonies and 24 h of incubation at 35 to 37 degrees C may be required. S. aureus does not multiply in coagulase plasma. There is also lot-to-lot variation in the sensitivity of coag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Selepak ST,Witebsky FG

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 54 unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from cerebrospinal fluid samples from neonates and 60 unrelated strains isolated from carriers that had been previously studied by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (R. Quentin, H. Huet, F.-S. Wang, P. Geslin, A. Goudeau, and R. K. Selander, J. Cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chatellier S,Ramanantsoa C,Harriau P,Rolland K,Rosenau A,Quentin R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard broth microdilution (with and without bovine serum albumin [BSA] supplementation), tube dilution, and agar dilution susceptibility tests were compared for determining ramoplanin MICs. With a data base of 246 clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria from 33 U.S. sites, it was shown that (i) agar and tube di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kenny MT,Brackman MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saksenaea is a monotypic genus belonging to the order Mucorales and capable of producing severe human infections. Through a polyphasic study based on analysis of the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, domains D1 and D2 of the 28S rRNA gene, and the elongation factor 1α (EF-1α) gene, as well as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alvarez E,Garcia-Hermoso D,Sutton DA,Cano JF,Stchigel AM,Hoinard D,Fothergill AW,Rinaldi MG,Dromer F,Guarro J

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The ability of antibody induced by vaccination with recombinant gp160 (rgp160) to bind to native and recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoproteins was measured. Thirty-three HIV-1-seronegative healthy adult volunteers were injected four times with 40 or 80 micrograms of an HIV-1LAV env...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gorse GJ,Frey SE,Newman FK,Belshe RB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00