Use of immunoelectron microscopy to demonstrate Francisella tularensis.

abstract：:Serological markers for hepatitis B virus in male homosexuals demonstrated a high prevalence of past and present infection. Seropositivity of 91% for hepatitis B e antigen or antibody was demonstrated by radioimmunoassay in hepatitis B surface antigen-positive specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murphy BL,Schreeder MT,Maynard JE,Hadler SC,Sheller MJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five different PCR methods for the detection of Helicobacter pylori were evaluated. The results of this study indicate that of the five PCR methods examined, the ureC (glmM) gene PCR is the most sensitive and specific for the detection of H. pylori in gastric biopsy specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu JJ,Perng CL,Shyu RY,Chen CH,Lou Q,Chong SK,Lee CH

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moxalactam is highly hydrolyzed by plasmid-mediated metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), whereas it is poorly inactivated by serine-active carbapenemases. This study demonstrated that moxalactam resistance constituted an effective screen for MBL expression in enterobacteria, which could be confirmed, even in low-MBL-producing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pluquet E,Arlet G,Bingen E,Drieux L,Mammeri H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of acute viral hepatitis in people in many developing countries and is also endemic in many industrialized countries. Mammalian HEV (mHEV) isolates can be divided into at least four recognized major genotypes. Several nucleic acid amplification techniques have been developed fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gerber PF,Xiao CT,Cao D,Meng XJ,Opriessnig T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid pathogen identification can alter antibiotic prescribing practices if interpreted correctly. Microbiology reporting can be difficult to understand, and new technology has made it more challenging. Nebraska Medicine recently implemented the BioFire FilmArray blood culture identification panel (BCID) coupled with ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Donner LM,Campbell WS,Lyden E,Van Schooneveld TC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tests on specimens of dried blood, saliva, and urine from 55 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive and 55 HIV-seronegative patients, an immunoglobulin G capture enzyme immunoassay for the detection of antibodies to HIV types 1 and 2, GACELISA, gave 109 of 110, 109 of 109, and 109 of 110 correct results, r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thongcharoen P,Wasi C,Louisirirotchanakul S,Parry J,Connell J,Mortimer P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beagle dogs inoculated intravenously with 1.75 x 10(9) viable Encephalitozoon cuniculi spores at 12.5 months of age were monitored for 18 months to assess infection in the adult dog. Parameters monitored included packed cell volume, total and differential leukocyte counts, and humoral and cellular responses to infecti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Szabo JR,Shadduck JA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although standard conditions are available for testing the susceptibilities of filamentous fungi to antifungal agents by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI; formerly National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards) broth microdilution assay, quality control (QC) MIC limits have not been establi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Espinel-Ingroff A,Fothergill A,Ghannoum M,Manavathu E,Ostrosky-Zeichner L,Pfaller M,Rinaldi M,Schell W,Walsh T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of PCR for the amplification of target nucleic acid sequences in clinical diagnostics may often be reduced due to the presence of inhibitory factors. Hemolytic serum contains a number of PCR inhibitors, one of which is hemin. In this study we have found that conventional methods of DNA extraction were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klein A,Barsuk R,Dagan S,Nusbaum O,Shouval D,Galun E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic gains of repeat testing for Clostridium difficile by enzyme immunoassay and PCR (i.e., initial negative result followed by positive result) within a 7-day period were 1.9 and 1.7%, respectively. There is little value of repeat testing for C. difficile by enzyme immunoassay or PCR. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aichinger E,Schleck CD,Harmsen WS,Nyre LM,Patel R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old patient developed severe shock due to administration of a Yersinia enterocolitica-contaminated red blood cell concentrate. Y. enterocolitica (serotype O:9, biotype II) was cultivated from the residual blood in the blood bag and from a stool sample of the blood donor. In the donor's plasma immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strobel E,Heesemann J,Mayer G,Peters J,Müller-Weihrich S,Emmerling P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal spread and horizontal transfer in the spread of vancomycin resistance genes were investigated. Multiplex PCR, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), hybridization of enterococcal plasmids with the vanA and vanB probes, and sequencing of a fragment of vanB were used in the analysis. Before May 1996, 12 vancomy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suppola JP,Kolho E,Salmenlinna S,Tarkka E,Vuopio-Varkila J,Vaara M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that some, but not all, Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine adhere, in vitro, to the surface of uroepithelial or vaginal cells. In the present study, 212 strains, isolated from urine of 212 infected patients, were tested for adhesion by using an in vitro human cell line assay. A variable deg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chabanon G,Hartley CL,Richmond MH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid tests are sensitive and specific and provide a rapid diagnosis, making them invaluable for patient and outbreak management. Multiplex PCR assays have additional advantages in providing an economical and comprehensive panel for many common respiratory viruses. Previous reports have shown the utility of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pabbaraju K,Wong S,Tokaryk KL,Fonseca K,Drews SJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type strains of six Campylobacter species or subspecies were examined in eight tests used for the identification of such organisms. False-positive results were obtained in certain tests (growth on 1% bile, brilliant green, selenite, trimethylamine-N-oxide, 2,3,5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride, and minimal media) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： On SL,Holmes B

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium microti is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex of bacteria. This species was originally identified as a pathogen of small rodents and shrews and was associated with limited diversity and a much reduced spoligotype pattern. More recently, specific deletions of chromosomal DNA have been show...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith NH,Crawshaw T,Parry J,Birtles RJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phialemonium obovatum was found to be the cause of osteomyelitis in a German shepherd dog. Histologic examination of the biopsied material from the left tibia revealed septate, irregularly branched hyphae, swollen cells, and ovate-to-spherical cells divided by a transverse septum. The majority of the fungal elements w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lomax LG,Cole JR,Padhye AA,Ajello L,Chandler FW,Smith BR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) made to coxsackievirus B-3 were tested against a panel of enteroviruses by indirect immunofluorescence. The MAbs included seven which reacted with coxsackievirus B-3 only, five which reacted with more than one enterovirus included in the panel, one which reacted with broad enterovi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yagi S,Schnurr D,Lin J

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:Failure to demonstrate immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IgM-IFA) in sera from some patients with acute acquired toxoplasmosis has recently been attributed to an inhibitory effect of high titers of IgG antibodies in these sera (Pyndiah et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 9:170-174, 1979). To con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Filice GA,Yeager AS,Remington JS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report in this work a highly sensitive and nonradioactive PCR method for the detection of the four species of parasite causing human malaria. Plasmodium-specific primers corresponding to the small-subunit rRNA genes of the malaria parasite were used, and a 291-bp fragment was amplified. Our results showed a high sp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ciceron L,Jaureguiberry G,Gay F,Danis M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many laboratories are unable to perform colistin susceptibility testing. Diffusion-based antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods are not recommended, and not all laboratories have the capacity to perform broth microdilution (BMD). Using a multistep tiered approach, we investigated whether the adapted use of the M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lutgring JD,Kim A,Campbell D,Karlsson M,Brown AC,Burd EM

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pseudooutbreak of cryptococcal meningitis was caused by the use of contaminated albumin solution used in the preparation of Papanicolaou-stained slides of cerebrospinal fluid. Organisms were seen in cytocentrifuge preparations, but not in India ink preparations of cerebrospinal fluid specimens. Cryptococcal antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hopfer RL,Katz RL,Fainstein V

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicenter cooperative study, an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) using purified antigen of lymphadenopathy-associated virus was compared with radioimmune precipitation (RIP) for detection of antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 634 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or related conditions, 687...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Handsfield HH,Wandell M,Goldstein L,Shriver K

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a nested PCR with Borrelia flagellin gene (flaB) primers and DNA sequencing to determine if Borrelia lonestari was present in Amblyomma americanum ticks removed from military personnel and sent to the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In our pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stromdahl EY,Williamson PC,Kollars TM Jr,Evans SR,Barry RK,Vince MA,Dobbs NA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of three aminoglycosides and six beta-lactam antibiotics on strains of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and enterococci was studied. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs), the minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs), and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lorian V,Atkinson BA

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a sensitive assay for Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum), the agent of veneral syphilis, based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A 658-bp portion of the gene encoding the 47-kDa membrane immunogen was amplified, and the PCR products were probed by DNA-DNA hybridization with a 49...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burstain JM,Grimprel E,Lukehart SA,Norgard MV,Radolf JD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel PCR restriction analysis method using the RNA polymerase beta-subunit- coding gene (rpoB) was employed to both detect and identify Helicobacter pylori in biopsy specimens and culture isolates. The rpoB DNAs (458 bp) were specifically amplified by PCR with the Helicobacter-specific primers (HF and HR). Based on...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lim CY,Lee KH,Cho MJ,Chang MW,Kim SY,Myong NH,Lee WK,Rhee KH,Kook YH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fever, brain abscesses, and Gemella morbillorum bacteremia after anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) therapy in a 21-year-old acne inversa patient currently taking long-term dapsone. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing such a case. During antimicrobial therapy, t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vossen MG,Gattringer KB,Khalifeh N,Koreny M,Spertini V,Mallouhi A,Willeit M,Volc-Platzer B,Asboth F,Graninger W,Thalhammer F,Lagler H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00