Evidence of an epidemic of Blastocystis hominis infections in preschool children in northern Jordan.

abstract：:A previously described microbroth kinetic system (J. Meletiadis, J. F. Meis, J. W. Mouton, and P. E. Verweij, J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:478-484, 2001) based on continuous monitoring of changes in the optical density of fungal growth was used to describe turbidimetric growth curves of different filamentous fungi in the pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meletiadis J,te Dorsthorst DT,Verweij PE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although screening for maternal toxoplasmic seroconversion during pregnancy is based on immunodiagnostic assays, the diagnosis of clinically relevant toxoplasmosis greatly relies upon molecular methods. A problem is that this molecular diagnosis is subject to variation of performances, mainly due to a large diversity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sterkers Y,Varlet-Marie E,Cassaing S,Brenier-Pinchart MP,Brun S,Dalle F,Delhaes L,Filisetti D,Pelloux H,Yera H,Bastien P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has recently been described as a fast and inexpensive method for the identification of mycobacteria. Although mycobacteria require extraction prior to MALDI-TOF MS analysis, previously published protocols have been relatively c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mather CA,Rivera SF,Butler-Wu SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae causes severe invasive disease in humans and mastitis in cattle. Temporally matched bovine milk isolates and clinical human invasive isolates (52 each) collected in New York State over 18 months were characterized by molecular subtyping and phenotypic methods to probe the interspecies transmis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sukhnanand S,Dogan B,Ayodele MO,Zadoks RN,Craver MP,Dumas NB,Schukken YH,Boor KJ,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida famata (teleomorph Debaryomyces hansenii) has been described as a medically relevant yeast, and this species has been included in many commercial identification systems that are currently used in clinical laboratories. Among 53 strains collected during the SENTRY and ARTEMIS surveillance programs and previousl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castanheira M,Woosley LN,Diekema DJ,Jones RN,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enzygnost alpha method was tested against the complement fixation test and anti-VCA immunofluorescence to determine the respective titers of anti-cytomegalovirus and anti-Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin G antibodies. For cytomegalovirus, the Enzygnost results showed 97.99% agreement with the readings obtained by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gutierrez J,Maroto MD,Piédrola G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 random clinical urine specimens were divided and used to compare Becton, Dickinson & Co. B-D Urine Culture Kit-treated urine (BDU) with refrigerated urine (RU). Each RU-BDU pair was cultured with the standard calibrated loop-plate method and also screened with the Abbott Laboratories MS-2 system at 0, 5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hubbard WA,Shalis PJ,McClatchey KD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella henselae is the main causative agent of cat-scratch disease, and both B. henselae and Bartonella quintana cause angioproliferative disorders such as bacillary angiomatosis. To increase the sensitivity of Bartonella detection by PCR and to improve the species differentiation, we developed a semiquantitative,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sander A,Penno S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) a-sequence (a-seq) is located in the joining region between the long (L) and short (S) unique sequences of the virus (L-S junction), and this hypervariable junction has been used to differentiate HCMV strains. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zaia JA,Gallez-Hawkins G,Churchill MA,Morton-Blackshere A,Pande H,Adler SP,Schmidt GM,Forman SJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bacteriologic systems for detecting bacteria in blood were compared; the automated radiometric BACTEC and the conventional method used in our laboratory for many years. BACTEC consisted of two bottles with 30 ml and the conventional method with 50 ml of media for aerobes and anaerobes. The BACTEC bottles were inoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thiemke WA,Wicher K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to examine cervical cancer biopsy specimens and pelvic lymph nodes for the presence of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV 16) DNA. Of the 75 cervical specimens tested, 36 (48%) were positive for HPV 16 in the PCR. A total of 65 pelvic lymph nodes removed during radical sur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Czeglédy J,Póka R,Veress G,Gergely L

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Malaria-specific rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) targeting aldolase show highly variable sensitivities. We assessed diversity in Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax aldolases by sequencing the coding genes from parasites of various origins. The results show that aldolases are highly conserved, indicating that antigenic d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee N,Baker J,Bell D,McCarthy J,Cheng Q

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple method for the rapid detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) that uses a one-tube reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) and total RNA extracted directly from a variety of bovine specimens, including whole blood and tissues. Reagents for both RT and PCR were combined in a one-tube, single-buff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hamel AL,Wasylyshen MD,Nayar GP

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trunk of human cytidylate-phosphate-deoxyguanylate-binding protein/CXXC finger protein 1 (CFP1), immobilized onto an aminohexyl-Sepharose column, can be used as a preanalytical tool for the selective enrichment of bacterial DNA from mixed solutions with high amounts of human background DNA for nucleic acid amplifica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sachse S,Straube E,Lehmann M,Bauer M,Russwurm S,Schmidt KH

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first vector-borne Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis case is presented. An immunocompetent male who denied any contact with canines and who worked in a sawmill was bitten on his neck by a large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis L.; Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Bacteriological diagnosis was confirmed by 16S rRNA gene seq...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tuuminen T,Viiri H,Vuorinen S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture techniques are limited in the ability to detect multiple Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in nasopharyngeal (NP) secretions. We developed an immunoblot (IB) method with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to detect S. pneumoniae and to identify serotypes. NP specimens stored in skim milk-tryptone-gluco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bronsdon MA,O'Brien KL,Facklam RR,Whitney CG,Schwartz B,Carlone GM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia canis causes a potentially fatal rickettsial disease of dogs that requires rapid and accurate diagnosis in order to initiate appropriate therapy leading to a favorable prognosis. We recently reported the cloning of two immunoreactive E. canis proteins, P28 and P140, that were applicable for serodiagnosis of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McBride JW,Corstvet RE,Breitschwerdt EB,Walker DH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) was diagnosed by clinical signs and lesions in five out of six white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a North American zoo. The clinical signs and histopathological lesions in these deer were typical of MCF. Antibody to an epitope conserved among the MCF viruses was detected in t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li H,Dyer N,Keller J,Crawford TB

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large pool of refined endotoxin was prepared from Escherichia coli O113 by extraction with hot acqueous phenol. It was characterized chemically and biologically and will be available for a reference standard designated as reference endotoxin EC. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rudbach JA,Akiya FI,Elin RJ,Hochstein HD,Luoma MK,Milner EC,Milner KC,Thomas KR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first FDA-approved multiplex PCR panel for a large number of respiratory pathogens was introduced in 2008. Since then, other PCR panels for detection of several respiratory and gastrointestinal pathogens have been approved by the FDA and are commercially available, and more such panels are likely to become availab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schreckenberger PC,McAdam AJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA encoding two repeat units of 120-kDa protein of Ehrlichia chaffeensis was cloned into the expression vector pGEX and expressed in Escherichia coli. The sensitivity and specificity of a dot blot assay for detection of human antibodies with the recombinant protein were 86 and 100%, respectively, compared with an ind...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu XJ,Crocquet-Valdes P,Cullman LC,Walker DH

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HERPCHEK herpes simplex virus (HSV) antigen test (Du Pont, Billerica, Mass.) is a biotinstreptavidin-amplified enzyme-linked immunoassay for the detection of HSV antigen directly in clinical specimens. In a total of 200 mucocutaneous specimens, predominantly lesions from nongenital sites, HERPCHEK had a sensitivit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wu TC,Zaza S,Callaway J

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 2,559 routine clinical specimens were cultured for mycobacteria by using BACTEC Middlebrook 7H12 medium (BACTEC), Lowenstein-Jensen slants (LJ), and Mycobactosel selective Middlebrook 7H11 slants (M7H11). Thirty-three isolates (1.3%) of M. avium complex and 82 isolates (3.2%) of M. tuberculosis were recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirihara JM,Hillier SL,Coyle MB

更新日期：1985-11-01 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：:Respiratory tract specimens from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) require unique processing by clinical microbiology laboratories to ensure detection of all potential pathogens. The present study sought to determine the compliance of microbiology laboratories in the United States with recently published recommendati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Garber E,Desai M,Saiman L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A duplex PCR to detect Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis was developed with the insertion sequences IS481 (B. pertussis) and IS1001 (B. parapertussis) and evaluated with specimens from 520 consecutive patients presenting with possible pertussis. No culture-positive-PCR-negative results occurred, giving...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farrell DJ,Daggard G,Mukkur TK

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During pregnancy, Plasmodium falciparum infection of the placenta frequently occurs in the absence of parasites in peripheral blood. We investigated the abilities of the OptiMAL rapid immunochromatographic strip test for P. falciparum lactate dehydrogenase and species-specific PCR performed on peripheral blood to dete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mankhambo L,Kanjala M,Rudman S,Lema VM,Rogerson SJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and quantitation of human parainfluenza virus type 1 (HPIV-1) RNA in nasal wash specimens from 49 children with lower respiratory infections were performed by a reverse transcription-PCR-enzyme hybridization assay (RT-PCR-EHA). The HPIV-1 RT-PCR-EHA was then used to test 40 samples from asymptomatic chil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fan J,Henrickson KJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information is available about the genetic variability of Leishmania populations and the possible correlations with ecoepidemiological features of leishmaniases. The present study was carried out in French Guiana, a country where cutaneous leishmaniases (CL) are endemic over the whole territory. The genetic pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rotureau B,Ravel C,Nacher M,Couppié P,Curtet I,Dedet JP,Carme B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00