Prevalence of Taiwan variant of Epstein-Barr virus in throat washings from patients with head and neck tumors in Taiwan.

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important pathogen that has been responsible for major nosocomial epidemics worldwide. For infection control programs, rapid and adequate detection of MRSA is of great importance. We developed a rapid and high-throughput molecular screening approach that consist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nijhuis RH,van Maarseveen NM,van Hannen EJ,van Zwet AA,Mascini EM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification and differentiation of orthopoxviruses by PCR were achieved with primers based on genome sequences encoding the hemagglutinin (HA) protein, an infected-cell membrane antigen that distinguishes orthopoxviruses from other poxvirus genera. The initial identification step used a primer pair of consens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ropp SL,Jin Q,Knight JC,Massung RF,Esposito JJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium var. Copenhagen isolates from a heifer-raising operation and from 11 dairy herds that had their calves contracted to the heifer-raising operation were examined for their phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. Results of the study showed that the heifer-raising...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hegde NV,Cook ML,Wolfgang DR,Love BC,Maddox CC,Jayarao BM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OmpK36 porin plays a role in carbapenem resistance and may contribute to bacterial virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of different groups of K. pneumoniae separated by ompK36 typing. Among 226 nonduplicate K. pneumoniae bloodstream isolates collected at a Taiwan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yan JJ,Zheng PX,Wang MC,Tsai SH,Wang LR,Wu JJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,013 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were identified in parallel by the Repliscan (Cathra International, Ontario, Canada) and API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) systems. There was a 62% agreement at the genus level between the two systems. Of the 38% discrepant results, Repliscan classified 22% as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Quall CO,Fox JM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found 31 different emm-toxin genotypes among 74 group A streptococcal isolates causing invasive infections in French children. The predominant emm types were emm1 (25%), emm3 (8%), emm4 (8%), emm6 (7%), and emm89 (9%). Sixteen percent of isolates harbored the streptococcal invasive locus, half of them belonging to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bidet P,Courroux C,Salgueiro C,Carol A,Mariani-Kurkdjian P,Bonacorsi S,Bingen E

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system cysticercosis is common in countries where Taenia solium occurs in pigs and the level of hygiene and sanitation is low. The clinical presentation may include epileptic seizures, focal neurological deficits, hydrocephalus, or aseptic meningitis. The disease is frequently seen in California reside...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mohammad IN,Heiner DC,Miller BL,Goldberg MA,Kagan IG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease prevails as the most commonly transmitted tick-borne infection in the United States, and serologic evaluation for antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi remains the recommended modality for diagnosis. This review presents a brief historical perspective on the evolution of serologic assays for Lyme disease and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Theel ES

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide components 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid and L-glycero-D-manno-heptose were detected in hydrolysates from whole cells of Neisseria elongata by gas-liquid chromatography. Cells from a single plate were hydrolyzed, and carbohydrate components were converted to aldononitrile and O-methyloxime acet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Guerrant GO,Moss CW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three molecular assays were evaluated for the direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria in 125 respiratory and 22 nonrespiratory samples. The overall sensitivities obtained were as follows: GenoType MTBDRplus, 97.9%; GenoType Mycobacteria Direct, 93.7%; Gen-Probe Mycobacterium tuberculosis Amplif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neonakis IK,Gitti Z,Baritaki S,Petinaki E,Baritaki M,Spandidos DA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowdria ruminantium causes severe, often fatal disease in domestic ruminants, whereas wildlife species usually are not affected. Blood and bone marrow samples from healthy, free-ranging Zimbabwean ungulates were taken during translocation from areas harboring Amblyomma ticks and tested for the presence of C. ruminanti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kock ND,van Vliet AH,Charlton K,Jongejan F

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure nasal-wash and serum isotype-specific hemagglutinin antibody responses in 109 seronegative (hemagglutination-inhibiting titer less than or equal to 1:8) adults vaccinated intranasally with live attenuated A/Washington/897/80 (H3N2) or A/California/10/78 (H1N1) c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clements ML,Murphy BR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analytical performance of the AIX1000 system, a fully automated and recently FDA-cleared rapid plasma reagin (RPR) system, was evaluated by comparison to a manual RPR test in a traditional syphilis testing algorithm. A total of 1,028 consecutive serum samples submitted for syphilis testing to the University of Nor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sanfilippo AM,Freeman K,Schmitz JL

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The CO2, O2, and pH levels of commercially available blood culture bottles with tryptic soy broth medium from five different manufacturers were compared. Ranges of 1.3 to 6.9% for CO2, 1.1 to 6.0% for O2, and pH 6.94 to 7.26 were found. Different venting procedures revealed that blood culture bottles from which the ru...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Welch WD,Porschen RK,Zarifi SZ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a real-time PCR assay to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with ciprofloxacin resistance in specimens submitted for nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). All three single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) targets produced high sensitivity and specificity values. The presence of ≥2 SNPs wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson SW,Martin I,Demczuk W,Bharat A,Hoang L,Wylie J,Allen V,Lefebvre B,Tyrrell G,Horsman G,Haldane D,Garceau R,Wong T,Mulvey MR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morganella ("Proteus") morganii is the only species in the recently proposed genus Morganella, but we suspect there are yet undescribed species in the genus. Two candidates for new species were recently investigated. Nineteen strains isolated from clinical specimens resembled M. morganii but were lysine positive and n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hickman FW,Framer JJ 3rd,Steigerwalt AG,Brenner DJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of the stomach mucosa by Helicobacter pylori is a major cause of acute and chronic gastric pathologies in humans. Several H. pylori virulence genes that may play a role in its pathogenicity have been identified. The most important determinants are vacA and cagA in the cag pathogenicity island (cagPAI) gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yamazaki S,Yamakawa A,Okuda T,Ohtani M,Suto H,Ito Y,Yamazaki Y,Keida Y,Higashi H,Hatakeyama M,Azuma T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the recovery of Histoplasma capsulatum from blood specimens cultured for Mycobacterium sp. in BACTEC 13A radiometric medium. H. capsulatum was recovered from six of eight blood specimens submitted for mycobacterial cultures from five human immunodeficiency virus-positive individuals. Initial positive metabol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Merz WG,Kodsy S,Merz CS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously established multiplex PCR that identifies to the species level Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter genomic species 13TU (GS13TU) was expanded to include Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and Acinetobacter genomic species 3. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Higgins PG,Lehmann M,Wisplinghoff H,Seifert H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first documented case of canine strangles due to infection with Streptococcus equi in a dog with enlarged lymph nodes. Genetic typing, via sequencing of 12 housekeeping genes and the SeM gene, demonstrated the isolate to be a member of a common equine strain type circulating in the United Kingdom. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ladlow J,Scase T,Waller A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces viscosus is a gram-positive, non-acid-fact, facultative, catalase-positive, filamentous, or diphtheroidal microorganism. It was isolated from six canine infections during a period of 1.5 years. The organism was cultured from exudate and flaky granules aspirated from infectious granulomas and empyemas. All ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davenport AA,Carter GR,Patterson MJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious gastroenteritis is one of the most common diseases in young children. To clarify the infectious etiology of diarrhea in Danish children less than 5 years of age, we conducted a 2-year prospective case-control study. Stools from 424 children with diarrhea and 870 asymptomatic age-matched controls were examin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Olesen B,Neimann J,Böttiger B,Ethelberg S,Schiellerup P,Jensen C,Helms M,Scheutz F,Olsen KE,Krogfelt K,Petersen E,Mølbak K,Gerner-Smidt P

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently described genus Pandoraea contains five named species (Pandoraea apista, Pandoraea pulmonicola, Pandoraea pnomenusa, Pandoraea sputorum, and Pandoraea norimbergensis) and four unnamed genomospecies. Pandoraea spp. have mainly been recovered from the respiratory tracts of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Acc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coenye T,Liu L,Vandamme P,LiPuma JJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical importance of nondiphtherial Corynebacterium, a ubiquitous member of the normal human microflora of the skin and mucous membrane, for ocular surface infections has been recognized recently. We performed an antimicrobial susceptibility test with Etest strips for three fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, norfl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eguchi H,Kuwahara T,Miyamoto T,Nakayama-Imaohji H,Ichimura M,Hayashi T,Shiota H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy may be limited by the development of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) resistance. Monitoring for resistance will perhaps allow changes in therapy prior to deterioration in the patient's clinical or immunologic status. Our objective was to develop a rapid, specific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Frenkel LM,Wagner LE 2nd,Atwood SM,Cummins TJ,Dewhurst S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a mass spectrometry (MS) procedure based on the detection of a serum disaccharide (MS-DS) in patients with invasive candidiasis (IC). Here, we compare the performance of MS-DS for the diagnosis of IC, invasive aspergillosis (IA), and mucormycosis (MM) with those of commercially available antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mery A,Sendid B,François N,Cornu M,Poissy J,Guerardel Y,Poulain D

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is the main cause of postdiarrheal hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening clinical complication characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure that mainly affects children. A relevant feature of STEC strains is the productio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Melli LJ,Zylberman V,Hiriart Y,Lauche CE,Baschkier A,Pardo R,Miliwebsky E,Chinen I,Rivas M,Goldbaum FA,Ugalde JE,Comerci DJ,Ciocchini AE

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess is challenging, as most patients at the time of diagnosis do not have a concurrent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Fecal testing for E. histolytica parasite antigen or DNA is negative in most patients. A real-time PCR assay was evaluated for detection ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque R,Kabir M,Noor Z,Rahman SM,Mondal D,Alam F,Rahman I,Al Mahmood A,Ahmed N,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercially available endotoxin assay (CS-TAL) employing a chromogenic peptide and an amebocyte lysate from the Japanese horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, gave a positive result with aqueous extracts of all 15 strains of Candida albicans and 1 strain each of Candida tropicalis, Cryptococcus neoformans, and a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hodes DS,Heon D,Hass A,Hyatt AC,Hodes HL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were generated from mice immunized with scolex protein antigen of Cysticercus cellulosae. Three monoclonal antibodies specific for cysticercal antigens, which did not show any cross-reactivity with Taenia solium or Taenia saginata antigens, were selected. Each monoclonal antibody coupled to Sepha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nascimento E,Tavares CA,Lopes JD

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00