Elimination of false-positive serum reactivity in latex agglutination test for cryptococcal antigen in human immunodeficiency virus-infected population.

abstract：:We have studied 221 adults drawn from an impoverished urban population with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence (35%) to determine the prevalence of gastroduodenal pathology and its relationship to serological markers of Helicobacter pylori virulence proteins and other potential environmental and im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fernando N,Holton J,Zulu I,Vaira D,Mwaba P,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven isolates representing five distinct outbreaks of pneumococcal conjunctivitis were examined for phenotypic and genetic characteristics. None of the strains possessed capsules, and all strains were susceptible to optochin, bile soluble, and Gen-Probe AccuProbe test positive. All 11 isolates were confirmed as Stre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carvalho MG,Steigerwalt AG,Thompson T,Jackson D,Facklam RR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-restriction endonuclease analysis (PRA) was used for direct identification of Mycobacterium haemophilum in clinical specimens from immunocompromised patients. PRA correctly identified M. haemophilum in four smear-positive specimens. Direct identification by PRA takes 2 to 3 working days compared to the 3 to 5 week...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang SX,Sng LH,Leong HN,Tan BH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococci and enterococci were identified by two L-pyrrolidonyl-beta-naphthylamide (PYR) hydrolysis tests. One uses Minitek PYR disks (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.); the other uses a swab impregnated with PYR reagent. Both tests and Strep-A-Chek (EY Laboratories, San Mateo, Calif.), a commerc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wellstood SA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of pseudobacteremia due to Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococci [GAS]) and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) was traced to the venting procedure for aerobic bottles prior to their loading into the incubator of the BacT/Alert analyzer (Organon Teknika). Bacteria shed by a laborato...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Simhon A,Rahav G,Shapiro M,Block C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from a tertiary public hospital in Singapore revealed that multisusceptible strains had gradually started to replace the endemic multiresistant strain (ST239-MRSA-III) since 2002. Molecular typing showed that this was a predomin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hsu LY,Koh TH,Singh K,Kang ML,Kurup A,Tan BH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in sheep was established. The assay was used in a seroepidemiological survey in which serum samples from 327 Norwegian rams were screened for antibodies to B. burgdorferi. These rams were randomly chosen, clinically healthy animals from all pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fridriksdóttir V,Nesse LL,Gudding R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feces and serum specimens were collected from three farms in Michigan on which approximately 50-lb (8- to 9-week-old) pigs experienced diarrhea just after placement into all-in-all-out finishing barns. The clinical signs (profuse watery diarrhea lasting about 2 weeks and no vomiting) were similar on all farms, and the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim Y,Chang KO,Straw B,Saif LJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sensititre Breakpoint Autoreader system (SBAS) is a broth microdilution method with one to three concentrations of each antibiotic and innovative fluorescence technology to define inhibitory endpoints. We tested 248 gram-negative bacilli and 80 gram-positive cocci using both the rapid (5 h) and overnight (18 h) SB...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nolte FS,Krisher KK,Beltran LA,Christianson NP,Sheridan GE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 32 patients for whom highly active antiretroviral therapy was failing, a good agreement between drug resistance-associated mutations in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was found (k = 0.85). The mutations with the lowest agreement were 20R, 63P, and 84V in the protease gene and 184V in the reve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sarmati L,Nicastri E,Uccella I,D'Ettorre G,Parisi SG,Palmisano L,Galluzzo C,Concia E,Vullo V,Vella S,Andreoni M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the prevalence and species distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in relation to age in 385 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) (mean age +/- standard deviation [range], 12.0 +/- 6.1 [1 to 24] years; sex ratio, 0.53) attending three Parisian centers. The overall prevalence of NTM in sputum was 8.1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pierre-Audigier C,Ferroni A,Sermet-Gaudelus I,Le Bourgeois M,Offredo C,Vu-Thien H,Fauroux B,Mariani P,Munck A,Bingen E,Guillemot D,Quesne G,Vincent V,Berche P,Gaillard JL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing is now being introduced as a potential primary screening test for improved detection of cervical precancer and cancer. Current U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved tests are batch tests that take several hours to complete. A rapid, non-batch test might permit point-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Einstein MH,Smith KM,Davis TE,Schmeler KM,Ferris DG,Savage AH,Gray JE,Stoler MH,Wright TC Jr,Ferenczy A,Castle PE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For up to 20 to 40% of patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), the mode of transmission is still unknown. We demonstrate that tear fluid contains HCV RNA-carrying material with the properties of infectious virus and conclude that smear infection with tear fluid may play a role in HCV transmission. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feucht HH,Zöllner B,Schröter M,Altrogge H,Laufs R

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of primary invasive cutaneous infections caused by the zoophilic dermatophytic species Microsporum canis are presented. The first case occurred in a liver transplant recipient who was receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Multiple erythematous papules were seen on both legs, and a biopsy revealed invasive fun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： King D,Cheever LW,Hood A,Horn TD,Rinaldi MG,Merz WG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new DNA probe assay (INNO LiPA Mycobacteria; Innogenetics, Ghent, Belgium) for the simultaneous identification, by means of reverse hybridization and line-probe technology, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium xenopi, Mycobacterium gordonae, the species of the Mycobacterium av...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tortoli E,Nanetti A,Piersimoni C,Cichero P,Farina C,Mucignat G,Scarparo C,Bartolini L,Valentini R,Nista D,Gesu G,Tosi CP,Crovatto M,Brusarosco G

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the blastogenic responses of lymphocytes to Staphylococcus aureus antigen in 49 uninfected non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects and in 56 uninfected nondiabetic subjects. We found a significantly decreased response to this antigen in the diabetic patients (P less than 0.05). Diabetics whose blood sugar ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Casey J,Sturm C Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lymph node excision was performed on a 45-year-old woman with left cervical swelling. The disorder which developed after the patient had undergone oral surgery for a severe periodontal disease failed to respond to antimicrobial chemotherapy. A mycobacterial strain subsequently identified by high-performance liquid c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Piersimoni C,Goteri G,Nista D,Mariottini A,Mazzarelli G,Bornigia S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 4,000 endocervical specimens tested with the Chlamydiazyme enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Abbott Laboratories), 233 (5.8%) gave positive results (A492 above the cutoff), which were confirmed with a blocking reagent (Abbott). An additional 34 specimens (14.6%) with chlamydial antigen were detected and confirmed ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kellogg JA,Seiple JW,Stroll ES

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alpha-toxin disk test is described in which group B streptococci completed the hemolysis of sheep erythrocytes partially lysed by the alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens. The test was performed satisfactorily on the sheep blood agar primary isolation plate, as well as on pure cultures. A total of 95% of strains ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith JA,Ngui-Yen JH

更新日期：1980-07-01 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：:In a recent genotypic survey of beta-lactam-resistant pneumococci recovered in different areas of United States during 1997, eight clonal types that each represented 3 to 40 isolates accounted for 134 of 144 isolates (G. Gherardi, C. Whitney, R. Facklam, and B. Beall, J. Infect. Dis. 181:216-229, 2000). We determined ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beall B,Gherardi G,Facklam RR,Hollingshead SK

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anyplex STI-7 is a new molecular kit that detects seven sexually transmitted pathogens. Among 202 subjects screened for genital infection, 143 (70.4%) were diagnosed with at least one pathogen, in concordance with reference methods. In addition, the Anyplex STI-7 demonstrated coinfections, such as that with Ureaplasma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berçot B,Amarsy R,Goubard A,Aparicio C,Loeung HU,Segouin C,Gueret D,Jacquier H,Meunier F,Mougari F,Cambau E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven bacterial clones producing human recombinant monoclonal antibody Fab fragments (rFabs) reactive to herpes simplex virus (HSV) antigens were selected from a human combinatorial antibody library constructed in a phage-display vector by a panning procedure against an HSV lysate. Thirty-four of the HSV-specif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cattani P,Rossolini GM,Cresti S,Santangelo R,Burton DR,Williamson RA,Sanna PP,Fadda G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively analyzed epidemiologic information associated with 22 cultures of Neisseria elongata subsp. nitroreducens (formerly CDC group M-6) submitted to the Microbial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, over a 16-year period. The most common illnesses noted with this bact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wong JD,Janda JM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the use of mannitol salt agar with oxacillin for use as a primary screening medium for the simultaneous detection and identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in clinical surveillance specimens. Oxacillin agar dilution susceptibility tests with mannitol salt agar and Mueller-Hinton ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lally RT,Ederer MN,Woolfrey BF

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was used to examine genetic relationships among 63 isolates of Mycobacterium bovis and 13 other members of the M. tuberculosis complex. The isolates were divided into five electrophoretic types, with a mean genetic diversity of 0.1. The strains were genetically homogenous, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feizabadi MM,Robertson ID,Cousins DV,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of concerns over an influenza pandemic, identification of virulent influenza A virus isolates must be obtained quickly for effective responses. Rapid subtype identification, however, is difficult even in well-equipped virology laboratories or is unobtainable in the field under more austere conditions. Here...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lodes MJ,Suciu D,Elliott M,Stover AG,Ross M,Caraballo M,Dix K,Crye J,Webby RJ,Lyon WJ,Danley DL,McShea A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared whole blood dried on filter paper to the standard assay with frozen cell-free plasma for use in the quantitation of the human immunodeficiency virus RNA load in blood. RNA values from filter paper, corrected for the hematocrit, gave results comparable to those of the standard assay in terms of sensitivity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fiscus SA,Brambilla D,Grosso L,Schock J,Cronin M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) on a full-genome Campylobacter jejuni microarray to examine genome-wide gene conservation patterns among 51 strains isolated from food and clinical sources. These data have been integrated with data from three previous C. jejuni CGH studies to perform a meta-analysi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Taboada EN,Acedillo RR,Carrillo CD,Findlay WA,Medeiros DT,Mykytczuk OL,Roberts MJ,Valencia CA,Farber JM,Nash JH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate multiplex and nested PCR-reverse line blot (RLB) hybridization assays for detection and serovar identification of Chlamydia trachomatis. Two sets of primers targeting the VD2 region of the omp1 gene and one set targeting the cryptic plasmid were designed for use in mul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xiong L,Kong F,Zhou H,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00