Emergence of fluconazole-resistant strains of Candida albicans in patients with recurrent oropharyngeal candidosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection.

abstract：:This report describes the first well-documented reported case of the recovery of Blastomyces dermatitidis from the blood of a patient with disseminated blastomycosis. The isolate was recovered by using a lysis-centrifugation method and inhibitory mold agar after 6 days of incubation at 30 degrees C. One of six blood s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Musial CE,Wilson WR,Sinkeldam IR,Roberts GD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Sporothrix schenckii were serologically tested by the exoantigen immunodiffusion technique of Kaufman and Standard (L. Kaufman and P.G. Standard, J. Clin. Microbiol. 8:42-45, 1978). This rapid and sensitive technique permitted the identification of 10 isolates of S. schenckii within 3 days. The production ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:We report the first case of maxillary sinusitis caused by Actinomucor elegans in an 11-year-old patient. Histopathological and mycological examinations of surgical maxillary sinuses samples showed coenocytic hyphae characteristic of mucoraceous fungi. The fungi recovered had stolons and rhizoids, nonapophyseal and glo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davel G,Featherston P,Fernández A,Abrantes R,Canteros C,Rodero L,Sztern C,Perrotta D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of sequence type 398 (ST398) has frequently been detected in pigs and pig handlers. However, in Malaysia, sampling 360 pigs and 90 pig handlers from 30 farms identified novel ST9-spa type t4358-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type V MRSA strains that were found...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neela V,Mohd Zafrul A,Mariana NS,van Belkum A,Liew YK,Rad EG

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the G and P serotypes of group A bovine rotaviruses from 149 samples of feces or intestinal contents collected from calves showing clinical signs of neonatal diarrhea was performed by a nested reverse transcription-PCR typing assay. The G6 serotype was the most prevalent, accounting for viruses in 55....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falcone E,Tarantino M,Di Trani L,Cordioli P,Lavazza A,Tollis M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic variation within a bacterial clone (known as Shigella sonnei but in effect a clone of Escherichia coli) was examined by studying 46 clinical isolates that were epidemiologically unassociated and isolated from patients in different countries over a period of 41 years (1950 to 1991). Restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karaolis DK,Lan R,Reeves PR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty human clinical Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex strains isolated in Greece were characterized to the species level by PCR with three sets of primers specific for one or both species. M. avium predominated in both human immunodeficiency virus-positive and -negative patients, but the frequency of M. i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kyriakopoulos AM,Tassios PT,Matsiota-Bernard P,Marinis E,Tsaousidou S,Legakis NJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) are orbiviruses that infect both livestock and wild ruminants. Antigenic cross-reactivity between BTV and EHDV often results in serologic misdiagnosis. Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (c-ELISAs) show increased sensitivity and specific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mecham JO,Wilson WC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity and specificity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-specific immunoglobulin G capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (BED-CEIA) were compared with those of the avidity index method to identify recent HIV infection using a panel of 148 samples (81 patients) representing durations of infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loschen S,Bätzing-Feigenbaum J,Poggensee G,Cordes C,Hintsche B,Rausch M,Dupke S,Gohlke-Micknis S,Rödig J,Hamouda O,Kücherer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine bacterial cultures of corneal scrapings from seven cats with either ulcerative feline keratitis, keratomalacia, or both yielded colonies which were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Mycoplasma felis (six cases) and Mycoplasma gateae (one case). Identification of the pathogens allowed the use of less em...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gray LD,Ketring KL,Tang YW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for seven genomic loci was developed for Enterococcus faecalis. MLVA and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) resulted in 37 and 31 genotypes among 83 strains, respectively. Both typing schemes were highly concordant (90.4%). MLVA is an excellent alternative ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Titze-de-Almeida R,Willems RJ,Top J,Rodrigues IP,Ferreira RF 2nd,Boelens H,Brandileone MC,Zanella RC,Felipe MS,van Belkum A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the performance of a double-antigen sandwich recombinant enzyme immunoassay (EIA; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill.) and compared it with that of a synthetic-peptide-based EIA (Biochem Immunosystems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) for the detection of human immunodeficiency type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2 a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galli RA,Castriciano S,Fearon M,Major C,Choi KW,Mahony J,Chernesky M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because relatively few caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV)-infected animals exhibit clinical signs of illness, efforts to control and eradicate this virus will depend heavily on a sensitive diagnostic test that can be easily carried out. The currently utilized tests are of limited usefulness because of relativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Archambault D,East N,Perk K,Dahlberg JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia risticii causes an acute infectious disease in horses called Potomac horse fever. To investigate the biological diversity of E. risticii organisms, nine E. risticii isolates derived from the peripheral blood monocytes of clinically sick horses in Ohio and Kentucky during the summers of 1991 and 1993 were com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chaichanasiriwithaya W,Rikihisa Y,Yamamoto S,Reed S,Crawford TB,Perryman LE,Palmer GH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Point source norovirus outbreaks can be difficult to track due to high background levels of the virus in the environment and the limited strain variation in some genotyping regions. However, rapid and accurate source identification can limit the spread of a foodborne outbreak and reduce the number of cases. Harmonizat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mattison K,Grudeski E,Auk B,Charest H,Drews SJ,Fritzinger A,Gregoricus N,Hayward S,Houde A,Lee BE,Pang XL,Wong J,Booth TF,Vinjé J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant protein (p41-G) of an antigenic region of flagellin was used in a standard and amplified enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis. Comparable sensitivities (88 to 94%) were noted when sera from 17 persons who had eryth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Magnarelli LA,Fikrig E,Berland R,Anderson JF,Flavell RA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease spectrum associated with human bocavirus-1 infection remains to be fully defined. We report a case of bocavirus-1-associated bronchiolitis, leading to severe respiratory failure and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a 4-year-old child, and suggest blood testing for human bocavirus-1 in children with s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edner N,Castillo-Rodas P,Falk L,Hedman K,Söderlund-Venermo M,Allander T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of a previously undescribed Actinomyces-like bacterium were recovered in pure culture from infected root canals of teeth. Analysis by biochemical testing and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins indicated that the strains closely resembled each other phenotypically but were distinct fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Collins MD,Hoyles L,Kalfas S,Sundquist G,Monsen T,Nikolaitchouk N,Falsen E

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant gene fusion protein composed of an Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) peptide epitope fused to the amino end of the cholera toxin B subunit was used to detect STa produced by clinical isolates of enterotoxigenic E. coli (STa-ETEC) by a single monoclonal antibody-based inhibition GM1 enzyme-li...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sanchez J,Holmgren J,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections associated with Neisseria meningitidis are a major public health problem in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Currently, over 40% of cases are confirmed directly from clinical specimens using PCR-based methodologies without an organism being isolated. A nested/seminested multilocus sequence typing (MLST...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Birtles A,Hardy K,Gray SJ,Handford S,Kaczmarski EB,Edwards-Jones V,Fox AJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：: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 total of 141 independent strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with different heterogeneities in the exo gene (exoS, exoT, exoU, and exoY) background were examined for their pathogenic roles. Results indicated that the exoU gene is the major contributor to cytotoxicity in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells but is not relat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin HH,Huang SP,Teng HC,Ji DD,Chen YS,Chen YL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis, which have significant morbidity and mortality. Accurate and timely diagnosis is critical. Repeat enzyme immunoassay testing for C. difficile toxin has been recommended because of <100% sensitivity. All C. diffic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cardona DM,Rand KH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new research assay that combines sequence-specific sample preparation and isothermal amplification for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections. The assay targets both the omp gene and the cryptic plasmid of C. trachomatis and the multicopy opa gene of N. gonorrho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Neil D,Doseeva V,Rothmann T,Wolff J,Nazarenko I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive, and specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is described. We have improved all three PCR steps: sample preparation, DNA amplification, and detection of the amplified product. Some of the improvements have been described pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Albert J,Fenyö EM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple enzymatic assays to detect heat-labile enterotoxins whose modes of action are similar to that of cholera toxin were evaluated. The assays are performed by using an artificial substrate, diethylamino benzylidine-aminoguanidine, which is an ADP-ribose acceptor. The product, formed in the presence of NAD+, can be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Narayanan J,Hartman PA,Graves DJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains of multilocus sequence type 141 (ST141) cause both urinary tract infections and diarrhea in humans and are phylogenetically positioned between STEC and UPEC strains. We used comparative genomic analysis of 85 temporally and s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gati NS,Middendorf-Bauchart B,Bletz S,Dobrindt U,Mellmann A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of disseminated infection with both Actinomyces graevenitzii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and review the medical literature. Concomitant actinomycosis and tuberculosis is very rare. The potential of the facultatively aerobic, newly described A. graevenitzii for disseminated invasive infectio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tietz A,Aldridge KE,Figueroa JE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00