Quantitative competitive PCR with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in AIDS patients.

abstract：:Infection is an important complication in patients with hematologic malignancies or solid tumors undergoing intensive cytotoxic chemotherapy. In only 20 to 30% of the febrile neutropenic episodes, an infectious agent is detected by conventional cultures. In this prospective study, the performance of broad-range PCR co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desmet S,Maertens J,Bueselinck K,Lagrou K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medium described is a simple yeast extract broth capable of growing large number of Legionella neumophila, the causative organism of Legionnaires disease. Filtration was chosen as a means of sterilization, since medium that was autoclaved did not support growth without the presence of Norite A. The filtered medium...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ristroph JD,Hedlund KW,Allen RG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains emerged as agents of human disease, two types of toxin were identified: Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) (almost identical to Shiga toxin produced by Shigella dysenteriae type 1) and the immunologically distinct type 2 (Stx2). Subsequently, numerous STEC strains have...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Scheutz F,Teel LD,Beutin L,Piérard D,Buvens G,Karch H,Mellmann A,Caprioli A,Tozzoli R,Morabito S,Strockbine NA,Melton-Celsa AR,Sanchez M,Persson S,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Swedish bovine and a Dutch human phage set for coagulase-negative staphylococci were used to phage type coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk from Minnesota dairy herds. A comparison was also made of the deoxyribonuclease activity of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holmberg O,Lyon RH,Price D,Farnsworth RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum to a purified type R lipopolysaccharide antigen isolated from Neisseria gonorrhoeae was used in a slide agglutination test and compared with conventional carbohydrate utilization and fluorescent antibody tests to confirm the identity of laboratory cultures classified as typical or "atypical" N. gonorrhoeae. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arko RJ,Wong KH,Peacock WL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of MicroScan rapid panels (Baxter MicroScan, West Sacramento, Calif.) to detect oxacillin resistance in 92 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 103 coagulase-negative staphylococci was evaluated by comparing results with those of MicroScan 24-h MIC panels and, to resolve discrepancies, oxacillin ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woods GL,LaTemple D,Cruz C

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida dubliniensis is often associated with C. albicans in cultures. Easy-to-perform selective isolation procedures for these closely related species do not exist. Therefore, we evaluated previously described discriminatory phenotypic markers for C. dubliniensis. A total of 150 oral rinses from human immunodeficienc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tintelnot K,Haase G,Seibold M,Bergmann F,Staemmler M,Franz T,Naumann D

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-h nonisotopic DNA probe assay for the direct detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in urogenital specimens has recently been modified (PACE 2; Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif.). The new assay format was developed to increase the sensitivity of the assay and simplify procedural steps. In this study, the new DNA probe test...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Panke ES,Yang LI,Leist PA,Magevney P,Fry RJ,Lee RF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coprological examination based on egg detection in stool samples is currently used as the gold standard for the diagnosis of human fascioliasis. However, this method is not effective during the acute phase of the disease and has poor sensitivity during the chronic phase. Serodiagnosis has become an excellent alternati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cabán-Hernández K,Gaudier JF,Ruiz-Jiménez C,Espino AM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a group of 596 delivering Ghanaian women, the sensitivities of peripheral blood thick film microscopy, ICT Malaria P.f/P.v test, and PCR in detecting microscopically confirmed placental Plasmodium falciparum infection were 42, 80, and 97%, respectively. In addition to the gross underestimation of placental malaria ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mockenhaupt FP,Ulmen U,von Gaertner C,Bedu-Addo G,Bienzle U

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic granulomatous disease have a marked defect in neutrophil oxidative metabolism and microbicidal activity. Asymptomatic mothers of males with the disease can usually be identified as heterozygous carriers by intermediate leukocyte function. Most mothers of females with the disease, however, have no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mills EL,Rholl KS,Quie PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new immunochromatographic rapid test, Determine HIV-1/2, for the detection of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2 in human whole blood, serum, and plasma was evaluated. Determine HIV-1/2 is a sandwich immunoassay and uses a nitrocellulose strip with a capture site for the patient's re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arai H,Petchclai B,Khupulsup K,Kurimura T,Takeda K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a study to evaluate Streck tissue fixative (STF) as a substitute for formalin and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in fecal preservation. A comparison of formalin, PVA, (mercuric chloride based), and STF was done by aliquoting fecal samples into each fixative. Stool specimens were collected in Haiti, and parasites...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nace EK,Steurer FJ,Eberhard ML

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial transmission of Neisseria meningitidis has only rarely been reported. Here, we present a significant spatiotemporal association of two cases of invasive meningococcal disease identified by retrospective cluster analysis with the program SaTScan. The most likely epidemiological link was simultaneous hospital...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elias J,Health Office in the Rural District Office Wartburgkreis.,Claus H,Frosch M,Vogel U

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae of Porphyromonas gingivalis are filamentous appendages on the cell surface and are thought to be one of the virulence factors. The fimA gene encoding the subunit protein of fimbriae, fimbrillin (FimA), was classified into four typeable variants (types I to IV). We previously examined the distribution of P. gi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakagawa I,Amano A,Kimura RK,Nakamura T,Kawabata S,Hamada S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal swabs (NPSs) are being widely used as specimens for multiplex real-time reverse transcription (RT)-PCR for respiratory virus detection. However, it remains unclear whether NPS specimens are optimal for all viruses targeted by multiplex RT-PCR. In addition, the procedure to obtain NPS specimens causes co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim YG,Yun SG,Kim MY,Park K,Cho CH,Yoon SY,Nam MH,Lee CK,Cho YJ,Lim CS

更新日期：2016-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a nested PCR assay and microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films for detection and identification of Plasmodium spp. in blood specimens. PCR was more sensitive than microscopy and capable of identifying malaria parasites at the species level when microscopy was equivocal. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnston SP,Pieniazek NJ,Xayavong MV,Slemenda SB,Wilkins PP,da Silva AJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An international program of surveillance of bloodstream infections (BSIs) in the United States, Canada, and South America between January and December 1997 detected 306 episodes of candidemia in 34 medical centers (22 in the United States, 6 in Canada, and 6 in South America). Eighty percent of the BSIs were nosocomia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Jones RN,Doern GV,Sader HS,Hollis RJ,Messer SA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the use of an immunomagnetic separation enrichment process coupled with a modified real-time cellular analysis (RTCA) system (RTCA version 2) for the detection of C. difficile toxin (CDT) in stool. The limit of CDT detection by RTCA version 2 was 0.12 ng/ml. Among the consecutively collected 401 diarr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huang B,Jin D,Zhang J,Sun JY,Wang X,Stiles J,Xu X,Kamboj M,Babady NE,Tang YW

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a clinical trial, Strep-A-Chek (a 10-min chromogenic test) was compared with the bacitracin disk susceptibility test for accuracy and turnaround time in the presumptive identification of Streptococcus pyogenes. Among 461 isolates of beta-hemolytic streptococci (344 throat isolates and 117 isolates from other sites)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yajko DM,Lawrence J,Nassos P,Young J,Hadley WK

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of Sendai virus, pneumonia virus of mice, and SV5 was investigated in tracheal organ cultures from 2- to 4-day-old and 2- and 4-week-old hamsters, and viral infectivity in tracheal explants was compared with that in tissue culture monolayers. Explants from 2- to 4-day-old hamsters produced higher titers of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schiff LJ

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current article summarizes recent changes in nomenclature for fungi of medical importance published in the years 2018 to 2019, including new species and revised names for existing ones. Many of the revised names have been widely adopted without further discussion. However, those that concern common pathogens of hu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Borman AM,Johnson EM

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was collected from children with bullous impetigo in 2003 and 2004. One strain collected in 2003 was Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) positive. In 2004, a multiple-drug-resistant PVL(+) CA-MRSA strain was isolated from an athlete with a cutaneou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takizawa Y,Taneike I,Nakagawa S,Oishi T,Nitahara Y,Iwakura N,Ozaki K,Takano M,Nakayama T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony immunoblot method was developed for serotyping the capsular polysaccharides expressed by Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The method was rapid and specific and was performed with either polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies specific for each of the capsule types. S. aureus isolates were obtained from patients wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee JC,Liu MJ,Parsonnet J,Arbeit RD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivations periodically occur in oral mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues. Until now, EBV reactivation has been diagnosed by serologic profiles that suggest virus replication. Serologic responses, however, are delayed and do not necessarily indicate ongoing replicative activity....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maurmann S,Fricke L,Wagner HJ,Schlenke P,Hennig H,Steinhoff J,Jabs WJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of an unknown, multidrug-resistant coryneform, gram-positive rod were isolated from blood, bronchial aspirate, and abscess specimens. Four of the five strains isolated were highly resistant to antimicrobial agents, including beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, macrolides, quinolones, and tetracyclines, except ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Otsuka Y,Kawamura Y,Koyama T,Iihara H,Ohkusu K,Ezaki T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiresistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is widespread among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients attending clinics in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Suppression subtractive hybridization was used to identify sequences present in the Liverpool CF epidemic strain but absent from strain PAO1. Using dot blot and PCR amplif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Parsons YN,Panagea S,Smart CH,Walshaw MJ,Hart CA,Winstanley C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of immunoglobulin G avidity to determine the dengue immune status of 105 pairs of serum samples from patients infected with dengue virus. This study shows that a simple avidity test, for which only one acute-phase serum sample is required, is potentially more useful...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Matheus S,Deparis X,Labeau B,Lelarge J,Morvan J,Dussart P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were produced which were specific for Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The MAbs also reacted with LPS present in a partially purified antigen derived from a saline extract of the organism. The epitope to which the MAbs were directed was a carbohydrate whi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Durham JA,Antone SM,Cunningham MW,Confer AW

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described a novel megaplasmid-encoded adhesin produced by certain Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains that lack the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island. This adhesin, designated Saa (STEC autoagglutinating adhesin), may be a marker for a subset of LEE-negative STEC strain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00