Peritonitis involving a Capnocytophaga sp. in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.

abstract：:The Streptococcus bovis group has undergone significant taxonomic changes over the past 2 decades with the advent of new identification methods with higher discriminatory power. Although the current classification system is not yet embraced by all researchers in the field and debate remains over the performance of mol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dekker JP,Lau AF

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex agglutination test was evaluated as a method for detection and titration of antiplague antibodies. Slide and microtiter techniques using polystyrene latex particles coated with specific fraction-I-antigen of Yersinia pestis were found to be comparable in specificity and sensitivity to serological tests commonl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzuki S,Sakakibara H,Hotta S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their biofilm-forming capacity, invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, which cause the majority of nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections (BSIs), are thought to be selected at the time of catheter insertion from a population of less virulent commensal strains. This fact allows the predict...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rohde H,Kalitzky M,Kröger N,Scherpe S,Horstkotte MA,Knobloch JK,Zander AR,Mack D

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:A comparative study of herpes simplex virus diagnosis by standard cell culture and a new hybrid test (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay spin amplification technique) was done on 300 specimens. The new test was found to be equally sensitive and specific, much less expensive to perform, and to report all results in 48 h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Michalski FJ,Shaikh M,Sahraie F,Desai S,Verano L,Vallabhaneni J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infections with Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Senftenberg are often associated with exposure to poultry flocks, farm environments, or contaminated food. The recent emergence of multidrug-resistant isolates has raised public health concerns. In this study, comparative genomics and phenotypic ana...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Abd El Ghany M,Shi X,Li Y,Ansari HR,Hill-Cawthorne GA,Ho YS,Naeem R,Pickard D,Klena JD,Xu X,Pain A,Hu Q

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV 16) plays a cardinal role in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer. HPV 16 has intratypic variants which show different geographical distributions and different oncogenic potentials. To analyze the presence of sequence variations of HPV 16 variants in northeast China, 71 cervical carcin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shang Q,Wang Y,Fang Y,Wei L,Chen S,Sun Y,Li B,Zhang F,Gu H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the molecular identification of 520 Entamoeba-positive fecal samples from a large and diverse population of captive nonhuman primates (NHP). The results revealed the presence of Entamoeba histolytica (NHP variant only), E. dispar, E. moshkovskii, E. hartmanni, E. coli, and E. polecki-like organism...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Levecke B,Dreesen L,Dorny P,Verweij JJ,Vercammen F,Casaert S,Vercruysse J,Geldhof P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida samples were taken over a period of 2 years from 54 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive asymptomatic subjects to evaluate changes in yeast carriage, intensity of carriage, and genotype over time. Overall, we found that HIV-positive patients with CD4(+)-cell counts of between 200 and 400/microl had sign...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vargas KG,Joly S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation of Pseudomonas putrefaciens from an intra-abdominal abscess in a patient with colonic carcinoma and from bile in two patients with biliary tract disease. In all three cases, P. putrefaciens was isolated in mixed culture with enteric bacteria. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marne C,Pallarés R,Sitges-Serra A

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) technique was evaluated as a procedure for rapid detection and identification of members of the Bacteroidaceae. Antisera were prepared against 31 members of this family, including species of Bacteroides and Fusobacterium commonly isolated from human infections. The antisera had d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stauffer LR,Hill EO,Holland JW,Altemeier WA

更新日期：1975-10-01 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：:The importance of euparal as a permanent mounting medium for eggs of parasites and the process of making permanent slides are analyzed and discussed in detail. Studies show that helminth eggs mounted in euparal exhibit excellent optical and drying properties. Euparal also can be used to identify proglottids of Taenia ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berlin OG,Miller MJ

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for efficient treatment and control of this pathogen. The amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) was used to detect mutations in the rifampin resistance-determining region of the rpoB gene. A total of 39 rifampin-resistant M. tuberc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fan XY,Hu ZY,Xu FH,Yan ZQ,Guo SQ,Li ZM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection in central and southern Italy, sera from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seronegative subjects, with and without Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), were analyzed by immunofluorescence assay, using BC-3, a cell line latently infected with HHV-8....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cattani P,Capuano M,Cerimele F,La Parola IL,Santangelo R,Masini C,Cerimele D,Fadda G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norwalk virus (NV) and the Norwalk-like viruses are important human pathogens that cause epidemic acute viral gastroenteritis. Current techniques used to recover NV from clinical samples involve multistep viral extraction and elution procedures with subsequent viral detection by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schwab KJ,Estes MK,Neill FH,Atmar RL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early identification of tuberculosis in the clinical setting is of great importance in order for specific therapy to be swiftly initiated. MB REDOX (Heipha Diagnostika), a growth-based medium without radioactive materials, was evaluated and was compared to the BACTEC system for detection of mycobacteria, including the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu YC,Huang TS,Huang WK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the diagnostic utility of six antigenic regions of the Toxoplasma gondii MIC2, MIC3, M2AP, GRA3, GRA7, and SAG1 gene products, assembled in recombinant chimeric antigens by genetic engineering, in order to replace the soluble, whole-cell tachyzoite extract in serological assays. Serum samples from 10...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beghetto E,Spadoni A,Bruno L,Buffolano W,Gargano N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for determination of human immunoglobulin G, A, and M class antibodies to Histoplasma capsulatum is reported. Yeast-phase antigen from H. capsulatum was adsorbed onto polyvinyl chloride microtiter plates as the solid phase. Human antibodies were allowed to react with this antigen, followed by additi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sprouse RF,Caldwell CW,Everett ED

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the population structure of Enterococcus faecalis from Polish hospitals, 291 isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and a novel multilocus sequence typing scheme (P. Ruiz-Garbajosa et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2220-2228, 2006). The isolates originated from geographically widespread medical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawalec M,Pietras Z,Daniłowicz E,Jakubczak A,Gniadkowski M,Hryniewicz W,Willems RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNA intergenic spacer PCR (tDNA-PCR) was evaluated for its usefulness in the differentiation of enterococcal species of human and animal origin. This technique was carried out for 124 strains belonging to 17 enterococcal species and generated DNA fragments, which were separated by capillary electrophoresis. tDNA-PCR ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baele M,Baele P,Vaneechoutte M,Storms V,Butaye P,Devriese LA,Verschraegen G,Gillis M,Haesebrouck F

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage catheters, we reviewed retrospectively fluid specimens that had been collected through catheters in place for at least 2 days. These specimens were taken from patients at a large tertiary-care hospital. A total of 974 specimens representing 620 pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Everts RJ,Heneghan JP,Adholla PO,Reller LB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study, 139 serial blood samples from 15 transplant recipients were assessed for the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by virus isolation (CMV viremia) and by direct staining of CMV antigens (CMV Ag) in blood leukocytes (CMV antigenemia). CMV was isolated from 23 samples, whereas CMV Ag was detected in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Bij W,Schirm J,Torensma R,van Son WJ,Tegzess AM,The TH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of whole-cell hybridization for the identification of pathogenic bacteria in blood from septic patients was examined. Oligonucleotide probes, fluorescently labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate, directed against the variable regions of the 16S rRNAs of the following bacterial species and/or genera ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jansen GJ,Mooibroek M,Idema J,Harmsen HJ,Welling GW,Degener JE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and successful typing of dengue virus (DENV) from patients with suspected dengue fever is important both for the diagnosis of the disease and for the implementation of epidemiologic control measures. A technique for the multiplex detection and typing of DENV serotypes 1 to 4 (DENV-1 to DENV-4) from clini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Das S,Pingle MR,Muñoz-Jordán J,Rundell MS,Rondini S,Granger K,Chang GJ,Kelly E,Spier EG,Larone D,Spitzer E,Barany F,Golightly LM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection via perinatal transmission is common in the Asia-Pacific region, but related quasispecies (QS) characteristics are not yet defined. To investigate the homologous, full-length HBV QS after perinatal infection and their clinical implications, five pairs of mother-daughter patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu F,Yu DM,Huang SY,Yu JL,Zhang DH,Gong QM,Zhang XX

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus 7 (Ad7) is the adenovirus species that most frequently has been associated with severe illness. Seven distinct genome types of adenovirus 7, Ad7p, Ad7a, Ad7b, Ad7c, Ad7d, Ad7e, and Ad7f, can be identified by using restriction endonucleases BamHI and SmaI. We analyzed the distribution of the different Ad7 ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wadell G,Cooney MK,da Costa Linhares A,de Silva L,Kennett ML,Kono R,Gui-Fang R,Lindman K,Nascimento JP,Schoub BD

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of tuberculosis continues to be high, and nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection has also emerged worldwide. Moreover, differential and accurate identification of mycobacteria to the species or subspecies level is an unmet clinical need. Here, we developed a one-step multiplex PCR assay using whol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chae H,Han SJ,Kim SY,Ki CS,Huh HJ,Yong D,Koh WJ,Shin SJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is an opportunistic infection with airborne transmission and remains a major cause of respiratory illness among immunocompromised individuals. In recent years, several outbreaks of PCP, occurring mostly in kidney transplant recipients, have been reported. Currently, multilocus se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maitte C,Leterrier M,Le Pape P,Miegeville M,Morio F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 non-B subtypes/circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) are increasing worldwide. Since subtype identification can be clinically relevant, we assessed the added value in HIV-1 subtyping using updated molecular phylogeny (Mphy) and the performance of routinely used automated tools. Updated Mphy (2015 updated referenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fabeni L,Berno G,Fokam J,Bertoli A,Alteri C,Gori C,Forbici F,Takou D,Vergori A,Zaccarelli M,Maffongelli G,Borghi V,Latini A,Pennica A,Mastroianni CM,Montella F,Mussini C,Andreoni M,Antinori A,Perno CF,Santoro MM,

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00