Abstract:
:A patient with disseminated histoplasmosis is described in whom blood cultures were negative using conventional media but positive for Histoplasma capsulatum using the DuPont Isolator system. Fungal blood culture methods are discussed.
journal_name
Diagn Microbiol Infect Disjournal_title
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious diseaseauthors
Wheat LJ,Bartlett Mdoi
10.1016/0732-8893(84)90022-1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-01-01 00:00:00pages
51-3issue
1eissn
0732-8893issn
1879-0070pii
0732-8893(84)90022-1journal_volume
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doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(96)00172-1
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abstract::The elderly are at increased risk for respiratory tract infections. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of gatifloxacin in adults of any age with community-acquired respiratory tract infections, this open-label, multicenter, noncomparative study in community-based practices enrolled male and female outpatients at leas...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(02)00458-3
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 56-year-old woman, with underlying rheumatic heart disease status post mitral valve replacement, presented with fever, low back pain radiating to right leg, and congestive heart failure. Magnetic resonance imaging detected an L5-S1 spinal epidural abscess. A vegetation on prosthetic mitral valve was found by transes...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(01)00252-8
更新日期:2001-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diagnosis of Chlamydia psittaci and Chlamydia pneumoniae infections has traditionally relied on serological assays. We developed a multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of C. psittaci, C. pneumoniae and an internal control. Results of this assay demonstrated 100% concordance compared to results of previously tes...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
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doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2017.11.014
更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The usefulness of cell culture of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in immunocompromised hosts has not been stressed previously. We report an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patient with disseminated toxoplasmosis who was diagnosed by isolation of Toxoplasma gondii in cell cultures fro...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(95)00142-8
更新日期:1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study aimed to assess the predictive factors of bacteremia due to hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP), as well as the mortality. The medical records of 114 patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia who were divided into the hvKP (n = 24) and non-hvKP (n = 90) groups and were retrospectively reviewed. The m...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.04.008
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Leptospirosis is an emerging infectious disease, which is considered to be the most widespread zoonotic disease in the world. There are more than 230 known serovars in the genus Leptospira. A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the rapid detection of pathogenic Leptospira spp. was developed and eva...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.10.012
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Though the FilmArray GI Panel has a reported aggregate specificity and reproducibility of >97% and > 99%, respectively, the reproducibility is less understood in clinical practice. We measured the reproducibility of positive results for low-prevalence pathogens. Samples with positive results for selected targets were ...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.03.013
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The in vitro activity of l-ofloxacin was determined against coagulase-negative staphylococci that were induced to norfloxacin resistance. l-Ofloxacin was the most active agent tested with an MIC90 of 4 micrograms/ml compared with greater than 128, 32, and 128 micrograms/ml for norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and enoxacin,...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(92)90109-7
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The present multicentric (n = 11 laboratories) study aimed to identify conversion factors from copies/mL to international units (IU)/mL for the normalization of HCMV DNA load using the first WHO International Standard for HCMV nucleic acid amplification techniques and to enhance interlaboratory agreement of HCMV DNA q...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.05.012
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The first guidelines for conducting antimicrobial stewardship in the hospitalized setting were published in 2007. These guidelines recommend that stewardship programs employ the science of pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) as well as adopting computerized decision support technologies when possible. The United...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2018.03.015
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The catastrophic rise in dengue infections in India and globally has created a need for an accurate, validated low-cost rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for dengue. We prospectively evaluated the diagnostic performance of NS1/IgM RDT (dengue day 1) using 211 samples from a pediatric dengue cohort representing all 4 serotyp...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.09.020
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 4 hr test for hydrolysis of L-pyrrolidonyl-beta-naphthylamide (PYR) was evaluated for its use in identifying group A beta-hemolytic streptococci, group D enterococci, and Staphylococcus haemolyticus. All of the group A streptococci and the enterococci tested were positive in the PYR test, whereas all of the nongroup...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(86)90055-6
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study, we evaluated the Light Diagnostics SimulFluor HSV/VZV Immunofluorescence (SIM) assay. A total of 167 specimens yielded 21 VZV and 55 HSV true positive test results. The sensitivity/specificity of the SIM assay for VZV and HSV were, respectively, 100/98 and 62/99. These results were comparable to the res...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(99)00078-4
更新日期:1999-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(91)90089-x
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.10.018
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.04.022
更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(90)90080-f
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(94)90117-1
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.09.010
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A reformulated fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugate-labeled monoclonal antibody typing reagent for herpes simplex virus (HSV) was compared for culture confirmation and typing with a similar commercially available HSV typing stain. There was complete agreement between the two stains in the confirmation of 240 cultures ...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(93)90137-v
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The prevalence of low-level resistance to glycopeptides (teicoplanin MIC > or = 8 microg/mL and vancomycin MIC > or = 4 microg/mL) among staphylococci was investigated over a 15 month period. A total of 2,279 isolates (1,519 S. aureus, 760 coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CNS)) were screened using inoculum of 10(6) ...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(01)00302-9
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2017.02.012
更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nasopharyngeal secretions from 30 infants and children presenting with respiratory tract infection, were tested for rotavirus antigen. Two of 30 children with signs and symptoms of seromucoid nasal secretions, cough, and low grade fever were positive for the antigen. Nasopharyngeal secretions may play a role in the sp...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0732-8893(86)90062-3
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Due to increased migration, Chagas disease has become an international health problem. Reliable diagnosis of chronically infected people is crucial for prevention of non-vectorial transmission as well as treatment. This study compared four distinct PCR methods for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA for the use in well...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2017.04.003
更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a highly problematic hospital-associated pathogen. Different mechanisms contribute to the formation of multidrug resistance in A. baumannii, including the AdeABC efflux system. Distribution of the structural and regulatory genes encoding the AdeABC efflux system among genetically...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.06.017
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Serum samples from all patients with culture-confirmed brucellosis including those with chronic disease from Kazakhstan tested positive in the serum agglutination test for titers > or = 1:25 and reacted in the Brucella immunoglobulin M/immunoglobulin G lateral flow assay (LFA) confirming the high sensitivity of these ...
journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.05.002
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.08.009
更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.11.013
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00