Prototheca zopfii isolated from a patient with olecranon bursitis.

abstract：:A leukocyte esterase/nitrite (Chemstrip LNTM) and a bioluminescence assay (LumacTM) were evaluated for detection of bacteriuria in 1,000 urine specimens. Both devices provided high predictive negative values (95.4-97.8%); however, false-negative values at levels of bacteriuria greater than or equal to 10(4) CFU/ml wer...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Hughes JG,Snyder RJ,Washington JA 2nd

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a collection of 50 pvl-positive Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 10 Rio de Janeiro hospitals, 18 (36%) were from bloodstream infections, and 31 (62%) carried the SCCmec IV. Among 25 (50%) isolates of the USA1100/ST30/CC30 lineage present in 8 hospitals, 1 isolate was characterized as vancomycin-intermediate S. a...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chamon RC,Iorio NL,da Silva Ribeiro S,Cavalcante FS,Dos Santos KR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pncA gene mutations associated with pyrazinamide (PZA) resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex were determined in 26 PZA-resistant isolates in Japan. Of the 26 PZA-resistant isolates included, 21 were negative for pyrazinamidase (PZase). Of these, 20 isolates had various pncA mutations, resulting in alter...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Miyagi C,Yamane N,Yogesh B,Ano H,Takashima T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of 258 Bacteroides fragilis group isolates and 42 other Bacteroides species isolates against cefoperazone, cefoperazone/sulbactam (2:1 ratio) and selected other antimicrobials were determined by broth microdilution method. All isolates were susceptible to cefoperazone/sulbactam, ampicillin/sulbact...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gelfand MS,Grogan JT,Haas MJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess of the role of intraoperative cultures taken at the end of major heart surgery (MHS) in the prediction of postoperative mediastinitis (PM) in patients undergoing MHS over a 6-month period in a tertiary university hospital. Just before wound closure, a sample of the sternal border was...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bouza E,Muñoz P,Alcalá L,Pérez MJ,Rincón C,Barrio JM,Pinto A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective evaluation of the kinetics of cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroconversion with CMV IgM, IgG, and IgG avidity assays, in a Swiss pregnant women population, has shown that the current published CMV serologic diagnostic algorithms were valid and fit for use. In 19% of the cases analyzed, CMV-specific IgM was detec...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Maine GT,Stricker R,Stricker R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitek® 2 (bioMérieux) is a widely used commercial antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) system. AST-N244 card includes cephalothin as first-generation cephalosporin. We compared the cephalothin susceptibility results obtained with Vitek® 2 AST-N244 to those obtained by broth microdilution (BMD) and disk diffusion (D...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： López IA,Montes JC,Álvarez MJ,Mazarrasa CF,Martínez-Martínez L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium macginleyi was isolated from conjunctival swabs of a farmer suffering from purulent conjunctivitis. This species has only recently been reported in Switzerland and Germany to be exclusively isolated from ocular surfaces. This represents the first isolation of C. macginleyi in Italy indicating that its ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Giammanco GM,Di Marco V,Priolo I,Intrivici A,Grimont F,Grimont PA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Western New York, the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards' (NCCLS) interpretive criteria for disk diffusion susceptibility testing was evaluated on chocolate-Mueller-Hinton agar (CMH) and GC agar. The reference method for comparison was the NCCLS agar diluti...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Altaie SS,Moore LS,Dryja D,Furness K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FiltraCheck-UT1 (FC) is a disposable colorimetric urine screen for bacteriuria that requires less than 1 min to perform. The results of the FC and two other urine screens, the Bac-T-Screen (BTS) and the Chemstrip LN test strip (LN), were compared with quantitative culture method. A total of 551 urine specimens wer...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Stager CE,Davis JR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) are emerging enteropathogens associated with human diarrhea diseases and food poisoning cases. They show distinctive aggregative pattern of adherence to cultured human epithelial cells. However, EAggEC strains are diverse and not all of them have the aggregative adherence fi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Tsai CC,Chen SY,Tsen HY

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a real-time PCR-based assay capable of simultaneously detecting femA (Staphylococcus aureus-specific), mecA (methicillin resistance), qacA/B (chlorhexidine tolerance), and mupA (high-level mupirocin resistance) from bacterial cells in less than 90 minutes. The assay was validated with 1968 clinical MRSA su...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Mc Gann P,Milillo M,Kwak YI,Quintero R,Waterman PE,Lesho E

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is the most common causative agent of non-typhoidal salmonellosis in Malaysia. We aimed to characterize S. Enteritidis isolated from humans and animals by analyzing their antimicrobial resistance profiles and genotypes. A total of 111 strains were characterized ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ngoi ST,Thong KL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro spectrum of moxifloxacin (a C-8-methoxyquinolone) was compared to that of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin against 924 recent clinical isolates from cancer patients. Moxifloxacin was more active than the comparator agents against Gram-positive pathogens, with potent activity against Aerococcus spp., Listeri...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Rolston KV,Frisbee-Hume S,LeBlanc B,Streeter H,Ho DH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the in vitro activity of tigecycline, the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of tigecycline against 1,201 strains of recent clinical isolates from 10 hospitals in Shanghai, China were determined and compared with selected comparators. Results showed that tigecycline had broad-spectrum antimicrobial a...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Zhang YY,Zhou L,Zhu DM,Wu PC,Hu FP,Wu WH,Wang F

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated commercial serodiagnostic test reagents from Greer Laboratories (GL), Lenoir, NC; Immuno-mycologics, Inc. (IMI), Norman, OK; and Scott Laboratories (SL), Fiskville, RI; for their ability to detect Aspergillus spp. exoantigens and group them in their proper series. We detected 87 culture extracts from code...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sekhon AS,Standard PG,Kaufman L,Garg AK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious Candida glabrata infections, which can be difficult to treat, are often treated with echinocandins. We compared in vitro the effects of high and low concentrations of 3 echinocandins (micafungin [MCF], caspofungin [CAS], and anidulafungin [ANF]), voriconazole (VRC), and amphotericin B (AmB), singly and VRC in ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Baltch AL,Lawrence DA,Ritz WJ,Andersen NJ,Bopp LH,Michelsen PB,Carlyn CJ,Smith RP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraabdominal sepsis is frequently seen following penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma as well as with perforated appendicitis or diverticulitis. The initial leakage of endogenous gastrointestinal microflora into the peritoneal cavity results in peritonitis and secondary septicemia, which often results in a localize...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Nichols RL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biotinylated single-tube nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay with microwell hybridization assay (bPCR-ELISA) was developed for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens. A total of 659 specimens (601 respiratory specimens and 58 nonrespiratory specimens) were collected for evaluation usi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Yam WC,Cheng VC,Hui WT,Wang LN,Seto WH,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of partial 16S/18S rRNA gene sequencing with the commercial kit Micro-Dx™ used with the SelectNA™plus instrument on culture-negative samples. A retrospective study of microbiological and clinical data from a 2.5-year period was performed. Assessment of the clini...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Marbjerg LH,Holzknecht BJ,Dargis R,Dessau RB,Nielsen XC,Christensen JJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of VRE has increased dramatically and hematology-oncology patients are at high risk for acquisition of colonization and development of infection. Therefore, we performed a prospective cohort study to determine risk factors for VRE acquisition among hematology-oncology patients. Patients admitted to a sin...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Suntharam N,Lankford MG,Trick WE,Peterson LR,Noskin GA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling and Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) were used to describe the pharmacodynamic profile of cefepime in the both plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Plasma and CSF cefepime data were obtained from a PK study of 7 hospitalized patients with external ventricular drains. Concentration...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Lodise TP Jr,Rhoney DH,Tam VH,McKinnon PS,Drusano GL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a comparative analysis of intravascular catheter-related infection before and after routine use of antibiotic-bonded catheters in an intensive care unit. Cefazolin-bonded catheters were placed in patients requiring catheterization for at least 3 days, or with remote infection, standard catheters at other tim...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kamal GD,Divishek D,Kumar GC,Porter BR,Tatman DJ,Adams JR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study is to explore the possible association of the monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1-362G/C genetic polymorphism and plasma levels of MCP-1 in patients with spinal tuberculosis (TB). The MCP-1-362G/C (rs2857656) polymorphism and blood levels of MCP-1 in patients with spinal TB and healthy ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Guo C,Zhang H,Gao Q,He D,Tang M,Liu S,Deng A,Wang Y,Lu S,Li J,Yin X,Guo Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swab inoculation of oxacillin agar screen plates was compared with drop inoculation for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The poor sensitivity of the swab method (59%) was related to heteroresistance of the S. aureus isolates. We recommend the drop method (100% sensitivity) because interpretati...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Alfa MJ,Ongsansoy E,Hoban S,Mathew T,Greenaway C

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with renal failure and fluconazole resistant but flucytosine susceptible Candida deep infection were successfully treated with the combination of the two drugs. In vitro susceptibility, determined by microdilution and time-kill methods, and fungostatic activity of the serum showed an additive interaction ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Girmenia C,Venditti M,Martino P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five methods for the rapid identification and differentiation of Branhamella catarrhalis from other Neisseria species in 86 respiratory specimens were compared. These tests included the 4-methylumbelliferyl butyrate (MUB), API quadFerm, B.CAT.Confirm, Gonochek II, and the Tributyrin disc. All five tests reliably and a...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Louie M,Ongsansoy EG,Forward KR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus serologic profiles were obtained from 618 patients using an automated platform, including the new BioPlex heterophile assay. When compared with 2 IgM viral capsid antigen (VCA) assays and a predicate heterophile assay, the BioPlex heterophile assay was more likely to be associated with serologic pat...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Klutts JS,Wu AH,Smith A,Yen-Lieberman B,Gronowski AM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated an Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain that was negative for verocytotoxin production, but positive for the vtx2 gene using commercial kits, from an asymptomatic food handler. The laboratory investigations revealed that a 1310-bp insertion sequence, IS1203 variant, was present in the B subunit-coding region of...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Harada T,Hirai Y,Itou T,Hayashida M,Seto K,Taguchi M,Kumeda Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine laboratory testing for adenovirus (Adv) requires a procedure that is rapid and reliable, especially for samples from children and immunosuppressed patients, when diarrhea may signal the onset of severe gastrointestinal disorders. An improved culture technique for Adv isolation, using centrifugation step of 24-...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Durepaire N,Ranger-Rogez S,Denis F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00