Comparing QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus with Other Tests To Diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.

abstract：:The lack of a quick, simple, and inexpensive diagnostic test has limited the ability of public health officials to rapidly assess and control outbreaks of Giardia lamblia in child day-care centers. We evaluated the performance of a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Addiss DG,Mathews HM,Stewart JM,Wahlquist SP,Williams RM,Finton RJ,Spencer HC,Juranek DD

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 63 clinical isolates of Proteus mirabilis collected over a 19-month period were typed by the Dienes test and ribotyping. Ribotyping was performed using the fully automated RiboPrinter Microbial Characterization System (Qualicon, Wilmington, Del.). Isolates that were indistinguishable by the Dienes test and/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Mujeeb I,Hollis RJ,Jones RN,Doern GV

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared molecular, immunochemical, and cytotoxic assays for the detection of diphtheria toxin from 55 isolates of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans originally isolated in five different countries. The suitabilities and accuracies of these assays for the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Efstratiou A,Engler KH,Dawes CS,Sesardic D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing risk of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) infection as a global veterinary and public health threat demands the development of safe and accurate diagnostic tests. The aim of this study was to assess the suitability of a baculovirus expression system to produce recombinant RVFV nucleoprotein (N) for use as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Faburay B,Wilson WC,Secka A,Drolet B,McVey DS,Richt JA

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Two commercially available reagents, latex particles (Bactigen) and Staphylococcus aureus suspensions (Phadebact), were compared for the detection of the capsular polyribitol phosphate antigen of Haemophilus influenzae type b in 18 pediatric patients with proven infections due to H. influenzae type b. Whereas both tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riera L

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new integrated extraction and real-time PCR-based system for the detection of group B streptococci in antepartum screening samples enriched in Lim broth was compared to the CDC-recommended culture method. The BD Max GBS assay exhibited acceptable sensitivity (95%) and specificity (96.7%) compared to those of the cul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riedlinger J,Beqaj SH,Milish MA,Young S,Smith R,Dodd M,Hankerd RE,Lebar WD,Newton DW

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody-based coagglutination test directly detected Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal in 83 of 120 watery diarrheal stool specimens; on culture, 90 samples were positive. Thus, with 92% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 100% positive and 95% negative predictive values, the coagglutination test is a u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qadri F,Chowdhury A,Hossain J,Chowdhury K,Azim T,Shimada T,Islam KM,Sack RB,Albert MJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows that an unbiased amplification method applied to equine arteritis virus RNA significantly improves the sensitivity of the real-time reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) recommended by the World Organization for Animal Health. Twelve viral RNAs amplified using this method were hybridized on...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hans A,Gaudaire D,Manuguerra JC,Leon A,Gessain A,Laugier C,Berthet N,Zientara S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard broth microdilution (with and without bovine serum albumin [BSA] supplementation), tube dilution, and agar dilution susceptibility tests were compared for determining ramoplanin MICs. With a data base of 246 clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria from 33 U.S. sites, it was shown that (i) agar and tube di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kenny MT,Brackman MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) causes acute and relapsing symptoms characterized by ulcerative lesions. Laboratory diagnosis of HSV in cutaneous or mucocutaneous lesions has historically been performed with the use of viral cell culture systems; however, these tests are laborious and suffer decreased sensitivity for advan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Faron ML,Ledeboer NA,Patel A,Beqa SH,Yen-Lieberman B,Kohn D,Leber AL,Mayne D,Northern WI,Buchan BW

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cobas-Bact (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland) new rotor for the identification (ID) in 4 h 20 min of 33 members of the family Enterobacteriaceae to genus and species level was evaluated by testing 444 strains of which 398 belonged to common species and 46 belonged to rare species of Enterobacteriaceae. Each s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wenger A,Tissières LJ,Praplan FR,Kamm WR,Bille J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a central venous catheter-related (Port-A-Cath; Smiths Industries Medical Systems [SIMS] Deltec, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.) infection caused by Rhodotorula glutinis in a 51-year-old man with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. He was treated with fluconazole for 8 weeks and had the catheter removed. Two isolates of R. g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hsueh PR,Teng LJ,Ho SW,Luh KT

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three clinical isolates of charcoal-black-pigmented, gram-positive coryneform rods were received for identification by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and were provisionally designated CDC fermentative coryneform group 4 (FCG4). Forty-five of these were characterized by morphological, physio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Daneshvar MI,Hollis DG,Weyant RS,Jordan JG,MacGregor JP,Morey RE,Whitney AM,Brenner DJ,Steigerwalt AG,Helsel LO,Raney PM,Patel JB,Levett PN,Brown JM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Mycoplasma arthritidis strains, two virulent (158p10p9 and 14124p10) and two avirulent (PG6 and H606), were examined for differences in their antigenic compositions. Rabbit antisera prepared against each strain were compared for their reactivities against both homologous and heterologous strains by enzyme-linked ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Washburn LR,Hirsch S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture techniques are limited in the ability to detect multiple Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in nasopharyngeal (NP) secretions. We developed an immunoblot (IB) method with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to detect S. pneumoniae and to identify serotypes. NP specimens stored in skim milk-tryptone-gluco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bronsdon MA,O'Brien KL,Facklam RR,Whitney CG,Schwartz B,Carlone GM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of nursery outbreaks of Citrobacter diversus sepsis and meningitis have been hampered by lack of adequate epidemiologic markers for the organism. We studied outer membrane protein profiles from clinical isolates of C. diversus by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to determine whe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kline MW,Mason EO Jr,Kaplan SL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative, curved, rod-shaped bacterium known to cause gastritis and to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcers. Serological testing has recently been proposed as an aid in diagnosis of H. pylori infections. In this study, we used the Western immunoblot technique to eva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Andersen LP,Espersen F

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni from sporadic cases and outbreaks of gastroenteritis were serotyped on the basis of heat-extracted soluble thermostable antigens identified with the use of the passive hemagglutination technique. A total of 168 isolates were separated into 45 different types. The largest proportion of the isolates...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMyne PM,Penner JL,Mathias RG,Black WA,Hennessy JN

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standardized disk diffusion test, in which a 10-micrograms enoxacin disk is used, was performed and microbroth dilution MICs were determined to establish individual test control values with Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, and S. aureus ATCC 29213. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rudrik JT,Cavalieri SJ,Britt EM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreasing the time to species identification and antibiotic susceptibility determination of strains recovered from patients with bacteremia significantly decreases morbidity and mortality. Herein, we validated a method to identify Gram-negative bacteria directly from positive blood culture medium using the Bruker MAL...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wimmer JL,Long SW,Cernoch P,Land GA,Davis JR,Musser JM,Olsen RJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial genus Gordona includes seven species of mycolic acid-containing actinomycetes which are cultured from environmental sources and rarely from clinical samples. They have been implicated in primary pulmonary diseases, nosocomial wound infections, and central nervous system infections in two immunocompromise...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Drancourt M,Pelletier J,Cherif AA,Raoult D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-specific enzyme immunoassays, cytotoxicity assays, and PCR were used to analyze 48 toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile isolates from various geographical sites around the world. All the isolates were negative by the TOX-A TEST and positive by the TOX A/B TEST. A deletion of approximately 1.7...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moncrief JS,Zheng L,Neville LM,Lyerly DM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PNA-FISH Yeast Traffic Light assay was performed on 54 clinical isolates of yeasts inoculated into blood culture bottles. The assay showed high sensitivity (Candida albicans/C. parapsilosis, 100%; C. glabrata/C. krusei, 92.3%; C. tropicalis, 100%) and specificity (C. albicans/C. parapsilosis, 100%; C. glabrata/C. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stone NR,Gorton RL,Barker K,Ramnarain P,Kibbler CC

更新日期：2013-04-01 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 report a case where a mite egg found in urine caused diagnostic confusion. The possibility of gut or bladder mite infection should be entertained only after repeated identification of mites in urine or stool samples from a symptomatic patient with no other cause for the symptoms and where the possibilities of conta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dini LA,Frean JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the diagnostic value of antibody to Blastomyces dermatitidis A precipitin arcs for identifying B. dermatitidis cultures by the exoantigen technique with 88 isolates from the United States and Canada, 12 from Africa, and 1 each from India and Israel. In addition, we studied 190 mycelial-form isolates of ot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaufman L,Standard PG,Weeks RJ,Padhye AA

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method has been developed for demonstration of heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin produced by Escherichia coli. This method is based upon the release of LT from bacteria grown directly onto agar plates which have been coated with ganglioside GM1. Toxin bound to the GM1 solid state is subsequently demonstrated by means...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Czerkinsky CC,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 2 decades, a variety of different molecular typing methods have been developed to differentiate strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. The most successful techniques are based on insertion sequences, repetitive loci, comparative genomics, or single nucleotide polymorphisms. In the present ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffiths TA,Rioux K,De Buck J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for optimal therapeutic outcomes in patients infected with HIV. Currently, none of the commercially available fourth-generation assays differentiate HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies (Ab) or the HIV-1 p24 antigen (Ag). The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a novel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salmona M,Delarue S,Delaugerre C,Simon F,Maylin S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is endemic in Europe and hyperendemic in southern France. Recent reports of a high prevalence of HEV RNA in blood donations and in culinary specialties from this geographical area confirmed the endemicity of HEV and sources of viral transmission in this geographical area. HEV causes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moal V,Legris T,Motte A,Vacher-Coponat H,Fages L,Jourde-Chiche N,Borentain P,Jaubert D,Gerolami R,Colson P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00