Candida auris Clinical Isolates from South Korea: Identification, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Genotyping.

abstract：:Six rapid agglutination tests for identification of Staphylococcus aureus were evaluated by using 62 strains of S. aureus, 63 strains of S. saprophyticus, and 67 strains of other coagulase-negative staphylococci. S. saprophyticus was responsible for 19 of 26 false-positive results and 20 uninterpretable reactions. Thu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gregson DB,Low DE,Skulnick M,Simor AE

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Coccidioides thyroiditis in an HIV-infected patient with a history of recent Coccidioides pneumonia but with negative Coccidioides serology determined by enzyme immunoassay at presentation. Diagnosis of Coccidioides thyroiditis was made based on histopathologic examination and culture of thyroid ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jinno S,Chang S,Jacobs MR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous cell lines were tested for their potential use in distinguishing pathogenic from nonpathogenic Listeria species. Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria ivanovii strains were lethal for mice, and culture filtrates were cytotoxic for cultured cells and hemolytic for sheep erythrocytes, while Listeria innocua, Li...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farber JM,Speirs JI

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Twelve Salmonella typhimurium strains resistant to broad-spectrum cephalosporins were isolated from cases of gastroenteritis during 1996 to 1998 in Russia, Hungary, and Greece. Resistance was due to the production of CTX-M-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases encoded by similar 12-kb plasmids. By pulsed-field gel el...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tassios PT,Gazouli M,Tzelepi E,Milch H,Kozlova N,Sidorenko S,Legakis NJ,Tzouvelekis LS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of fungi produce the hydrolytic enzyme beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HexNAcase), which can be readily detected in assays by using p-nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide as a substrate. In the present study we developed a microtiter plate-based HexNAcase assay for distinguishing Candida albicans and Candi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Niimi K,Shepherd MG,Cannon RD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-min latex agglutination test kit, Culturette Brand Ten-Minute Group A Strep ID (Marion Scientific, Div. of Marion Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.), was assessed for the rapid detection of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus directly from a throat swab. Four hundred and thirty-five throat swab specimens from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang MJ,Mohla C

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,013 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were identified in parallel by the Repliscan (Cathra International, Ontario, Canada) and API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) systems. There was a 62% agreement at the genus level between the two systems. Of the 38% discrepant results, Repliscan classified 22% as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Quall CO,Fox JM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type e biotype 4 was isolated from a single antemortem blood culture obtained from a 60-year-old, white male with abdominal carcinomatosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cawthern TH,Marraro RV,McCleskey FK

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred thirty-one yeast and yeast-like isolates were cultivated on eosin methylene blue agar. While the sensitivity rate for Candida kefyr isolates producing a metallic green sheen was 81.8%, the high positive predictive value (100%) for yeast isolates with this phenotype belonging to C. kefyr suggests that the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Munson EL,Troy DR,Weber JK,Messer SA,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne diseases, due to a diversity of bacterial pathogens, represent a significant and increasing public health threat throughout the Northern Hemisphere. A high-throughput 16S V1-V2 rRNA gene-based metagenomics assay was developed and evaluated using >13,000 residual samples from patients suspected of having tic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kingry L,Sheldon S,Oatman S,Pritt B,Anacker M,Bjork J,Neitzel D,Strain A,Berry J,Sloan L,Respicio-Kingry L,Dietrich E,Bloch K,Moncayo A,Srinivasamoorthy G,Hu B,Hinckley A,Mead P,Kugeler K,Petersen J

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several convenient and accurate molecular assays to detect respiratory bacterial infection. The NeoPlex RB-8 detection kit (NeoPlex RB-8) is a new multiplex real-time PCR assay that simultaneously detects Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Haemo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim JW,Hong SS,Lee IS,Chi HY,Kim SO,Kim HN,Hong SP

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR for protein D (hpd#3) was used to differentiate nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) from Haemophilus haemolyticus. While 90% of nasopharyngeal specimens and 100% of lower-airway specimens from 84 Indigenous Australian children with bronchiectasis had phenotypic NTHI isolates confirmed as H. influenzae, onl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hare KM,Binks MJ,Grimwood K,Chang AB,Leach AJ,Smith-Vaughan H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA fingerprint profiles and somatic serotypes of 71 Pasteurella multocida capsule serogroup B isolates, 13 capsule serogroup E isolates, and 16 somatic reference serotype strains were compared. Each of the 16 reference somatic serotypes had a unique DNA fingerprint profile with the HhaI restriction endonuclease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wilson MA,Rimler RB,Hoffman LJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of single stool specimens was done to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites among 1,000 primary school children. A questionnaire was completed by each child's parents. Specimens were examined by using wet-mount preparation, formaline-ether concentration, and Sheather's flotation technique. Trichrome...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nimri L,Batchoun R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel PCR primer pair was used to detect the presence of cmeC in 131 Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli strains isolated from various hosts (cattle, turkeys, humans, and pigs). DNA sequence analysis revealed a high degree of genetic variation between the two species, while extremely limited genetic variation among iso...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fakhr MK,Logue CM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium group JK organisms were isolated from lung fluid aspirated with a fine needle from one of four thick-walled cavitary lesions in a 72-year-old female. Cultures and stains for mycobacteria and fungi were negative. The patient was successfully treated with an 8-week course of vancomycin. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McNaughton RD,Villanueva RR,Donnelly R,Freedman J,Nawrot R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent amplified-fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) assay potentially amplifies a unique set of genome fragments from each bacterial clone. It uses stringently hybridizing primers which carry a fluorescent label. Precise fragment sizing is achieved by the inclusion of an internal size standard in every lane...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arnold C,Metherell L,Willshaw G,Maggs A,Stanley J

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy specimens of lung tissues from 15 patients that contracted legionellosis during the 1976 Philadelphia outbreak of Legionnaires disease were examined for the presence of Legionella organisms and soluble antigens by indirect fluorescent-antibody (IFA) testing and by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,Bibb WF,McKinney RM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred ninety single sera from adults in Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea were tested for antibodies to human calicivirus (HCV) by a radioimmunoassay blocking test. A high prevalence of antibodies was observed in samples collected in Japan and Southeast Asia. Of 240 serum specimens collected fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakata S,Chiba S,Terashima H,Nakao T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance characteristics of three real-time influenza A/B virus reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assays and two real-time 2009 H1N1 RT-PCR assays were evaluated using previously characterized clinical specimens. A total of 150 respiratory specimens from children (30 influenza A/H1 virus-, 30 influenza A/H3 vi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Selvaraju SB,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of viridans streptococci isolated from the blood cultures of 86 patients was determined. Isolates that were significant or suggestive of infection represented only 21% of the cases. Among 54 isolates for which the species was known, Streptococcus sanguis II was the most common. However, a sig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson FJ,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We standardized and assessed the performance of an in-house microtiter assay for determining the susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates to isoniazid based on mycobacteriophage amplification technology. Seventy isolates (43 resistant and 27 sensitive according to the BACTEC 460 radiometric met...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galí N,Domínguez J,Blanco S,Prat C,Alcaide F,Coll P,Ausina V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search has been made for corynebacterial phospholipase D, "ovis toxin," a sphingomyelinase (phosphatidylcholine phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.4), among a wide variety of corynebacteria. Phospholipase D activity has been found in strains exhibiting the biochemical properties characteristic of Corynebacterium pseudotuber...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barksdale L,Linder R,Sulea IT,Pollice M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methodologies for biochemical identification of mycobacteria isolated from clinical samples are still cumbersome, taking skilled technicians 3 to 6 weeks. We describe here a 2-h identification system for mycobacterial isolates belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using a DNA probe. After 30 min of hands...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mabilat C,Desvarenne S,Panteix G,Machabert N,Bernillon MH,Guardiola G,Cros P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from a bacteremic patient. This strain, together with other isolates of V. vulnificus, was compared with V. alginolyticus, V. fluvialis, and V. parahaemolyticus with regard to growth characteristics on enteric agar media (enabling isolation and identification) and production of exoenzyme...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desmond EP,Janda JM,Adams FI,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly emerged Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has infected at least 1,082 people, including 439 fatalities. So far, no empirical virus isolation study has been done to elucidate infectious virus secretion or serotype variability. Here, we used 51 respiratory samples from 32 patients with co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Muth D,Corman VM,Meyer B,Assiri A,Al-Masri M,Farah M,Steinhagen K,Lattwein E,Al-Tawfiq JA,Albarrak A,Müller MA,Drosten C,Memish ZA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae has been emerging as the leading cause of liver abscess in diabetic patients. Results of molecular typing of K. pneumoniae isolates from two siblings with liver abscess, their family members, and the environment suggest a possibility of cross infection of liver abscess by the fecal-oral route wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chiu CH,Su LH,Wu TL,Hung IJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is a globally significant zoonosis, the control of which is difficult and resource intensive. Serological tests form a vital part of a multifactorial approach to control and are often performed in large numbers. The aim of the present study was to develop a new assay to improve the efficiency, ease, and ef...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McGiven JA,Thompson IJ,Commander NJ,Stack JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00