Genetic mutations in linezolid-resistant Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium abscessus clinical isolates.

abstract：:This prospective study evaluated the ability of the qPCR Amplidiag® CarbaR+VRE assay to detect Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacilli (CP-GNB) directly on 1830 rectal swabs extracted using the fully automated platform Amplidiag® Easy instrument. The Amplidiag® CarbaR+VRE assay gave a positive signal for 94 rect...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Nadji S,Gaillot O,Hallaert C,Messaadi S,Loukili N,Naas T,Lemaître N

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumococcal parapneumonic effusion seems to be increasing in children in the postvaccine era and is frequently associated with negative culture. Due to the low yield of culture, culture-independent tools are evaluated. METHODS:Culture-negative pleural fluid specimens from 38 children with parapneumonic eff...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Perez VP,Caierão J,Fischer GB,Dias CA,d'Azevedo PA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of C. albicans (75 strains) and other yeasts (20 strains) were evaluated for their ability to produce a carboxyl acid proteinase in an effort to assess its potential role as a virulence factor. Yeasts were categorized as to the infectious process present in the patient: (1) isolates from patients wit...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Schreiber B,Lyman CA,Gurevich J,Needham CA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performances and the cost-effectiveness of 5 selective media for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) screening in vaginal samples from pregnant women. The usefulness of these media is unquestionable for GBS screening; the choice will depend largely on the laboratory organization. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Joubrel C,Gendron N,Dmytruk N,Touak G,Verlaguet M,Poyart C,Réglier-Poupet H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broth microdilution (BMD) MIC testing method for telavancin was recently revised BMD (rBMD) to improve accuracy and reproducibility. Staphylococcus aureus isolates from telavancin phase 3 complicated skin and skin-structure infection (cSSSI) studies were tested using the rBMD method. Retesting of 1132 isolates pro...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Smart JI,Corey GR,Stryjewski ME,Wang W,Barriere SL

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using quantitative PCR (qPCR), we differentiated asymptomatic and symptomatic Indian Leishmania donovani infection. qPCR on blood of 40 visceral leishmaniasis, 130 endemic, and 40 non-endemic healthy controls showed 500 times less (P < .0001) parasitemia in asymptomatic compared to the symptomatic ones and threshold o...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sudarshan M,Sundar S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays are widely used in high-throughput DNA and RNA hybridization tests and recently adopted to protein and small molecule interaction studies in basic research and diagnostics. Parallel detection of serum antibodies and antigens has several potential applications in epidemiologic research, vaccine development,...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Viitala SM,Jääskeläinen AJ,Kelo E,Sirola H,Moilanen K,Suni J,Vaheri A,Vapalahti O,Närvänen A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of dietary and demographic factors and some habits on the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in 150 dyspeptic patients examined endoscopically and by the urea breath test. Positivity rate was lower (50.6%) in patients consuming honey ≥1 day weekly compared wi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Boyanova L,Ilieva J,Gergova G,Vladimirov B,Nikolov R,Mitov I

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lomefloxacin is a new difluoro-quinolone. In this study, we have determined the in vitro activity of lomefloxacin against a wide range of clinical bacterial isolates and compared it with that of other fluoro-quinolones and some unrelated antimicrobials. Lomefloxacin was very active against Enterobacteriaceae (MIC90, 0...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Robbins MJ,Baskerville AJ,Sanghrajka M,Mumtaz G,Felmingham D,Ridgway GL,Grüneberg RN

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two standardized susceptibility test methods, a broth microdilution (BMD) and agar dilution (AD) method were performed on a total of 441 clinical isolates of anaerobes with ceftizoxime, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, cefoxitin, piperacillin, and metronidazole. Against the 339 strains of the Bacteroides fragilis group BMD mi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Aldridge KE,Schiro DD

更新日期：1994-11-01 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

authors： Park YJ,Jun Park J,Lee SO,Oh EJ,Kee Kim B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of the Haemophilus influenzae serotype b vaccine, invasive H. influenzae disease has become dominated by nontypeable (NT) strains. Several widely used molecular diagnostic methods have been shown to lack sensitivity or specificity in the detection of some of these strains. Novel real-time assays...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Meyler KL,Meehan M,Bennett D,Cunney R,Cafferkey M

更新日期：2012-12-01 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

authors： Lin X,Chen Y,Lu Y,Yan J,Yan J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of isolation and antifungal susceptibility patterns to fluconazole and itraconazole were determined for 166 Candida glabrata isolates causing bloodstream infection at a single institution from 1995-2000. Findings demonstrated a trend of increasing resistance to itraconazole among the isolates, but no tre...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Baddley JW,Smith AM,Moser SA,Pappas PG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ST252 Enterobacter cloacae, producing GES-5 carbapenemase, was isolated in a Czech hospital. blaGES-5 was part of a novel class 1 integron, In1406, which also included a new allele of the aadA15 gene cassette. In1406 was located on a ColE2-like plasmid, pEcl-35771cz (6953bp). ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chudejova K,Rotova V,Skalova A,Medvecky M,Adamkova V,Papagiannitsis CC,Hrabak J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of CA(1-7)M(2-9)NH(2), a 15-residue synthetic hybrid peptide derived from the sequences of cecropin A and melittin, alone and in combination with amoxicillin-clavulanate, imipenem, clarithromycin, ciprofloxacin, rifampin, and vancomycin, was investigated against 40 nosocomial isolates of methicil...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Giacometti A,Cirioni O,Kamysz W,D'Amato G,Silvestri C,Simona Del Prete M,Lukasiak J,Scalise G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that live Bartonella quintana often induces angioproliferative lesions in humans. It modulates endothelial cell apoptotic and inflammatory patterns, thus inducing a very early overexpression of caspase 8 and Apaf-1 and increasing mRNA production of TNF-alpha, interleukin-8, and E-selectin...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Liberto MC,Matera G,Lamberti AG,Barreca GS,Focà D,Quirino A,Soria MR,Focà A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli ST131, with its multidrug-resistance-associated H30R1 and H30Rx clonal subsets within the H30R subclone, causes most antimicrobial-resistant E. coli infections. The activity of ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) against ST131 strains is undefined. We determined CZA MICs for 595 E. coli clinical isolates from...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Johnston BD,Thuras PD,Johnson JR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is commonly diagnosed by using the Nugent score, a semiquantitative scoring system to evaluate bacterial morphotypes on Gram stain of vaginal secretions. Some authors have suggested using the Kopeloff modification of the Gram stain. Asymptomatic BV in pregnancy has been associated with adverse...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Libman MD,Kramer M,Platt R,Montreal Prematurity Study Group.

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

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_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wheat LJ,Bartlett M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of HMR 3647, erythromycin A, clarithromycin, azithromycin, roxithromycin, penicillin G, ampicillin, cefuroxime, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, and levofloxacin were determined for 1179 Streptococcus pneumoniae, 1438 Haemophilus influenzae, and 428 Moraxella catarrha...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Hoban DJ,Zhanel GG,Karlowsky JA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two isolates of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) collected through the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (TSAR) program in 2000 and 2002 were studied for carriage of metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL), integrase genes, and integrons. Epidemiologic relatedness was determined using puls...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Huang YT,Chang SC,Lauderdale TL,Yang AJ,Wang JT

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 116 clinical isolates collected in 2003 from a tertiary pediatric hospital and a primary pediatric department in Chicago, IL, were screened for reduced susceptibility to selected fluoroquinolones by disc diffusion. Correlation between reduced susceptibility and point mutations in the quinolone resistance-de...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Yan SS,Schreckenberger PC,Zheng X,Nelson NA,Harrington SM,Tjhio J,Fedorko DP

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:The Zygomyces are an increasingly frequent cause of invasive mold infection in immunocompromised patients. Here we describe the first well-documented case of Rhizopus infection of odontogenic origin, which presented as a rapidly progressive soft tissue infection in a neutropenic child. The infection resolved with limi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Adderson EE,Rowland C,McGregor LM,Santana VM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated system capable of sample pretreatment using antibody-conjugated magnetic beads and one-step reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on a microfluidic system was developed to accelerate the detection of RNA viruses such as dengue virus or enterovirus 71. The targeted virus in the sample w...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Lee WC,Lien KY,Lee GB,Lei HY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and accurate diagnostic tests for Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are crucial for management of patients with suspected CDI and for infection control. Enzyme immunoassays for detection of the toxins are routinely used but lack adequate sensitivity. We generated slow off-rate modified aptamers (SOMAmer™ re...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ochsner UA,Katilius E,Janjic N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of typing procedures for the purpose of strain differentiation among isolates of Candida albicans obtained from hospitalized patients has been limited. We have applied biotyping and DNA restriction fragment analysis (DNA fingerprinting) by using EcoRI to the study of C. albicans isolates obtained from ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Pfaller MA,Cabezudo I,Hollis R,Huston B,Wenzel RP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the 56-kDa antigen gene is currently the most commonly used molecular technique for confirmation of scrub typhus and genotyping of Orientia tsutsugamushi. In this study, we have compared the commonly used nested PCR (N-PCR) with a single-step conventional PCR (C-PCR) ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Janardhanan J,Prakash JA,Abraham OC,Varghese GM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical non-relevant (CNR) IgM specific for Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for false-positive results in commercially available IgM assays. Using IgM immunoblotting, it is possible to distinguish between IgM in sera of acutely infected (AI) patients and CNR IgM. Especially the combination of staining of a 55 and 30...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Meek B,Diepersloot RJ,van Gool T,Speijer D,Peek R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00