Evaluation of a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

abstract：:We evaluated a broad-based PCR assay coupled with high-resolution melt analysis for rapid bacterial identification in patients with bacterial sepsis. With a reference library of 60 clinically relevant bacterial species, 52 positive blood culture samples were tested. Our assay identified 46/52 samples at the species le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Won H,Rothman R,Ramachandran P,Hsieh YH,Kecojevic A,Carroll KC,Aird D,Gaydos C,Yang S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter spp. are important nosocomial pathogens reported with increasing frequency in outbreaks of cross-infection during the past 2 decades. The majority of such outbreaks are caused by Acinetobacter baumannii. To investigate whether desiccation tolerance may be involved in the ability of certain strains of A. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jawad A,Seifert H,Snelling AM,Heritage J,Hawkey PM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two molecular fingerprinting techniques, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), were used to investigate the epidemiological relatedness among Clostridium difficile isolates from suspected outbreaks in three general hospitals. Analysis by PFGE yielded inconclusive da...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klaassen CH,van Haren HA,Horrevorts AM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sapporo-like viruses (SLVs) are associated with acute gastroenteritis in humans. Due to a limited supply of available reagents for diagnosis, little is known about the incidence and pathogenicity of these viruses. We have developed a first-generation generic reverse transcriptase (RT) PCR assay based on a single prime...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vinjé J,Deijl H,van der Heide R,Lewis D,Hedlund KO,Svensson L,Koopmans MP

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 during the 1991 to 2000 cholera epidemic in Mexico by biochemical, serological, and molecular characterization of strains collected during this period. Strains were divided into toxigenic and nontoxigenic groups according to the presence or absence of genes encoding chole...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lizárraga-Partida ML,Quilici ML

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis was transmitted from an immunized boy to his father and possibly to other family members. This case report demonstrates that although unusual, acute adult B. pertussis infection can occur. B. pertussis immunization may not prevent infection but can reduce the severity. B. pertussis was detected in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith S,Tilton RC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNAs of human papillomaviruses (HPV) 16 and 18 were detected in cancer-derived cell lines and genital tract biopsy specimens by a novel hybridization assay. Biotinylated whole genomic HPV DNA probes were hybridized in solution to extracted total nucleic acids. Hybrids between the labeled probes and RNA transcripts we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coutlée F,Shah KV,Rader JS,Currie JL,Viscidi RP

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) was used to characterize Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1. Cells from a single colony could be subtyped by AP-PCR within a few hours. The discrimination between strains of L. pneumophila serogroup 1 by AP-PCR was equivalent to that by monoclonal antibody analysis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gomez-Lus P,Fields BS,Benson RF,Martin WT,O'Connor SP,Black CM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the serum immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody response to Norwalk virus infection in human volunteers and compare it with previously described IgM and total antibody responses. Whereas specific IgA and IgM peak within 2 weeks after onset of symptoms, titers of total blocking antibody continue to rise, implying...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Erdman DD,Gary GW,Anderson LJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Streptococcus bovis group has undergone significant taxonomic changes over the past 2 decades with the advent of new identification methods with higher discriminatory power. Although the current classification system is not yet embraced by all researchers in the field and debate remains over the performance of mol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dekker JP,Lau AF

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides is a rare cause of keratitis usually associated with trauma. We report a case of corneal ulceration caused by N. asteroides in a patient with leprosy. This is the first case report of nocardial keratitis from Southeast Asia. The diminished corneal sensation in a patient with leprosy could be a pred...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tendolkar UM,Varaiya A,Ahuja AS,Motwane SA,Gogate AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roche Molecular Systems recently released two PCR-based assays, AMPLICOR and LINEAR ARRAY (LA), for the detection and genotyping, respectively, of human papillomaviruses (HPVs). The manual specimen processing method recommended for use with both assays, AmpliLute, can be time-consuming and labor-intensive and is open ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stevens MP,Rudland E,Garland SM,Tabrizi SN

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population structure of 3,776 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was determined using variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing. The degree of clonality was so high that a more relaxed definition of clustering cannot be applied. Among recent immigrants with non-Euro-American isolates, transmission is overestima...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sloot R,Borgdorff MW,de Beer JL,van Ingen J,Supply P,van Soolingen D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At various times after orthopedic operations (more than a few weeks, with an average of 29.9 days), 11 patients had a sudden onset of high temperature (average 38.9 degrees C) and local cellulitis at different sites on the operated sides. The wounds had completely healed, without complicated infections, when the cellu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kitamura T,Kawamura Y,Ohkusu K,Masaki T,Iwashita H,Sawa T,Fujii S,Okamoto T,Akaike T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has many potential applications in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. In particular, it has been successfully applied to the detection of pathogens present in low copy numbers such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Here we describe a time-resolved fluorescence-based hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dahlén PO,Iitiä AJ,Skagius G,Frostell A,Nunn MF,Kwiatkowski M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal conditions for demonstrating the presence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PMCs) from seropositive individuals involved cocultivation of infected cells with phytohemagglutinin-stimulated PMCs from seronegative donors in the presence of 2 micrograms of Polybrene ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castro BA,Weiss CD,Wiviott LD,Levy JA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time to detection (TTD) in automated blood culture systems is delayed for sensitive microorganisms in the presence of antimicrobial substances and has been associated with worse outcomes for sepsis patients on inadequate empirical therapy. While resin addition removes antimicrobial substances to various degrees from b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mitteregger D,Barousch W,Nehr M,Kundi M,Zeitlinger M,Makristathis A,Hirschl AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4 (HCV-4) infection is considered to be difficult to treat and has become increasingly prevalent in European countries, including The Netherlands. Using a molecular epidemiological approach, the present study investigates the genetic diversity and evolutionary origin of HCV-4 in Amster...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de Bruijne J,Schinkel J,Prins M,Koekkoek SM,Aronson SJ,van Ballegooijen MW,Reesink HW,Molenkamp R,van de Laar TJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive rolling-circle amplification (RCA)-based method utilizing species-specific padlock probes targeted to the internal transcribed spacer 2 region of the fungal ribosomal DNA gene complex was developed. The assay was rapid (2 hours) and specific. Of 28 fungal isolates (16 of Candida, six of Aspergillus, and si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhou X,Kong F,Sorrell TC,Wang H,Duan Y,Chen SC

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Serological tests to detect Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies have been used for screening blood donors, for epidemic studies, and for diagnosis of probably infected persons. Among different tests, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with total, semipurified, or synthetic antigens has been widely used, mainly due...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferreira AW,Belem ZR,Lemos EA,Reed SG,Campos-Neto A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional phage typing scheme proposed by S. Basu and S. Mukerjee (Experientia 24:299-300, 1968) has been used routinely for identification of the strains at the Vibrio Phage Reference Laboratory since 1968. However, because of limitations of this scheme, a new phage typing scheme using five newly isolated phag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chattopadhyay DJ,Sarkar BL,Ansari MQ,Chakrabarti BK,Roy MK,Ghosh AN,Pal SC

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A replicator method for screening Staphylococcus aureus isolates for synergistic hemolytic activity is described. The technique should also be useful for assessing the hemolytic activity of staphylococci and streptococci on different lots or brands of blood agar because the inoculum and the distances between spot inoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boyce JM

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:To facilitate the identification and serotyping of Salmonella species, we established a wide variety of murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that were reactive with the lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) of Salmonella serogroups B to E. An effective approach for generating LPS-reactive hybridomas was used; this required immuni...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luk JM,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirates have been cultured from 10 dental abscesses of endodontic origin, all of which had penetrated beyond the bony alveolus to produce fluctuant swelling. Sampling was by syringe aspiration. Strict anaerobic techniques, including the use of an anaerobic chamber, were used for serial dilution and plating. Randomly...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Williams BL,McCann GF,Schoenknecht FD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly developed enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was used to detect the presence of pneumococcal teichoic and lipoteichoic acids in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis who were being treated with antibiotics. All initial CSF samples, which on culture grew S. pneumoniae, were posi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stuertz K,Merx I,Eiffert H,Schmutzhard E,Mäder M,Nau R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus of strains subgenus F (AdV F) are the most common strains detected in acute gastroenteritis cases in developing countries. Subgenus F is represented by AdV serotype 40 (AdV-40) and AdV-41. Most of the reports have described the predominance of AdV-41 in acute gastroenteritis cases. To gain insight int...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dey RS,Ghosh S,Chawla-Sarkar M,Panchalingam S,Nataro JP,Sur D,Manna B,Ramamurthy T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease (JD) in cattle and may be associated with Crohn's disease (CD) in humans. It is the slowest growing of the cultivable mycobacteria, and culture from clinical, veterinary, food, or environmental specimens can take 4 months or even lon...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Imirzalioglu C,Dahmen H,Hain T,Billion A,Kuenne C,Chakraborty T,Domann E

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of consensus among investigators who use a variety of immunoassay techniques (e.g., enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA] and radioimmunoassay) regarding the protocols for describing and forming standard reference or calibration curves and interpolating serum antibody concentrations. This confounds...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Plikaytis BD,Holder PF,Pais LB,Maslanka SE,Gheesling LL,Carlone GM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00