Point-Counterpoint: Meningitis/Encephalitis Syndromic Testing in the Clinical Laboratory.

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：:A variety of bacterins, vaccines, and antisera retained greater than 90% of their original level of mercurial preservative after lyophilization, and this might influence certain uses of these products. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pemberton JR

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All medical and high-risk surgical patients were screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization over 3.5 years. The sensitivities of nasal and rectal swabs were 68% and 62%, respectively. Naris and open-skin-site swabs detected 467 (74%) of 627 adult carriers identified. Rectal swabs detected an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Currie A,Davis L,Odrobina E,Waldman S,White D,Tomassi J,Katz KC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,298 nonfermentative gram-negative rods were used to evaluate the performance of the individual biochemical tests in the N/F System and to determine whether the observed results included sufficient key reactions for rapid identification. The system included an oxidase test, two screening tubes providing 5 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barnishan J,Ayers LW

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single colonies of beta-hemolytic streptococci could be grouped by antibody-coated latex bead agglutination or coagglutination with staphylococci coated with antibody after incubation of the colonies with mutanolysin. This simple and quick procedure provided an enzymatic means of enhancing the sensitivity of tests suc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Calandra GB,Henson CL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the late 1980s several studies have described the increased incidence and severity of invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infections. However, most studies on GAS pathogenesis have focused on information obtained during outbreaks. We analyzed isolate distribution and host susceptibility as part of a nationwide ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ekelund K,Darenberg J,Norrby-Teglund A,Hoffmann S,Bang D,Skinhøj P,Konradsen HB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a method to reduce oxygen tension and produce anaerobic conditions conveniently by coculture with a nonfermentative organism. The biochemical reactions of 94 strains representing 41 different species were determined using prereduced media and gas chromatography according to standard methods. The standa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hussain Z,Bürger H,Lannigan R,Groves DJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A VIM metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Aeromonas hydrophila strain carrying an integron-borne bla(VIM-4) gene was isolated from a cirrhotic patient's fecal sample in a Budapest hospital. The variable region of this integron is identical with that of a previously characterized integron from Pseudomonas aeruginosa clini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Libisch B,Giske CG,Kovács B,Tóth TG,Füzi M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aerobically incubated, agar-based medium was developed for amino acid decarboxylase testing of Enterobacteriaceae family members by replica-plating methods. Results with the new medium agreed 97 to 99% with the reference broth method of Moeller, and no false-positive reactions were encountered. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maccani JE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two multiplex PCR enzyme immunoassays (PCR-EIAs) were developed for Staphylococcus aureus exotoxin gene screening as an alternative to the conventional biological assays, which depend on detectable amounts of toxins produced. One set of oligonucleotide primers and probes was designed to search for enterotoxin A to E g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker K,Roth R,Peters G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region was employed as the gold standard method for yeast identification in the China Hospital Invasive Fungal Surveillance Net (CHIF-NET). It has subsequently been found that matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Xiao M,Wang H,Gao R,Fan X,Brown M,Gray TJ,Kong F,Xu YC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirates of liver abscesses were analyzed for Entamoeba histolytica. PCR detected a gene encoding a 30-kDa protein in all samples but detected the ribosomal DNA gene in only 14 (33.3%) samples. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay detected antigen in 41 (97.6%) samples. PCR analysis of a strain-specific antigen (SSG) re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zengzhu G,Bracha R,Nuchamowitz Y,Cheng-I W,Mirelman D

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial typing methods are specific for one species only, time-consuming, or poorly reproducible. DiversiLab (DL; bioMérieux) potentially overcomes these limitations. In this study, we evaluated the DL system for the identification of hospital outbreaks of a number bacterial species. Appropriately typed clinica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fluit AC,Terlingen AM,Andriessen L,Ikawaty R,van Mansfeld R,Top J,Cohen Stuart JW,Leverstein-van Hall MA,Boel CH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described medium (Haemophilus test medium [HTM]) for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Haemophilus influenzae was evaluated in this study for broth microdilution testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. A total of 137 clinical isolates was tested against 11 antimicrobial agents, using Mueller-Hinton broth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Maher LA,Howell AW

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhi was isolated from 369 and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated from 6 of 515 Vietnamese patients with suspected enteric fever. Compared with conventional broth culture of blood, direct plating of the buffy coat had a diagnostic sensitivity of 99.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 97.1 to 100%). Blood ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wain J,Diep TS,Ho VA,Walsh AM,Nguyen TT,Parry CM,White NJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin concentrations were determined in middle-ear effusions (MEEs) from 89 children with chronic otitis media by using the Limulu's amoebocyte lysate assay. Mean concentrations of endotoxin in Haemophilus influenzae-positive and Streptococcus pneumoniae-positive MEEs were 157 and 21.8 ng/ml, respectively, and wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeMaria TF,Prior RB,Briggs BR,Lim DJ,Birck HG

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 12-month period, 43 children in eight different wards of our hospital (Hôpital Robert Debré) were infected or colonized with Klebsiella pneumoniae strains producing extended broad-spectrum beta-lactamases. The epidemiology of the outbreak was studied by a molecular approach including the determination of the be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bingen EH,Desjardins P,Arlet G,Bourgeois F,Mariani-Kurkdjian P,Lambert-Zechovsky NY,Denamur E,Philippon A,Elion J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on 16S rRNA gene PCR, no significant difference was observed in rates of detection of Helicobacter species in intestinal biopsy specimens from 160 Chinese inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients (10%) and 80 controls (6.3%). By using a [(13)C]urea breath test, the H. pylori infection rate in 208 Chinese IBD pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang S,Zhong B,Chao K,Xiao Y,Cui Y,Gao X,Chen B,He Y,Hu P,Chen M,Mitchell HM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BACTEC NR660 blood culture system, which uses infrared spectroscopy to detect carbon dioxide generated by bacterial growth, was compared with the new medium formulation of the Oxoid Signal system. Two trials were conducted: a comparative study of 88 organisms in simulated blood cultures and a clinical trial of 3,3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Daley C,Lim I,Modra J,Wilkinson I

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cloned segments of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA which are promising as clinical probes were identified. An MboI digest of DNA from a clinical isolate of M. tuberculosis was cloned into bacteriophage M13. To identify recombinants specific for the M. tuberculosis complex, plaque lifts were hybridized with M. bov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eisenach KD,Crawford JT,Bates JH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not always possible to culture feces immediately, and appropriate methods for transport of human specimens, unlike those from animals, have not been fully evaluated. Therefore, we took serial subcultures in two phases from six transport media inoculated with human diarrheal stools known to be positive for Campyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang WL,Reller LB,Smallwood B,Luechtefeld NW,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-1/2 immunoassays, including five enzyme immunoassays and one rapid test, were challenged with up to 250 serum samples collected from various global sites. The serum samples were from individuals known to be infected wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koch WH,Sullivan PS,Roberts C,Francis K,Downing R,Mastro TD,Nkengasong J,Hu D,Masciotra S,Schable C,Lal RB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive PCR assay that detects the thermophilic campylobacters C. jejuni, C. coli, C. lari, and C. upsaliensis is reported. Furthermore, by digestion of the PCR products with two restriction enzymes, species differentiation was demonstrated. Thus, the present method has the potential to be used for both detection ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fermér C,Engvall EO

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of the purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS), in which the urinary catheter bag of some elderly patients develops intense purple coloration, was studied. The purple was found to be a mixture of indirubin dissolved in the plastic and indigo on its surface. Six patients with PUBS were studied, and Providencia st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dealler SF,Hawkey PM,Millar MR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive, and specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is described. We have improved all three PCR steps: sample preparation, DNA amplification, and detection of the amplified product. Some of the improvements have been described pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Albert J,Fenyö EM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease phenotypes expressed by isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients were evaluated. The majority of isolates tested produced elastase (65%) or alkaline protease (64%) or both. The mucoid phenotype expressed by many CF isolates of P. aeruginosa did not absolutely restrict the expr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jagger KS,Bahner DR,Warren RL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etest is a new concept for MIC determinations for antimicrobial agents that is based on a predefined antibiotic gradient on a plastic strip calibrated with a continuous logarithmic MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. Etest was compared with a reference agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of clinical i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoffner SE,Klintz L,Olsson-Liljequist B,Bolmström A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) p27 in saliva was tested for its accuracy and sensitivity in diagnosing FeLV infections. Saliva and serum samples from 564 clinical cases were tested with a 99.2% specificity. The overall accuracy of the saliva ELISA reactive to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lewis MG,Wright KA,Lafrado LJ,Shanker PJ,Palumbo NE,Lemoine ED,Olsen RG

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus garvieae is a Gram-positive coccus that has morphological and biochemical similarities to enterococci. L. garvieae strains rare human pathogens, with only a few cases reported in the literature, mainly as a cause of infective endocarditis. L. garvieae is well known as a fish pathogen, and in some of the re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Navas ME,Hall G,El Bejjani D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PGMY-PCR for human papillomavirus (HPV) was evaluated, in parallel with nested PCR (nPCR), in samples with noted Hybrid Capture II (HCII) and MY-PCR results. PGMY-PCR detected HPV DNA in 2.5% of HCII-negative-MY-PCR-negative samples and in 71.7% of HCII-positive-MY-PCR-negative samples; also, it detected the MY-PC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Giovannelli L,Lama A,Capra G,Giordano V,Aricò P,Ammatuna P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00