Determination of Disk Diffusion and MIC Quality Control Guidelines for High-Dose Cefepime-Tazobactam (WCK 4282), a Novel Antibacterial Combination Consisting of a β-Lactamase Inhibitor and a Fourth-Generation Cephalosporin.

abstract：:Three cases of neonatal infection caused by Enterobacter sakazakii are reported from the Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, the National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland. These infections occurred during a 9-month period in 1986 and 1987. Two of the neonates, who were normal at birth, survived but were left...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biering G,Karlsson S,Clark NC,Jónsdóttir KE,Lúdvígsson P,Steingrímsson O

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCCmec type V. Six methicilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kerttula AM,Lyytikäinen O,Vuopio-Varkila J,Ibrahem S,Agthe N,Broas M,Jägerroos H,Virolainen A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Echinococcus Western Blot IgG (LDBIO Diagnostics, Lyon, France), using a whole larval antigen from Echinococcus multilocularis, was evaluated for serodiagnosis and differentiation between two human parasitic infections of worldwide importance: cystic echinococcosis, due to Echinococcus granulosus, and alveolar ech...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liance M,Janin V,Bresson-Hadni S,Vuitton DA,Houin R,Piarroux R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the potential of pooling DNA from nasopharyngeal specimens to reduce the cost of real-time PCR (RT-PCR) for bacterial detection. Lyophilization is required to reconcentrate DNA. This strategy yields a high specificity (86%) and a high sensitivity (96%). We estimate that compared to individual testing, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edouard S,Prudent E,Gautret P,Memish ZA,Raoult D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) pathovar strains, which are associated with Crohn's disease, share many genetic and phenotypic features with extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) strains, but little is known about the level of genetic similarity between the two pathovars. We aimed to determine the frequ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martinez-Medina M,Mora A,Blanco M,López C,Alonso MP,Bonacorsi S,Nicolas-Chanoine MH,Darfeuille-Michaud A,Garcia-Gil J,Blanco J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently available diagnostics for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have major limitations. Despite mounting evidence that toxin detection is paramount for diagnosis, conventional toxin immunoassays are insufficiently sensitive and cytotoxicity assays too complex; assays that detect toxigenic organisms (toxi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Song L,Zhao M,Duffy DC,Hansen J,Shields K,Wungjiranirun M,Chen X,Xu H,Leffler DA,Sambol SP,Gerding DN,Kelly CP,Pollock NR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In specific-pathogen-free dogs experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi by tick exposure, treatment with high doses of amoxicillin or doxycycline for 30 days diminished but failed to eliminate persistent infection. Although joint disease was prevented or cured in five of five amoxicillin- and five of six doxy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Straubinger RK,Summers BA,Chang YF,Appel MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name Psychrobacter immobilis recently has been proposed for a group of chiefly psychrotrophic, aerobic, gram-negative, nonmotile, oxidase-positive coccobacilli commonly found associated with fish, processed meat, and poultry products. This article reports an ocular infection in a 12-day-old newborn who acquired th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gini GA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria-specific rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) targeting aldolase show highly variable sensitivities. We assessed diversity in Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax aldolases by sequencing the coding genes from parasites of various origins. The results show that aldolases are highly conserved, indicating that antigenic d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee N,Baker J,Bell D,McCarthy J,Cheng Q

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now, serologic tests that distinguish the closely related human T-cell lymphotropic virus types I (HTLV-I) and II (HTLV-II) infections have not been available. Synthetic peptide assays, employing peptides derived from the core and envelope proteins of HTLV-I and HTLV-II (SynthEIA and Select-HTLV tests), were eva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lal RB,Heneine W,Rudolph DL,Present WB,Hofhienz D,Hartley TM,Khabbaz RF,Kaplan JE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the sensitivity and specificity of quantitative mycobacterial culture against results obtained by using the polymerase chain reaction for the detection of DNA from organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in 82 clinical specimens from patients suspected of having tuberculosis. Two amplifica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pierre C,Lecossier D,Boussougant Y,Bocart D,Joly V,Yeni P,Hance AJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to cytomegalovirus-induced late antigens by an indirect immunofluorescence assay was improved by the use of monoclonal antibodies to human IgM. Nonspecific background fluorescence was absent, facilitating the reading of the slides and the detection of a specific fluor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zerbini M,Musiani M,Gentilomi G,La Placa M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the entire nucleotide sequence of phiSa2958-carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene, which was lysogenized in a sequence type 5 staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type II strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Based on the nucleotide sequences of PVL phages, we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ma XX,Ito T,Kondo Y,Cho M,Yoshizawa Y,Kaneko J,Katai A,Higashiide M,Li S,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory (SMPRL) provides a national service for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal and pneumococcal disease in Scotland. Part of this service includes the serogrouping of meningococcal isolates followed by typing and subtyping. The procedures for this ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clarke SC,Diggle MA,Edwards GF

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method, using commercial disks to detect Escherichia coli mutator strains, is proposed. The breakpoint for detecting strains with a mutation frequency >/=5 x 10(-7) was established at >/=70 and >/=20 colonies in the inhibition zone of fosfomycin and rifampin disks, respectively, after seeding 100 microl of an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galán JC,Tato M,Baquero MR,Turrientes C,Baquero F,Martinez JL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a nested PCR with Borrelia flagellin gene (flaB) primers and DNA sequencing to determine if Borrelia lonestari was present in Amblyomma americanum ticks removed from military personnel and sent to the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In our pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stromdahl EY,Williamson PC,Kollars TM Jr,Evans SR,Barry RK,Vince MA,Dobbs NA

更新日期：2003-12-01 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

abstract：:The commercially available diagnostic tests for Chagas' disease employ whole extracts or semipurified fractions of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes. Considerable variation in the reproducibility and reliability of these tests has been reported by different research laboratories, mainly due to cross-reactivity with othe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Umezawa ES,Bastos SF,Camargo ME,Yamauchi LM,Santos MR,Gonzalez A,Zingales B,Levin MJ,Sousa O,Rangel-Aldao R,da Silveira JF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of two reference procedures, an indirect hemagglutination assay and a complement fixation test, the presence or absence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody was determined for 221 human sera. Ninety-nine sera (44.8%) were found to contain CMV antibody. The remaining 122 sera (55.2%) lacked detectable CMV antib...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cheeseman SH,Doern GV,Ferriani RA,Keville MW,McGraw BR,Stewart JA

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania species cause a variety of human disease syndromes. Methods for diagnosis and species differentiation are insensitive and many require invasive sampling. Although quantitative PCR (qPCR) methods are reported for leishmania detection, no systematic method to quantify parasites and determine the species i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weirather JL,Jeronimo SM,Gautam S,Sundar S,Kang M,Kurtz MA,Haque R,Schriefer A,Talhari S,Carvalho EM,Donelson JE,Wilson ME

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mainstay of laboratory diagnosis for Lyme disease is two-tiered serological testing, in which a reactive first-tier enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or an immunofluorescence assay is supplemented by separate IgM and IgG immunoblots. Recent data suggest that the C6 ELISA can be substituted for immunoblots ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wormser GP,Levin A,Soman S,Adenikinju O,Longo MV,Branda JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reliable technique was developed for differentiating Helicobacter pylori strains by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified DNAs. Oligonucleotide primer pairs developed to the urease, 48-kDa stress protein (htrA), and 26-kDa antigen-encoding genes wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clayton CL,Kleanthous H,Morgan DD,Puckey L,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pandemic spread of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an international public health issue. Because of the outbreak potential of the organism, it is critical to establish an internationally recognized molecular subtyping protocol for V. parahaemolyticus that is both rapid and robust as a means to monitor its further sprea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kam KM,Luey CK,Parsons MB,Cooper KL,Nair GB,Alam M,Islam MA,Cheung DT,Chu YW,Ramamurthy T,Pazhani GP,Bhattacharya SK,Watanabe H,Terajima J,Arakawa E,Ratchtrachenchai OA,Huttayananont S,Ribot EM,Gerner-Smidt P,Swamin

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, it is clear that in vitro susceptibility testing can predict outcome in selected clinical situations. The clearest data are from the fluconazole-treated AIDS patients with oropharyngeal candidiasis. In this setting, the homogeneity of the underlying immune defect, combined with the ease of identification a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ghannoum MA,Rex JH,Galgiani JN

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of two systems for the serotyping of Edwardsiella tarda developed independently at the National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan, and the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga., has enabled a single serotyping scheme comprising 61 O groups and 45 H antigens to be established for international use. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tamura K,Sakazaki R,McWhorter AC,Kosako Y

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, 21 inhabitants of a German nursing home fell ill with acute gastroenteritis after consumption of minced beef heart (P. Graf and L. Bader, Epidemiol. Bull. 41:327-329, 2000). Two residents died during hospital treatment. Seventeen Clostridium perfringens strains were collected from two different dishes and fro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalch B,Bader L,Schau HP,Bergmann R,Rometsch A,Maydl G,Kessler S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant tuberculous meningitis is fatal without rapid diagnosis and use of second-line therapy. It is more common in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. Beijing genotype strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are associated with drug resistance, particularly multidrug resistance, and their...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Caws M,Thwaites G,Stepniewska K,Nguyen TN,Nguyen TH,Nguyen TP,Mai NT,Phan MD,Tran HL,Tran TH,van Soolingen D,Kremer K,Nguyen VV,Nguyen TC,Farrar J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest concerns in Chagas' disease is the absence of reliable methods for the evaluation of chemotherapy efficacy in treated patients. The tests available to evaluate cure after the specific treatment are the complement-mediated lysis (CoML) and flow cytometry tests, but they are not feasible for routine ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meira WS,Galvão LM,Gontijo ED,Machado-Coelho GL,Norris KA,Chiari E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 101 isolates of penicillinase-producing and non-penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae with known nutritional requirements, plasmid content, and serovars, were examined for lectin agglutination patterns. These isolates were from outbreaks in Georgia, California, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. Cell suspens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalla WO,Whittington WL,Rice RJ,Larsen SA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 2,559 routine clinical specimens were cultured for mycobacteria by using BACTEC Middlebrook 7H12 medium (BACTEC), Lowenstein-Jensen slants (LJ), and Mycobactosel selective Middlebrook 7H11 slants (M7H11). Thirty-three isolates (1.3%) of M. avium complex and 82 isolates (3.2%) of M. tuberculosis were recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirihara JM,Hillier SL,Coyle MB

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00