Identification of Group B Streptococcus Capsule Type by Use of a Dual Phenotypic/Genotypic Assay.

abstract：:Evaluations of screening tests for bacteriuria have traditionally compared the test results with those of quantitative urine cultures. However, many patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections can have less than 10(5) CFU/ml in their urine. Therefore, the results of urine culture and three screening tests (Bac-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murray PR,Smith TB,McKinney TC Jr

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A member of the Enterobacteriaceae initially identified as Kluyvera cryocrescens by the MicroScan Gram-Negative Combo 13 panel caused an outbreak of nosocomial infections in four patients (pneumonia, n = 2; urinary tract infection, n = 1; wound infection, n = 1) and urinary tract colonization in one patient. When the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Warren JR,Farmer JJ 3rd,Dewhirst FE,Birkhead K,Zembower T,Peterson LR,Sims L,Bhattacharya M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of meningococcal sepsis and meningitis. Neisseria polysaccharea is a nonpathogenic species. N. polysaccharea is able to use sucrose to produce amylopectin, a starch-like polysaccharide, which distinguishes it biochemically from the pathogenic species N. meningitidis. The d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhu P,Tsang RS,Tsai CM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and internationally comparable human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA genotyping is essential both for evaluation of HPV vaccines and for effective monitoring and implementation of vaccination programs. The World Health Organization (WHO) HPV Laboratory Network (LabNet) regularly issues international proficiency stud...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eklund C,Forslund O,Wallin KL,Zhou T,Dillner J,WHO Human Papillomavirus Laboratory Network.

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using blaZ PCR as the "gold standard," the sensitivities of CLSI penicillin zone edge and nitrocefin-based tests for β-lactamase production in Staphylococcus aureus were 64.5% and 35.5%, respectively, with specificity of 99.8% for both methods. In 2013, 13.5% of 3,083 S. aureus isolates from 31 U.S. centers were penic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richter SS,Doern GV,Heilmann KP,Miner S,Tendolkar S,Riahi F,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA restriction analysis was carried out on a sample of 212 epidemiologically unrelated adenovirus (Ad) strains of serotype 7 isolated in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina from nasopharyngeal aspirates of children with acute lower respiratory disease between 1984 and 1990. The identified genome types were Ad7b (n = 12), A...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kajon A,Wadell G

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MARC-145 cell line is commonly used to isolate porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) for diagnostics, research and vaccine production, but it yields frustratingly low success rates of virus isolation (VI). ZMAC cell line, derived from porcine alveolar macrophages, has become available but its uti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yim-Im W,Huang H,Park J,Wang C,Calzada G,Gauger P,Harmon K,Main R,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A microagglutination test for Francisella tularensis, with 0.025-ml amounts of diluted sera and 0.025-ml amounts of safranin-O-stained antigen in U-bottom microtitration plates, was compared with a tube agglutination test by using 137 sera. There was 86.3% agreement (+/- 1 dilution variation) between the microagglutin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,McKinney FT,Klein GC,Jones WL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a 2003 survey carried out in Italy to evaluate the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing enterobacteria are presented. Eleven Italian Microbiology Laboratories investigated 9,076 consecutive nonreplicate isolates (inpatients, 6,850; outpatients, 2,226). ESBL screening was performed...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luzzaro F,Mezzatesta M,Mugnaioli C,Perilli M,Stefani S,Amicosante G,Rossolini GM,Toniolo A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter soli is a new bacterial species described from forest soil. Five cases of bloodstream infection caused by A. soli clonal isolates are reported here for the first time. The patients were neonates admitted to an intensive care unit. This is a new neonatal pathogen with the potential to cause outbreaks. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pellegrino FL,Vieira VV,Baio PV,dos Santos RM,dos Santos AL,Santos NG,Meohas MM,Santos RT,de Souza TC,da Silva Dias RC,Santoro-Lopes G,Riley LW,Moreira BM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the main pathogenic species of invasive cryptococcosis among the Cryptococcus species. Taxonomic studies have shown that these two taxa have different genotypes or molecular types with biological and ecoepidemiological peculiarities. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Siqueira LPM,Gimenes VMF,de Freitas RS,Melhem MSC,Bonfietti LX,da Silva AR Jr,Souza Santos LB,Motta AL,Rossi F,Benard G,de Almeida JN Jr

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic karyotypes of atypical isolates of Candida albicans, e.g., strains that were germ tube negative, failed to express proteinase activity, demonstrated low virulence for mice, formed hyperchlamydoconidia, produced hyperhyphae, or were sucrose negative (including the type strain of Candida stellatoidea), w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mahrous M,Lott TJ,Meyer SA,Sawant AD,Ahearn DG

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 189 Candida albicans isolates have been typed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. The results obtained confirm the clonal mode of reproduction of C. albicans. The C. albicans populations found in the oropharynx of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, in the oropharynx of healthy carriers,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boerlin P,Boerlin-Petzold F,Goudet J,Durussel C,Pagani JL,Chave JP,Bille J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 6-month study we critically evaluated the accuracy of the AutoMicrobic system Gram-Negative Identification Card (Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) in identifying glucose-nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli by testing 419 selected isolates in parallel with a conventional reference method. Of 356 isolates in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Plorde JJ,Gates JA,Carlson LG,Tenover FC

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-defined Legionella pneumophila strains were analyzed by amplification of variable genomic regions with arbitrary and repeat sequence primers. Clinical and environmental outbreak-related isolates showed closely related amplicon patterns. Eleven strains of unrelated origins displayed 10 distinct patterns. Fingerpri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Belkum A,Struelens M,Quint W

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:The DNA relatedness and restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns of whole-cell DNA and the general phenotypic properties of 14 isolates of the form species Candida parapsilosis representing three diverse genetic groups were compared. The data confirm the unrelatedness of the three groups at the species level....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roy B,Meyer SA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serogrouping of Bacteroides nodosus is based on antigenic differences in fimbriae of the different New Zealand prototype strains. Because of the time needed to isolate and grow pure cultures of B. nodosus and the difficulty in distinguishing between different serogroups because of cross-agglutination, a new DNA-based ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： John GH,Carlson JO,Kimberling CV,Ellis RP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive sera from 106 chronically infected patients which had previously been genotyped were characterized by serotyping. Genotypes were determined by a first-generation line probe assay (INNO-LiPA HCV) and by sequence analyses of the core, core-E1, and NS5B regions. HCV serotypes were determi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Doorn LJ,Kleter B,Pike I,Quint W

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many laboratory workers prefer the rhodamine-auramine method of staining acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in primary specimen smears rather than carbol fuchsin stains because the stain is more readily interpreted and yields greater sensitivity. The increasing incidence of AFB infections serves as an impetus to optimize the rho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCarter YS,Robinson A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined mutations in the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) genes of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis (P. carinii) strains isolated from 24 patients with P. carinii pneumonia (PCP) in Japan. DHPS mutations were identified at amino acid positions 55 and/or 57 in isolates from 6 (25.0%) of 24 patients. The underlyin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Hosoya N,Endo T,Nakamura T,Sakashita H,Kimura K,Ohnishi K,Nakamura Y,Iwamoto A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of a real-time PCR assay for the quantitative detection of Neospora caninum in infected host tissues. The assay uses the double-stranded DNA-binding dye SYBR Green I to continuously monitor product formation. Oligonucleotide primers were designed to amplify a 76-bp DNA fragment corresponding ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Collantes-Fernández E,Zaballos A,Alvarez-García G,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As microbial genomics makes increasingly important contributions to clinical and public health microbiology, the interpretation of whole-genome sequence data by nonspecialists becomes essential. In the absence of capsule-based vaccines, two protein-based vaccines have been used for the prevention of invasive serogroup...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodrigues CMC,Jolley KA,Smith A,Cameron JC,Feavers IM,Maiden MCJ

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the computer-assisted Dendron system to analyze the patterns of Southern blots probed with the repetitive sequence Ca3, we have compared oral isolates of Candida spp. from a group of 11 nonhospitalized patients with AIDS suffering from recurrent episodes of oral thrush in Leicester, England, with oral isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Odds FC,Wiselka MJ,Nicholson KG,Soll DR

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:We report the molecular epidemiology of 27 clinical multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MDRSE) isolates collected between 2003 and 2007 in an Australian teaching hospital. The dominant genotype (sequence type 2 [ST2]) accounted for 85% of the isolates tested and was indistinguishable from an MDRSE genotype...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widerström M,McCullough CA,Coombs GW,Monsen T,Christiansen KJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) are zoonotic infections. In Africa, the potential exists for additional cross-species transmissions from at least 33 different species of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected nonhuman primates (NHPs) through hunting and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndongmo CB,Switzer WM,Pau CP,Zeh C,Schaefer A,Pieniazek D,Folks TM,Kalish ML

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Hoffmann-La Roche products were evaluated in parallel for their ability to identify 321 strains of the family Enterobacteriaceae. The first product was the well-established Enterotube II, which correctly identified 90% of the isolates after 24 h of incubation. The second was the ID-E rotor, originally designed for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holmes B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR detecting the protein D (hpd) and fuculose kinase (fucK) genes showed high sensitivity and specificity for identifying Haemophilus influenzae and differentiating it from H. haemolyticus. Phylogenetic analysis using the 16S rRNA gene demonstrated two distinct groups for H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Theodore MJ,Anderson RD,Wang X,Katz LS,Vuong JT,Bell ME,Juni BA,Lowther SA,Lynfield R,MacNeil JR,Mayer LW

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal disease caused by N. meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) has been endemic in Brazil since 1997. In this study, we determined the prevalence of serosubtypes of MenB isolated in 10 Brazilian states and the Federal District during 1997 and 1998 and investigated the extent of PorA VR sequence variation among the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sacchi CT,Lemos AP,Popovic T,De Morais JC,Whitney AM,Melles CE,Brondi LM,Monteiro LM,Paiva MV,Solari CA,Mayer LW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00