Real-time PCR for Strongyloides stercoralis-associated meningitis.

abstract：:A shift to Candida non-albicans infections has been noted during the last years, and the emergence of multi-resistant Candida auris has complicated their management. The aim of this study was first to compare the performance of the novel chromogenic medium CHROMagar™ Candida Plus (CHROMagar, France) with CHROMagar™ Ca...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Mulet Bayona JV,Salvador García C,Tormo Palop N,Gimeno Cardona C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The species distribution and drug susceptibilities of 1106 Candida isolates collected in Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance of Yeasts (TSARY) in 2014 were determined. Candida albicans is still the dominant species, accounting for 35.9%, followed by 28.3% C. glabrata, 26.6% C. tropicalis, 5.2% C. parapsilo...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Zhou ZL,Lin CC,Chu WL,Yang YL,Lo HJ,TSARY Hospitals.

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, since 2009, there has been an ever increasing widespread of the bla(KPC-2) gene, mainly in Klebsiella pneumoniae. This study aims to assess the molecular epidemiology and genetic background of this gene in Enterobacteriaceae (non-K. pneumoniae) species from 9 Brazilian states between 2009 and 2011. Three hu...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Tavares CP,Pereira PS,Marques Ede A,Faria C Jr,de Souza Mda P,de Almeida R,Alves Cde F,Asensi MD,Carvalho-Assef AP

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:This study was designed to evaluate the incidence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children with community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). A total of 245 patients 6 months to 12 years of age were investigated for M. pneumoniae employing serological tests, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), nest...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kumar S,Garg IB,Sethi GR

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma genitalium is a sexually transmissible, pathogenic bacterium and a significant cause of nongonococcal urethritis in both men and women. Due to the difficulty of the culture of M. genitalium from clinical samples, the laboratory diagnosis of M. genitalium infection is almost exclusively carried out using nuc...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Edwards T,Burke P,Smalley HB,Gillies L,Longhurst D,Vipond B,Hobbs G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to develop group- and type-specific probes for the detection of enteroviruses. Coxsackie virus B4 RNA was cloned, and a series of subgenomic clones were generated. Six of these clones, containing sequences from the 3' end or the 5' end of the genome, were tested for their ability to ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chatterjee NK,Kaehler M,Deibel R

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial methods of enzyme immunoassay and fluoroimmunoassay for the detection of varicella-zoster antibodies were compared using serum samples from individuals in a program of bone marrow transplantation. The correlation was 93.4%. Enzyme immunoassay showed to be more sensitive. Both methods are applicable to the d...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： de Ory F,Echevarria JM,Domingo CJ

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improvement in vaccinations, Hepatitis B remains a major health concern due to the difficulty of prevention even in low endemic areas such as Europe. In this report we describe the performance characteristics of the new HBsAg Next Qualitative and HBsAg Next Confirmatory assays designed for blood screening and ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sickinger E,Braun HB,Meyer T,Schmid K,Daghfal D,Oer M,Schultess J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and thirty-five sera were tested for the presence of antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with the Abbott Diagnostics HTLV-III test before and after heating at 56 degrees C for 10 min. Only one serum specimen was repeatedly reactive after heating when compared with the...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Markowski MA,Coard JG,Griffith B,Mayo DR

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gepotidacin (GSK2140944) is a first in class, novel triazaacenaphthylene bacterial type II topoisomerase inhibitor in Phase 3 clinical development for the treatment of gonorrhea and uncomplicated urinary tract infections (acute cystitis). This study tested the equivalency of minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ob...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Arends SJR,Canino MA,Mendes R,Scangarella-Oman NE,Flamm RK

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:We compared the performance of a chromogenic agar medium chromID VRE (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Etoile, France) designed to recover and identify vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) from clinical specimens with bile esculin azide vancomycin (BEAV) agar. For this study, 120 stool specimens were plated on chromID VRE and BE...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ledeboer NA,Tibbetts RJ,Dunne WM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-min fecal preparation results in greater specimen turbidity than a 45-min protocol, but reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) norovirus test sensitivity is essentially the same. Feces processed so that particle size does not exceed approximately 560 nm do not display greater norovirus RT-PCR in...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Witlox KJ,Karapanagiotidis T,Bruggink LD,Marshall JA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter species isolates from a range of environments, including soil, were investigated. We determined 16S rRNA and rpoB gene sequences for species identification and performed tests of antimicrobial resistance susceptibility. Twenty-nine of the isolates (8 from soil and 21 from life environment) belonged to th...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Choi JY,Kim Y,Ko EA,Park YK,Jheong WH,Ko G,Ko KS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To validate the current National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards recommendations of the cefoxitin disk as a preferred surrogate marker to detect oxacillin resistance in staphylococcal isolates, 304 staphylococcal isolates originating from 49 sites in 16 countries in the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Pr...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Pottumarthy S,Fritsche TR,Jones RN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal secretions from 30 infants and children presenting with respiratory tract infection, were tested for rotavirus antigen. Two of 30 children with signs and symptoms of seromucoid nasal secretions, cough, and low grade fever were positive for the antigen. Nasopharyngeal secretions may play a role in the sp...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Fragoso M,Kumar A,Murray DL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Suboptimal treatment has been associated with poor patient outcomes. Our antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) evaluated SAB management based on predefined performance measures both prior to and after instituting a "ca...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Smith JR,Frens JJ,Snider CB,Claeys KC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory Pathogen 13 Detection Kit (13× kit) is able to simultaneously detect 11 respiratory viruses, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) and Chlamydia in a single reaction. Using 572 Nasopharyngeal aspirates collected from hospitalized children, the clinical performance of 13× kit for detecting 11 respiratory viruses was e...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Zhao MC,Li GX,Zhang D,Zhou HY,Wang H,Yang S,Wang L,Feng ZS,Ma XJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphilis remains a worldwide public health problem; it is necessary to develop a new diagnostic approach that is easier and faster than conventional tests. Here, we report a new testing method named colloidal gold-immunochromatography assay (GICA) to detect syphilis instead of fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorptio...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Lin LR,Fu ZG,Dan B,Jing GJ,Tong ML,Chen DT,Yu Y,Zhang CG,Yang TC,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:In vitro and in vivo study results were reviewed from cefmetazole, a "new" parenteral cephamycin. Cefmetazole's spectrum of activity was comparable to that of second-generation cephalosporins, which includes clinical coverage of many Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus spp., streptococci, Haemophilus spp., pathogenic N...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At our community teaching hospital between August 1994 and August 1995, Candida glabrata accounted for 14% of all Candida isolates and for 31% of urinary Candida isolates. The culture site was urine for 68% of C. glabrata isolates compared to 30% of all Candida isolates (p < 0.001, chi 2). To study the association bet...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Schwab U,Chernomas F,Larcom L,Weems J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-probe group A Streptococcus direct test (GASD), a nucleic acid probe assay for detecting GAS from throat swabs, has recently been developed. The test uses an acridium ester-labeled DNA probe which is complementary to the rRNA of Streptococcus pyogenes. In this study, 318 single culturette throat swabs were tes...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Heelan JS,Wilbur S,Depetris G,Letourneau C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We described 27 polyclonal colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MIC 4-16 μg/mL) infections (12 pneumonia, 12 urinary tract infection (UTI), two Bacteremia, and one skin/soft tissue infection) in which 74% harbored KPC. The isolates were polyclonal, 6 STs were identified and the colistin resistance was due to chromos...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： de Maio Carrillho CM,Gaudereto JJ,Martins RC,de Castro Lima VA,de Oliveira LM,Urbano MR,Perozin JS,Levin AS,Costa SF

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment options for multidrug-resistant pathogens remain problematic in many regions and individual countries, warranting ongoing surveillance and analysis. Limited antimicrobial susceptibility information is available for pathogens from Vietnam. This study determined the bacterial susceptibility of aerobic gram-neg...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Biedenbach DJ,Bouchillon SK,Hoban DJ,Hackel M,Phuong DM,Nga TT,Phuong NT,Phuong TT,Badal RE

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated all Candida sp. bloodstream isolates obtained from patients admitted to 4 tertiary care hospitals between 1995 and 2003 in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Susceptibility to amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole (FCZ), itraconazole (ITZ), and voriconazole (VCZ) was determined using the Clinical Labo...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： da Matta DA,de Almeida LP,Machado AM,Azevedo AC,Kusano EJ,Travassos NF,Salomão R,Colombo AL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study using boronic acid (BA), an AmpC enzyme inhibitor, was designed to detect the combined expression of plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamases (pAmpCs) and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) in bacterial isolates naturally lacking chromosomal ampC genes. A total of 122 Klebsiella spp., Salmonella spp., and ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Song W,Jeong SH,Kim JS,Kim HS,Shin DH,Roh KH,Lee KM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the resistance to nalidixic acid and 6 fluoroquinolones of 771 nontyphoidal Salmonella strains isolated from humans between 1999 and 2002. A total of 22 different serotypes were identified among the Salmonella isolates, the most common being Salmonella Enteritidis (79%) and Salmonella Derby (8%). Resista...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Rodriguez-Avial I,Rodriguez-Avial C,López O,Picazo JJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of penicillin, ampicillin, cefditoren, cefotaxime, erythromycin, clarithromycin, and levofloxacin against 763 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes was determined. Clinically significant isolates collected from November 2005 to December 2006 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland,...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gracia M,Díaz C,Coronel P,Gimeno M,García-Rodas R,Rodríguez-Cerrato V,del Prado G,Huelves L,Ruiz V,Naves PF,Ponte MC,Granizo JJ,Soriano F

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00