New findings about trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated polyomavirus (TSPyV)--novel qPCR detects TSPyV-DNA in blood samples.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We compared changes in antibiotics in patients diagnosed with noninvasive pneumococcal pneumonia (NPP) by pneumoccocal urinary antigen tests or respiratory cultures. METHODS:We compared patients diagnosed by pneumococcal urinary antigen tests or respiratory cultures that grew Streptococcus pneumoniae. We as...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Banks R,Zappernick T,Wilson B,Perez F,Jump RLP

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine is secreted under conditions of stress in humans. The ability of bacteria to sense mammalian hormone may have a role in propagation of infection. The present study investigated the effect of norepinephrine on in vitro growth of uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) and the effect of silodosin on norepinephrine-i...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gond DP,Singh S,Agrawal NK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a series of polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) in order to detect bacteria (7 species) and viruses (17 species) in middle ear fluid (MEF) and nasopharynx (Nph) of children with acute otitis media (AOM; n=179). Bacterial and viral nucleic acids were detected in MEF of 78.8% and 14.5% patients, respectively....

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Yatsyshina S,Mayanskiy N,Shipulina O,Kulichenko T,Alyabieva N,Katosova L,Lazareva A,Skachkova T,Elkina M,Matosova S,Shipulin G

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the predictive factors of bacteremia due to hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP), as well as the mortality. The medical records of 114 patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia who were divided into the hvKP (n = 24) and non-hvKP (n = 90) groups and were retrospectively reviewed. The m...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Namikawa H,Yamada K,Sakiyama A,Imoto W,Yamairi K,Shibata W,Yoshii N,Niki M,Nakaie K,Oinuma KI,Tsubouchi T,Niki M,Tochino Y,Takemoto Y,Kaneko Y,Shuto T,Kakeya H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from recent conflicts related to war wounds and obligate anaerobes are limited. We define the epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of obligate anaerobes from Iraq and Afghanistan casualties (6/2009-12/2013), as well as their association with clinical outcomes. Susceptibility against eleven antibiotics (7...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： White BK,Mende K,Weintrob AC,Beckius ML,Zera WC,Lu D,Bradley W,Tribble DR,Schnaubelt ER,Murray CK,Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program Trauma Infectious Disease Outcome Study Group.

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the gold standard to detect cerebral viral activity. As positive findings do not prove an impact on the neurological disorder, data interpretation is difficult. To better assess the impact of positive CSF PCR findings in different neurological diseases a...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kleines M,Scheithauer S,Schiefer J,Häusler M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of 31 pregnant women infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), nine (29%) infants presented unequivocal signs of HIV-1 infection (persistent p24 antigenemia and/or positive virus isolation). All serum samples obtained from the others, during pregnancy and on delivery, were stu...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Re MC,Furlini G,Vignoli M,Ricchi E,Ramazzotti E,Bianchi S,Guerra B,Costigliola P,La Placa M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recovered a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate H224 under in vivo meropenem selection pressure. Insertional inactivation of a major porin gene, ompK36, by IS5 element might play a role in acquiring carbapenem resistance in this strain harboring plasmid-borne DHA-1 AmpC beta-lactamase. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Song W,Suh B,Choi JY,Jeong SH,Jeon EH,Lee YK,Hong SG,Lee K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial broth microdilution system (Sceptor Anaerobe MIC/ID, BBL) for susceptibility testing of anaerobic bacteria was compared to a reference agar dilution system. Of the 172 organisms tested, only 7% failed to grow sufficiently for testing in the Sceptor system. In 1,590 antibiotic/organism combinations, 86.7% ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Hussain Z,Lannigan R,Schieven BC,Stoakes L,Groves D

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon gamma (IFN-γ) release assay (IGRA) is widely used as a diagnostic method for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The QuantiFERON-TB Gold and QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube (QFT-IT) tests measure plasma IFN-γ levels using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and T-SPOT.TB counts IFN-γ-producing cell...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kim S,Kim YK,Lee H,Cho JE,Kim HY,Uh Y,Kim YM,Kim H,Cho SN,Jeon BY,Lee H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the clinical, laboratory, and quantitative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cryptococcal cell counts for associations with in-hospital outcomes of HIV-infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis. Ninety-eight HIV-infected adult patients with CSF culture-proven cryptococcal mening...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Vidal JE,Gerhardt J,Peixoto de Miranda EJ,Dauar RF,Oliveira Filho GS,Penalva de Oliveira AC,Boulware DR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three persons became victims of a serial knife stabbing in a fight. Three months later, one of the victims presented with acute hepatitis. On the fifth day of his admission to the hospital, another victim of this serial stabbing presented to our clinic with acute hepatitis B infection. The patients told that the first...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bodur H,Onguru P,Akıncı E,Kanyılmaz D,Yetkin A,Ozdemir B,But A,Eren S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a scrub typhus patient who contracted meningoencephalitis during doxycycline administration. This is the first case of scrub typhus in which doxycycline concentrations were measured in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Clinicians should be alerted to the possibility that meningoencephalitis can occur because...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kim DM,Kim YS,Cho HY,Lee YB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) offers promise in pneumococcal diagnostics, but whether nasopharyngeal carriage causes false-positive results in people colonized with Streptococcus pneumoniae is unknown. We found in serum no positive samples for pneumococcal DNA in 100 carriers and noncarriers using 2 different real-t...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Rouphael N,Steyn S,Bangert M,Sampson JS,Adrian P,Madhi SA,Klugman KP,Ades EW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the broth microdilution method to determine the MICs of daptomycin and 13 comparator agents against 319 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates, 201 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates, and 183 coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). Isolates were consecutively collected from bloods...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Picazo JJ,Betriu C,Culebras E,Rodríguez-Avial I,Gómez M,López F,VIRA Study Group.

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early stages of the 2009/2010 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A (S-OIV H1N1 FluA) outbreak, the development and validation of sensitive and specific detection methods were a priority for rapid and accurate diagnosis. Between May and June 2009, 2 real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Duncan C,Guthrie JL,Tijet N,Elgngihy N,Turenne C,Seah C,Lau R,McTaggart L,Mallo G,Perusini S,Rebbapragada A,Melano R,Low DE,Farrell D,Guyard C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of the newly proposed species "Mycobacterium genavense" have been isolated, using the radiometric system (Bactec, Becton Dickinson), from the blood of two HIV-infected patients. Disseminated infections due to the new organism closely resemble those of the Mycobacterium avium complex, with prevalently intes...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Tortoli E,Simonetti MT,Dionisio D,Meli M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA 88) to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 continues to undergo transformation since its implementation more than 2 years ago. The law and its subsequent regulatory modifications were intended to promote high quality in and accurate results from laborato...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chapin K,Baron EJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doripenem, a broad-spectrum parenteral carbapenem, has potency and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic features most similar to imipenem and meropenem. Because of potential delays in release of commercial testing devices post-regulatory approval (US Food and Drug Administration), "surrogate markers" offer immediate suscep...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN,Sader HS,Fritsche TR,Janechek MJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae was assessed by six different methods: agar dilution, oxacillin screen by disk diffusion, E-test, and three overnight microdilution test methods that included commercial panels from MicroScan and Micro Media and in-house-made conventional panels using a co...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Clark RB,Giger O,Mortensen JE

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus serologic profiles were obtained from 618 patients using an automated platform, including the new BioPlex heterophile assay. When compared with 2 IgM viral capsid antigen (VCA) assays and a predicate heterophile assay, the BioPlex heterophile assay was more likely to be associated with serologic pat...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Klutts JS,Wu AH,Smith A,Yen-Lieberman B,Gronowski AM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred years after introduction of the Eucalyptus tree to Taiwan, a predominantly subtropical island, we analyzed clinical and microbiological data of 59 patients with Cryptococcus neoformans infection hospitalized at National Taiwan University Hospital during 1982 to 1997. There were 38 (64.4%) cases of cryptoco...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chen YC,Chang SC,Shih CC,Hung CC,Luhbd KT,Pan YS,Hsieh WC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infection caused by nontyphoid salmonella is rare. A case is described in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who had multiple recurrences. A review of cases in which salmonella involved the urinary tract indicates that this infection usually occurs in patients who are structurally or immun...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Eng RH,Smith SM,Kloser P

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present multicentric (n = 11 laboratories) study aimed to identify conversion factors from copies/mL to international units (IU)/mL for the normalization of HCMV DNA load using the first WHO International Standard for HCMV nucleic acid amplification techniques and to enhance interlaboratory agreement of HCMV DNA q...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sidoti F,Piralla A,Costa C,Scarasciulli ML,Calvario A,Conaldi PG,Paba P,Perno CF,Gaeta A,Antonelli G,Sodano G,Santangelo R,Sanguinetti M,Vatteroni ML,Barzon L,Palù G,Abbate I,Capobianchi MR,Piccirilli G,Lazzarotto T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice exposed to 1400 rads of total body irradiation experienced 80%-100% mortality in 2 wk. Bacteremia was demonstrated in all dead animals. Feeding Lactobacillus GG strain reduced Pseudomonas bacteremia and prolonged survival time in animals colonized with this organism. In animals not colonized with Pseudomonas, fee...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Dong MY,Chang TW,Gorbach SL

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon gamma release assays are used for diagnosing latent tuberculosis (TB); however, their role in diagnosing tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) is not defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube assay (QFT-IT) and compare this assay with the tuberculin skin t...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chung JH,Han CH,Kim CJ,Lee SM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correlation between in vitro antimicrobial activity and the in vivo response to antimicrobial therapy is affected by multiple host factors, the site and nature of the infection, and the pharmacokinetics of the antimicrobial and its penetration into areas of infection. In certain instances, discrepancies are also c...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Washington JA 2nd

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of drug-resistant microorganisms has generally been associated with the widespread use of antimicrobial agents. The emergence of these antimicrobial resistance has an undesirable impact that often severely limits the use of these drugs that could have otherwise been identified as "drugs of first choice."...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work comprises 9 pulmonary nontuberculous mycobateria isolates obtained from sputum of 4 different patients from Brazil. The sequencing and phylogenetic analysis allowed their accurate identification as Mycobacterium intracellulare. We report a mutation at position 453 creating a new HaeIII cutting site and, ther...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Caldas PC,Campos CE,Dos Reis LM,Ferreira NV,de Carvalho LD,da Silva MV,Medeiros RF,Montes FC,Ramos JP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the susceptibility of 199 pathogens isolated in pure culture from consecutive urine samples submitted from the community. Rates of susceptibility for all organisms were ampicillin, 48%; amoxycillin/clavulanic acid, 88%; cephalothin, 57%; cefuroxime axetil, 74%; nalidixic acid, 85%; ciprofloxacin, 99%...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Cormican M,Morris D,Corbett-Feeeney G,Flynn J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00