Tracking Nosocomial Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections and Outbreaks by Whole-Genome Analysis: Small-Scale Italian Scenario within a Single Hospital.

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates that cause detachment of cell monolayers during in vitro adherence assays (cell-detaching E. coli [CDEC]) were recently reported as a potential new group of enteropathogenic bacteria. In the present study, 269 E. coli isolates from feces of children 1 to 5 years of age were identified as CDEC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marques LR,Abe CM,Griffin PM,Gomes TA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We classified microorganisms from the clinical laboratory by using information provided by the Gram stain and antibiotic sensitivity profiles obtained with the Bauer-Kirby technique. Approximately 4,000 microorganisms, routinely identified and tested for antibiotic sensitivities in a large hospital microbiology labora...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boyd JC,Lewis JW,Marr JJ,Harper AM,Kowalski BR

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of hospital infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated by pyocin typing. The typing method, which determined the pyocin activity of clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa on 27 indicator strains, was 43.7% reproducible, but elimination of 9 indicator strains doubled the reproducibility and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bruun FN,McGarrity GJ,Blakemore WS,Coriell LL

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-one isolates of nutritionally variant streptococci (NVS) that were previously isolated from the human mouth were regarded as consisting of 7 Streptococcus defectivus isolates, 78 Streptococcus adjacens isolates, and 6 Gemella morbillorum isolates. However, recent references to the taxonomic reclassification of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sato S,Kanamoto T,Inoue M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species within the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) have emerged as significant opportunistic pathogens of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). BCC infection is typically associated with a poor clinical prognosis and decreased survival. These factors, combined with the existence of highly transmissible epidem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown AR,Govan JR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi from two recently returned Bangladeshi patients in Kuwait were ciprofloxacin resistant, with ciprofloxacin MICs of 12 mg/liter for both isolates. Both isolates had three novel gyrA mutations (55-Leu-->Trp, 87-Asp-->Ala, and 106-Gln-->Arg) and three novel parC mutatio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dimitrov T,Dashti AA,Albaksami O,Udo EE,Jadaon MM,Albert MJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes respiratory infections in humans. Ongoing molecular surveillance of B. pertussis acellular vaccine (aP) antigens is critical for understanding the interaction between evolutionary pressures, disease pathogenesis, and vaccine effectiveness. Methods currently...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marchand-Austin A,Tsang RSW,Guthrie JL,Ma JH,Lim GH,Crowcroft NS,Deeks SL,Farrell DJ,Jamieson FB

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based molecular assays have a central role in polyomavirus diagnostics. To assure optimal performance, target sequences should be regularly updated according to newly available sequences. The aim of this study was to review our in-house polyomavirus BK (BKV) and JC (JCV) real-time PCR assays. Database analysis rev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dumoulin A,Hirsch HH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex agglutination test was evaluated as a method for detection and titration of antiplague antibodies. Slide and microtiter techniques using polystyrene latex particles coated with specific fraction-I-antigen of Yersinia pestis were found to be comparable in specificity and sensitivity to serological tests commonl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzuki S,Sakakibara H,Hotta S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk method for detecting hippurate hydrolysis by Campylobacter spp. was evaluated and compared with the conventional tube test used at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (G.K. Morris and C.M. Patton, p. 302-308, in E.H. Lennette, A. Balows, W.J. Hausler, Jr., and H.J. Shadomy, ed., Manual of Clinical Microbiolog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cacho JB,Aguirre PM,Hernanz A,Velasco AC

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) is causally associated with anal cancer, as HPV DNA is detected in up to 90% of anal intraepithelial neoplasias and anal cancers. With the gradual increase of anal cancer rates, there is a growing need to establish reliable and clinically relevant methods to detect anal cancer precursors. In...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Low HC,Silver MI,Brown BJ,Leng CY,Blas MM,Gravitt PE,Woo YL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 513 blood specimens, predominantly from organ transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients, and bone marrow transplant recipients, were tested for cytomegalovirus (CMV) by culture and pp65 antigenemia across four test sites. Peripheral blood leukocytes were examined by using both th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： St George K,Boyd MJ,Lipson SM,Ferguson D,Cartmell GF,Falk LH,Rinaldo CR,Landry ML

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By quantitative gas-liquid chromatography of glucose-containing blood cultures at the moment of first signs of growth, a presumptive diagnosis of anaerobic bacteremia could be made in 24 out of 26 cultures yielding obligate anaerobes upon subsequent culture. With Bacteroides sp. (20 strains isolated), elevated levels ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wüst J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis strains usually requires three to six serial passages in shell vials to attain sufficient antigen for typing procedures. To circumvent this problem, we developed a rapid low-passage method for serotyping of C. trachomatis clinical isolates. Isolates with an inclusion count of greate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suchland RJ,Stamm WE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inconsistent quality control results in disk diffusion testing of cefaclor, cefamandole, cefonicid, and cefuroxime with Haemophilus influenzae ATCC 49247 and Haemophilus test medium (HTM) prompted a search for an alternative control strain that would provide more reliable results. A five-laboratory study was conducted...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Barry AL,Doern GV,Ferraro MJ,Murray PR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections with potent antiviral therapy often results in dramatic reductions in the levels of viremia to very low levels. Monitoring of serum HBV DNA levels is a consistent method for the assessment of antiviral potency; however, widely used hybridization ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lopez VA,Bourne EJ,Lutz MW,Condreay LD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR was performed for the detection of Helicobacter pylori in feces from 24 patients with proven infections. Several precautions were taken to overcome possible inhibition of PCR with feces. In the first 12 patients, feces were examined shortly after endoscopy. In another group of 12 patients, who were treated during ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Zwet AA,Thijs JC,Kooistra-Smid AM,Schirm J,Snijder JA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully standardized reproducible and sensitive quantification assays for cytomegalovirus (CMV) are needed to better define thresholds for antiviral therapy initiation and interruption. We evaluated the newly released Abbott RealTime CMV assay for CMV quantification in whole blood (WB) that includes automated extraction...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schnepf N,Scieux C,Resche-Riggon M,Feghoul L,Xhaard A,Gallien S,Molina JM,Socié G,Viglietti D,Simon F,Mazeron MC,Legoff J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arbitrary primer polymerase chain reaction (also called random amplified polymorphic DNA, or RAPD) is a DNA fingerprinting method that provides an efficient, sensitive way of discriminating between independent isolates of Histoplasma capsulatum, but its widespread application has been hampered by the arduous 2-day...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woods JP,Kersulyte D,Goldman WE,Berg DE

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshly isolated clinical strains of Klebsiella were tested for the ability to fix dinitrogen by the acetylene reduction assay. Ability to detect this trait was markedly affected by cultural conditions. When the test was run at 37 degrees C in the presence of yeast extract (50 mg/liter), only 1.6% of the organisms wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chambers CA,Silver WS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large pool of refined endotoxin was prepared from Escherichia coli O113 by extraction with hot acqueous phenol. It was characterized chemically and biologically and will be available for a reference standard designated as reference endotoxin EC. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rudbach JA,Akiya FI,Elin RJ,Hochstein HD,Luoma MK,Milner EC,Milner KC,Thomas KR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strains display genetic polymorphisms, and these polymorphisms can be analyzed to study viral transmission and pathogenesis. Recently, short tandem repeat (STR) length polymorphisms have been identified in the HCMV genome. We assessed the utility of STRs in characterizing HCMV strains and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Walker A,Petheram SJ,Ballard L,Murph JR,Demmler GJ,Bale JF Jr

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly growing mycobacteria of clinical significance were identified by mycolic acids detected with high-performance liquid chromatography. Mycolic acids from whole cells were extracted, derivatized, and detected by a modified high-performance liquid chromatography procedure in less than 3 h. Use of an internal stand...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Butler WR,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A uracil-to-cytosine mutation at nucleotide position 472 of oral poliovirus vaccine type 3 (OPV3) contributes to the development of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP). To analyze OPV3 shedding patterns, we previously used the multistep method of mutant analysis by PCR and enzyme cleavage (MAPREC). This ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gnanashanmugam D,Falkovitz-Halpern MS,Dodge A,Fang M,Wong LJ,Esparza M,Hammon R,Rivas-Merelles EE,Santos JI,Maldonado Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a stress test, the recently introduced RapID CB Plus system (Remel Inc. [formerly Innovative Diagnostic Systems], Norcross, Ga.) was challenged with a diverse set of gram-positive rods comprising 345 strains of coryneform bacteria and 33 strains of Listeria spp. representing a total of 49 different taxa. Overall, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Funke G,Peters K,Aravena-Roman M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first documented case of canine strangles due to infection with Streptococcus equi in a dog with enlarged lymph nodes. Genetic typing, via sequencing of 12 housekeeping genes and the SeM gene, demonstrated the isolate to be a member of a common equine strain type circulating in the United Kingdom. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ladlow J,Scase T,Waller A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of the Etest and the disk diffusion methods for testing of the susceptibilities of 235 Candida glabrata isolates to fluconazole and voriconazole were compared with that of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) approved standard broth microdilution (BMD) method. The NCCLS met...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Diekema DJ,Boyken L,Messer SA,Tendolkar S,Hollis RJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A LightCycler-based PCR protocol was developed which targets the ospA gene for the identification and quantification of the different Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species in culture and in ticks, based on the use of a fluorescently labeled probe (HybProbe) and an internally labeled primer. The detection limit of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rauter C,Oehme R,Diterich I,Engele M,Hartung T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fosfomycin has been shown to have a wide spectrum of activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; however, breakpoints have been established only for Escherichia coli or Enterobacterales per the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibilit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith EC,Brigman HV,Anderson JC,Emery CL,Bias TE,Bergen PJ,Landersdorfer CB,Hirsch EB

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) test was evaluated for rapid detection of gram-negative bacteriuria in an adult patient population. Time to gelation of a standard LAL preparation was used as a measure of significant (greater than 10(5) bacteria per ml) gram-negative bacteriuria, and the results of 190 LAL assays w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nachum R,Shanbrom E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00