Simultaneous Identification of Multiple β-Lactamases in Acinetobacter baumannii in Relation to Carbapenem and Ceftazidime Resistance, Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry.

abstract：:A noncompetitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that enables the quantitation of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) to as little as 30 pg/ml and the detection of TSST-1 to 10 pg/ml in phosphate-buffered saline including 33% human serum or plasma was developed. It takes only 3 h to complete this assay after plate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miwa K,Fukuyama M,Kunitomo T,Igarashi H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A point prevalence culture survey was carried out to investigate the prevalence of fecal carriage of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) among patients admitted to an 800-bed general hospital where no VRE had been isolated previously. Twenty-two of 636 patients (3.5%) were found to be VRE carriers. Eighteen strains...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gordts B,Van Landuyt H,Ieven M,Vandamme P,Goossens H

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a central venous catheter-related (Port-A-Cath; Smiths Industries Medical Systems [SIMS] Deltec, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.) infection caused by Rhodotorula glutinis in a 51-year-old man with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. He was treated with fluconazole for 8 weeks and had the catheter removed. Two isolates of R. g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hsueh PR,Teng LJ,Ho SW,Luh KT

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to classify bovine serum as positive, negative, or doubtful for antibodies to Brucella abortus. Spectrophotometric data from assays of 64 serologically positive and 32 serologically negative bovine sera were analyzed statistically to define the range of spectrophoto...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Heck FC,Williams JD,Pruett J

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood was cultured in two vacuum bottles containing Columbia broth. Filtered air was admitted to one bottle (aerobic); the unvented bottle was considered anaerobic. Cultures were incubated at 35 C until growth occurred or for at least 7 days. Of 744 organisms isolated, 50% were isolated from both bottles, 30% from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blazevic DJ,Stemper JE,Matsen JM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of commercially available microdilution trays were inoculated with log-phase cultures, stationary-phase cultures, and direct suspensions of 18- to 24-h colonies, with essentially comparable results. Direct pick-up of colonies was also tested with two Prompt inoculation systems (3M Co.); they were found to be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barry AL,Badal RE,Hawkinson RW

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to detect genomic sequences of the positive-stranded RNA of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a member of the family Togaviridae. Using a set of 20-bp primers located within the conserved 3' region of the BVDV genome, we were able to consistently amplify a 205-bp target sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lopez OJ,Osorio FA,Donis RO

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new case of Campylobacter hyointestinalis-associated diarrhea in a human is reported. The medical history of the patient was significant for immunodeficiency because of an evolutive chronic myeloid leukemia. The diarrhea rapidly stopped after administration of oral erythromycin. No other enteropathogenic agent was f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Minet J,Grosbois B,Megraud F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven isolates of Aeromonas species from human stool cultures were found to produce enterotoxin activity as determined by assay of culture filtrates in rabbit intestinal loops and rabbit skin and on adrenal Y1 cells. Hemolysin(s) and a cytotoxic protein were found to interfere in all three assay systems but could be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ljungh A,Popoff M,Wadstrom T

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial chemiluminescent DNA probes (Accuprobe; Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif.) for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex, M. avium complex (MAC), M. gordonae, and M. kansasii were evaluated with 134 clinical isolates. These included 36 MTB complex, 40 MAC, 27 M. gordonae, 9 M. kansasii, and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lebrun L,Espinasse F,Poveda JD,Vincent-Levy-Frebault V

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:In Brazil, Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis resistant to various antimicrobials, including cephalosporins, has been identified as an etiological agent of severe gastroenteritis in hospitalized children since 1994. In this study, 35 serovar Infantis strains, isolated from children admitted to four different Rio de ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fonseca EL,Mykytczuk OL,Asensi MD,Reis EM,Ferraz LR,Paula FL,Ng LK,Rodrigues DP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of calves with bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) results in transient immunosuppression that may lead to bacterium-induced pneumonia and, occasionally, death. Although sensory neurons in the trigeminal ganglia (TG) are the primary site of BHV-1 latency, viral genomes are detected in the tonsils of latently infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Perez S,Inman M,Doster A,Jones C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex includes the four species M. tuberculosis, M. bovis, M. africanum, and M. microti. We sequenced 13 M. tuberculosis complex strains in the 16S-to-23S rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS). The ITS has a high rate of nucleotide substitution. Previous reports found three nucleotide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Frothingham R,Hills HG,Wilson KH

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for the diagnosis of melioidosis are based on bacteriological culture. A number of serological tests currently available lack specificity and sensitivity. This is largely due to the use of crude antigens which results in a significant cross-reactivity with sera from individuals infected with other bact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anuntagool N,Rugdech P,Sirisinha S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have identified nonsterile blood collection tubes as the reservoir for contaminating microorganisms in outbreaks of pseudobacteremia. Microorganisms are thought to be transferred from the nonsterile tubes to the blood culture tubes when blood is drawn for cultures, but the validity of this hypothesis h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McNeil MM,Davis BJ,Anderson RL,Martone WJ,Solomon SL

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fever, brain abscesses, and Gemella morbillorum bacteremia after anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) therapy in a 21-year-old acne inversa patient currently taking long-term dapsone. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing such a case. During antimicrobial therapy, t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vossen MG,Gattringer KB,Khalifeh N,Koreny M,Spertini V,Mallouhi A,Willeit M,Volc-Platzer B,Asboth F,Graninger W,Thalhammer F,Lagler H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of previously described chemically defined media for the growth of Legionella pneumophila showed that these media supported poor growth of several strains of L. pneumophila and did not support growth of certain of the Legionella species described later. Growth was stimulated by the dialysate from yeast extr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pine L,Franzus MJ,Malcolm GB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine-2-azo-p-dimethylanaline cephalosporin (PADAC), a chromogenic reagent which is purple and changes to yellow upon cleavage of its beta-lactam ring, was evaluated in comparison with other chromogenic cephalosporins. PADAC exhibited little antimicrobial activity against gram-negative bacteria, but did have good a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jones RN,Wilson HW,Novick WJ Jr

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral immune response to intestinal Rhodococcus (Corynebacterium) equi in horses was studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Anti-R. equi immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgA antibodies were demonstrated in the healthy horse population. Adult horse levels of anti-R. equi IgM and IgG antibodies were reached by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takai S,Kawazu S,Tsubaki S

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fecal PCR assay for detection of Helicobacter infections in laboratory rodents was developed. DNA was isolated from murine fecal pellets, and a region of the 16S rRNA gene conserved among murine Helicobacter species was amplified. The fecal PCR was sensitive and specific. This assay does not require euthanasia of ro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beckwith CS,Franklin CL,Hook RR Jr,Besch-Williford CL,Riley LK

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcoal-horse blood agar with 40 micrograms of cephalexin per ml, charcoal-horse blood agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml, charcoal agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml, and Legionella (buffered charcoal-yeast extract) agar with 3 micrograms of lincomycin per ml were compared for isolation of Bordetel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoppe JE,Schwaderer J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne virus in the family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus. The virus is transmitted to humans through infected tick bites or from direct contact with viremic animals or humans. In the present study, a total of 1,015 adult ticks were collected from cattle (603 spec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tonbak S,Aktas M,Altay K,Azkur AK,Kalkan A,Bolat Y,Dumanli N,Ozdarendeli A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term outbreak of urinary tract-associated multiply resistant Providencia stuartii occurred in a large medical facility that included a 513-bed chronic care unit. The unique characteristics of this outbreak were that from within a single medical facility, P. stuartii with multiple serotypes, biotypes, and antibi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kocka FE,Srinivasan S,Mowjood M,Kantor HS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performance of a prototype version of the Hybrid Capture 3 (HC3) human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA assay to the current generation Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) assay, both of which target 13 oncogenic HPV types, for the detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 and cancer (CIN3+) with cervicovagin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castle PE,Lorincz AT,Scott DR,Sherman ME,Glass AG,Rush BB,Wacholder S,Burk RD,Manos MM,Schussler JE,Macomber P,Schiffman M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of human rhinovirus (HRV) during severe respiratory disease remains undefined; thus, we aimed to explore the relationship between the HRV molecular subtyping results obtained during severe and asymptomatic childhood infections. Nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swabs from children (1 to 59 months of age) h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baillie VL,Moore DP,Mathunjwa A,Morailane P,Simões EAF,Madhi SA

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bunyaviruses of the Bunyamwera and California serogroups are medically important human pathogens. The development of an effective technique to detect the viruses by using molecular biologic tools, such as PCR, improves not only clinical diagnosis but also virologic surveillance of mosquito vectors in the field. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuno G,Mitchell CJ,Chang GJ,Smith GC

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document for the first time an infectious but nonarthritogenic variant of Borrelia burgdorferi. Strain 25015, previously isolated from an Ixodes dammini larva collected in upstate New York, was infectious but failed to produce arthritis or carditis in laboratory rats and mice. By contrast, pathogenic strain N40 inv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson JF,Barthold SW,Magnarelli LA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elimination of leprosy continues to be a challenge, with the disease remaining endemic in several countries. India accounts for the highest number of cases, and the identification of child cases indicates recent transmission. Genetic markers, like variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs) and single-nucleotide polymo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuruwa S,Vissa V,Mistry N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a newly commercial enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Biotest Legionella Urin Antigen EIA; Biotest AG, Dreieich, Germany) for detection of antigens of all Legionella pneumophila serogroups with a relatively wide spectrum of cross-reactivity as well as antigens of other Legionella spp. by comparing its sensitivity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Domínguez JA,Galí N,Pedroso P,Fargas A,Padilla E,Manterola JM,Matas L

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00