Improving the sensitivity of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on sputum pellets by decreasing the amount of added sample reagent: a laboratory and clinical evaluation.

abstract：:In Europe, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome results mainly from infection with Puumala virus (PUUV) or Dobrava virus. For 31 patients from a hantavirus disease outbreak in Lower Bavaria, a district in southeast Germany, serodiagnosis was undertaken by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, immunofluorescence assay, a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schilling S,Emmerich P,Klempa B,Auste B,Schnaith E,Schmitz H,Krüger DH,Günther S,Meisel H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an outbreak of diarrhea in a general hospital in 1992, 166 Clostridium difficile isolates from 102 patients were typed by restriction enzyme analysis (REA), arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), and protein profile analysis (PP) techniques. A total of 18 types and 5 subtypes were identified by REA, 32 types were ide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rafferty ME,Baltch AL,Smith RP,Bopp LH,Rheal C,Tenover FC,Killgore GE,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD,Schoonmaker DJ,Hannett GE,Shayegani M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor (ET), the cause of the current 7th pandemic, has recently been replaced in Asia and Africa by an altered ET biotype possessing cholera toxin (CTX) of the classical (CL) biotype that originally caused the first six pandemics before becoming extinct in the 1980s. Until recently, the ET ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alam M,Nusrin S,Islam A,Bhuiyan NA,Rahim N,Delgado G,Morales R,Mendez JL,Navarro A,Gil AI,Watanabe H,Morita M,Nair GB,Cravioto A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current studies indicate that a significant percentage of healthy blood donors carry Chlamydia pneumoniae in their blood. Although the clinical significance of such findings is unknown, eradication of such bacteria from blood components may contribute to transfusion safety. Deletion of C. pneumoniae in Red Blood Cell ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ikejima H,Friedman H,Leparc GF,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the identification of cultured mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, the Mycobacterium avium complex, and Mycobacterium kansasii. Six monoclonal antibodies were used: two (F23-49 and F24-2) were specific for the M. tuberculosis co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schöningh R,Verstijnen CP,Kuijper S,Kolk AH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni was recovered from four dogs (11%) and four cats (33%) living with Danish human patients infected with C. jejuni. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis revealed the occurrence of the same quinolone-resistant strain in a girl and her dog. C. jejuni isolates with closely related (>95% sim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Damborg P,Olsen KE,Møller Nielsen E,Guardabassi L

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoma minutella, a dematiaceous hyphomycete, was isolated to the exclusion of all other fungi from a subcutaneous inflammatory process on the foot of a farmer undergoing corticosteroid therapy for myasthenia gravis. Isolation was achieved on several nutrient media. Examination of stained smears and sections revealed d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baker JG,Salkin IF,Forgacs P,Haines JH,Kemna ME

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifungal susceptibility testing of pathogenic molds is being developed. A simple screening semisolid agar antifungal susceptibility (SAAS) test accurately measures susceptibilities of yeasts. The performance of the SAAS screening test for filamentous fungi was assessed by comparing MICs of four antifungals (amphoter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuzucu C,Rapino B,McDermott L,Hadley S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivations periodically occur in oral mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues. Until now, EBV reactivation has been diagnosed by serologic profiles that suggest virus replication. Serologic responses, however, are delayed and do not necessarily indicate ongoing replicative activity....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maurmann S,Fricke L,Wagner HJ,Schlenke P,Hennig H,Steinhoff J,Jabs WJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) were used to characterize a sample of 43 field isolates and 4 attenuated vaccine strains of Pasteurella multocida recovered from multiple avian species. Both rep-PCR and AFLP assays were rapid and reproducible, with high indices ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Amonsin A,Wellehan JF,Li LL,Laber J,Kapur V

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of single stool specimens was done to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites among 1,000 primary school children. A questionnaire was completed by each child's parents. Specimens were examined by using wet-mount preparation, formaline-ether concentration, and Sheather's flotation technique. Trichrome...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nimri L,Batchoun R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucor ramosissimus Samutsevitsch is presented for the first time as an etiologic agent of cutaneous zygomycosis in a patient with aplastic anemia on immunosuppressive therapy. This report also represents the third case caused by this species reported in the literature. A biopsy taken from a lesion on the patient's thi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weitzman I,Della-Latta P,Housey G,Rebatta G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection of drug-resistant bacteria in clinical samples plays an instrumental role in patients' infection management and in implementing effective infection control policies. In the study described in this report, we validated a multiplex TaqMan real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay for the detection of bla(K...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hindiyeh M,Smollan G,Grossman Z,Ram D,Robinov J,Belausov N,Ben-David D,Tal I,Davidson Y,Shamiss A,Mendelson E,Keller N

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three nasal swab samples that tested positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on initial testing by the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay (BD-MRSA PCR; BD GeneOhm, San Diego, CA) were culture positive only for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) from an enrichment broth. The 23 recovered isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stamper PD,Louie L,Wong H,Simor AE,Farley JE,Carroll KC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection typically leads to antibody response within weeks after primary infection. Here, we describe the case of a child infected with HCV by mother-to-child transmission who remained persistently seronegative despite the presence of high levels of circulating HCV RNA. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Larouche A,Gaëtan G,El-Bilali N,Quesnel-Vallières M,Martin SR,Alvarez F,Shoukry NH,Soudeyns H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally acquired infection of humans with a marine mammal-associated Brucella sp. has only been reported once previously in a study describing infections of two patients from Peru. We report the isolation and characterization of a strain of Brucella from a New Zealand patient that appears most closely related to str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McDonald WL,Jamaludin R,Mackereth G,Hansen M,Humphrey S,Short P,Taylor T,Swingler J,Dawson CE,Whatmore AM,Stubberfield E,Perrett LL,Simmons G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal swab specimens may be preferable to cervical swab or urine specimens for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae because of the ease of specimen collection and transport. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether vaginal swab specimens are equivalent to cervical swab specimens ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cosentino LA,Landers DV,Hillier SL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays of virus-specific oligonucleotides may provide a method of screening samples for the presence or absence of a large variety of viruses simultaneously. Influenza viruses are ideal for evaluating such microarrays because of their genetic and host diversity, and the availability of an extensive sequence datab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sengupta S,Onodera K,Lai A,Melcher U

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：: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：:Although numerous perioperative samples and culture media are required to diagnose prosthetic joint infection (PJI), their exact number and types have not yet been definitely determined with a high level of proof. We conducted a prospective multicenter study to determine the minimal number of samples and culture media...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bémer P,Léger J,Tandé D,Plouzeau C,Valentin AS,Jolivet-Gougeon A,Lemarié C,Kempf M,Héry-Arnaud G,Bret L,Juvin ME,Giraudeau B,Corvec S,Burucoa C,Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-articulaires du Grand Ouest (CRIOGO) Stu

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhi was isolated from 369 and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated from 6 of 515 Vietnamese patients with suspected enteric fever. Compared with conventional broth culture of blood, direct plating of the buffy coat had a diagnostic sensitivity of 99.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 97.1 to 100%). Blood ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wain J,Diep TS,Ho VA,Walsh AM,Nguyen TT,Parry CM,White NJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mumps virus is a negative-strand RNA virus in the family Paramyxoviridae. Mumps infection results in an acute illness with symptoms including fever, headache, and myalgia, followed by swelling of the salivary glands. Complications of mumps can include meningitis, deafness, pancreatitis, orchitis, and first-trimest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boddicker JD,Rota PA,Kreman T,Wangeman A,Lowe L,Hummel KB,Thompson R,Bellini WJ,Pentella M,Desjardin LE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in 81 normal and pathological specimens obtained from postmortem brain tissues of patients with multiple sclerosis and with other neurological or nonneurological diseases. The assays used included PCR amplification of all DNA samples in the initial study. Culture an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hammerschlag MR,Ke Z,Lu F,Roblin P,Boman J,Kalman B

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis of a limiting dilution assay (LDA) showed that the occurrence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-harboring cells in serially diluted samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of HIV-1-seropositive patients fits the model describing a single-hit Poisson distributi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu W,Manolikakis G,Andrieu JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its low yield in unselected specimens, stool culture is often cost ineffective. We tested 55 fecal samples from Fairfax Hospital (46 patients with diarrhea and 9 from controls without diarrhea) for lactoferrin by latex agglutination (LFLA) with the Leukotest (Techlab, Blacksburg, Va.) as a marker for inflam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Choi SW,Park CH,Silva TM,Zaenker EI,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to measure the performance of the Affirm Ambient Temperature Transport System (ATTS) over time and to estimate the length of time the system can preserve a vaginal specimen containing the three common organisms causing vaginitis: Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida species, and Gardnerella v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown HL,Fuller DA,Davis TE,Schwebke JR,Hillier SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) is a sensitive method for detection of RNA virus nucleic acid sequences in clinical respiratory specimens. Previous studies have focused on RT-PCR for a single virus, but this approach is limited by the inability to establish a specific etiology when the RT-PCR result is negative and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gilbert LL,Dakhama A,Bone BM,Thomas EE,Hegele RG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) is still a major problem in routine clinical practice. Early diagnosis is essential for a good patient prognosis. PCR is a highly sensitive method for the detection of nucleic acids and could play an important role in improving the diagnosis of fungal infections. Therefore, a n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Springer J,Schloßnagel H,Heinz W,Doedt T,Soeller R,Einsele H,Loeffler J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human group C rotavirus was identified in central Australia in each of eight years over a 16-year period between 1982 and 1997. Cases occurred either sporadically but over a relatively short period of time or as clustered outbreaks. These are the only reports of human group C rotavirus in Australia other than that of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schnagl RD,Boniface K,Cardwell P,McCarthy D,Ondracek C,Coulson B,Erlich J,Morey F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00