Diagnosing Rhodococcus equi infections in a setting where tuberculosis is highly endemic: a double challenge.

abstract：:Superparamagnetic polymer particles precoated with sheep anti-mouse immunoglobulin G were coated with immunoglobulin G2 monoclonal antibodies to the K88 antigen of Escherichia coli (MAb-K88). These immunomagnetic particles (IMP) were used for isolation and identification of K88 antigen-positive (K88+) E. coli. The bac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lund A,Hellemann AL,Vartdal F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two DNA probes, one 1.1- and one 0.75-kb probe, specific for Serpulina hyodysenteriae were isolated from a genomic library generated from virulent S. hyodysenteriae 5380. These probes are highly specific and react with all S. hyodysenteriae strains tested. Under stringent conditions, the DNA probes did not react with ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sotiropoulos C,Smith SC,Coloe PJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmic lymphadenopathy (TL) is the most common clinical manifestation of acute acquired toxoplasma infection in normal individuals. The diagnosis is established by serologic methods and lymph node biopsy. Recently, tests for avidity of toxoplasma immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies have been introduced to help disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montoya JG,Huffman HB,Remington JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from a bacteremic patient. This strain, together with other isolates of V. vulnificus, was compared with V. alginolyticus, V. fluvialis, and V. parahaemolyticus with regard to growth characteristics on enteric agar media (enabling isolation and identification) and production of exoenzyme...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desmond EP,Janda JM,Adams FI,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium (colistin-oxolinic acid-blood agar) for streptococci is described. Streptococci of medical and veterinary importance grew well on the medium. Gram-negative organisms, staphylococci. Bacillus spp., and coryneforms are all inhibited. It was concluded that the medi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petts DN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of bacteremia, meningitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, and acute otitis media in children. Although optochin susceptibility, bile solubility, and Quellung testing are the standards for identifying and differentiating pneumococci, there are several reports of nontypeable pneumococci ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ing J,Mason EO,Kaplan SL,Lamberth LB,Revell PA,Luna RA,Hulten KG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Congo red-magnesium oxalate agar medium was developed to detect expression of virulence-associated calcium dependency and Congo red absorption in Yersinia enterocolitica. Of the 157 pathogenic serotypes tested, 119 (75.8%) were positive; 98% of nonpathogenic serotypes and strains of three other Yersinia species were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riley G,Toma S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated a rare area of endemicity with a high prevalence of both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, in Putian County, China. Among 1,050 subjects, the overall prevalence of HBsAg seropositivity was 15.8%, and that of anti-HCV seropositivity was 28.9%. Intrafamilial viral tr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu WP,Lin GX,Shi S,Dong JH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serotyping scheme for Vibrio vulnificus predicated on the detection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens is proposed. The serovar O typing scheme used to type V. vulnificus employs polyclonal antisera raised in rabbits immunized with heat-killed whole-cell vaccines. Polyclonal typing sera produced in this manner cro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin SJ,Siebeling RJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA fingerprint patterns of 156 Cryptococcus neoformans isolates (26 AIDS patients, 46 non-AIDS patients, and 40 environmental sources) from both varieties (126 C. neoformans var. neoformans and 30 C. neoformans var. gattii isolates) and from seven countries were analyzed by using the DNA probe UT-4p. Nine and twelve ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Varma A,Swinne D,Staib F,Bennett JE,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony immunoblot method was developed for serotyping the capsular polysaccharides expressed by Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The method was rapid and specific and was performed with either polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies specific for each of the capsule types. S. aureus isolates were obtained from patients wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee JC,Liu MJ,Parsonnet J,Arbeit RD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the characteristics of subjects from the same area who were infected with hepatitis C virus genotypes 1 through 4 and subtypes 1a and 1b. Our data are consistent with a rapid evolution in the epidemiology of HCV genotypes and argue against different pathogenic potentials for genotypes 1b and 2. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ravaggi A,Rossini A,Mazza C,Puoti M,Marin MG,Cariani E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and accurate method to identify the species and antibiotic resistance of Candida spp. in blood is vital to increase the survival rates of patients with bloodstream infections. However, the extremely low levels of Candida spp. in blood make rapid diagnosis by standard blood culture difficult. In this study, we ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen XL,Zheng H,Li WG,Zhong YH,Chen XP,Lu JX

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bacteriologic systems for detecting bacteria in blood were compared; the automated radiometric BACTEC and the conventional method used in our laboratory for many years. BACTEC consisted of two bottles with 30 ml and the conventional method with 50 ml of media for aerobes and anaerobes. The BACTEC bottles were inoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thiemke WA,Wicher K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four strains of Campylobacter jejuni and four strains of Campylobacter coli were used to compare the quantitative growth of Campylobacter cells on blood agar base no. 2 (Oxoid), brucella agar (BBL Microbiology Systems and Difco Laboratories), campylobacter agar base (Difco), Columbia blood agar base (Difco and Oxoid),...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ng LK,Stiles ME,Taylor DE

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to complete the immunodiagnosis of human toxocaral disease, an immunoenzymatic assay with excretory-secretory antigens from Toxocara canis larvae was developed for the detection of specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]). The specificity of the assay was evaluated in patient...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Magnaval JF,Fabre R,Maurières P,Charlet JP,de Larrard B

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA method (RAPD) to identify each species of genus Erysipelothrix and for epidemiological analysis of this genus was studied. Eighty-one strains and 18 random primers were tested. Among the tested primers, the primers NK51 (GGTGGTGGTATC) and NK6 (CCCGCGCCCC) produced n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Okatani AT,Hayashidani H,Takahashi T,Taniguchi T,Ogawa M,Kaneko K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 221 adults drawn from an impoverished urban population with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence (35%) to determine the prevalence of gastroduodenal pathology and its relationship to serological markers of Helicobacter pylori virulence proteins and other potential environmental and im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fernando N,Holton J,Zulu I,Vaira D,Mwaba P,Kelly P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described which may be used to identify Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae, group A and B streptococci, and Staphylococcus aureus in smears of clinical specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clausen CR

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether pathogenic clusters of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains occur, we typed 136 isolates, cultured from specimens from patients (n = 49) with various clinical entities and from ticks (n = 83) or dogs (n = 4) from different geographic regions, by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang G,van Dam AP,Spanjaard L,Dankert J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sputum specimens received for the diagnosis of tuberculosis or other mycobacterial infections were tested by a ligase chain reaction (LCR)-based assay and acid-fast stain and culture techniques. Results from the LCR assay (Abbott LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis [MTB] Assay) were compared to results from standard cultur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moore DF,Curry JI

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confirmative diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is still a challenge at the primary health care facilities in most of the rural areas of endemicity in the Indian subcontinent. Conventional methods for parasitological confirmation are risky and require skilled personnel, and hence they are unavailable to the poor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salam MA,Khan MG,Bhaskar KR,Afrad MH,Huda MM,Mondal D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cobas-Bact (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland) new rotor for the identification (ID) in 4 h 20 min of 33 members of the family Enterobacteriaceae to genus and species level was evaluated by testing 444 strains of which 398 belonged to common species and 46 belonged to rare species of Enterobacteriaceae. Each s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wenger A,Tissières LJ,Praplan FR,Kamm WR,Bille J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni from sporadic cases and outbreaks of gastroenteritis were serotyped on the basis of heat-extracted soluble thermostable antigens identified with the use of the passive hemagglutination technique. A total of 168 isolates were separated into 45 different types. The largest proportion of the isolates...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMyne PM,Penner JL,Mathias RG,Black WA,Hennessy JN

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the titration of antibodies in human sera to influenza virus neuraminidase, employing partially purified N1 neuraminidase. Specificity of the test was demonstrated, and the test was more sensitive than either the conventional neuraminidase inhibition or plaque siz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khan MW,Gallagher M,Bucher D,Cerini CP,Kilbourne ED

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method for presumptive identification of black-pigmented gram-negative anaerobic rods was developed. Using filter paper spot tests for indole production, sialidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-glucosidase, alpha-fucosidase, and trypsinlike enzyme activities, 100% of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moncla BJ,Braham P,Rabe LK,Hillier SL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their first detection in 1988, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates have rapidly spread in Iceland to account for close to 20% of all pneumococcal disease in that country by 1993. The major component (70%) of the resistant pneumococci identified from 1989 to 1992 was the progeny of a single mul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vilhelmsson SE,Tomasz A,Kristinsson KG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A differential staining method employing acridine orange-stained rickettsiae and safranin-stained standardized suspensions of Shigella dysenteriae is described for enumerating rickettsiae harvested during various stages of the growth cycle. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silverman DJ,Fiset P,Wisseman CL Jr

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years testing responsibilities for high-consequence pathogens have been expanded from national reference laboratories into networks of local and regional laboratories in order to support enhanced disease surveillance and to test for surge capacity. This movement of testing of select agents and high-consequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hietala SK,Crossley BM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia and lower-respiratory-tract infections. Diagnosis has traditionally been obtained by serological diagnosis, but increasingly, molecular techniques have been applied. However, the number of studies actually comparing these assays is limited. The de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Templeton KE,Scheltinga SA,Graffelman AW,Van Schie JM,Crielaard JW,Sillekens P,Van Den Broek PJ,Goossens H,Beersma MF,Claas EC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00