Bioterrorism: a laboratory who does it?

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is an intestinal parasite causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. More tools are needed to understand the epidemiology and molecular pathogenesis of amebiasis. A cDNA library was constructed by using poly(A)+ RNA isolated from an axenic strain of E. histolytica, HM1:IMSS, which exp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burch DJ,Li E,Reed S,Jackson TF,Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1995 and August 1998, the incidence and diversity of the main human rotavirus genotypes (G1, G2, G3, and G4 and P[8], P[4], P[6], and P[9]) among Irish children were determined by using established and adapted reverse transcriptase PCR-based genotyping methods. From a total of 193 rotavirus-positive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Mahony J,Foley B,Morgan S,Morgan JG,Hill C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is implicated in the etiology of chronic periodontitis. Genotyping studies suggest that genetic variability exists among P. gingivalis strains; however, the extent of variability remains unclear and regions of variability remain largely unidentified. To assess P. gingivalis strain diversity, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Igboin CO,Griffen AL,Leys EJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 during the 1991 to 2000 cholera epidemic in Mexico by biochemical, serological, and molecular characterization of strains collected during this period. Strains were divided into toxigenic and nontoxigenic groups according to the presence or absence of genes encoding chole...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lizárraga-Partida ML,Quilici ML

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three antigenic variants of the H3N2 subtype of wild-type influenza A virus (representing the years 1968, 1972, and 1974) were examined for their sensitivity to interferon and for their ability to induce local respiratory tract interferon in volunteers. In addition, the time of appearance of symptoms in infected volun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richman DD,Murphy BR,Baron S,Uhlendorf C

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is the most common cause of human and canine urinary tract infection (UTI). Clonal groups, often with high levels of antimicrobial resistance, are a major component of the E. coli population that causes human UTI. While little is known about the population structure of E. coli that causes UTI in dogs,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： LeCuyer TE,Byrne BA,Daniels JB,Diaz-Campos DV,Hammac GK,Miller CB,Besser TE,Davis MA

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum specific for Salmonella O3 antigen was raised by immunization of rabbits with an artificial glycoconjugate consisting of the synthetic trisaccharide beta-D- Manp (1----4)-alpha-L- Rhap (1----3)-alpha-D-Galp covalently linked to bovine serum albumin (beta- MRG -BSA). Enzyme immunoassays showed that only lipop...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ekwall E,Norberg T,Svenson SB,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1974 to 1994, 2,033 specimens from children were submitted for cultures for anaerobic bacteria. Eighty-three Veillonella spp. were recovered from 83 children (4%). Most Veillonella species were recovered from abscesses, aspiration pneumonias, burns, bites, and sinuses. The infections were polymicrobial in 79 (95%...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brook I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified CAMP test was used to identify 973 Vibrio cholerae isolates by phenotype. Eltor and non-O1 strains were CAMP positive; classical strains were CAMP negative. Sausage-shaped zones of hemolysis of eltor strains were easily distinguished from narrower bands of non-O1 isolates. For O1 isolates, there was 100% ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lesmana M,Subekti D,Tjaniadi P,Pazzaglia G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, rapid method for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibody by time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay (TR-FIA) was developed. In this assay format, microtitration strips were coated with a recombinant fusion protein, and the same protein was labeled with europium and added into the wells sim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Siitari H,Turunen P,Schrimsher J,Nunn M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella henselae is the main causative agent of cat-scratch disease, and both B. henselae and Bartonella quintana cause angioproliferative disorders such as bacillary angiomatosis. To increase the sensitivity of Bartonella detection by PCR and to improve the species differentiation, we developed a semiquantitative,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sander A,Penno S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 2 decades, a variety of different molecular typing methods have been developed to differentiate strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. The most successful techniques are based on insertion sequences, repetitive loci, comparative genomics, or single nucleotide polymorphisms. In the present ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffiths TA,Rioux K,De Buck J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing was applied to the epidemiological investigation of 20 Serratia marcescens isolates collected from urine specimens of 17 patients and three urinals over a 2-month period. Twenty-five epidemiologically unrelated strains were also tested to determine the discriminatory powe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shi ZY,Liu PY,Lau YJ,Lin YH,HU BS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a newly recognized organism associated with respiratory tract infections. Asymptomatic infection with C. pneumoniae, although it has been suggested to occur, has not been previously documented. We describe two asymptomatic individuals infected with this organism; these infections demonstrate th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hyman CL,Augenbraun MH,Roblin PM,Schachter J,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxsackievirus (CV) strains CVA2, CVA4, CVA5, and CVA10 were isolated from patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease during a 2009 outbreak in China. Full genome sequences for four representative strains, CVA2/SD/CHN/09 (A2SD09), CVA4/SZ/CHN/09 (A4SZ09), CVA5/SD/CHN/09 (A5SD09), and CVA10/SD/CHN/09 (A10SD09), were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu YF,Yang F,Du J,Dong J,Zhang T,Wu ZQ,Xue Y,Jin Q

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell sonicates of Treponema pallidum, Nichols strain, were evaluated in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) for syphilis, and results were read in a Dynatek Microelisa Reader. The antigen was evaluated with sera from patients with syphilis, persons presumed normal, and biological false-positives. Two hu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pope V,Hunter EF,Feeley JC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunofluorescent-antibody test was developed for rapid detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in blood cultures. The test uses a murine monoclonal antibody specific for all strains of P. aeruginosa. In initial tests, bright uniform immunofluorescence signals were seen when each of the 17 international serotypes, as w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Counts GW,Schwartz RW,Ulness BK,Hamilton DJ,Rosok MJ,Cunningham MD,Tam MR,Darveau RP

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia spp. are waterborne organisms that are the most commonly identified pathogenic intestinal protozoans in the United States. Current detection techniques for Giardia species in water include microscopy and immunofluorescence techniques. Species of the genus Giardia are classified on the basis of taxonomic criter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mahbubani MH,Bej AK,Perlin MH,Schaefer FW 3rd,Jakubowski W,Atlas RM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infections caused by staphylococci are usually attributed to Staphylococcus epidermidis or S. saprophyticus. The case study reported here describes a persistent urinary tract infection caused by S. haemolyticus in a 38-year-old male whose infection was ultimately resolved through the use of the antibioti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gunn BA,Davis CE Jr

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipovitellin-salt-mannitol (LSM) plate medium was examined for its ability to directly isolate, recover, and presumptively identify Staphylococcus aureus from 418 clinical specimens. The criteria for medium evaluation included colony morphology reactions, selectivity, and ease of isolation. For 298 specimens used for ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Merlino J,Gill R,Robertson GJ

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Febrile travelers from countries with unique endemic pathogens pose a significant diagnostic challenge. In this report, we describe the case of a Tongan man presenting with fever, rash, and altered mental status. The diagnosis of Chikungunya encephalitis was made using a laboratory-developed real-time RT-PCR and serol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nelson J,Waggoner JJ,Sahoo MK,Grant PM,Pinsky BA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently tested serum from a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient for the presence of cryptococcal antigen using the Meridian latex agglutination (LA) test (Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System). Two pronase-treated serum specimens from the patient had LA titers of 80 and 160, but the patient ha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whittier S,Hopfer RL,Gilligan P

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic compositions of 71 isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Poland were determined by spoligotyping. Nearly 80% of the isolates belonged to either the T or the Haarlem family. The genotypic diversity was largely due to variation within those families. The scarcity of imported genotypes s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Augustynowicz-Kopec E,Jagielski T,Zwolska Z

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recovery of Nocardia species from mixed cultures is facilitated by use of a selective medium. We show that buffered charcoal-yeast extract medium with polymyxin, anisomycin, and vancomycin can be used for the selective isolation of nocardiae from contaminated specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garrett MA,Holmes HT,Nolte FS

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from goats suffering from caprine arthritis-encephalitis contained antibodies to virus proteins of 15, 17, 28, 40, and 130 kilodaltons in immunoblots of maedi-visna virus. We propose to use immunoblotting as a validation test for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and demonstrate that the specificity of indirect e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zanoni R,Krieg A,Peterhans E

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panels of hepatitis B virus surface antigen-positive sera from drug abusers were used to evaluate 14 commercial enzyme immunoassays from six companies for detecting hepatitis delta virus (HDV) markers. For detecting hepatitis delta virus antigen (HDAg), the Wellcome, Pasteur and Noctech assays had 100% sensitivity for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shattock AG,Morris MC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored three genes of attachment (fbe and atlE) and adhesion (ica) in 27 and 10 Staphylococcus epidermidis strains involved in pacemaker-related infections (PMI) and intravascular-catheter-related infections (IVCI), respectively, and in 25 saprophytic strains. The detection rates of fbe and atlE were identical in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klug D,Wallet F,Kacet S,Courcol RJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage catheters, we reviewed retrospectively fluid specimens that had been collected through catheters in place for at least 2 days. These specimens were taken from patients at a large tertiary-care hospital. A total of 974 specimens representing 620 pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Everts RJ,Heneghan JP,Adholla PO,Reller LB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of the human RNA viruses, calicivirus and astrovirus, requires high sensitivity and broad reactivity. A novel single-tube nested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method is described here, in which all of the required reagents are included in the one tube; however, those required for the nested amplific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ratcliff RM,Doherty JC,Higgins GD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IDI-MRSA assay (Infectio Diagnostic, Inc., Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada) with the Smart Cycler II rapid DNA amplification system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA) appears to be sensitive and specific for the rapid detection of nasal colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We assessed the sensitivi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bishop EJ,Grabsch EA,Ballard SA,Mayall B,Xie S,Martin R,Grayson ML

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00