Development of two antibody detection enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for serodiagnosis of human chronic fascioliasis.

abstract：:In 1991, multiresistant Escherichia coli O78:H10 strains caused an outbreak of urinary tract infections in Copenhagen, Denmark. The phylogenetic origin, clonal background, and virulence characteristics of the outbreak isolates, and their relationship to nonoutbreak O78:H10 strains according to these traits and resista...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Olesen B,Scheutz F,Andersen RL,Menard M,Boisen N,Johnston B,Hansen DS,Krogfelt KA,Nataro JP,Johnson JR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the feasibility of a molecular strategy based on identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by IS6110 PCR or Cobas Amplicor PCR, and rpoB PCR-DNA sequencing of the 81-bp rifampin resistance determining region (RRDR) for direct detection of rifampin resistance in respiratory specimens. A collecti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yam WC,Tam CM,Leung CC,Tong HL,Chan KH,Leung ET,Wong KC,Yew WW,Seto WH,Yuen KY,Ho PL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum are dimorphic fungi that often cause self-limited respiratory infections. However, they may also cause severe disseminated disease, depending on the level of the exposure to the organism and the host immune status. In addition, patients with infections caused by thes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Babady NE,Buckwalter SP,Hall L,Le Febre KM,Binnicker MJ,Wengenack NL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several G8P[6] and G8P[8] rotavirus strains were isolated from hospitalized patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. To investigate their overall genomic relatedness and to determine to which genogroup they belonged, the complete genomes of strains DRC88 (G8P[8]) and DRC86 (G8P[6]) were determined. Genomi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Matthijnssens J,Rahman M,Yang X,Delbeke T,Arijs I,Kabue JP,Muyembe JJ,Van Ranst M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess is challenging, as most patients at the time of diagnosis do not have a concurrent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Fecal testing for E. histolytica parasite antigen or DNA is negative in most patients. A real-time PCR assay was evaluated for detection ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque R,Kabir M,Noor Z,Rahman SM,Mondal D,Alam F,Rahman I,Al Mahmood A,Ahmed N,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to increase the application potential of the direct agglutination test (DAT) for the detection of anti-Leishmania antibodies in human serum samples, we developed an antigen based on stained and freeze-dried Leishmania donovani promastigotes. We describe here the evaluation of the performance of the DAT based ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meredith SE,Kroon NC,Sondorp E,Seaman J,Goris MG,van Ingen CW,Oosting H,Schoone GJ,Terpstra WJ,Oskam L

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to small-colony variants (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with chronic and recurrent infections are an emerging problem; however, studies with this subpopulation are hampered by the fact that SCVs may exhibit unstable phenotypes, making them difficult to study, particularly in broth media. In...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker K,Laham NA,Fegeler W,Proctor RA,Peters G,von Eiff C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two colorimetric methods that use Alamar Blue or 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) for assaying the in vitro activities of antifungal agents have been described. We report that both tests performed similarly when the antifungal activity of amphotericin B against Candida albicans wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jahn B,Stüben A,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this hospital-based study was to determine the relationship between colonizing and infecting strains of Candida species and Torulopsis glabrata. Surveillance cultures from high-risk patients were paired with subsequent bloodstream isolates. Organisms were typed by using restriction endonuclease digest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Reagan DR,Pfaller MA,Hollis RJ,Wenzel RP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for optimal therapeutic outcomes in patients infected with HIV. Currently, none of the commercially available fourth-generation assays differentiate HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies (Ab) or the HIV-1 p24 antigen (Ag). The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a novel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salmona M,Delarue S,Delaugerre C,Simon F,Maylin S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new serological assay, the recombinant flow cytometric immunofluorescence assay (r-FIFA), was developed for the early detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibodies by using recombinant insoluble forms of HIV-1 Gag-p45, Gag-gp41 chimeric protein, gp160, Po197 polyprotein as antigens and autologo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu YW,Birch P,Balaskas E,Zeibdawi A,Scalia V,Thériault-Valin SA,Gill P,Aye MT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many truly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-negative serum samples may be unnecessarily subjected to costly and time-consuming Western blots (immunoblots). An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of using a recombinant protein-based enzyme immunosorbent assay (EIA; Cambridge BioScience [C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lepine DG,Neumann PW,Frenette SL,O'Shaughnessy MV

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesin-encoding operons (pap, sfa/foc, and afa) have been shown to be prevalent in Escherichia coli strains associated with urinary tract infections. A quick and sensitive assay to identify these operons was developed by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Three pairs of 25-mer primers were defined from the se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Le Bouguenec C,Archambaud M,Labigne A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-step single-tube betaine-free reverse transcription (RT)-loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay was developed for rapid diagnosis of hepatitis E virus. This assay amplified the target gene in less than 45 min (even as short as 20 min) under isothermal conditions at 63 degrees C, and the sensitivity of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lan X,Yang B,Li BY,Yin XP,Li XR,Liu JX

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, no agar-based susceptibility testing method has been standardized for testing dermatophytes. We describe a newly developed agar-based method employing disk diffusion assay to test the susceptibility of 47 isolates of dermatophytes against 8 antifungals. Our results show that the method is reproducible, is s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nweze EI,Mukherjee PK,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-Ids) were raised in a rabbit against a murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) neutralizing the yeast killer toxin produced by a strain of Pichia (Hansenula) anomala. In an immunodiffusion test, the anti-Ids produced in the rabbit recognized the antigen-binding site of the MAb used as the immu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of congenital syphilis in apparently healthy infants continues to be problematic. Immunoglobulin M antibodies specific for a subset of Treponema pallidum antigens have been detected by Western blotting (immunoblotting). In the present study we investigated the sensitivity and specificity of this method. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meyer MP,Eddy T,Baughn RE

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described method for detecting rubella-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody based on absorption of IgG by Staphylococcus aureus strain Cowan I has been applied to 198 sera collected during a recent rubella epidemic in Israel. Modification of the original method introduced for the present study includes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Handsher R,Fogel A

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of herpes simplex virus in clinical specimens by the suspension-infection technique was compared with detection by conventional cell culture. The sensitivity and specificity of the suspension-infection technique compared with those of conventional culture were 95.9 to 98.2% and 97.5 to 100%, respectively, de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luker G,Chow C,Richards DF,Johnson FB

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:On 24 August 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website to highlight that asymptomatic individuals, even those with exposure to a COVID-19-positive contact, do not necessarily need to be tested unless they have medical conditions associated with increased risk of severe illness from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schuetz AN,Hemarajata P,Mehta N,Campbell S,Mitchell S,Palavecino E,Butler-Wu S,Miller MB

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic variation within a bacterial clone (known as Shigella sonnei but in effect a clone of Escherichia coli) was examined by studying 46 clinical isolates that were epidemiologically unassociated and isolated from patients in different countries over a period of 41 years (1950 to 1991). Restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karaolis DK,Lan R,Reeves PR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight fusaria isolated from 50 Italian patients between 2004 and 2007 were subject to multilocus DNA sequence typing to characterize the spectrum of species and circulating sequence types (STs) associated with dermatological infections, especially onychomycoses and paronychia, and other fusarioses in northern an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Migheli Q,Balmas V,Harak H,Sanna S,Scherm B,Aoki T,O'Donnell K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We validated a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of anti-CagA antibodies in Brazilian patients with Helicobacter pylori infection. The test presented high sensitivity (97.4%) and specificity (88.9%) when employed in patients without gastric carcinoma. However, in gastric carcinoma patients...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rocha AM,Rocha GA,Santos A,de Oliveira CA,Queiroz DM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human astrovirus (HAstV) strain from Kenya was characterized by nucleotide sequence analysis. Sequences from open reading frame 1a (ORF1a) clustered with genotype 6/7, those from ORF1b clustered with genotype 3, and those from ORF2 clustered with genotype 2. A recombination point in the ORF1b-ORF2 junction was ident...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wolfaardt M,Kiulia NM,Mwenda JM,Taylor MB

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown the public health importance of identifying individuals with acute human immunodeficiency virus infection (AHI); however, the cost of nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) makes individual testing of at-risk individuals prohibitively expensive in many settings. Pooled NAAT (or group testi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Westreich DJ,Hudgens MG,Fiscus SA,Pilcher CD

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the ability of the Amplicor MTB Assay to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) organisms in BACTEC 12B broth cultures, 249 cultures with a growth index (GI) of > or = 20 from 160 patients were tested retrospectively. Specimens were processed by standard methods, and then BACTEC 12B vials and Mid...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith MB,Bergmann JS,Woods GL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Sporothrix schenckii were serologically tested by the exoantigen immunodiffusion technique of Kaufman and Standard (L. Kaufman and P.G. Standard, J. Clin. Microbiol. 8:42-45, 1978). This rapid and sensitive technique permitted the identification of 10 isolates of S. schenckii within 3 days. The production ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 410 well-defined Campylobacter, Helicobacter, and Wolinella strains, comprising 26 named species, subspecies, and defined groups, were tested for indoxyl acetate hydrolysis by a disk method by using disks prepared at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga. All C. coli (43 strains), C. cryaerophila (34...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Popovic-Uroic T,Patton CM,Nicholson MA,Kiehlbauch JA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three isolates of Streptococcus uberis from various sources were examined for the presence of a common antigen. Initially, a serum was produced in rabbits which, by using rocket line immunoelectrophoresis, proved to react with identity to all of the S. uberis crude extracts as well as group B and E streptococcal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jones KF,Norcross NL

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00