Predictive genetic risk markers for strong biofilm-forming Staphylococcus aureus: fnbB gene and SCCmec type III.

abstract：:Tigecycline is a new first-in-class glycylcycline antimicrobial agent with expanded broad-spectrum activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive aerobes and anaerobes, as well as atypical bacterial species. The spectrum of activity extends to clinically relevant susceptible and multidrug-resistant strains of S...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Meagher AK,Ambrose PG,Grasela TH,Ellis-Grosse EJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T2 Magnetic Resonance Candida Panel (T2MR) detects Candida directly in blood. Rapid turnaround time and high negative predictive value make it a useful diagnostic test to support antifungal discontinuation. This retrospective quasi-experiment compared empiric anidulafungin days of therapy (DOTs) in intensive care unit...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gill CM,Kenney RM,Hencken L,Mlynarek ME,Alangaden GJ,Samuel LP,Davis SL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Interest in the molecular identification of B. pseudomallei has increased after its classification as a category B agent by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The present article reports a diagnosis of...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Couto MS,Cordeiro Rde A,Rocha MF,Grangeiro TB,Leitão Junior NP,Bandeira Tde J,Sidrim JJ,Brilhante RS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been widely used due to its high specificity, sensitivity, and rapid turn-around time. However, inhibitory factors may be co-extracted with the target nucleic acid that will hinder the performance of PCR. In this study, DNA extraction methods for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuber...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chui LW,King R,Lu P,Manninen K,Sim J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison was made of the discriminating power of the E-Test and conventional methods to distinguish different bacterial strains harboring plasmid-mediated extended-spectrum beta-lactamases. The E-Test provided quantitative data comparable to those of a broad range of concentrations in the agar dilution method, but...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Baquero F,Cantón R,Martinez-Beltrán J,Bolmström A

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo study results were reviewed from cefmetazole, a "new" parenteral cephamycin. Cefmetazole's spectrum of activity was comparable to that of second-generation cephalosporins, which includes clinical coverage of many Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus spp., streptococci, Haemophilus spp., pathogenic N...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This pilot study evaluates the diagnostic performance of Sofia RSV Fluorescent Immunoassay Analyzer (FIA) and Sofia Influenza A + B FIA for rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza A and B. Sofia had a lower-than-expected sensitivity for all viruses and a high rate of false-positive results for inf...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bruning AH,van Dijk K,van Eijk HW,Koen G,van Woensel JB,Kruisinga FH,Pajkrt D,Wolthers KC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective evaluation of the kinetics of cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroconversion with CMV IgM, IgG, and IgG avidity assays, in a Swiss pregnant women population, has shown that the current published CMV serologic diagnostic algorithms were valid and fit for use. In 19% of the cases analyzed, CMV-specific IgM was detec...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Maine GT,Stricker R,Stricker R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hydrogen-sulfide producing, citrate-positive strain of Escherichia coli isolated from urinary tract infection was found to be resistant to chloramphenicol (Cm), tetracycline (Tc), streptomycin (Sm), trimethoprim (Tmp), sulfamethoxazole (Smx), and cotrimoxazole (Tmp/Smx). The strain contained 7 plasmids of molecular ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Harnett N,Mangan L,Brown S,Krishnan C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sparfloxacin, a new orally administered fluoroquinolone, was tested against 14,182 clinical strains isolated (generally blood stream and respiratory tract cultures) at nearly 200 hospitals in the United States (USA) and Canada. Sparfloxacin activity was compared with 13 other compounds by Etest (AB BIODISK, Solna, Swe...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ballow CH,Jones RN,Johnson DM,Deinhart JA,Schentag JJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) in routine microbiology laboratories, identification of anaerobic bacteria has become easier. These increased possibilities provide new challenges concerning analytical workup and reporting of anaerobe...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Peeters B,Magerman K,Waumans L,Cartuyvels R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of resistance or reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones among Hemophilus influenzae has been documented for nearly a decade. Over this time, the use of fluoroquinolones for the treatment of respiratory infections including commonly isolated bacterial causes of community-acquired infections has marke...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Biedenbach DJ,Jones RN

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three strains of Vibrio vulnificus of clinical and environmental origin were examined for production of 12 extracellular enzymes of potential importance to the virulence of this bacterium. Strains of Vibrio vulnificus were consistent in their production of protease, mucinase, lipase, chondroitinase, hyaluronida...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Oliver JD,Wear JE,Thomas MB,Warner M,Linder K

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the rate of mortality by Legionella pneumonia increases in incorrectly treated patients, rapid diagnosis and early antibiotic treatment are needed. We have assessed the performance of a new enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test (Bartels Inc. Trinity Biotech Company, Wicklow, Ireland) to detect Legionella pneumophil...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Domínguez J,Galí N,Blanco S,Pedroso P,Prat C,Matas L,Ausina V

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study on the susceptibility of Clostridium difficile to metronidazole and vancomycin using the Etest and disk diffusion test was performed over a 6-month period. One hundred strains were tested; one strain was highly resistant to metronidazole (MIC = 64 micrograms/mL). The zone size of inhibition by the ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wong SS,Woo PC,Luk WK,Yuen KY

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermostable direct hemolysin encoded by tdh gene has been considered an important virulence factor in pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Two-step ultrarapid real-time polymerase chain reaction (URRT PCR) with a microchip was devised to detect V. parahaemolyticus carrying tdh gene. This novel method has a 6-μL reacti...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kang MH,Kim IW,Lee DW,Yoo MS,Han SH,Yoon BS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few reports described the presence of bla(KPC) and qnr genes in the same isolate. This study reports the combination of bla(KPC-2) and qnrB19 genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae ST340 isolate in Brazil. These findings draw attention to this combination in ST340 isolate, which is part of the CC258, disseminated in Latin Ame...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Martins WM,Almeida AC,Nicoletti AG,Cayô R,Gales AC,Alves LC,Brayner FB,Vilela MA,Morais MM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical non-relevant (CNR) IgM specific for Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for false-positive results in commercially available IgM assays. Using IgM immunoblotting, it is possible to distinguish between IgM in sera of acutely infected (AI) patients and CNR IgM. Especially the combination of staining of a 55 and 30...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Meek B,Diepersloot RJ,van Gool T,Speijer D,Peek R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is one of the common risk factors for chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA). A positive Aspergillus IgG is a key element of the diagnosis of CPA but this has not been studied in Indonesia. We conducted studies with patients at the end of TB therapy in Indonesia. We performed receiver operat...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Setianingrum F,Rozaliyani A,Syam R,Adawiyah R,Tugiran M,Sari CYI,Burhan E,Wahyuningsih R,Rautemaa-Richardson R,Denning DW

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the in vitro activity of oritavancin against 60 vancomycin-susceptible enterococci (VSE) and 27 vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). The oritavancin MIC ranged from ≤0.002 to 0.5μg/mL; the minimum biofilm bactericidal concentration ranged from ≤0.002 to 2μg/mL. Oritavancin has promising in vitro activity ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Yan Q,Karau MJ,Patel R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 93 infertile and 70 fertile men attending various urology and gynecology clinics in Jordan were investigated in this prospective study. First void urine and the corresponding semen specimens were collected from 96% of the patients. Presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Ureaplas...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Abusarah EA,Awwad ZM,Charvalos E,Shehabi AA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To support antimicrobial stewardship, some healthcare systems have begun creating outpatient antibiograms. We developed inpatient and primary care outpatient antibiograms for a regional health maintenance organization (HMO) and academic healthcare system (AHS). Antimicrobial susceptibilities from 16,428 Enterococcus, ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： McGregor JC,Bearden DT,Townes JM,Sharp SE,Gorman PN,Elman MR,Mori M,Smith DH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this clinical trial, oral fluconazole was used to treat cryptococcal meningitis in 32 patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In 11 patients who received 200 to 400 mg/day of fluconazole as primary therapy, a favorable clinical response was obtained in 67% of all evaluable patients. A negative cer...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones PD,Marriott D,Speed BR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performance of a chromogenic agar medium chromID VRE (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Etoile, France) designed to recover and identify vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) from clinical specimens with bile esculin azide vancomycin (BEAV) agar. For this study, 120 stool specimens were plated on chromID VRE and BE...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ledeboer NA,Tibbetts RJ,Dunne WM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of macrolide resistance was investigated in 251 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with reduced susceptibility to erythromycin (erythromycin-resistant S. pneumoniae [ERSP]) collected during the period from 2000 to 2004 in Korea. Among these strains, erm(B) was the most prevalent pneumococcal macrolide res...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bae S,Lee K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with varicella complicated by streptococcal cellulitis developed an intracerebral bleed in the absence of thrombocytopenia, serious coagulopathy, or a detectable vascular lesion. We postulate that during the acute infection with varicella, a cerebral endothelial lesion was produced which later caused the...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Fikrig E,Barg NL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftriaxone is a cephalosporin antibiotic with a potent antimicrobial activity and excellent penetration in most body fluids such as pleural, peritoneal, spinal and brain. These facts contribute to the application of ceftriaxone in the treatment of bacterial peritonitis, an abdominal disorder in veterinary medicine, w...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Campos ML,de Moura Alonso J,Dos Santos Martins E,Oliveira JA,Hussni CA,Peccinini RG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 greatly disrupted the global supply chain of nasopharyngeal swabs, and thus new products have come to market with little data to support their use. In this prospective study, 2 new 3D printed nasopharyngeal swab designs were evaluated against the standard, flocked nasopharyngeal swab for the diagnosis of COVI...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Oland G,Garner O,de St Maurice A

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The improved Streptex method for serogrouping streptococci incorporates a new extraction enzyme and a simplified procedure requiring no centrifugation. A total of 114 clinical isolates of beta-hemolytic streptococci were serogrouped from primary plates, isolation plates, and Todd-Hewitt broth cultures using this syste...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bixler-Forell E,Martin WJ,Moody MD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitek® 2 (bioMérieux) is a widely used commercial antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) system. AST-N244 card includes cephalothin as first-generation cephalosporin. We compared the cephalothin susceptibility results obtained with Vitek® 2 AST-N244 to those obtained by broth microdilution (BMD) and disk diffusion (D...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： López IA,Montes JC,Álvarez MJ,Mazarrasa CF,Martínez-Martínez L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00