Coccidioides thyroiditis in an HIV-infected patient.

abstract：:The ability to rapidly diagnose influenza virus infections is of the utmost importance in the evaluation of patients with upper respiratory tract infections. It is also important for the influenza surveillance activities performed by national influenza centers. In the present study we modified a multiplex real-time re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hindiyeh M,Levy V,Azar R,Varsano N,Regev L,Shalev Y,Grossman Z,Mendelson E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence of sensitized bacterial suspensions, reactive with either fluorescein-labeled or rhodamine-labeled antiglobulins, could be quantitatively distinguished in dual-labeled preparations by fluorescence immunoassay. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gillis TP,Thompson JJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method for determining the serotypes of poliovirus isolates by PCR. Three sets of serotype-specific antisense PCR-initiating primers (primers seroPV1A, seroPV2A, and seroPV3A) were designed to pair with codons of VP1 amino acid sequences that are conserved within but that differ across serotypes. T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kilpatrick DR,Nottay B,Yang CF,Yang SJ,Da Silva E,Peñaranda S,Pallansch M,Kew O

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined clinical and molecular epidemiologic analysis of 46 strains of Clostridium difficile, including 16 nosocomial isolates from one ward (outbreak ward) plus 17 other nosocomial isolates and 13 community-acquired isolates, was performed. HindIII digests of total cellular DNA were analyzed by restriction enzyme ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kristjánsson M,Samore MH,Gerding DN,DeGirolami PC,Bettin KM,Karchmer AW,Arbeit RD

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercially available diagnostic tests for syphilis are mostly based on the use of extracted antigens of Treponema pallidum. Pronounced cross-reactivities with other spirochete antigens are often reported. The aim of this study was to validate a novel multiparametric assay (the assay performed with the kit) INNO-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ebel A,Vanneste L,Cardinaels M,Sablon E,Samson I,De Bosschere K,Hulstaert F,Zrein M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR of a Candida albicans cytochrome P-450 lanosterol-alpha-demethylase (P450-L1A1) gene segment is a rapid and sensitive method of detection in clinical specimens. This enzyme is a target for azole antifungal action. In order to directly detect and identify the clinically most important species of Candida, we cloned ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burgener-Kairuz P,Zuber JP,Jaunin P,Buchman TG,Bille J,Rossier M

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zygomycetous mold Cokeromyces recurvatus was isolated from the pleural and peritoneal fluids of a 64-year-old man with a history of peptic ulcer disease and alcohol abuse. The patient presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and a ruptured duodenal ulcer. This is one of the few times that C.recurvatus ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Munipalli B,Rinaldi MG,Greenberg SB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As microbial genomics makes increasingly important contributions to clinical and public health microbiology, the interpretation of whole-genome sequence data by nonspecialists becomes essential. In the absence of capsule-based vaccines, two protein-based vaccines have been used for the prevention of invasive serogroup...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodrigues CMC,Jolley KA,Smith A,Cameron JC,Feavers IM,Maiden MCJ

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:Twenty (1.4%) of 1,421 adult Ixodes pacificus ticks and 2 (20%) of 10 adult Ixodes neotomae ticks collected in five counties of northern California were found to contain spirochetes by direct immunofluorescence examination of their tissues with a polyvalent conjugate. Borreliae isolated from the tissues of nine of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lane RS,Pascocello JA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains display remarkable genetic diversity, and the presence of strains bearing the toxigenic vacA s1 allele, a complete cag pathogenicity island (PAI), cagA alleles containing multiple EPIYA phosphorylation sites, and expressing the BabA adhesin correlates with development of gastroduodenal dise...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Talarico S,Gold BD,Fero J,Thompson DT,Guarner J,Czinn S,Salama NR

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species within the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) have emerged as significant opportunistic pathogens of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). BCC infection is typically associated with a poor clinical prognosis and decreased survival. These factors, combined with the existence of highly transmissible epidem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown AR,Govan JR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfiltration has become a popular procedure for the concentration and enumeration of bacteria. We developed a rapid and sensitive method for the differentiation of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, utilizing a polycarbonate membrane filter, crystal violet, iodine, 95% ethanol, and 6% carbol fuchsin, that ca...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Romero S,Schell RF,Pennell DR

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for susceptibility to pyrazinamide (PZA) and analysis of the pncA gene sequences of 423 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates have revealed a unique silent nucleotide substitution that enables the rapid identification of "M. canettii" (proposed name). Moreover, the lack of a defined mutation within the p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Somoskovi A,Dormandy J,Parsons LM,Kaswa M,Goh KS,Rastogi N,Salfinger M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum has been associated with urethritis in men, obstetric problems in women, and respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants. U. urealyticum can be divided into two biovars comprising 14 serovars. Partial sequences of genes encoding the multiple-banded antigens of the cell surface are known. Us...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pitcher D,Sillis M,Robertson JA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a set of commercial Salmonella somatic and flagellar serotyping antisera to in-house-prepared antisera from the Microbial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Public Health, using 327 Salmonella enterica strains belonging to subgroups I, II, IIIa, IIIb, and IV. The sensitivities of Denka Seiken (T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schrader KN,Fernandez-Castro A,Cheung WK,Crandall CM,Abbott SL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy can successfully suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in patients but selects for drug resistance, requiring subsequent resistance-guided therapeutic changes. This report describes the development and validation of a novel assay that offers a uniform method to measure susceptibil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Covens K,Dekeersmaeker N,Schrooten Y,Weber J,Schols D,Quiñones-Mateu ME,Vandamme AM,Van Laethem K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tick-borne rickettsia Cowdria ruminantium has been propagated continuously for over 500 days in the Ixodes scapularis tick cell line IDE8 by using the Gardel isolate from bovine endothelial cells as an inoculum. Infection of the tick cells was confirmed by PCR, karyotyping, electron microscopy, and reinfection of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bell-Sakyi L,Paxton EA,Munderloh UG,Sumption KJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a 4-h nested polymerase chain reaction assay that detected a region of the plasminogen activator gene of Yersinia pestis in 100% of 43 Y. pestis strains isolated from humans, rats, and fleas yet was unreactive with the closely related species Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Campbell J,Lowe J,Walz S,Ezzell J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etest is a new concept for MIC determinations for antimicrobial agents that is based on a predefined antibiotic gradient on a plastic strip calibrated with a continuous logarithmic MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. Etest was compared with a reference agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of clinical i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoffner SE,Klintz L,Olsson-Liljequist B,Bolmström A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella spp. cause respiratory tract diseases in warm-blooded animals. Only Bordetella bronchiseptica has been reported to cause bacteremia in humans, and this rare infection usually occurs with pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. We describe "Bordetella hinzii" bacteremia in an AIDS patient without a respirat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cookson BT,Vandamme P,Carlson LC,Larson AM,Sheffield JV,Kersters K,Spach DH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein antigen with an apparent molecular weight (Mr) of 31,000 was isolated from 0.2 M glycine hydrochloride (pH 2.2) extracts of a typical human fecal isolate, Campylobacter jejuni VC74. The protein was purified to homogeneity on a preparative scale by immunoaffinity chromatography followed by molecular sieving w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dubreuil JD,Kostrzynska M,Logan SM,Harris LA,Austin JW,Trust TJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a nested PCR assay and microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films for detection and identification of Plasmodium spp. in blood specimens. PCR was more sensitive than microscopy and capable of identifying malaria parasites at the species level when microscopy was equivocal. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnston SP,Pieniazek NJ,Xayavong MV,Slemenda SB,Wilkins PP,da Silva AJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodotorula infections occur among patients with immunosuppression and/or central venous catheters. Using standardized methods (NCCLS M27-A), we determined the antifungal susceptibilities of 10 Rhodotorula bloodstream infection isolates. Patient information was collected for clinical correlation. The MICs of amphoteri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zaas AK,Boyce M,Schell W,Lodge BA,Miller JL,Perfect JR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indirect immunoperoxidase antibody technique (IPA) has been applied to determine immunoglobulin (Ig)G to humans cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies in 114 blood donor sera, four cases of congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease, and four cases of acquired CMV infection. The results have been compared with those obtai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gerna G,McCloud CJ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel gelatin particle agglutination test (MLPA) for the serodiagnosis of leprosy; this test is especially useful for clinical practice and epidemiological surveys of leprosy in countries in which the disease is endemic. The antigen used in the test is the chemically synthesized trisaccharide moiety of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Izumi S,Fujiwara T,Ikeda M,Nishimura Y,Sugiyama K,Kawatsu K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dot immunobinding assay was used to detect antibodies to measles virus, mumps virus, and rubella virus antigens. Filter paper soaked with serum or whole blood was directly applied to the antigen-coated nitrocellulose sheets. The test was easy to perform, and its results agreed very well with those obtained by standa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Condorelli F,Ziegler T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

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：:In order to assess the microbiologic and clinical value of primary broth culture of wound specimens collected with swabs and submitted to the laboratory in transport medium, we compared the results of primary agar culture with the results of a corresponding primary broth culture for 344 aerobic specimens and 176 anaer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silletti RP,Ailey E,Sun S,Tang D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a novel nucleic acid amplification method in which reagents react rapidly and efficiently, with a high specificity, under isothermal conditions. We used a LAMP assay for the detection of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), and varic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaneko H,Iida T,Aoki K,Ohno S,Suzutani T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00