Novel approach to in vitro drug susceptibility assessment of clinical strains of Leishmania spp.

abstract：:We compared the Abbott enzyme immunoassay for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen with the reverse transcriptase assay (RTA) as a means of monitoring HIV infection during an antiviral trial. The Abbott enzyme immunoassay detected HIV earlier than RTA whether or not the patients were antigenemic and appears to b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burger H,Paul D,Siegal FP,Wendel I,Neff S,Eilbott D,Gehan K,Grimson R,Weiser B

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in a group of 150 patients awaiting heart transplants and to detect HHV-8 seroconversion after transplantation. Four patients were HHV-8 seropositive before transplantation, and one of them developed Kaposi's sarcoma. One patient c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Emond JP,Marcelin AG,Dorent R,Milliancourt C,Dupin N,Frances C,Agut H,Gandjbakhch I,Calvez V

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect fluorescent antibody technique has been developed for the serological diagnosis of gonorrhea. The selected strain(s) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a heat-labile surface antigen (L-antigen). Sera are diluted 1:10, and an aliquot is hear inactivated at 59 C for 30 min. The treated and untreated aliquots...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaafar HA,D'Arcangelis DC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the interlaboratory reproducibility at four university hospital laboratories in the southeast region of France of the Etest technique for the determination of caspofungin (CAS) and amphotericin B (AMB) MICs and to compare it to the CLSI broth microdilution reference method. Consecutive clini...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ranque S,Lachaud L,Gari-Toussaint M,Michel-Nguyen A,Mallié M,Gaudart J,Bertout S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) release assays (IGRAs) are increasingly used to test for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. Although highly specific, IGRAs have a relatively high false-negative rate in active TB patients. A more sensitive assay is needed. IFN-γ-induced protein 10 (IP-10) is an alternative biomarker with a 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blauenfeldt T,Villar-Hernández R,García-García E,Latorre I,Holm LL,Muriel-Moreno B,De Souza-Galvão ML,Millet JP,Sabriá F,Sánchez-Montalva A,Ruiz-Manzano J,Pilarte J,Jiménez MA,Centeno C,Torres C,Molina-Pinargote I,Gonzále

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen representative pathogenic bacterial species were used to create septicemia in rabbits, by injecting 10(6) colony-forming units into the marginal ear vein. At a selected time, usually 30 to 60 min after injection, heart blood was drawn into heparin and dispensed in 5.0-,0.5-, and 0.1-ml volumes into duplicate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zierdt CH,Peterson DL,Swan JC,MacLowry JD

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect the presence of amoebic antigen in polyethylene-glycol-precipitated circulating immune complexes (CIC). A cutoff dilution of greater than 1:160 for the precipitates was taken to be of clinical significance. Among the patients with amoebic liver abscess, 93% ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vinayak VK,Purnima,Singh K,Venkatwswarlu K,Nain CK,Mehta SK

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis infection has been difficult due to the low sensitivity of culture. PCR tests have been shown to be more sensitive than culture, but the reported sensitivity of PCR is variable. We evaluated PCR product detection by using either agarose gel electrophoresis (PCR-gel) or dot blot hybrid...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lingappa JR,Lawrence W,West-Keefe S,Gautom R,Cookson BT

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza epidemics arise through the accumulation of viral genetic changes, culminating in a novel antigenic type that is able to escape host immunity. Following an outbreak of the A/Fujian/411/2002-like strains in Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea, in 2002, Australia and New Zealand experienced substanti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kang S,Yang IS,Lee JY,Park Y,Oh HB,Kang C,Kim KH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total immunoglobulin E (IgE) and specific IgE were assayed by a radioimmunosorbent test and a reverse enzyme immunoassay in patients with hookworm infections before and after treatment. A total of 77 subjects (30 patients with hookworm infections and 47 subjects as controls) were studied. Both specific and total IgE l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC,Sehgal R,Shetty P,Dilawari JB

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific precipitating and opsonic neutralizing antigens were identified in dilute-nitrous acid extracts of group A streptococci. This was done by decreasing the temperature and time of exposure of the streptococcal cells to the nitrous acid. Ninety percent of 31 strains of group A streptococcal dilute-nitrous acid ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hafez K,El Kholy AM,Facklam RR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A premarket trial of the Becton Dickinson Directigen respiratory syncytial virus membrane-based enzyme immunoassay compared the test with virus isolation for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus in 583 nasopharyngeal aspirates. After modification, the Directigen test showed a sensitivity of 83% and a specifici...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kok T,Barancek K,Burrell CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribotyping was compared with multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) for subtyping 305 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from clinical and nonclinical sources. For ribotyping, EcoRI-restricted genomic DNA fragments of L. monocytogenes strains were separated by agarose gel electrophoresis, and Southern blots were probed ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Graves LM,Swaminathan B,Reeves MW,Hunter SB,Weaver RE,Plikaytis BD,Schuchat A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi infection is increasing in regions with high HIV prevalence worldwide. The microbiological features and clinical mimicry of tuberculosis infection pose diagnostic challenges in high-tuberculosis-incidence settings. We present two HIV-associated cases of R. equi infection from Vietnam and discuss the u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Le T,Cash-Goldwasser S,Tho PV,Lan NP,Campbell JI,van Doorn HR,Lam NT,Trung NV,Trinh DT,Van Kinh N,Wertheim HF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 522 patients with Propionibacterium acnes bacteremia (PAB), 18 (3.5%) had clinically significant PAB. Of these 18 patients, 10 (55.6%) had hospital-acquired bacteremia and 6 (33.3%) had undergone invasive procedures before development of PAB. One patient with a ventricular septal defect presented with infective end...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park HJ,Na S,Park SY,Moon SM,Cho OH,Park KH,Chong YP,Kim SH,Lee SO,Kim YS,Woo JH,Kim MN,Choi SH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance in proficiency testing (PT) schemes is an objective measure of a laboratory's best performance. We examined the performance of participants in two parasitology PT schemes in South Africa from 2004 through 2010. The average rates of acceptable scores over the period were 58% and 66% for the stool and blood ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poonsamy B,Dini L,Frean J

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:A space-saving media table designed to facilitate pouring large quantities of plated media in a small area is described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McGonagle LA,Schmidt G,Eng S,Wirsing K

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucor ramosissimus Samutsevitsch is presented for the first time as an etiologic agent of cutaneous zygomycosis in a patient with aplastic anemia on immunosuppressive therapy. This report also represents the third case caused by this species reported in the literature. A biopsy taken from a lesion on the patient's thi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weitzman I,Della-Latta P,Housey G,Rebatta G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the currently known typing methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were evaluated with regard to reproducibility, discrimination, and specificity. Therefore, 90 M. tuberculosis complex strains, originating from 38 countries, were tested in five restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kremer K,van Soolingen D,Frothingham R,Haas WH,Hermans PW,Martín C,Palittapongarnpim P,Plikaytis BB,Riley LW,Yakrus MA,Musser JM,van Embden JD

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fecal PCR assay for detection of Helicobacter infections in laboratory rodents was developed. DNA was isolated from murine fecal pellets, and a region of the 16S rRNA gene conserved among murine Helicobacter species was amplified. The fecal PCR was sensitive and specific. This assay does not require euthanasia of ro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beckwith CS,Franklin CL,Hook RR Jr,Besch-Williford CL,Riley LK

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In five separate fecal collections spanning three years, group A rotaviruses were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 35 (25%) of 142 specimens obtained from nondiarrheic, hospitalized neonates in Blantyre, Malawi. Molecular characterization of each strain identified, for the first time in neonates, a sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cunliffe NA,Rogerson S,Dove W,Thindwa BD,Greensill J,Kirkwood CD,Broadhead RL,Hart CA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sequenced homologous chromosomal loci from several North American and European isolates of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, as well as from the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii. Inter- and intraspecies sequence comparisons permitted the design of B. burgdorferi-specific polymerase chain ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rosa PA,Hogan D,Schwan TG

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly growing mycobacteria of clinical significance were identified by mycolic acids detected with high-performance liquid chromatography. Mycolic acids from whole cells were extracted, derivatized, and detected by a modified high-performance liquid chromatography procedure in less than 3 h. Use of an internal stand...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Butler WR,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus hirae is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. We describe a case of native aortic-valve endocarditis that was caused by Enterococcus hirae in a 72-year-old man. This is the first reported case of endocarditis due to this organism. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poyart C,Lambert T,Morand P,Abassade P,Quesne G,Baudouy Y,Trieu-Cuot P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By an immunomagnetic-bead (IMB) separation technique, isolation of Helicobacter pylori from gastrointestinal and fecal samples of gnotobiotic mice infected with the microorganism was tried. The isolation rate of H. pylori from stomach samples after IMB separation was not higher than that of direct culture of the sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Osaki T,Taguchi H,Yamaguchi H,Kamiya S

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a rare but refractory complication of arthroplasty. Accurate identification of pathogens is a key step for successful treatment of PJI, which remains a challenge for clinicians and laboratory workers. We designed a combined culture method with sonication of implants and incubation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shen H,Tang J,Wang Q,Jiang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p44 gene of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (aoHGE) encodes a 44-kDa major outer surface protein. A technique was developed for the typing of the aoHGE based on the PCR amplification of the p44 gene followed by a multiple restriction digest with HindIII, EcoRV, and AspI to generate restriction fragmen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carter SE,Ravyn MD,Xu Y,Johnson RC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moderately repetitive sequence Ca3 was used to fingerprint strains of Candida albicans isolated from vulvovaginal infections of 10 women and strains isolated from their male partners. The Dendron software package was then used to compare the DNA fingerprints of these strains with those of vaginal commensals from w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Rotman M,Reed B,Pierson CL,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00