Analysis of the excretion dynamics and genotypic characteristics of rotavirus A during the lives of pigs raised on farms for meat production.

abstract：:Isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei currently relies on the use of Ashdown's selective agar (ASA). We designed a new selective agar (Burkholderia pseudomallei selective agar [BPSA]) to improve recovery of the more easily inhibited strains of B. pseudomallei. B. pseudomallei, Burkholderia cepacia, and Pseudomonas ae...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Howard K,Inglis TJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a case-control study using the Fungitell assay, the novel Platelia Candida Antigen (Ag) Plus and Candida Antibody (Ab) Plus assays, and the Cand-Tec latex agglutination test to evaluate the usefulness of (1→3)-β-D-glucan (BDG), mannan antigen with/without anti-mannan antibody, and Cand-Tec Candida antigen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Held J,Kohlberger I,Rappold E,Busse Grawitz A,Häcker G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two isolates of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus of various geographical origins (Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Texas, Missouri, Maryland, California, and Florida) were examined for genetic variation by the base excision sequence scanning (BESS T-scan) method. A fragment was amplified in the envelope gene with t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Charrel RN,Lévy N,Tesh RB,Chandler LJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa representing 12 serogroups in the serogrouping schema used in the People's Republic of China were compared with serogroups in the International Antigenic Typing System (IATS). The first eight groups originated in the People's Republic of China, and group II appears to have a ne...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu PV

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, histological, and bacteriological findings in five cases of acute appendicitis caused by Haemophilus segnis are reported. This is the first documentation of appendicitis associated with this organism. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Welch WD,Southern PM Jr,Schneider NR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time PCR analysis of the total bacterial load in advanced carious lesions has shown that the total load exceeds the number of cultivable bacteria. This suggests that an unresolved complexity exists in bacteria associated with advanced caries. In this report, the profile of the microflora of carious dentine was ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chhour KL,Nadkarni MA,Byun R,Martin FE,Jacques NA,Hunter N

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of the genus Bartonella are currently recognized in growing numbers and are involved in an increasing variety of human diseases, mainly trench fever, Carrion's disease, bacillary angiomatosis, endocarditis, cat scratch disease, neuroretinitis, and asymptomatic bacteremia. Such a wide spectrum of infections mak...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Houpikian P,Raoult D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was developed for the detection of poliovirus antigen. Rabbit and guinea pig antisera for the assay were raised against purified poliovirus type 3/Fin (strain 3/Fin/K) isolated from a fecal specimen from a meningitis patient during an outbreak of poliomyelitis in Finland in 1984....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ukkonen P,Huovilainen A,Hovi T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis G virus (HGV) was recently identified as a new member of the Flaviviridae, but its clinical significance is still unclear. Since no immunoassay for the diagnosis of HGV is available, we developed a sensitive reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assay to facilitate the detection of the viral genome by mass scre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schlueter V,Schmolke S,Stark K,Hess G,Ofenloch-Haehnle B,Engel AM

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, many hospitals designated specific areas to care for patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases. The safe handling of category A infectious substances is a unique challenge in this environment. One solution is on-site waste treatment with a steam sterilizer or a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garibaldi BT,Reimers M,Ernst N,Bova G,Nowakowski E,Bukowski J,Ellis BC,Smith C,Sauer L,Dionne K,Carroll KC,Maragakis LL,Parrish NM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection typically leads to antibody response within weeks after primary infection. Here, we describe the case of a child infected with HCV by mother-to-child transmission who remained persistently seronegative despite the presence of high levels of circulating HCV RNA. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Larouche A,Gaëtan G,El-Bilali N,Quesnel-Vallières M,Martin SR,Alvarez F,Shoukry NH,Soudeyns H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificities and sensitivities of the Bactec mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) system for the recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from pleural fluid are not statistically different than those of the Myco/F lytic liquid culture system. The time to positivity is shorter in the MGIT system (12.7 versus 2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harausz E,Lusiba JK,Nsereko M,Johnson JL,Toossi Z,Ogwang S,Boom WH,Joloba ML,Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU).

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:We investigated the antibody response in women with postpartum fever from whom Ureaplasma urealyticum had been isolated from the bloodstream. Acute- and convalescent-phase sera were tested for immunoglobulin G to the polypeptides of five serovars (1, 2, 3, 4, and 8), representing the two genomic clusters of U. urealyt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee GY,Kenny GE

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat to TB control worldwide. Globally, only 40% of the 340,000 notified TB patients estimated to have multidrug-resistant-TB (MDR-TB) were detected in 2015. This study was carried out to evaluate the utility of high-resolution melt curve analysis (HRM) for the rapid and d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anthwal D,Gupta RK,Bhalla M,Bhatnagar S,Tyagi JS,Haldar S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of the Legionnaires disease bacterium (LDB) that was isolated by Joseph E. McDade from a postmortem lung specimen of a patient with fatal atypical pneumonia at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Togus, Maine was serologically different from 16 other strains of LDB that had been isolated previously from p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McKinney RM,Thomason BM,Harris PP,Thacker L,Lewallen KR,Wilkinson HW,Hebert GA,Moss CW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay of sputum or nasopharyngeal specimens has shown promising results in the detection of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (PncCAP). We applied qPCR for the autolysin gene (lytA) and compared sputum and nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) pneumococcal loads in elderly patients with c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saukkoriipi A,Palmu AA,Pascal T,Verlant V,Hausdorff WP,Jokinen J

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira is a highly diverse genus comprising many species and serogroups in Brazil as well as all over the world. However, a study by arbitrarily primed PCR of 44 leptospiral strains isolated from humans during three different outbreaks in Brazilian urban centers reveals that 43 of 44 isolates exhibit very similar ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pereira MM,Matsuo MG,Bauab AR,Vasconcelos SA,Moraes ZM,Baranton G,Saint Girons I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VlsE, the variable surface antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi, contains an immunodominant conserved region named IR(6). In the present study, the diagnostic performance of a peptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on a 26-mer synthetic peptide (C(6)) with the IR(6) sequence was explored. Sensitivity was a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liang FT,Steere AC,Marques AR,Johnson BJ,Miller JN,Philipp MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many laboratory workers prefer the rhodamine-auramine method of staining acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in primary specimen smears rather than carbol fuchsin stains because the stain is more readily interpreted and yields greater sensitivity. The increasing incidence of AFB infections serves as an impetus to optimize the rho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCarter YS,Robinson A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization, the nasopharynx is sampled using a swab placed in skim milk-tryptone-glucose-glycerol (STGG) transport medium, and then the swab specimen or STGG medium is cultured or subjected to PCR. We evaluated the effect of swab composition and compared the sensitivities of detect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rubin LG,Rizvi A,Baer A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was performed comparing the fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen (FAMA) test and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for identifying susceptibility and seroconversion to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection. A total of 75 sera were collected from index cases and from sibling and par...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iltis JP,Castellano GA,Gerber P,Le C,Vujcic LK,Quinnan GV Jr

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Participants in the College of American Pathologists' Mycobacteriology E proficiency testing survey in 1993 were asked to complete a questionnaire addressing mycobacterial test methods, test volume, and frequency of detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A similar questionnaire had been distribu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woods GL,Witebsky FG

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:We developed and assessed the diagnostic value of a novel quantitative nested real-time (QNRT) PCR assay targeting the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) in a guinea pig model of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Groups of 5 immunosuppressed animals that were infected using an aerosol chamber w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lengerova M,Kocmanova I,Racil Z,Hrncirova K,Pospisilova S,Mayer J,Najvar LK,Wiederhold NP,Kirkpatrick WR,Patterson TF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis is an important systemic fungal infection, particularly among immunocompromised individuals, who may develop a progressive disseminated form which is often fatal if it is untreated. In such patients, the detection of antibody responses for both diagnosis and follow-up may be of limited use, whereas the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gómez BL,Figueroa JI,Hamilton AJ,Diez S,Rojas M,Tobón A,Restrepo A,Hay RJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a multiplex reverse transcription-PCR (m-RT-PCR) assay that is able to detect and differentiate all known human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs). Serial dilution experiments with reference strains that compared cell culture isolation and m-RT-PCR showed sensitivities ranging from 0.0004 50% tissue culture inf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aguilar JC,Pérez-Breña MP,García ML,Cruz N,Erdman DD,Echevarría JE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enzygnost alpha method was tested against the complement fixation test and anti-VCA immunofluorescence to determine the respective titers of anti-cytomegalovirus and anti-Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin G antibodies. For cytomegalovirus, the Enzygnost results showed 97.99% agreement with the readings obtained by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gutierrez J,Maroto MD,Piédrola G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing salmonella isolates, Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, were analyzed. Both isolates produced the CTX-M-3 ESBL; however, their bla(CTX-M-3) genes were located on different plasmids. The serovar Typhimurium isolate a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baraniak A,Sadowy E,Hryniewicz W,Gniadkowski M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-based typing (SBT), analogous to multilocus sequence typing (MLST), is the current "gold standard" typing method for investigation of legionellosis outbreaks caused by Legionella pneumophila However, as common sequence types (STs) cause many infections, some investigations remain unresolved. In this study, va...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： David S,Mentasti M,Tewolde R,Aslett M,Harris SR,Afshar B,Underwood A,Fry NK,Parkhill J,Harrison TG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00