Detection of favorable oral cephalosporin-clavulanate interactions by in vitro disk approximation susceptibility testing of extended-spectrum-Beta-lactamase-producing members of the enterobacteriaceae.

abstract：:Cell line 293, a continuous line of transformed human embryonic kidney cells, has been recognized for its sensitivity in the isolation of adenoviruses, particularly the fastidious species 40 and 41, from stool specimens. To explore the possibility of using this cell line for the isolation of other viruses from clinica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown M,Petric M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia hermannii was isolated in pure culture from a patient with acute purulent conjunctivitis after a minor ocular injury. This is the first report of E. hermannii isolated as the sole pathogen from an infected site without prior antibiotic exposure, confirming the pathogenic potential of the microorganism. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poulou A,Dimitroulia E,Markou F,Tsakris A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of phage subtyping group A type 49 streptococci is described. The method is similar to that used for phage typing staphylococci, except that lysates obtained by induction with mitomycin C rather than propagated stock phages were used. Five type 49 strains were used as phage donors. Seventy-two strains of type...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Skjold SA,Wannamaker LW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure to demonstrate immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IgM-IFA) in sera from some patients with acute acquired toxoplasmosis has recently been attributed to an inhibitory effect of high titers of IgG antibodies in these sera (Pyndiah et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 9:170-174, 1979). To con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Filice GA,Yeager AS,Remington JS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biotype analysis was performed on serologically nontypable Haemophilus influenzae isolates from the middle ear effusions and nasopharynges of 33 children with chronic otitis media with effusion (serous otitis media). Over 50% of the H. influenzae isolates from the middle ears belonged to biotype II. The incidence of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeMaria TF,Lim DJ,Barnishan J,Ayers LW,Birck HG

更新日期：1984-12-01 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：:Comparative sequence analysis was performed upon Bacillus anthracis and its closest relatives, B. cereus and B. thuringiensis. Portions of rpoB DNA from 10 strains of B. anthracis, 16 of B. cereus, 10 of B. thuringiensis, 1 of B. mycoides, and 1 of B. megaterium were amplified and sequenced. The determined rpoB sequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Kim JM,Kim JW,Jung BY,Kim W,Kim IJ,Kook YH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated enzymatic method was developed for the measurement of D-arabinitol in human serum. The assay is based on a novel, highly specific D-arabinitol dehydrogenase from Candida tropicalis. This enzyme catalyzes the oxidation of D-arabinitol to D-ribulose and the concomitant reduction of NAD+ to NADH. The NADH pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Switchenko AC,Miyada CG,Goodman TC,Walsh TJ,Wong B,Becker MJ,Ullman EF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fever, brain abscesses, and Gemella morbillorum bacteremia after anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) therapy in a 21-year-old acne inversa patient currently taking long-term dapsone. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing such a case. During antimicrobial therapy, t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vossen MG,Gattringer KB,Khalifeh N,Koreny M,Spertini V,Mallouhi A,Willeit M,Volc-Platzer B,Asboth F,Graninger W,Thalhammer F,Lagler H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15 to 35% of patients with a first episode of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea relapse within 2 months. Between 1994 and 1997, strains from 93 hospitalized patients with C. difficile recurrences were fingerprinted by using both serotyping and PCR-ribotyping. The results showed that 48.4% of clin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barbut F,Richard A,Hamadi K,Chomette V,Burghoffer B,Petit JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:The IDI-MRSA assay (Infectio Diagnostic, Inc., Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada) with the Smart Cycler II rapid DNA amplification system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA) appears to be sensitive and specific for the rapid detection of nasal colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We assessed the sensitivi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bishop EJ,Grabsch EA,Ballard SA,Mayall B,Xie S,Martin R,Grayson ML

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time PCR is dependent upon a calibration function for quantification. While long-term storage of standards saves cost and time, solutions of DNA are prone to degradation. We present here the benchmark treatment for preservation of DNA standards, involving storage in 50% glycerol-double-distilled water, whereby a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Röder B,Frühwirth K,Vogl C,Wagner M,Rossmanith P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus that has several similarities to Staphylococcus aureus. S. lugdunensis is increasingly being recognized as a cause of prosthetic joint infection (PJI). The goal of the present retrospective cohort study was to determine the laboratory and clinical chara...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shah NB,Osmon DR,Fadel H,Patel R,Kohner PC,Steckelberg JM,Mabry T,Berbari EF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter species are the leading agents of bacterial gastroenteritis in developed countries. In this study 320 specimens of feces from patients with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis were cultured for Campylobacter species by direct plating on modified charcoal cefoperazone deoxycholate agar and by enrichment in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maher M,Finnegan C,Collins E,Ward B,Carroll C,Cormican M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare ranging from 10(-1) to 10(3) CFU/ml were added to blood, placed in Isolator tubes, and held at room temperature for intervals ranging from 4 h to 56 days before being processed (centrifugation and culture on Middlebrook 7H10 agar). At all concentrations tested, M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： von Reyn CF,Hennigan S,Niemczyk S,Jacobs NJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disk diffusion and broth microdilution (BMD) were used to perform clindamycin (CLI) induction testing on 128 selected nonduplicate isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Disk diffusion testing involved placing CLI and erythromycin (ERY) disks approximately 12 mm apart (measured edge to edge) on a Mueller-Hinton agar plate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steward CD,Raney PM,Morrell AK,Williams PP,McDougal LK,Jevitt L,McGowan JE Jr,Tenover FC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 233 isolates of Pasteurella multocida were obtained from 2,912 cases of clinical respiratory disease in pigs in China, giving an isolation rate of 8.0%. Serogroup A P. multocida isolates were isolated from 92 cases (39.5%), and serogroup D isolates were isolated from 128 cases (54.9%); 12 isolates (5.2%) we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tang X,Zhao Z,Hu J,Wu B,Cai X,He Q,Chen H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A production model of the semi-automated PASCO MIC-ID system (PASCO Laboratories, Wheat Ridge, Colo.) was evaluated with 122 groups or species of gram-negative bacilli, which included typical (499 cultures) and atypical (37 cultures) strains of fermenters and nonfermenters. The PASCO system identified 90.9% of 536 cul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rhoden DL,Schable B,Smith PB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in the blood serve as an important marker in monitoring the disease progression and treatment efficacy of chronic HBV infection. Several commercial assays are available for accurate measurement of HBV genomic DNA, but many of them are hampered by relatively low sensitivity and lim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sum SS,Wong DK,Yuen MF,Yuan HJ,Yu J,Lai CL,Ho D,Zhang L

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 101 isolates of penicillinase-producing and non-penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae with known nutritional requirements, plasmid content, and serovars, were examined for lectin agglutination patterns. These isolates were from outbreaks in Georgia, California, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. Cell suspens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalla WO,Whittington WL,Rice RJ,Larsen SA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing was applied to the epidemiological investigation of 20 Serratia marcescens isolates collected from urine specimens of 17 patients and three urinals over a 2-month period. Twenty-five epidemiologically unrelated strains were also tested to determine the discriminatory powe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shi ZY,Liu PY,Lau YJ,Lin YH,HU BS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new oligochromatographic assay, Speed-Oligo Novel Influenza A H1N1, was designed and optimized for the specific detection of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus. The assay is based on a PCR method coupled to detection of PCR products by means of a dipstick device. The target sequence is a 103-bp fragment within the hema...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Ruiz M,Navarro-Marí JM,Bautista-Marín MF,Pedrosa-Corral I,Sanbonmatsu-Gámez S,Camacho AG,Rojas J,Ruiz-Ortiz J,Rodríguez-Granger J,Carrillo JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, an outbreak of systemic infections caused by Bacillus cereus occurred in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Three neonates developed sepsis with positive blood cultures. One neonate died, and the other two neonates recovered. An environm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Der Zwet WC,Parlevliet GA,Savelkoul PH,Stoof J,Kaiser AM,Van Furth AM,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-two isolates of Pasteurella (48 strains of Pasteurella multocida and 4 strains of atypical Pasteurella) were identified by conventional and commercial test systems. All strains fermented glucose, sucrose, and fructose in purple broth base (Difco Laboratories) with bromocresol purple as indicator, although the at...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oberhofer TR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For recovery of brucellae from clinical specimens, a lysis-concentration procedure was superior to the procedure of Castañeda (M. R. Castañeda, Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 64:114-115, 1947). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Etemadi H,Raissadat A,Pickett MJ,Zafari Y,Vahedifar P

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described which may be used to identify Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae, group A and B streptococci, and Staphylococcus aureus in smears of clinical specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clausen CR

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of 23 vancomycin-resistant, streptococcuslike isolates of clinical origin revealed a group of 14 to be related to Leuconostoc lactis (type strain, CIP 102422) on the basis of chemotaxonomic studies. These isolates were initially shown to be atypical by classical biochemical tests. However, they were cha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barreau C,Wagener G

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully standardized reproducible and sensitive quantification assays for cytomegalovirus (CMV) are needed to better define thresholds for antiviral therapy initiation and interruption. We evaluated the newly released Abbott RealTime CMV assay for CMV quantification in whole blood (WB) that includes automated extraction...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schnepf N,Scieux C,Resche-Riggon M,Feghoul L,Xhaard A,Gallien S,Molina JM,Socié G,Viglietti D,Simon F,Mazeron MC,Legoff J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 309 Helicobacter pylori isolates from 18 different countries were analyzed with a previously developed lectin typing system. The system was developed by using a proteolytic pretreatment to enhance the carbohydrate fraction of the sample. Four lectins from Ulex europaeus, Lotus tetragonolobus, Erythrina cris...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hynes SO,Broutet N,Wadström T,Mikelsaar M,O'Toole PW,Telford J,Engstrand L,Kamiya S,Mentis AF,Moran AP,Eurohepygast Study Group.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00