Spontaneous staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element excision in Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriers.

abstract：:Potomac horse fever, a recently recognized disease of equines, characterized by high fever, leukopenia, and a profuse diarrhea, was studied for its etiology. An Ehrlichia organism was isolated in equine macrophage-fibroblast cell cultures and mouse macrophage cell cultures from the mononuclear cells of blood of infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dutta SK,Myrup AC,Rice RM,Robl MG,Hammond RC

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 1-year survey of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) prevalence in central France, 2,143 samples were investigated by PCR for Shiga toxin-encoding genes. A total of 330 (70%) of 471 fecal samples collected from healthy cattle at the Clermont-Ferrand slaughterhouse, 47 (11%) of 411 beef samples, 60 (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pradel N,Livrelli V,De Champs C,Palcoux JB,Reynaud A,Scheutz F,Sirot J,Joly B,Forestier C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The automated and computerized AutoMicrobic system (AMS; Vitek Systems, Inc., subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas, Hazelwood, Mo.) was evaluated as a means of identifying the Enterobacteriaceae. The Micro-ID system (General Diagnostics, Morris Plains, N.J.) and, when necessary, conventional tubed media were used for compa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burdash NM,Teti G,West ME,Bannister ER,Manos JP

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies on the detection of bovine serum immunoglobulin G antibodies to bluetongue virus with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, an immunodiffusion method, and a serum neutralization assay demonstrated complete concordance between the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the serum neutralization assay ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poli G,Stott J,Liu YS,Manning JS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the population structure of Enterococcus faecalis from Polish hospitals, 291 isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and a novel multilocus sequence typing scheme (P. Ruiz-Garbajosa et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2220-2228, 2006). The isolates originated from geographically widespread medical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawalec M,Pietras Z,Daniłowicz E,Jakubczak A,Gniadkowski M,Hryniewicz W,Willems RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first outbreak of Candida haemulonii fungemia is described. The seven isolates from the blood of four neonates were identified by DNA sequencing of the ribosomal DNA. They were all resistant to amphotericin B, fluconazole, and itraconazole. This report highlights the emergence of C. haemulonii as an opportunistic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khan ZU,Al-Sweih NA,Ahmad S,Al-Kazemi N,Khan S,Joseph L,Chandy R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude extracts of Dolichos biflorus can be coupled to polystyrene particles to yield an agglutination reagent for the detection of group C streptococcal antigen extracts. The reagent is relatively inexpensive and simple to prepare and can be employed for the definitive identification of this beta-hemolytic streptococc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Slifkin M,Gil GM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety-three Streptococcus agalactiae isolates of neonatal origin and 146 isolates from adult women were analyzed for macrolide resistance and investigated for clonality. Among erythromycin-resistant isolates, serotype V turned out to be the most frequent. Comparative pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： von Both U,Ruess M,Mueller U,Fluegge K,Sander A,Berner R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbiased nontargeted metagenomic RNA sequencing (UMERS) has the advantage to detect known as well as unknown pathogens and, thus, can significantly improve the detection of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal sequences in public health settings. In particular, conventional diagnostic methods successfully identify ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fischer N,Indenbirken D,Meyer T,Lütgehetmann M,Lellek H,Spohn M,Aepfelbacher M,Alawi M,Grundhoff A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of azole-resistant strains of Aspergillus fumigatus during treatment for aspergillosis occurs by a mutation selection process. Understanding how antifungal resistance mechanisms evolve in the host environment during infection is of great clinical importance and biological interest. Here, we used next-gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hagiwara D,Takahashi H,Watanabe A,Takahashi-Nakaguchi A,Kawamoto S,Kamei K,Gonoi T

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of nursery outbreaks of Citrobacter diversus sepsis and meningitis have been hampered by lack of adequate epidemiologic markers for the organism. We studied outer membrane protein profiles from clinical isolates of C. diversus by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to determine whe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kline MW,Mason EO Jr,Kaplan SL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative, curved, rod-shaped bacterium known to cause gastritis and to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcers. Serological testing has recently been proposed as an aid in diagnosis of H. pylori infections. In this study, we used the Western immunoblot technique to eva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Andersen LP,Espersen F

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two DNA probes, one 1.1- and one 0.75-kb probe, specific for Serpulina hyodysenteriae were isolated from a genomic library generated from virulent S. hyodysenteriae 5380. These probes are highly specific and react with all S. hyodysenteriae strains tested. Under stringent conditions, the DNA probes did not react with ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sotiropoulos C,Smith SC,Coloe PJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the clinical performance of Check-Direct CPE for carbapenemase detection directly from 301 perirectal swabs (258 patients) in a nonoutbreak setting. Culture of a PCR-confirmed, carbapenemase-containing organism, or history of colonization with such organism within the previous 2 weeks, was used as the ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lau AF,Fahle GA,Kemp MA,Jassem AN,Dekker JP,Frank KM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for open reading frame 1 (ORF1) of the glutamine synthetase gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was able to tolerate urea concentrations of ≤ 1.8 M, compared with a PCR assay that was functional at concentrations of <100 mM. The LAMP assay was as sensitive as the PCR ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edwards T,Burke PA,Smalley HB,Gillies L,Hobbs G

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Coxsackievirus (CV) strains CVA2, CVA4, CVA5, and CVA10 were isolated from patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease during a 2009 outbreak in China. Full genome sequences for four representative strains, CVA2/SD/CHN/09 (A2SD09), CVA4/SZ/CHN/09 (A4SZ09), CVA5/SD/CHN/09 (A5SD09), and CVA10/SD/CHN/09 (A10SD09), were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu YF,Yang F,Du J,Dong J,Zhang T,Wu ZQ,Xue Y,Jin Q

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used a nested multiplex PCR method to detect three periodontal pathogens in subgingival plaque collected before treatment and at 2 and 6 months posttreatment from 107 patients with severe, generalized periodontitis. The proportions of the patients who harbored these bacteria before periodontal treatment wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ready D,D'Aiuto F,Spratt DA,Suvan J,Tonetti MS,Wilson M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growth medium with a specific oxidation-reduction potential containing peptone, dextrose, sodium succinate, sodium lactate, gelatin, sodium bicarbonate and blue tetrazolium, an indicator dye, in a tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer was used to detect the presence of microorganisms in blood. The procedure involve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shih CN,Balish E

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CDC eugonic oxidizer group 2 (EO-2) is a group of unclassified gram-negative bacterial strains isolated from various human sources. As determined by biochemical tests and analyses of fatty acid compositions, these organisms form a homogeneous group that appears to be distinct from but related to other Paracoccus speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Daneshvar MI,Hollis DG,Weyant RS,Steigerwalt AG,Whitney AM,Douglas MP,Macgregor JP,Jordan JG,Mayer LW,Rassouli SM,Barchet W,Munro C,Shuttleworth L,Bernard K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the Norwalk virus (NV) by immune electron microscopy (IEM) in 1972, serologic studies with this virus have relied on particle-positive fecal material from infected volunteers as the source of antigen because it has not been possible to propagate this virus in cell culture. However, the recent cl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Green KY,Lew JF,Jiang X,Kapikian AZ,Estes MK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging multidrug-resistant pathogenic yeast Candida auris represents a serious threat to global health. Unlike most other Candida species, this organism appears to be commonly transmitted within health care facilities and causes health care-associated outbreaks. To better understand the epidemiology of this emer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Welsh RM,Bentz ML,Shams A,Houston H,Lyons A,Rose LJ,Litvintseva AP

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:The diagnosis of congenital syphilis in apparently healthy infants continues to be problematic. Immunoglobulin M antibodies specific for a subset of Treponema pallidum antigens have been detected by Western blotting (immunoblotting). In the present study we investigated the sensitivity and specificity of this method. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meyer MP,Eddy T,Baughn RE

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification of pathogens from blood cultures can decrease lengths of stay and improve patient outcomes. We evaluated the accuracy of the Verigene Gram-positive blood culture (BC-GP) nucleic acid test for investigational use only (Nanosphere, Inc., Northbrook, IL) for the identification of Gram-positive bacter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wojewoda CM,Sercia L,Navas M,Tuohy M,Wilson D,Hall GS,Procop GW,Richter SS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa illustrates clearly the need for additional studies with humans and animals to elucidate the ecology of Ebola viruses (EBVs). In this study, we developed a serological assay based on the Luminex technology. Nine recombinant proteins representing different vir...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ayouba A,Touré A,Butel C,Keita AK,Binetruy F,Sow MS,Foulongne V,Delaporte E,Peeters M

更新日期：2016-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 141 independent strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with different heterogeneities in the exo gene (exoS, exoT, exoU, and exoY) background were examined for their pathogenic roles. Results indicated that the exoU gene is the major contributor to cytotoxicity in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells but is not relat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin HH,Huang SP,Teng HC,Ji DD,Chen YS,Chen YL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate identification of mycobacterial species and subspecies is essential to evaluate their significance and to perform epidemiological studies. The subspecies of Mycobacterium avium have different attributes but coincide in their zoonotic potential. Our knowledge about M. avium subsp. silvaticum is limited, since ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rónai Z,Csivincsik Á,Dán Á

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey for carriers of Streptococcus pneumoniae among 573 children was undertaken. Throat and nasopharyngeal cultures from 303 children disclosed pneumococci in 89 (29.4%) nasopharyngeal swabs but in only 8 (2.6%) throat specimens. Carriers of pneumococci were detected with frequencies of 84.4 and 79.9% on aerobical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Robins-Browne RM,Kharsany AB,Ramsaroop UG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for detecting pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides in immune complexes is described. Separation of antigen from immune complexes is achieved by electrophoresis at 56 degrees C. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coonrod JD,Leach RP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00