Evaluation of multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for typing a polyclonal hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus population in an area where such infections are endemic.

abstract：:We isolated and characterized a Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal-specific DNA region by arbitrary PCR. The fragment contains open reading frames encoding two potential glycosyltransferases possibly involved in capsular polysaccharide or lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. In order to evaluate the possibility that this region ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falklind S,Stark M,Albert MJ,Uhlén M,Lundeberg J,Weintraub A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified auxanographic carbohydrate assimilation procedure for the identification of medically important yeasts is described. This method employs a heavy inoculum of unstarved yeasts, autoclaved yeast assimilation medium, pour plates of shallow depth, and commercially available carbohydrate-impregnated disks. The ac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mickelsen PA,McCarthy LR,Propst MA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial cerebrospinal fluid samples were obtained from 14 multiple sclerosis patients over a period of several months and were tested under code for Inoue-Melnick virus. In five of the positive patients, virus was present in 28 of 32 specimens collected over a period of 2 to 5 months. Four patients, from whom a total o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Melnick JL,Seidel E,Wang SS,Muchinik G,Rashti EJ,Jacobs LD,Freeman AI,O'Malley J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared serial measurements of antibodies to mannan and to a cytoplasmic antigen (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays), detection of mannan and an unidentified candidal antigen (latex agglutination), and assays of mannose and arabinitol (gas chromatographic assay of per-O-acetylated aldonitrile derivatives). In a h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Greenfield RA,Troutt DL,Rickard RC,Altmiller DH

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ERA strain of rabies virus was adapted to growth on monolayers of a porcine kidney cell line (PK-2A). A reproducible plaque assay system was subsequently developed, which appears to be satisfactory for conducting plaque neutralization tests. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strating A,Mitzel JR,Slater EA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is a well-known cause of food-borne illness, but infection with this organism is not commonly reported because of its usually mild symptoms. A fatal case due to liver failure after the consumption of pasta salad is described and demonstrates the possible severity of the emetic syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dierick K,Van Coillie E,Swiecicka I,Meyfroidt G,Devlieger H,Meulemans A,Hoedemaekers G,Fourie L,Heyndrickx M,Mahillon J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three antigenic variants of the H3N2 subtype of wild-type influenza A virus (representing the years 1968, 1972, and 1974) were examined for their sensitivity to interferon and for their ability to induce local respiratory tract interferon in volunteers. In addition, the time of appearance of symptoms in infected volun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Richman DD,Murphy BR,Baron S,Uhlendorf C

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) was used for rapid determination of the hemagglutinin (HA) cleavage site sequence, a marker for the virulence potential of avian influenza viruses. When applied to specimens from chickens experimentally infected with either a virulent or an avirulent virus, RT-PCR uniformly detecte...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Horimoto T,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreasing the time to species identification and antibiotic susceptibility determination of strains recovered from patients with bacteremia significantly decreases morbidity and mortality. Herein, we validated a method to identify Gram-negative bacteria directly from positive blood culture medium using the Bruker MAL...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wimmer JL,Long SW,Cernoch P,Land GA,Davis JR,Musser JM,Olsen RJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a decade ago the first cryptococcal lateral flow assay (LFA) became available. This affordable point-of-care test has undeniably led to tremendous improvements in early detection of cryptococcosis (1,2). However, from several studies it must be concluded that the reliability of recently introduced LFA's falls sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shi D,Haas PJ,Boekhout T,Hahn RC,Hagen F

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 382 strains tested, 261 strains of the species Bacteroides fragilis, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. ovatus, and B. distasonis produced phenylacetic acid; the remaining strains, belonging exclusively to the species B. vulgatus, failed to do so. This differentiation characteristic may be useful in routine clinical bacteriol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Assche PF

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus ST45 is a major global MRSA lineage with huge strain diversity and a high clinical impact. It is one of the most prevalent carrier lineages but also frequently causes severe invasive disease, such as bacteremia. Little is known about its evolutionary history. In this study, we used whole-genome s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Effelsberg N,Stegger M,Peitzmann L,Altinok O,Coombs GW,Pichon B,Kearns A,Randad PR,Heaney CD,Bletz S,Schaumburg F,Mellmann A

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new method which uses cold absolute methanol-prefixed cells for adherence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to HEp-2 cells. We found that a method using bacteria grown in Penassay broth to 10(6) to 10(7) CFU/ml and incubated with prefixed cells for 3 h at 37 degrees C, showed 100% sensitivity and spec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zepeda-Lopez HM,Gonzalez-Lugo GM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An echovirus 3 (Echo3) strain (strain LR31G7) was isolated from a sewage treatment plant in Greece in 2005. Full-genome molecular, phylogenetic, and SimPlot analyses were conducted in order to reveal the evolutionary pathways of the isolate. Nucleotide and phylogenetic analyses of part of the VP1 genomic region reveal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kyriakopoulou Z,Dedepsidis E,Pliaka V,Tsakogiannis D,Pratti A,Levidiotou-Stefanou S,Markoulatos P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of 54 clinical isolates of Neisseria meningitidis to penicillin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, cefepime, imipenem, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, and rifampin were determined by the microdilution method in both cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth (CAMHB) and Haemophilus test medium (HTM). Poor growth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pascual A,Joyanes P,Martinez-Martinez L,Suarez AI,Perea EJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RotaTeq (RV5) is a widely used live attenuated pentavalent rotavirus (RV) vaccine. Although fecal shedding of RV vaccine strains persists for long time periods, it is unclear how each vaccine strain replicates in intestinal tissue and is excreted in stool. To examine this issue, we established RV5 genotype-specific re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Higashimoto Y,Ihira M,Miyazaki Y,Kuboshiki A,Yoshinaga S,Hiramatsu H,Suzuki R,Miyata M,Miura H,Komoto S,Yukitake J,Taniguchi K,Kawamura Y,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one reference strains and 88 clinical isolates of Aerococcus, Enterococcus, and Streptococcus species were tested for reactions in the Rapid Strep (RS) and modified conventional tests. We conclude that some but not all of the tests in the RS system could be used to substitute for conventional tests. RS tests fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fertally SS,Facklam R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of performing routine aerobic subcultures of both vented and unvented blood culture bottles has not been evaluated critically. We studied 4,954 pairs of blood culture bottles consisting of one vented biphasic tryptic soy broth bottle (Roche Diagnostics) and one unvented Thiol broth bottle (Difco Laboratories...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Westfall LM,Murray PR

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus of strains subgenus F (AdV F) are the most common strains detected in acute gastroenteritis cases in developing countries. Subgenus F is represented by AdV serotype 40 (AdV-40) and AdV-41. Most of the reports have described the predominance of AdV-41 in acute gastroenteritis cases. To gain insight int...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dey RS,Ghosh S,Chawla-Sarkar M,Panchalingam S,Nataro JP,Sur D,Manna B,Ramamurthy T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings from a preliminary assessment of a new instrument designed for the inoculation and spreading of specimens for microbiological analysis onto agar plates are described. The study found that the instrument was able to select full or biplates from a number of input cassettes, each containing different agar ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Glasson JH,Guthrie LH,Nielsen DJ,Bethell FA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty stool filtrates known to contain Clostridium difficile toxin based on previous testing on McCoy cells were tested for toxicity on primary African green monkey kidney (AGMK), McCoy, MRC-5, primary rhesus monkey kidney (RMK), and Vero cells. All 30 filtrates showed cytotoxic effect at greater than or equal to 1:1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maniar AC,Williams TW,Hammond GW

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA relatedness and restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns of whole-cell DNA and the general phenotypic properties of 14 isolates of the form species Candida parapsilosis representing three diverse genetic groups were compared. The data confirm the unrelatedness of the three groups at the species level....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roy B,Meyer SA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilophila wadsworthia is a common inhabitant of the human colon and has been associated with appendicitis and other local sites of inflammation in humans. Challenge-exposure or prevalence studies in laboratory and other animals have not been reported. B. wadsworthia is closely related phylogenetically to Desulfovibrio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McOrist AL,Warhurst M,McOrist S,Bird AR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotype was found in seven guinea pigs and a 2-year-old child in the same household. The genetic uniqueness of the parasite, its wide occurrence in other guinea pigs in the community, and its absence in other children in the community suggest the possibility of zoonotic transmission...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cama VA,Pearson J,Cabrera L,Pacheco L,Gilman R,Meyer S,Ortega Y,Xiao L

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:McCoy cells treated with cycloheximide, iododeoxyuridine, and DEAE-dextran and untreated McCoy cells were inoculated with two stock strains of Chlamydia trachomatis and with 231 urethral specimens from men, 53 (23%) of which contained C. trachomatis. Isolation rates, number and quality of inclusions, and quality of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Benes S,McCormack WM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1997 and 1998, H3N2 influenza A viruses emerged among pigs in North America. Genetic analyses of the H3N2 isolates demonstrated that they had distinctly different genotypes. The most commonly isolated viruses in the United States have a triple-reassortant genotype, with the hemagglutinin, neuraminidase, and PB1 pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Landolt GA,Karasin AI,Phillips L,Olsen CW

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended confirming positive screening tests for Chlamydia trachomatis when positive predictive values are <90%. It is accepted that less sensitive tests (i.e., culture and immunoassays) should not be used to confirm the results of more sensitive nucleic acid amplifica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,Hook EW,Martin DH,Willis D,Fine P,Fuller D,Jordan J,Janda WM,Chernesky M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite attempts to control avian mycoplasmosis through management, vaccination, and surveillance, Mycoplasma gallisepticum continues to cause significant morbidity, mortality, and economic losses in poultry production. Live attenuated vaccines are commonly used in the poultry industry to control avian mycoplasmosis; ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ricketts C,Pickler L,Maurer J,Ayyampalayam S,García M,Ferguson-Noel NM

更新日期：2016-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) encodes 11 envelope glycoproteins, of which glycoprotein G-1 (gG-1) induces a type-specific antibody response. Variability of the gG-1 gene among wild-type strains may be a factor of importance for a reliable serodiagnosis and typing of HSV-1 isolates. Here, we used a gG-1 type-spec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rekabdar E,Tunbäck P,Liljeqvist JA,Lindh M,Bergström T

更新日期：2002-09-01 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