Detection of Campylobacter jejuni by culture and real-time PCR in a French cohort of patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome.

abstract：:Biotype -specificity of Staphylococcus aureus of human and canine origins has been found to be associated with thermolabile agglutinogens represented in S. aureus strains 17 and 61218, respectively. Both strains also have exhibited a common thermostable antigen. On that basis, absorbed antisera have been developed for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Live I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally acquired murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection in laboratory strains of mice induces antibody levels which are generally undetectable by standard techniques; therefore, MCMV has not been included routinely in mouse viral antibody screening programs. The relative sensitivity of three assay systems, the nucl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson CA,Murphy JC,Fox JG

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of antibodies to dengue virus is described. This method correlates well with a hemagglutination inhibition technique. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay can also be specific for human immunoglobulin M antibodies when a mu-chain-specific antiglobulin-enzyme conj...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dittmar D,Cleary TJ,Castro A

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic respiratory tract infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus are common in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Recently, it was shown in a few CF patients that S. aureus isolates produce capsular polysaccharides (CPs). However, it is not known whether this is a common feature and whether an immune response to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Albus A,Fournier JM,Wolz C,Boutonnier A,Ranke M,Høiby N,Hochkeppel H,Döring G

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercially available diagnostic tests for syphilis are mostly based on the use of extracted antigens of Treponema pallidum. Pronounced cross-reactivities with other spirochete antigens are often reported. The aim of this study was to validate a novel multiparametric assay (the assay performed with the kit) INNO-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ebel A,Vanneste L,Cardinaels M,Sablon E,Samson I,De Bosschere K,Hulstaert F,Zrein M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population structure of 3,776 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was determined using variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing. The degree of clonality was so high that a more relaxed definition of clustering cannot be applied. Among recent immigrants with non-Euro-American isolates, transmission is overestima...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sloot R,Borgdorff MW,de Beer JL,van Ingen J,Supply P,van Soolingen D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 521 nonrespiratory specimens (91 urine, 30 gastric aspirate, 245 tissue, 113 pleural fluid, 19 cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], and 23 stool specimens) submitted to the German National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria (NRL) from May 2009 to August 2010 were comparatively investigated with the new molecular-ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hillemann D,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Boehme C,Richter E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1988 and December 1989 Aeromonas species were isolated from 45 (1.8%) of 2,480 patients with acute gastroenteritis. No other bacterial enteric pathogens were found in any of these 45 patients. Of the 45 Aeromonas isolates, 35 strains (77.8%) were Aeromonas hydrophila, 7 (15.5%) were Aeromonas sobria, a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Deodhar LP,Saraswathi K,Varudkar A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined an antiserum agar method to study its reliability in screening Staphylococcus aureus strains for capsule production. The encapsulated S. aureus Smith diffuse strain was compared with its nonencapsulated variant, Smith compact, in CCY medium containing 0.5% NaCl and 5.0% Smith diffuse rabbit antiserum. A ha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： West TE,Apicella MA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an ongoing investigation into nosocomial Legionella infections at Stanford University Medical Center (SUMC), we applied the technique of restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) to determine strain differences among three species, including Legionella pneumophila, Legionella dumoffii, and Legionella micdadei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tompkins LS,Troup NJ,Woods T,Bibb W,McKinney RM

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the optimal combination of three commercial glycoprotein G-2 (gG-2)-based herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) type-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (Euroimmun anti-HSV-2 immunoglobulin G [IgG] ELISA [Eu2], Gull HSV-2-specific IgG ELISA [Gu2], and Radim HSV-2 IgG ELISA [Ra2]) and one gG-2-base...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eing BR,Lippelt L,Lorentzen EU,Hafezi W,Schlumberger W,Steinhagen K,Kühn JE

更新日期：2002-02-01 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

abstract：:Skin biopsies of 36 patients with erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) before therapy and those of 8 patients after therapy were examined for Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by PCR. Skin biopsies of 27 patients with dermatological diseases other than Lyme borreliosis and those of 10 healthy persons ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brettschneider S,Bruckbauer H,Klugbauer N,Hofmann H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their first detection in 1988, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates have rapidly spread in Iceland to account for close to 20% of all pneumococcal disease in that country by 1993. The major component (70%) of the resistant pneumococci identified from 1989 to 1992 was the progeny of a single mul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vilhelmsson SE,Tomasz A,Kristinsson KG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct heteroduplex analysis and a universal heteroduplex generator assay were performed to detect rifampin resistance rapidly in Turkish Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Cross-resistance to rifapentine, rifabutin, and rifalazil was investigated. A relationship between specific mutations and resistance patterns, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saribaş Z,Kocagöz T,Alp A,Günalp A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexagonal surface structure believed to be characteristic for influenza C virus was not initially observed for a newly isolated virus of this type. After a few additional egg passages of the virus, however, the hexagonal structure could be readily seen on many virions. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin ML,Palmer EL,Kendal AP

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a loop-mediated isothermal amplification method able to detect Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains in 30 min by using six primers designed by targeting the inv gene. This method is more sensitive than PCR and might be a useful tool for detecting and identifying Y. pseudotuberculosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Horisaka T,Fujita K,Iwata T,Nakadai A,Okatani AT,Horikita T,Taniguchi T,Honda E,Yokomizo Y,Hayashidani H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arylsulfatase isozymes of Mycobacterium fortuitum, M. peregrinum, M. chelonei subsp. chelonei, and M. chelonei subsp. abscessus were examined to determine the isozymal and immunological relationship among the members of the M. fortuitum complex. Cell extracts were subjected to electrophoresis on agarose and polyac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Binko BP,Bartholomew WR

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal bite wounds are often infected with bacteria from the animal's oral flora. We report what we believe to be the first case of bacteremia with Bacteroides pyogenes resulting from an infected cat bite. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Madsen IR,Justesen US

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although standard conditions are available for testing the susceptibilities of filamentous fungi to antifungal agents by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI; formerly National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards) broth microdilution assay, quality control (QC) MIC limits have not been establi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Espinel-Ingroff A,Fothergill A,Ghannoum M,Manavathu E,Ostrosky-Zeichner L,Pfaller M,Rinaldi M,Schell W,Walsh T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia risticii causes an acute infectious disease in horses called Potomac horse fever. To investigate the biological diversity of E. risticii organisms, nine E. risticii isolates derived from the peripheral blood monocytes of clinically sick horses in Ohio and Kentucky during the summers of 1991 and 1993 were com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chaichanasiriwithaya W,Rikihisa Y,Yamamoto S,Reed S,Crawford TB,Perryman LE,Palmer GH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a DNA amplification procedure for routine identification of heat-labile-toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Two oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction procedure to amplify a highly conserved region of the A subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin gene. Amplifications were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Victor T,du Toit R,van Zyl J,Bester AJ,van Helden PD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi expresses a conserved, species-specific 39-kDa protein (P39) that can stimulate antibodies during human infection. To confirm that anti-P39 antibodies are produced consistently in animals exposed to infectious spirochetes, white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, and laboratory white mice, Mus musc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Simpson WJ,Burgdorfer W,Schrumpf ME,Karstens RH,Schwan TG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) is increasingly being used for the detection of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) proviral DNA. Nevertheless, quality control for the validation and standardization of such tests is currently lacking. Therefore, the present study was initiated by three Office International des Epizooties (O...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jaworski JP,Pluta A,Rola-Łuszczak M,McGowan SL,Finnegan C,Heenemann K,Carignano HA,Alvarez I,Murakami K,Willems L,Vahlenkamp TW,Trono KG,Choudhury B,Kuźmak J

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report five new IS711 chromosomal locations that are specific for marine mammal Brucella groups of strains and useful for their identification and classification. Our data support their current classification into two species, Brucella ceti and B. pinnipedialis, with subgroups in each, but also the possibility of a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zygmunt MS,Maquart M,Bernardet N,Doublet B,Cloeckaert A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we present clinical descriptions of 12 Hawaiian patients from whom Escherichia vulneris or E. hermannii strains were isolated. All but two patients had soft-tissue infections with multiple bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus. The other two had purulent conjunctivitis associated with S. aureus a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pien FD,Shrum S,Swenson JM,Hill BC,Thornsberry C,Farmer JJ 3rd

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gram-negative bacillus, SMC-8986(T), which was isolated from the purulent exudate of an epidermal cyst but could not be identified by a conventional microbiologic method, was characterized by a variety of phenotypic and genotypic analyses. Sequences of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that this bacterium belongs to the ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Peck KR,Oh WS,Lee NY,Lee JH,Song JH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subgroup J avian leukosis virus (ALV-J) is an avian retrovirus that causes severe economic losses in the poultry industry. The early identification and removal of virus-shedding birds are important to reduce the spread of congenital and contact infections. In this study, a TaqMan-based real-time PCR method for the rap...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qin L,Gao Y,Ni W,Sun M,Wang Y,Yin C,Qi X,Gao H,Wang X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pncA gene allows for pyrazinamide susceptibility testing. We summarize data on pncA polymorphisms that do not confer resistance at a susceptibility breakpoint of 100 μg/ml pyrazinamide in MGIT within a cohort of isolates from South Africa and the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whitfield MG,Warren RM,Streicher EM,Sampson SL,Sirgel FA,van Helden PD,Mercante A,Willby M,Hughes K,Birkness K,Morlock G,van Rie A,Posey JE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search has been made for corynebacterial phospholipase D, "ovis toxin," a sphingomyelinase (phosphatidylcholine phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.4), among a wide variety of corynebacteria. Phospholipase D activity has been found in strains exhibiting the biochemical properties characteristic of Corynebacterium pseudotuber...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barksdale L,Linder R,Sulea IT,Pollice M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00