Transmission of an extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (sequence type ST131) strain between a father and daughter resulting in septic shock and Emphysematous pyelonephritis.

abstract：:From January 1995 to May 1998, 57 episodes of bacteremia due to viridans group streptococci were identified in 50 febrile neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies. Four patients experienced two separate episodes of streptococcal bacteremia, and one patient had four separate episodes of streptococcal bacterem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wisplinghoff H,Reinert RR,Cornely O,Seifert H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria from clinical specimens maintained in the Copan Venturi Transystem and the Becton Dickinson Port-a-Cul transport was assessed. Of 54 anaerobes, 53 were recovered after 4 h, and 52 were recovered after 24 h, from both systems. After 48 h, 45 and 50 were recovered from the two ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Citron DM,Warren YA,Hudspeth MK,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 random clinical urine specimens were divided and used to compare Becton, Dickinson & Co. B-D Urine Culture Kit-treated urine (BDU) with refrigerated urine (RU). Each RU-BDU pair was cultured with the standard calibrated loop-plate method and also screened with the Abbott Laboratories MS-2 system at 0, 5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hubbard WA,Shalis PJ,McClatchey KD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many truly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-negative serum samples may be unnecessarily subjected to costly and time-consuming Western blots (immunoblots). An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of using a recombinant protein-based enzyme immunosorbent assay (EIA; Cambridge BioScience [C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lepine DG,Neumann PW,Frenette SL,O'Shaughnessy MV

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isolate of Proteus mirabilis recovered from blood cultures of a diabetic patient was shown to be resistant to imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem by disk diffusion susceptibility testing. Amplification of whole-cell and/or plasmid DNA recovered from the isolate with primers specific for the bla(KPC) carbapenemase ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tibbetts R,Frye JG,Marschall J,Warren D,Dunne W

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) was used to characterize Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1. Cells from a single colony could be subtyped by AP-PCR within a few hours. The discrimination between strains of L. pneumophila serogroup 1 by AP-PCR was equivalent to that by monoclonal antibody analysis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gomez-Lus P,Fields BS,Benson RF,Martin WT,O'Connor SP,Black CM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to antimonial drugs has been documented in Leishmania isolates transmitted in South America, Europe, and Asia. The frequency and distribution of resistance to these and other antileishmanial drugs are unknown. Technical constraints have limited the assessment of drug susceptibility of clinical strains of Le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fernández O,Diaz-Toro Y,Valderrama L,Ovalle C,Valderrama M,Castillo H,Perez M,Saravia NG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) for detection of serum antibodies to staphylococcal teichoic acids was evaluated against teichoic acids prepared by sonic treatment or lysostaphin extraction of Staphylococcus aureus (Lafferty strain). Of 54 patient sera from suspected cases of staphylococcal endocarditis,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leffell MS,Folds JD,Wasilauskas B

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria include a large number of pathogens. Identification to species level is important for diagnoses and treatments. Here, we report the development of a Web-accessible database of the hsp65 locus sequences (http://msis.mycobacteria.info) from 149 out of 150 Mycobacterium species/subspecies. This database can ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dai J,Chen Y,Lauzardo M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several G8P[6] and G8P[8] rotavirus strains were isolated from hospitalized patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. To investigate their overall genomic relatedness and to determine to which genogroup they belonged, the complete genomes of strains DRC88 (G8P[8]) and DRC86 (G8P[6]) were determined. Genomi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Matthijnssens J,Rahman M,Yang X,Delbeke T,Arijs I,Kabue JP,Muyembe JJ,Van Ranst M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attenuated bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine strain is derived from a virulent strain of Mycobacterium bovis. BCG is difficult to differentiate from other strains of M. bovis and other members of the M. tuberculosis complex by conventional methods. Recently, a genomic region designated RD1 was found to be pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Talbot EA,Williams DL,Frothingham R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of concerns over an influenza pandemic, identification of virulent influenza A virus isolates must be obtained quickly for effective responses. Rapid subtype identification, however, is difficult even in well-equipped virology laboratories or is unobtainable in the field under more austere conditions. Here...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lodes MJ,Suciu D,Elliott M,Stover AG,Ross M,Caraballo M,Dix K,Crye J,Webby RJ,Lyon WJ,Danley DL,McShea A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple agar-well diffusion bioassay suitable for measurement of flucytosine or ketoconazole was developed by using Candida pseudotropicalis ATCC 46764 as the assay organism. A test medium composed of (per liter) 7 g of Trypticase peptone, 7 g of YNB (yeast-nitrogen base), 15 g of glucose, and 15 g of agar was seeded...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bodet CA 3rd,Jorgensen JH,Drutz DJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New variants of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) viruses were detected in Taiwan between 2012 and 2013. Some of these variants were not detected in clinical specimens using a common real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assay that targeted the conserved regions of the viral matrix (M) genes. An analysis o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yang JR,Kuo CY,Huang HY,Wu FT,Huang YL,Cheng CY,Su YT,Chang FY,Wu HS,Liu MT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to find a reliable method for the detection and identification of fungi in fungus balls of the maxillary sinus and to evaluate the spectrum of fungi in these samples. One hundred twelve samples were obtained from patients with histologically proven fungal infections; 81 samples were paraffin-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Willinger B,Obradovic A,Selitsch B,Beck-Mannagetta J,Buzina W,Braun H,Apfalter P,Hirschl AM,Makristathis A,Rotter M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three commercial chromogenic agar media were evaluated for Streptococcus agalactiae screening in 200 vaginal swabs from pregnant women. The sensitivity and specificity were 94.3% and 100% for Granada medium (bioMérieux), 100% and 90.3% for Brilliance GBS medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100% and 98.8% for ChromI...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Verhoeven PO,Noyel P,Bonneau J,Carricajo A,Fonsale N,Ros A,Pozzetto B,Grattard F

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibody induced by vaccination with recombinant gp160 (rgp160) to bind to native and recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoproteins was measured. Thirty-three HIV-1-seronegative healthy adult volunteers were injected four times with 40 or 80 micrograms of an HIV-1LAV env...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gorse GJ,Frey SE,Newman FK,Belshe RB

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Determination of anti-hepatitis E virus (anti-HEV) antibodies is still enigmatic. There is no gold standard, and results obtained with different assays often diverge. Herein, five assays were compared for detection of anti-HEV IgM and IgG. Serum samples from 500 Swedish blood donors and 316 patients, of whom 136 had s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Norder H,Karlsson M,Mellgren Å,Konar J,Sandberg E,Lasson A,Castedal M,Magnius L,Lagging M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A differential staining method employing acridine orange-stained rickettsiae and safranin-stained standardized suspensions of Shigella dysenteriae is described for enumerating rickettsiae harvested during various stages of the growth cycle. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silverman DJ,Fiset P,Wisseman CL Jr

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：:Tick-borne diseases, due to a diversity of bacterial pathogens, represent a significant and increasing public health threat throughout the Northern Hemisphere. A high-throughput 16S V1-V2 rRNA gene-based metagenomics assay was developed and evaluated using >13,000 residual samples from patients suspected of having tic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kingry L,Sheldon S,Oatman S,Pritt B,Anacker M,Bjork J,Neitzel D,Strain A,Berry J,Sloan L,Respicio-Kingry L,Dietrich E,Bloch K,Moncayo A,Srinivasamoorthy G,Hu B,Hinckley A,Mead P,Kugeler K,Petersen J

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty staphylococcal strains that produced toxic shock syndrome (TSS) toxin 1 and that were isolated from patients with TSS were characterized. One strain had more properties that were characteristic of Staphylococcus hyicus than of Staphylococcus aureus. Forty-four strains had the same properties or differed in only ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aliu B,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new molecular biological approach for the identification of bacteria is described. This approach employs PCR of bacterial cell lysates with conserved primers located in the 16S rRNA sequence flanking a variable region, and analysis of the amplified product was based on the principle of single-strand conformation pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjojoatmodjo MN,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate oral yeast colonization and oral yeast strain diversity in irradiated (head and neck), dentate, xerostomic individuals. Subjects were recruited from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma clinic and were segregated into group A (age, <60 years [n = 25; average age +/- standard deviation (S...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leung WK,Dassanayake RS,Yau JY,Jin LJ,Yam WC,Samaranayake LP

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the penA gene, encoding penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2), in 30 penicillin-intermediate (PenI) Neisseria meningitidis strains showed altered gene sequences due to the translocation of exogenous DNA blocks derived from commensal neisseriae, which are known to have PBP2 proteins with decreased af...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stefanelli P,Carattoli A,Neri A,Fazio C,Mastrantonio P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, disk diffusion testing with ceftizoxime and cefuroxime was evaluated for use in predicting the susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae to ceftriaxone and cefotaxime. Of the 194 isolates included in this study, 138 were susceptible, 34 were intermediate, and 22 were resistant to cefotaxime by MIC test...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Williams-Bouyer N,Hernandez A,Reisner BS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was recently identified and linked to acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI). To assess the clinical importance of this virus in infants and children, we developed a rapid and efficient reverse transcription-PCR-based screening method for a large volume of samples and tested retrosp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chano F,Rousseau C,Laferrière C,Couillard M,Charest H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a molecular typing system for Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli based on restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the flagellin gene,flaA (I.Nachamkin, K. Bohachick, and C.M. Patton, J. Clin. Microbiol. 31:1531-1536, 1993). We extended the typing system to 83 flagellin types...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nachamkin I,Ung H,Patton CM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-restriction endonuclease analysis (PRA) was used for direct identification of Mycobacterium haemophilum in clinical specimens from immunocompromised patients. PRA correctly identified M. haemophilum in four smear-positive specimens. Direct identification by PRA takes 2 to 3 working days compared to the 3 to 5 week...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang SX,Sng LH,Leong HN,Tan BH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00