Cerebral aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus granulosus.

abstract：:We report a case of Coccidioides thyroiditis in an HIV-infected patient with a history of recent Coccidioides pneumonia but with negative Coccidioides serology determined by enzyme immunoassay at presentation. Diagnosis of Coccidioides thyroiditis was made based on histopathologic examination and culture of thyroid ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jinno S,Chang S,Jacobs MR

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:The human erythrocyte receptor which mediates mannose-resistant hemagglutination by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli possessing colonization factor antigen II is not universally distributed among donors. Mannose-resistant hemagglutination-positive erythrocytes are more common among black donors than nonblack donors; t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans DJ Jr,Evans DG,Diaz SR,Graham DY

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical microbiological diagnosis of human brucellosis is time-consuming, hazardous, and subject to variable interpretation. Intact-cell matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was evaluated for the routine identification of Brucella spp. Analysis of mass peak patt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karger A,Melzer F,Timke M,Bettin B,Kostrzewa M,Nöckler K,Hohmann A,Tomaso H,Neubauer H,Al Dahouk S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene carriage were compared among suspected community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA (CA-MRSA) and health care-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) isolates. CA-MRSA isolates carried the SCCmec type IV complex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moroney SM,Heller LC,Arbuckle J,Talavera M,Widen RH

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative susceptibilities for rhinovirus isolation were determined for strain MRC-5 human embryonic lung fibroblast and human fetal tonsil cells. Samples from nasopharyngeal and throat swab clinical specimens were inoculated onto duplicate monolayers of each cell type. Of 105 rhinovirus-positive specimens, 78 (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Geist FC,Hayden FG

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly emerged Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has infected at least 1,082 people, including 439 fatalities. So far, no empirical virus isolation study has been done to elucidate infectious virus secretion or serotype variability. Here, we used 51 respiratory samples from 32 patients with co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Muth D,Corman VM,Meyer B,Assiri A,Al-Masri M,Farah M,Steinhagen K,Lattwein E,Al-Tawfiq JA,Albarrak A,Müller MA,Drosten C,Memish ZA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first vector-borne Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis case is presented. An immunocompetent male who denied any contact with canines and who worked in a sawmill was bitten on his neck by a large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis L.; Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Bacteriological diagnosis was confirmed by 16S rRNA gene seq...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tuuminen T,Viiri H,Vuorinen S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fastidious, gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the blood of a 51-year-old man who had acute infectious endocarditis (IE). Characterization of the organism through phenotypic and genotypic analyses revealed the causative role of Cardiobacterium valvarum. This is the third reported case of IE caused by C. valva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bothelo E,Gouriet F,Fournier PE,Roux V,Habib G,Thuny F,Metras D,Raoult D,Casalta JP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of the 10-micrograms clindamycin disk was evaluated for susceptibility testing of anaerobes by the aerobic thioglycolate broth disk method. A good correlation between the aerobic thioglycolate broth disk method and the reference agar dilution procedure of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toohey KL,Kurzynski TA,Schell RF,Birk RJ,Zabransky RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:Hybrid Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains of multilocus sequence type 141 (ST141) cause both urinary tract infections and diarrhea in humans and are phylogenetically positioned between STEC and UPEC strains. We used comparative genomic analysis of 85 temporally and s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gati NS,Middendorf-Bauchart B,Bletz S,Dobrindt U,Mellmann A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A biotyping scheme using improved media and methods for the detection of hippurate hydrolysis, rapid H2S production, and DNA hydrolysis was applied to 1,826 cultures of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli and "Campylobacter laridis" isolates from human and nonhuman sources. Four biotypes were identified among C. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lior H

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term outbreak of urinary tract-associated multiply resistant Providencia stuartii occurred in a large medical facility that included a 513-bed chronic care unit. The unique characteristics of this outbreak were that from within a single medical facility, P. stuartii with multiple serotypes, biotypes, and antibi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kocka FE,Srinivasan S,Mowjood M,Kantor HS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accreditation in Ontario, Canada, requires that licensed clinical laboratories participate in external quality assessment (also known as proficiency testing) and perform competency evaluation of their staff. To assess the extent of ongoing competency assessment practices, the Quality Management Program--Laboratory Ser...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desjardins M,Fleming CA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free growth medium for the opportunistic pathogenic ameba Balamuthia mandrillaris is presented. This represents an advance over the use of monkey kidney cells for growth of the amebas and can be helpful in isolation of these amebas from brain tissue from cases in which amebic meningoencephalitis is a diagnostic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schuster FL,Visvesvara GS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasopharyngeal Haemophilus influenzae flora of healthy children in a day care center was analyzed by repeated sampling during 4 winter months. The average carrier rate was 39%, but 74% of the children became colonized at some time during the study. The H. influenzae isolates were identified by capsular type, bioty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trottier S,Stenberg K,Svanborg-Edén C

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This collaborative three-center study evaluated NCCLS M38-A document testing conditions and other testing conditions for the antifungal susceptibility testing of 35 isolates of Aspergillus nidulans, A. terreus, Bipolaris hawaiiensis, B. spicifera, Cladophialophora bantiana, Dactylaria constricta, Fusarium solani, Paec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Espinel-Ingroff A,Chaturvedi V,Fothergill A,Rinaldi MG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shortly after adopting a 6-week-old cat, a veterinarian was bitten on the left index finger. Within 3 weeks, he developed headache, fever, and left axillary lymphadenopathy. Initial blood cultures from the cat and veterinarian were sterile. Repeat cultures from the cat grew Bartonella-like organisms with lophotrichous...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kordick DL,Hilyard EJ,Hadfield TL,Wilson KH,Steigerwalt AG,Brenner DJ,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly developed latex agglutination assay for the detection of genus-specific Leptospira antibodies in human sera was evaluated. The assay is performed by mixing, on an agglutination card, serum with equal volumes of stabilized antigen-coated, dyed test and control latex beads and is read within 2 min. The latex agg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smits HL,van der Hoorn MA,Goris MG,Gussenhoven GC,Yersin C,Sasaki DM,Terpstra WJ,Hartskeerl RA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we evaluated the ability of three commercial methods, API 20A (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.), Minitek (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.), and Anaerobe-Tek (Flow Laboratories, Inc., McLean, Va.), to accurately identify 165 recent clinical and 38 stock isolates of anaerobic bacteria withou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appelbaum PC,Kaufmann CS,Keifer JC,Venbrux HJ

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-testing algorithms for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should be optimized to minimize the risk of drug resistance, the time off PrEP required to evaluate false-positive screening results, and costs and to expedite the start of therapy for those confirmed to be infected. HIV rapid tests (RTs) for anti-HIV antibodie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Guanira JV,Leigler T,Kallas E,Schechter M,Sharma U,Glidden D,Grant RM,iPrEx Study Team.

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previously demonstrated sensitive and specific enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for rotavirus, one using polyclonal and monoclonal antisera (TestPack Rotavirus [TPK]; Abbott Laboratories) and the other using only monoclonal anti-rotavirus antibodies (Rotaclone [RTC]; Cambridge BioScience Corporation), were evaluated as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dennehy PH,Gauntlett DR,Spangenberger SE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop a PCR and reverse line blot hybridization (PCR-RLB) macroarray assay based on 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer sequences for the identification and differentiation of 34 mycobacterial species or subspecies. The performance of the PCR-RLB assay was assessed and validate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xiong L,Kong F,Yang Y,Cheng J,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of severe progressive subcutaneous abscesses and necrotizing tenosynovitis of the right arm of a 30-year-old woman caused by Rhodococcus aurantiacus is reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsukamura M,Hikosaka K,Nishimura K,Hara S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification and typing of methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is important for understanding the molecular epidemiology and evolution of MRSA and offers many advantages for controlling transmission in both health care and community settings. We developed a rapid molecular beacon re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen L,Mediavilla JR,Oliveira DC,Willey BM,de Lencastre H,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus are responsible for a range of disease manifestations from pulmonary to skin infections and are notoriously difficult to treat, due to innate resistance to many antibiotics. Previous population studies of clinical M. abscessus isolates utilized ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davidson RM,Hasan NA,Reynolds PR,Totten S,Garcia B,Levin A,Ramamoorthy P,Heifets L,Daley CL,Strong M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined method of the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for quantitation of endotoxin was developed based on our observation that the antigenicity of coagulogen, a major protein in LAL, was lost when LAL reacted with endotoxin as shown by immunoblotting. Determination of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang GH,Baek L,Koch C

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) is naturally resistant to several antiretroviral drugs, including all of the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the entry inhibitor T-20, and may have reduced susceptibility to some protease inhibitors. These resistance properties make treatment of HIV-2 pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jallow S,Kaye S,Schutten M,Brandin E,Albert J,McConkey SJ,Corrah T,Whittle H,Vanham G,Rowland-Jones S,Janssens W

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current studies indicate that a significant percentage of healthy blood donors carry Chlamydia pneumoniae in their blood. Although the clinical significance of such findings is unknown, eradication of such bacteria from blood components may contribute to transfusion safety. Deletion of C. pneumoniae in Red Blood Cell ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ikejima H,Friedman H,Leparc GF,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00