Genetic diversity among food-borne and waterborne norovirus strains causing outbreaks in Sweden.

abstract：:Neutralizing serum antibody to serotype 9 rotavirus WI61 was detected in 41% of 870 Ecuadorian children and 26% of 140 German children. In both areas an age-related prevalence increase was observed. We identified 11 serum samples from Ecuadorian children which neutralized exclusively serotype 9 rotavirus. Thirteen of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brüssow H,Clark HF,Sidoti J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological tests to detect Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies have been used for screening blood donors, for epidemic studies, and for diagnosis of probably infected persons. Among different tests, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with total, semipurified, or synthetic antigens has been widely used, mainly due...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferreira AW,Belem ZR,Lemos EA,Reed SG,Campos-Neto A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid dot blot hybridization assay for the detection of B19 parvovirus DNA in human sera was developed. Small portions of four serum samples were mixed, filtered onto a nylon membrane, and hybridized with a digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe; for each membrane, 380 serum samples could be tested. When a dot was positive b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zerbini M,Musiani M,Venturoli S,Gallinella G,Gibellini D,Gentilomi G,La Placa M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in anogenital carcinogenesis is firmly established, but evidence that supports a similar role in skin remains speculative. Immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients have an increased incidence of viral warts and nonmelanoma skin cancer, and the presence of HPV DNA in these les...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harwood CA,Spink PJ,Surentheran T,Leigh IM,de Villiers EM,McGregor JM,Proby CM,Breuer J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morganella ("Proteus") morganii is the only species in the recently proposed genus Morganella, but we suspect there are yet undescribed species in the genus. Two candidates for new species were recently investigated. Nineteen strains isolated from clinical specimens resembled M. morganii but were lysine positive and n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hickman FW,Framer JJ 3rd,Steigerwalt AG,Brenner DJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A batch of fetal calf serum was encountered which suppressed the number of Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions seen when it was used in conjunction with cycloheximide-treated McCoy cells. The batch of serum did not affect the number of inclusions detected in irradiated or untreated McCoy cells. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans RT

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure using the Smart Cycler instrument and a fluorescence quencher (FQ) probe for the specific identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB) was used to detect organisms in 366 acid-fast bacillus smear-positive respiratory specimens. It was compared to culture and the AMPLICOR M. tuberculosis PCR t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cleary TJ,Roudel G,Casillas O,Miller N

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA gene PCR in the diagnosis of bone and joint infections has not been systematically tested. Five hundred twenty-five bone and joint samples collected from 525 patients were cultured and submitted to 16S rRNA gene PCR detection of bacteria in parallel. The amplicons with mixed sequences were also cloned. Wh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenollar F,Roux V,Stein A,Drancourt M,Raoult D

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis is a transmissible disease notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health and to the European Union, with ongoing efforts of surveillance and eradication in every EU member state. In Germany, a country which has been declared officially free from bovine t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kohl TA,Utpatel C,Niemann S,Moser I

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In five separate fecal collections spanning three years, group A rotaviruses were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 35 (25%) of 142 specimens obtained from nondiarrheic, hospitalized neonates in Blantyre, Malawi. Molecular characterization of each strain identified, for the first time in neonates, a sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cunliffe NA,Rogerson S,Dove W,Thindwa BD,Greensill J,Kirkwood CD,Broadhead RL,Hart CA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, 21 inhabitants of a German nursing home fell ill with acute gastroenteritis after consumption of minced beef heart (P. Graf and L. Bader, Epidemiol. Bull. 41:327-329, 2000). Two residents died during hospital treatment. Seventeen Clostridium perfringens strains were collected from two different dishes and fro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalch B,Bader L,Schau HP,Bergmann R,Rometsch A,Maydl G,Kessler S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey in 2000 to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in Vancouver downtown east side injection drug users (IDUs) revealed an MRSA nasal colonization incidence of 7.4%. This is a follow-up study to determine the current prevalence of MRSA colonization and to further characterize th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Al-Rawahi GN,Schreader AG,Porter SD,Roscoe DL,Gustafson R,Bryce EA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a satisfactory means to reliably distinguish between the two closely related species Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis in the clinical mycology laboratory has proved difficult because these two species are phenotypically so similar. In this study, we have detected homologues of the pH-regula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurzai O,Heinz WJ,Sullivan DJ,Coleman DC,Frosch M,Mühlschlegel FA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the use of mannitol salt agar with oxacillin for use as a primary screening medium for the simultaneous detection and identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in clinical surveillance specimens. Oxacillin agar dilution susceptibility tests with mannitol salt agar and Mueller-Hinton ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lally RT,Ederer MN,Woolfrey BF

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has recently been described as a fast and inexpensive method for the identification of mycobacteria. Although mycobacteria require extraction prior to MALDI-TOF MS analysis, previously published protocols have been relatively c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mather CA,Rivera SF,Butler-Wu SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six separate human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with cryptococcal meningitis were each found to have been infected with a unique strain of Cryptococcus neoformans on the basis of genomic DNA finger-printing analysis with the microsatellite sequence-containing oligonucleotide probe (GGAT)4 and by random amp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sullivan D,Haynes K,Moran G,Shanley D,Coleman D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new self-contained medium system for the cultivation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was compared to modified Thayer-Martin medium for the diagnosis of gonorrhea from endocervical specimens. There was no difference in the ability of the two methods to support the growth of N. gonorrhoeae. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beverly A,Bailey-Griffin JR,Schwebke JR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus G and P types from 716 children with acute diarrhea in Dijon from 1995 to 1998 and throughout France during the winter of 1997-1998 were analyzed by reverse transcription-PCR. P[8],G1 predominated, followed by P[8],G4, which emerged during the last winter. G9 and P[6] strains were detected at low frequencies...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bon F,Fromantin C,Aho S,Pothier P,Kohli E

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traveler's diarrhea (TD) is the most common infectious illness acquired by visitors to developing nations. The purpose of this study was to utilize molecular diagnostic techniques to determine the prevalence of norovirus (NoV) in TD occurring among visitors from the United States to Guatemala and Mexico. Stool samples...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chapin AR,Carpenter CM,Dudley WC,Gibson LC,Pratdesaba R,Torres O,Sanchez D,Belkind-Gerson J,Nyquist I,Kärnell A,Gustafsson B,Halpern JL,Bourgeois AL,Schwab KJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:We used simulated blood cultures inoculated with clinical isolates of Mycoplasma hominis to determine whether liquid media of the BacT/ALERT (Organon Teknika, Durham, N.C.) will support growth of this fastidious organism and whether its presence can generate a positive signal with the instrument. Viability of clinical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Waites KB,Canupp KC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of single radial immunodiffusion assays of influenza virus hemagglutinin were found to be greatly altered by small antigenic differences between test and reference strains. When such differences were present, the precise specificity of the antiserum used had a critical effect on the measured hemagglutinin ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodda SJ,Gallichio HA,Hampson AW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida parapsilosis, a pathogenic yeast, is composed of three newly designated genomic species that are physiologically and morphologically indistinguishable. Nosocomial infections caused by group I C. parapsilosis are often associated with the breakdown of infection control practices and the contamination of medical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lasker BA,Butler G,Lott TJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty rotavirus-positive stool specimens from children with diarrhea were classified into G and P genotypes. G typing was done by PCR and then by hybridization with G type-specific (G1 to G4) oligonucleotide probes, whereas nested PCR was performed for P typing. Thirty-nine samples could be classified into both G and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Husain M,Seth P,Dar L,Broor S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple solid-phase enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay procedure for the detection of human antibodies to Entamoeba histolytica was developed which showed a high degree of correlation with the agar gel diffusion, counterelectrophoresis, and indirect hemagglutination methods, as well as with clinical data. The enzyme-l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin TM,Halbert SP,Chiu CT,Zarco R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Failure to demonstrate immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IgM-IFA) in sera from some patients with acute acquired toxoplasmosis has recently been attributed to an inhibitory effect of high titers of IgG antibodies in these sera (Pyndiah et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 9:170-174, 1979). To con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Filice GA,Yeager AS,Remington JS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AutoSCAN-3 (American MicroScan, Mahwah, N.J.) is an instrument capable of automated reading of commercially available microdilution trays for identification and quantitative susceptibility testing of rapidly growing bacteria. This study compared the results of visual and automated reading of microdilution trays fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeGirolami PC,Eichelberger KA,Salfity LC,Rizzo MF

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a molecular epidemiology study on 120 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients presenting pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Burkina Faso. Classical antibiogram studies and genetic characterization, using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Godreuil S,Torrea G,Terru D,Chevenet F,Diagbouga S,Supply P,Van de Perre P,Carriere C,Bañuls AL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We serotyped 222 Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from swine lungs at slaughter. Capsular serotypes A and D were determined by the hyaluronidase sensitivity and acriflavin agglutination tests, respectively. Somatic antigens were determined by gel diffusion against standard antisera. Capsular serotype A was found...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pijoan C,Morrison RB,Hilley HD

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00