Development and evaluation of a liquid bead microarray assay for genotyping genital human papillomaviruses.

abstract：:A set of 104 isolates from human clinical samples from the United States, morphologically compatible with Bipolaris, were morphologically and molecularly identified through the sequence analysis of the internal transcribed space (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA). The predominant species was Bipolaris sp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： da Cunha KC,Sutton DA,Fothergill AW,Cano J,Gené J,Madrid H,De Hoog S,Crous PW,Guarro J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A LightCycler-based PCR protocol was developed which targets the ospA gene for the identification and quantification of the different Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species in culture and in ticks, based on the use of a fluorescently labeled probe (HybProbe) and an internally labeled primer. The detection limit of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rauter C,Oehme R,Diterich I,Engele M,Hartung T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-nine isolates of clinical origin, tentatively identified as Scopulariopsis or Microascus, were morphologically and molecularly characterized by a combined analysis of the D1/D2 domains of the 28S rRNA gene and a fragment of the elongation factor 1-α gene (EF1-α) sequences. The most prevalent species was Scopula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sandoval-Denis M,Sutton DA,Fothergill AW,Cano-Lira J,Gené J,Decock CA,de Hoog GS,Guarro J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and characterization of five monoclonal antibodies to Mycobacterium tuberculosis are described. Specificity of the monoclonal antibodies was tested against other mycobacterial species by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunoblots. HGT 3a, an immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody, recognizes a molecu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kadival GV,Chaparas SD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies reactive with three different viral polypeptides were evaluated singly and in combination as the capture antibody(s) in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay system for the detection of bovine enteric coronavirus. Similar levels of sensitivity were found for all combinations tested. A sensitive, h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Crouch CF,Raybould TJ,Acres SD

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium prolificans is a soil saprophyte that is associated with a large variety of infectious processes and with respiratory colonization in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report the first described case of S. prolificans keratouveitis associated with the intraocular long-term retention of a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arthur S,Steed LL,Apple DJ,Peng Q,Howard G,Escobar-Gomez M

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). While molecular-based testing is used to diagnose COVID-19, serologic testing of antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 is used to detect past infection. While most serologic assays are qualitativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Higgins V,Fabros A,Kulasingam V

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of combined 16S rRNA (rrs) gene restriction fragment length polymorphism and plasmid profiles to differentiate between and within Campylobacter upsaliensis of human and canine origin was examined. Fourteen distinct rrs gene restriction fragment length polymorphs consisting of bands sized between 1.9 and 4....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stanley J,Jones C,Burnens A,Owen RJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactive characteristics of herpes B virus and herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 are responsible for false-positive diagnoses by serological assays in humans and macaques. In the present study, we developed a fluorometric indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with rec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fujima A,Ochiai Y,Saito A,Omori Y,Noda A,Kazuyama Y,Shoji H,Tanabayashi K,Ueda F,Yoshikawa Y,Hondo R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) based on the detection of specific antibodies in serum are commonly used for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Several commercial kits are available, and some of them allow the use of whole-blood samples instead of serum. An RDT is much more user-friendly for blood samples tha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kumar D,Khanal B,Tiwary P,Mudavath SL,Tiwary NK,Singh R,Koirala K,Boelaert M,Rijal S,Sundar S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era after the introduction of the meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine, from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010, serogroup B meningococci were the major cause of invasive meningococcal disease in the province of Québec, Canada, being responsible for 72% of all meningococcal disease cases. Of the 334 inva...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Lefebvre B,Deng S,Gilca R,Deceuninck G,Law DK,De Wals P,Tsang RS

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:We evaluated the performance characteristics of a new, real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) assay that incorporates molecular beacon technology for detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The quantitative results were comparable to those obtained with three leading commercially...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McClernon DR,Vavro C,St Clair M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human group C rotavirus was identified in central Australia in each of eight years over a 16-year period between 1982 and 1997. Cases occurred either sporadically but over a relatively short period of time or as clustered outbreaks. These are the only reports of human group C rotavirus in Australia other than that of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schnagl RD,Boniface K,Cardwell P,McCarthy D,Ondracek C,Coulson B,Erlich J,Morey F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been difficult to obtain pure Pneumocystis carinii antigen either from cultures or from infected lungs for use in producing a specific antibody against P. carinii. This report describes an approach toward producing a monoclonal antibody that bypasses the antigen purification steps. P. carinii infection was deve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee CH,Bolinger CD,Bartlett MS,Kohler RB,Wilde CE 3rd,Smith JW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mainstay of laboratory diagnosis for Lyme disease is two-tiered serological testing, in which a reactive first-tier enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or an immunofluorescence assay is supplemented by separate IgM and IgG immunoblots. Recent data suggest that the C6 ELISA can be substituted for immunoblots ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wormser GP,Levin A,Soman S,Adenikinju O,Longo MV,Branda JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivities of BHK-21 (C-13) and murine neuroblastoma (C-1300; clone NA) cells for the isolation of small quantities of a street strain rabies virus were compared. Suspensions of brain from mice sacrificed prior to the onset of clinical signs of rabies were used to stimulate weakly positive diagnostic specimens....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rudd RJ,Trimarchi CV

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of the fungus Geotrichum candidum in humans has not been clearly defined. A patient with acute leukemia who developed a fatal disseminated G. candidum infection while neutropenic is described. At autopsy examination, this patient was misdiagnosed on the basis of histopathology as having disseminated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kassamali H,Anaissie E,Ro J,Rolston K,Kantarjian H,Fainstein V,Bodey GP

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Rapid identification and differentiation of orthopoxviruses by PCR were achieved with primers based on genome sequences encoding the hemagglutinin (HA) protein, an infected-cell membrane antigen that distinguishes orthopoxviruses from other poxvirus genera. The initial identification step used a primer pair of consens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ropp SL,Jin Q,Knight JC,Massung RF,Esposito JJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to classify bovine serum as positive, negative, or doubtful for antibodies to Brucella abortus. Spectrophotometric data from assays of 64 serologically positive and 32 serologically negative bovine sera were analyzed statistically to define the range of spectrophoto...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Heck FC,Williams JD,Pruett J

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiogram typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with selected antibiotics was evaluated as a primary epidemiological typing tool and compared with ribotyping. Antibiograms were derived with the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method by using erythromycin, clindamycin, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, and ciprof...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blanc DS,Lugeon C,Wenger A,Siegrist HH,Francioli P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of 278 strains of Salmonella typhimurium isolated from 1973 to 1981 from animals in New York State was studied by using four "fingerprinting" techniques, bacteriophage type (B.R. Callow, J. Hyg. 57:346-359, 1959), biotype (J. P. Duguid, E. S. Anderson, G. A. Alfredsson, R. Barker, and D. C. Old, J. Me...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McDonough PL,Timoney JF,Jacobson RH,Khakhria R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplexed biomarker bundle consisting of nine different inflammation markers was evaluated regarding their diagnostic and prognostic performances in 159 adult systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) patients enrolled at the emergency department. Fibronectin, interleukin-8 (IL-8), biotin, and neutrophil gela...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Reichsoellner M,Raggam RB,Wagner J,Krause R,Hoenigl M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of an 850-bp fragment internal to the aspecific drug efflux gene ade B revealed 11 sequence types (STs) among a collection of 50 multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDRAB) strains, including members of pan-European clones I, II, and III. The delineation of STs conformed with the intraspecifi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huys G,Cnockaert M,Nemec A,Swings J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis was transmitted from an immunized boy to his father and possibly to other family members. This case report demonstrates that although unusual, acute adult B. pertussis infection can occur. B. pertussis immunization may not prevent infection but can reduce the severity. B. pertussis was detected in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith S,Tilton RC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1991, an outbreak of cholera started in Peru and spread throughout most of Latin America within 8 months. As of March 1992, over 450,000 cases and approximately 4,000 deaths have been reported to the Pan American Health Organization. The causative organism is toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 of the El Tor bioty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fields PI,Popovic T,Wachsmuth K,Olsvik O

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of reports concerning Escherichia coli clinical isolates that produce glutathione S-transferases responsible for fosfomycin resistance (FR-GSTs) has been increasing. We have developed a disk-based potentiation test in which FR-GST producers expand the growth inhibition zone around a Kirby-Bauer disk contain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakamura G,Wachino J,Sato N,Kimura K,Yamada K,Jin W,Shibayama K,Yagi T,Kawamura K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic laboratories are under increasing pressure to improve and expand their services. Greater flexibility in sample processing is a critical factor that can improve the time to results while reducing reagent waste, making laboratories more efficient and cost-effective. The introduction of the Abbott mPLUS featur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lucic D,Jones S,Wiesneth R,Barry C,Webb E,Belova L,Dolan P,Ho S,Abravaya K,Cloherty G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00