The effect of fecal turbidity on norovirus detection by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：:We evaluated the pharmacodynamics of imipenem and meropenem, utilizing time-kill studies over a concentration/MIC (C/MIC) range of 0.0625-1024 for E. coli ATCC 35218 (EC) and S. aureus ATCC 29213 (SA) and from 0.125-512 for B. fragilis ATCC 25285 (BF). Area under the time-kill curves were converted to percent response...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： White RL,Friedrich LV,Manduru M,Mihm LB,Bosso JA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases in the Ukraine are increasing. Pyrazinamide (PZA) is critically important for first- and second-line tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimes. However, PZA drug susceptibility testing is time consuming and technically challengin...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Daum LT,Konstantynovska OS,Solodiankin OS,Poteiko PI,Bolotin VI,Rodriguez JD,Gerilovych AP,Chambers JP,Fischer GW

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea remains one of the main sources of morbidity and morbidity in today's world and a large proportion is caused by diarrheagenic Escherichia coli. They are a particular problem in developed countries although traveler's diarrhea and hemorrhagic colitis are also a problem in developed countries. There are seven c...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Clarke SC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraabdominal sepsis is frequently seen following penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma as well as with perforated appendicitis or diverticulitis. The initial leakage of endogenous gastrointestinal microflora into the peritoneal cavity results in peritonitis and secondary septicemia, which often results in a localize...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Nichols RL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) capability for the identification of difficult-to-identify microorganisms. A total of 150 bacterial isolates inconclusively identified with conventional phenotypic tests were further assessed by 16S rRNA se...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Rodríguez-Sánchez B,Marín M,Sánchez-Carrillo C,Cercenado E,Ruiz A,Rodríguez-Créixems M,Bouza E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garenoxacin is a novel des-F(6)-quinolone with a chemical structure that lacks the C6 position fluorine and has a unique difluoromethoxy substitution at position C8. This study evaluated the in vitro activity of garenoxacin tested against a large collection of Enterobacteriaceae collected worldwide. The bacterial isol...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sader HS,Fritsche TR,Jones RN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to phenolic glycolipid (PGL)-I and major membrane protein (MMP)-II were evaluated for serodiagnosis of leprosy in Southwest China, and the role in predicting the occurrence of the disease in household contacts (HHCs) of leprosy was examined. Using PGL-I (natural disaccharide-octyl-bovine serum albumin) anti...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wang H,Liu W,Jin Y,Yu M,Jiang H,Tamura T,Maeda Y,Makino M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disk diffusion zones and the MICs of six newer antimicrobials with significant activity against Haemophilus influenzae were compared using the Haemophilus test medium (HTM) and National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards methods. The rank order of potency was cefpodoxime (MIC50, < or = 0.03 micrograms/ml)...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN,Erwin ME

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with disseminated histoplasmosis is described in whom blood cultures were negative using conventional media but positive for Histoplasma capsulatum using the DuPont Isolator system. Fungal blood culture methods are discussed. ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wheat LJ,Bartlett M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal secretions from 30 infants and children presenting with respiratory tract infection, were tested for rotavirus antigen. Two of 30 children with signs and symptoms of seromucoid nasal secretions, cough, and low grade fever were positive for the antigen. Nasopharyngeal secretions may play a role in the sp...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Fragoso M,Kumar A,Murray DL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic mycobacteriology often involves shipping of samples to centralized laboratories. Using two quantitative culture techniques, we show that 7 days storage of sputum samples at room temperature or 4 °C does not affect the number of viable Mycobacterium avium complex bacteria. Storage at room temperature increas...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Pennings LJ,Zweijpfenning S,Ruth MM,Wattenberg M,Boeree MJ,Hoefsloot W,van Ingen J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Routine use of disk diffusion tests for detecting antibiotic resistance in Legionella pneumophila has not been described. The goal of this study was to determine the correlation of MIC values and inhibition zone diameter (MDcorr) in clinical L. pneumophila isolates. METHODS:Inhibition zone diameter of 183 L...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bruin JP,Diederen BM,Ijzerman EP,Den Boer JW,Mouton JW

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal transportation of bacteria is important for accurate clinical interpretation, quantitative assays, and microbiome studies. A transport medium should ideally keep the bacteria alive without supporting growth or altering the relative proportions of the constituent species. We investigated the effect of nasal muc...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Islam MZ,Larsen J,Skov R,Angen Ø

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic characterization of 16 strains of Aeromonas species including A. hydrophila (7), A. sobria (5), and A. caviae (4) was carried out using API Peptidase (strips numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6); API Esterase and API "Osidase" test strips. A total of 89 substrates was used in the assay and included 59 arylamide...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Carnahan AM,O'Brien M,Joseph SW,Colwell RR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present multicentric (n = 11 laboratories) study aimed to identify conversion factors from copies/mL to international units (IU)/mL for the normalization of HCMV DNA load using the first WHO International Standard for HCMV nucleic acid amplification techniques and to enhance interlaboratory agreement of HCMV DNA q...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sidoti F,Piralla A,Costa C,Scarasciulli ML,Calvario A,Conaldi PG,Paba P,Perno CF,Gaeta A,Antonelli G,Sodano G,Santangelo R,Sanguinetti M,Vatteroni ML,Barzon L,Palù G,Abbate I,Capobianchi MR,Piccirilli G,Lazzarotto T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Western New York, the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards' (NCCLS) interpretive criteria for disk diffusion susceptibility testing was evaluated on chocolate-Mueller-Hinton agar (CMH) and GC agar. The reference method for comparison was the NCCLS agar diluti...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Altaie SS,Moore LS,Dryja D,Furness K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improved Streptex method for serogrouping streptococci incorporates a new extraction enzyme and a simplified procedure requiring no centrifugation. A total of 114 clinical isolates of beta-hemolytic streptococci were serogrouped from primary plates, isolation plates, and Todd-Hewitt broth cultures using this syste...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bixler-Forell E,Martin WJ,Moody MD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth or agar dilution susceptibility test results for Enterobacteriaceae (11,775 strains), anaerobes (2888 strains), staphylococci (2206 strains), Haemophilus spp. (840 strains), group A streptococci (280 strains), group B streptococci (269 strains), Streptococcus pneumoniae (709 strains), and 160 other streptococci ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Friedland IR,Isaacs R,Mixson LA,Motyl M,Woods GL

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is difficult in children. The pediatricians are waiting for new and rapid tests that are easy to realize and that are performed better than tuberculin skin test (TST). We presented here the evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-G IT) in the Children Hospital of Nancy. Fifty-...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Grare M,Derelle J,Dailloux M,Laurain C

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of macrolide resistance was investigated in 251 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with reduced susceptibility to erythromycin (erythromycin-resistant S. pneumoniae [ERSP]) collected during the period from 2000 to 2004 in Korea. Among these strains, erm(B) was the most prevalent pneumococcal macrolide res...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bae S,Lee K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In febrile neutropenic patients, prompt empiric antimicrobial intervention is mandatory. Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefit of broad-spectrum beta-lactams active against Gram-negative aerobes as well as against streptococci and Staphylococcus aureus in this setting. With this interventional strategy, a red...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Maschmeyer G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine is secreted under conditions of stress in humans. The ability of bacteria to sense mammalian hormone may have a role in propagation of infection. The present study investigated the effect of norepinephrine on in vitro growth of uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) and the effect of silodosin on norepinephrine-i...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gond DP,Singh S,Agrawal NK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tigecycline is a new first-in-class glycylcycline antimicrobial agent with expanded broad-spectrum activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive aerobes and anaerobes, as well as atypical bacterial species. The spectrum of activity extends to clinically relevant susceptible and multidrug-resistant strains of S...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Meagher AK,Ambrose PG,Grasela TH,Ellis-Grosse EJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Branhamella catarrhalis-like organism was isolated from blood cultures; it was atypical in showing negative nitrate and nitrite and positive gamma-glutamylaminopeptidase reactions, in agglutinating with Neisseria meningitidis antisera, and in forming butyrous colonies. Cell-wall fatty-acid and lipopolysaccharide ana...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wüst J,Doern GV,von Graevenitz A

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The constitutive or inducible macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) phenotype of 30 erm(B)-positive Streptococcus pyogenes isolates was determined by different methods and under various growth conditions and correlated to the sequence of the 5'-untranslated regions of erm(B). The MLS phenotype of one-third of the ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Rombini S,Petrelli D,Bolli E,Tran CN,Falconi M,Di Luca MC,Prenna M,Ripa S,Vitali LA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation of Salmonella O serogroup (A-I) polyvalent antiserum is laborious. In an alternate method, rabbit antiserum raised to cell surface proteins of Salmonella serotype typhi was compared with a commercial Salmonella polyvalent (A-I) antiserum; 51 Salmonella (A-E) and 16 strains of related organisms tested g...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sridharan G,Jesudason MV,Santhosh M,John TJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strains are well-established pathogens that may cause mild to serious life-threatening disease. Coagulase-negative staphylococci, particularly Staphylococcus epidermidis, also have a pathogenic role in humans and cause infections primarily associated with prosthetic devices and indwelling cathete...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Aldridge KE

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated commercial serodiagnostic test reagents from Greer Laboratories (GL), Lenoir, NC; Immuno-mycologics, Inc. (IMI), Norman, OK; and Scott Laboratories (SL), Fiskville, RI; for their ability to detect Aspergillus spp. exoantigens and group them in their proper series. We detected 87 culture extracts from code...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sekhon AS,Standard PG,Kaufman L,Garg AK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis are leading pathogens of biofilm-related infections and represent the most common cause of osteomyelitis and biomedical implants infections. Biofilm-related infections usually require long-term antibiotic treatment, often associated to surgical interventions. Dalbav...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Di Pilato V,Ceccherini F,Sennati S,D'Agostino F,Arena F,D'Atanasio N,Di Giorgio FP,Tongiani S,Pallecchi L,Rossolini GM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test with bronchoscopy is frequently performed to allow a rapid diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). However, limited data are available concerning clinical judgment in patients with suspected PTB and AFB smear- and PCR-negative bronchial aspirates (BA)....

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Lee J,Lee SY,Yoo SS,Cha SI,Won DI,Park JY,Lee WK,Kim CH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00