Detection of pathogenic protozoa in the diagnostic laboratory: result reproducibility, specimen pooling, and competency assessment.

abstract：:A TaqMan PCR was developed for quantifying early colonizer microorganisms in dental biofilms. To design species-specific primers and TaqMan probes, genomic subtractive hybridization was used. This quantitative assay in combination with subtractive hybridization may be of value in the study of microbial ecosystems cons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suzuki N,Nakano Y,Yoshida A,Yamashita Y,Kiyoura Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An international collaborative study was performed in order to propose quality control limits for voriconazole disk diffusion tests on Mueller-Hinton agar with 2% glucose and 0.5 micro g of methylene blue per ml. The supplement may be added to the agar before autoclaving, or Mueller-Hinton agar plates may be flooded w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Barry A,Bille J,Brown S,Ellis D,Meis JF,Rennie R,Rinaldi M,Rogers T,Traczewski M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our point-prevalence survey followed an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a long-term care facility and identified five MRSA strains, of which two possessed an outbreak genotype not encountered previously and three had another profile. All of them possessed SCCmec type V. Six methicilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kerttula AM,Lyytikäinen O,Vuopio-Varkila J,Ibrahem S,Agthe N,Broas M,Jägerroos H,Virolainen A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoassay (Roche Diagnostics) was developed to provide accurate, reliable detection of antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We evaluated sensitivity, specificity, cross-reactivity, and agreement with a vesicular stomatitis virus-based pseudoneutraliz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Muench P,Jochum S,Wenderoth V,Ofenloch-Haehnle B,Hombach M,Strobl M,Sadlowski H,Sachse C,Torriani G,Eckerle I,Riedel A

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was investigated for detecting human parvovirus B19 (B19) DNA in sera. Three pairs of oligonucleotides were evaluated as primers. The best oligonucleotide pair spanned 699 nucleotides, including the region common to VP1 and VP2. After PCR amplification of B19 DNA in serum, a 699-nuc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koch WC,Adler SP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonpigmented rapidly growing mycobacterium was isolated from wound liquid outflow, bone tissue biopsy, and excised skin tissue from a 31-year-old woman who suffered an accidental open right tibia fracture and prolonged stay in a river. The three isolates grew in 3 days at 24 to 37 degrees C. 16S rRNA sequence analys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Adékambi T,Stein A,Carvajal J,Raoult D,Drancourt M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Abbott RealTime MTB (RT MTB) assay is a new automated nucleic acid amplification test for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in clinical specimens. In combination with the RealTime MTB INH/RIF (RT MTB INH/RIF) resistance assay, which can be applied to RT MTB-positive specimens as an add-on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hofmann-Thiel S,Molodtsov N,Antonenka U,Hoffmann H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study of nasopharyngeal colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae was performed among 573 children attending 29 day-care centers (DCCs) in Norway prior to the start of mass vaccination with the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7). A sensitive sampling method was employed, including tr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vestrheim DF,Høiby EA,Aaberge IS,Caugant DA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Arabinitol (DA) is a useful diagnostic marker for candidiasis in patients with neutropenia and other high-risk groups, but its use in unselected patients with a broad range of underlying diseases and conditions has not been studied. We used an automated enzymatic fluorometric assay to measure serum DA/creatinine rat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yeo SF,Huie S,Sofair AN,Campbell S,Durante A,Wong B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida lipolytica was recovered from the blood and the central venous catheter in a patient receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Two C. lipolytica strains from different geographical areas and the ATCC 9773 strain of C. lipolytica were used as controls. C. lipolytica was identified by standard methods. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： D'Antonio D,Romano F,Pontieri E,Fioritoni G,Caracciolo C,Bianchini S,Olioso P,Staniscia T,Sferra R,Boccia S,Vetuschi A,Federico G,Gaudio E,Carruba G

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicenter study, the consistency of international units expressed by five commercially available rubella virus immunoglobulin G kits was evaluated. The linearity and within-run and between-run precision were determined for each kit. All kits demonstrated good linearity and had within-run and between-run precisi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dimech W,Bettoli A,Eckert D,Francis B,Hamblin J,Kerr T,Ryan C,Skurrie I

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple enzyme immunoassay has been developed to allow the quantitation of the human response to immunization with pneumococcal polysaccharide. The assay uses the 14-valent vaccine (Pneumovax) as a convenient antigen to adsorb to the solid-phase microdilution plate wells and commercially available isotype-specific an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shyamala GN,Roberton DM,Hosking CS

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API NeIdent system (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) was evaluated for identifying Neisseria spp. and Branhamella catarrhalis commonly isolated from clinical specimens. The system identified 90% of 303 Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates, 71% of 113 Neisseria meningitidis isolates, and 63% of 16 Neisseria lactamica ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Janda WM,Morello JA,Bohnhoff M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several problems remain before molecular biology-based techniques, such as PCR, are widely accepted for the detection of infectious agents. Among the most formidable of these problems are the inability of the tests to distinguish between viable and nonviable organisms. We approached this problem by using the fact that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jou NT,Yoshimori RB,Mason GR,Louie JS,Liebling MR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of the human RNA viruses, calicivirus and astrovirus, requires high sensitivity and broad reactivity. A novel single-tube nested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method is described here, in which all of the required reagents are included in the one tube; however, those required for the nested amplific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ratcliff RM,Doherty JC,Higgins GD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strains with enhanced levels of production of leukotoxin are characterized by a 530-bp deletion from the promoter region of the leukotoxin gene operon. Previous isolates with this deletion constituted a single clone belonging to serotype b, although they displayed minor differences...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haubek D,Dirienzo JM,Tinoco EM,Westergaard J,López NJ,Chung CP,Poulsen K,Kilian M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of nursery outbreaks of Citrobacter diversus sepsis and meningitis have been hampered by lack of adequate epidemiologic markers for the organism. We studied outer membrane protein profiles from clinical isolates of C. diversus by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to determine whe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kline MW,Mason EO Jr,Kaplan SL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans (serotype D) and C. neoformans var. grubii (serotype A) differ in geographic prevalence and dermatotropism, with C. neoformans var. neoformans strains being more prevalent among isolates from temperate countries as well as from skin infections. Analysis of 19 strains from each s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martinez LR,Garcia-Rivera J,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis. In northeast Thailand, this gram-negative bacterium is a major cause of mortality from septicemia. The definitive diagnosis of this disease is made by bacterial culture. In this study, we produced a monoclonal antibody (MAb) specific to the 30-kDa protei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pongsunk S,Thirawattanasuk N,Piyasangthong N,Ekpo P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and porcine enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli were cultivated in tryptone-yeast extract medium or brain heart infusion broth and tested for production of heat-labile enterotoxin by the GM1 ganglioside enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (GM1-ELISA) and the Y1 adrenal cell assay. When testing for enteroto...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gustafsson B,Möllby R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An international program of surveillance of bloodstream infections (BSIs) in the United States, Canada, and South America between January and December 1997 detected 306 episodes of candidemia in 34 medical centers (22 in the United States, 6 in Canada, and 6 in South America). Eighty percent of the BSIs were nosocomia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Jones RN,Doern GV,Sader HS,Hollis RJ,Messer SA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While foreign-born persons constitute only 11% of the population in the state of Rhode Island, they account for more than 65% of incident tuberculosis (TB) annually. We investigated the molecular-epidemiological differences between foreign-born and U.S.-born TB patients to estimate the degree of recent transmission an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vanhomwegen J,Kwara A,Martin M,Gillani FS,Fontanet A,Mutungi P,Crellin J,Obaro S,Gosciminski M,Carter EJ,Rastogi N

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:A bacitracin (0.04 units, BBL)-SXT (trimethoprim, 1.25 mg, plus sulfamethoxazole, 23.75 mg, BBL) susceptibility test was 94% accurate in presumptively identifying streptococci as either group A, B or not group A and B. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gunn BA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enzygnost alpha method was tested against the complement fixation test and anti-VCA immunofluorescence to determine the respective titers of anti-cytomegalovirus and anti-Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin G antibodies. For cytomegalovirus, the Enzygnost results showed 97.99% agreement with the readings obtained by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gutierrez J,Maroto MD,Piédrola G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a follow-up study, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections in 145 children from two communities located in northeastern Argentina were monitored for 2 years. The occurrence of diarrhea was monitored by weekly household visits. Of 730 fecal specimens collected, 137 (19%) corresponded to diarrheal episodes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viboud GI,Jouve MJ,Binsztein N,Vergara M,Rivas M,Quiroga M,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium commonly found in health care and long-term-care facilities and is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Rapid detection of this bacterium can assist physicians in implementing contact precautions and appropriate antibiotic therapy in a timely manne...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beck ET,Buchan BW,Riebe KM,Alkins BR,Pancholi P,Granato PA,Ledeboer NA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the performance of Directigen FluA combined with a 3-day flu screening culture for the detection of influenza virus. This abbreviated protocol was a useful and effective tool and resulted in a substantial reduction in time, effort, and money spent, while not compromising sensitivity of influenza v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Newton DW,Mellen CF,Baxter BD,Atmar RL,Menegus MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 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