Evaluation of an Automated Instrument for Inoculating and Spreading Samples onto Agar Plates.

abstract：:Assessment of cure of Trypanosoma cruzi infection by antibody seroconversion usually involves several years of follow-up. Parasitological negativity is useless for cure assessment, since even untreated patients mostly show negative results; conversely, positive tests are of great value because they indicate treatment ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galvão LM,Chiari E,Macedo AM,Luquetti AO,Silva SA,Andrade AL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), particularly livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) in pigs and pork. The genotypic relatedness of isolates on the farm, at slaughter, and at the retail level was assessed. Paired nasal and perianal swab sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Molla B,Byrne M,Abley M,Mathews J,Jackson CR,Fedorka-Cray P,Sreevatsan S,Wang P,Gebreyes WA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) are zoonotic infections. In Africa, the potential exists for additional cross-species transmissions from at least 33 different species of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected nonhuman primates (NHPs) through hunting and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndongmo CB,Switzer WM,Pau CP,Zeh C,Schaefer A,Pieniazek D,Folks TM,Kalish ML

更新日期：2004-11-01 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 medium described is a simple yeast extract broth capable of growing large number of Legionella neumophila, the causative organism of Legionnaires disease. Filtration was chosen as a means of sterilization, since medium that was autoclaved did not support growth without the presence of Norite A. The filtered medium...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ristroph JD,Hedlund KW,Allen RG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus hirae is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. We describe a case of native aortic-valve endocarditis that was caused by Enterococcus hirae in a 72-year-old man. This is the first reported case of endocarditis due to this organism. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poyart C,Lambert T,Morand P,Abassade P,Quesne G,Baudouy Y,Trieu-Cuot P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection in men has traditionally been limited to men who present with urethral symptoms, thereby limiting the detection of asymptomatic chlamydia infection in men. In order to effectively screen both symptomatic and asymptomatic men, we evaluated a newly developed polymerase chain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jaschek G,Gaydos CA,Welsh LE,Quinn TC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2012, we identified sampled dogs with elevated levels of antibodies (≥1:40) against A(H1N1)pdm09 virus by using a hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay (seroprevalence, 24.7%) and a microneutralization (MN) assay (seroprevalence, 10.8%). These high seroprevalences of A(H1N1)pdm09 among dogs without clinical si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Su S,Chen J,Jia K,Khan SU,He S,Fu X,Hong M,Sun L,Qi W,Gray GC,Li S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct (AMTD) test (Gen-Probe Inc., San Diego, Calif.) was assessed in a large tertiary care mycobacteriology laboratory. Both acid-fast smear-positive and smear-negative respiratory and nonrespiratory clinical specimens were analyzed. From February 1998 to 4...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： O'Sullivan CE,Miller DR,Schneider PS,Roberts GD

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single colonies of beta-hemolytic streptococci could be grouped by antibody-coated latex bead agglutination or coagglutination with staphylococci coated with antibody after incubation of the colonies with mutanolysin. This simple and quick procedure provided an enzymatic means of enhancing the sensitivity of tests suc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Calandra GB,Henson CL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While outbreaks of animal anthrax zoonoses still regularly occur in France, little is known about the epidemiology links between them. We have used the eight-locus multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis typing technique against a collection of 50 Bacillus anthracis isolates from France. There were eight dis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fouet A,Smith KL,Keys C,Vaissaire J,Le Doujet C,Lévy M,Mock M,Keim P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbiased nontargeted metagenomic RNA sequencing (UMERS) has the advantage to detect known as well as unknown pathogens and, thus, can significantly improve the detection of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal sequences in public health settings. In particular, conventional diagnostic methods successfully identify ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fischer N,Indenbirken D,Meyer T,Lütgehetmann M,Lellek H,Spohn M,Aepfelbacher M,Alawi M,Grundhoff A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory tests are essential for confirming sporadic cases and outbreaks of rubella. Detection of rubella virus is often necessary to confirm rubella cases and to identify specimens to be used to characterize wild-type rubella viruses. The sensitivities of four methods for detecting rubella virus infection using thr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhu Z,Xu W,Abernathy ES,Chen MH,Zheng Q,Wang T,Zhang Z,Li C,Wang C,He W,Zhou S,Icenogle J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were typed by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of macrorestriction fragments. Stains were clustered on the basis of interpretative criteria as presented previously for the PFGE analysis. Clusters of strains were al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Renders N,Römling U,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is associated with staphylococcal skin and pulmonary infections. Community dissemination of PVL-producing Staphylococcus aureus strains constitutes a public health concern. Family transmission and spread of community-acquired leukocidin-positive methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ST152...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Roth E,Alcoba-Flórez J,López-Aguilar C,Gutiérrez-González I,Rivero-Pérez B,Méndez-Alvarez S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the bacterium most commonly surmised to cause antimicrobial- and hospital-associated diarrhea in developed countries worldwide, and such infections are thought to be increasing in frequency and severity. A laboratory-based study was carried out to characterize C. difficile strains isolated fro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin H,Willey B,Low DE,Staempfli HR,McGeer A,Boerlin P,Mulvey M,Weese JS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical laboratories, diagnosis of imported malaria is commonly performed by microscopy. However, the volume of specimens is generally low and maintaining proficiency in reading blood smears, particularly at the species level, is challenging in this setting. To address this problem, the Provincial Laboratory for P...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shokoples S,Mukhi SN,Scott AN,Yanow SK

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections with potent antiviral therapy often results in dramatic reductions in the levels of viremia to very low levels. Monitoring of serum HBV DNA levels is a consistent method for the assessment of antiviral potency; however, widely used hybridization ass...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lopez VA,Bourne EJ,Lutz MW,Condreay LD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease spectrum associated with human bocavirus-1 infection remains to be fully defined. We report a case of bocavirus-1-associated bronchiolitis, leading to severe respiratory failure and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a 4-year-old child, and suggest blood testing for human bocavirus-1 in children with s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edner N,Castillo-Rodas P,Falk L,Hedman K,Söderlund-Venermo M,Allander T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genotyping study of 285 Hybrid Capture 2 low-risk probe cocktail-positive specimens showed cross-reactivity with several untargeted human papillomavirus genotypes. Cross-reactivity was often clinically beneficial due to the detection of untargeted low-risk genotypes. A total of 8.4% of positive results, usually weak...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poljak M,Kocjan BJ,Kovanda A,Lunar MM,Lepej SZ,Planinic A,Seme K,Vince A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae of Porphyromonas gingivalis are filamentous appendages on the cell surface and are thought to be one of the virulence factors. The fimA gene encoding the subunit protein of fimbriae, fimbrillin (FimA), was classified into four typeable variants (types I to IV). We previously examined the distribution of P. gi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakagawa I,Amano A,Kimura RK,Nakamura T,Kawabata S,Hamada S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single multiplex PCR assay targeting seven virulence factors and the wzi gene specific for the K1 and K2 capsular serotypes of Klebsiella pneumoniae was developed and tested on 65 clinical isolates, which included 45 isolates responsible for community-acquired severe human infections. The assay is useful for the sur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Compain F,Babosan A,Brisse S,Genel N,Audo J,Ailloud F,Kassis-Chikhani N,Arlet G,Decré D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API STAPH-IDENT system was compared with conventional methods for the identification of 14 Staphylococcus species. Conventional methods included the Kloos and Schleifer simplified scheme and DNA-DNA hybridization. The API STAPH-IDENT strip utilizes a battery of 10 miniaturized biochemical tests, including alkaline...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kloos WE,Wolfshohl JF

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii is a causative agent of cryptococcosis and is thought to have a specific ecological association with a number of Eucalyptus species in Australia. However, the role that the tree plays in the life cycle of the fungus and the nature of the infectious propagule are not well understood....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Halliday CL,Carter DA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume of blood sampled for blood culture determines its sensitivity. We measured low mean blood volumes in submitted aerobic (8.38 ± 3.88 ml) and anaerobic (7.16 ± 3.83 ml) blood culture bottles. Educational seminars were held for phlebotomy teams, and renewed measurements thereafter revealed significantly higher...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Ingen J,Hilt N,Bosboom R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first case of gastritis in a male Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) in which members of the family Helicobacteraceae, particularly the genus Wolinella, were detected. The sea lion exhibited clinical signs of gastrointestinal disease, including abdominal pain, lack of appetite, and lethargy. Examin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oxley AP,Powell M,McKay DB

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica and toxigenic Pasteurella multocida are the etiologic agents of swine atrophic rhinitis. Methods currently used for their identification are time-consuming and suffer from a lack of sensitivity. We describe a colony lift-hybridization assay for detection of B. bronchiseptica and toxigenic P. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Register KB,Lee RM,Thomson C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides is a rare cause of keratitis usually associated with trauma. We report a case of corneal ulceration caused by N. asteroides in a patient with leprosy. This is the first case report of nocardial keratitis from Southeast Asia. The diminished corneal sensation in a patient with leprosy could be a pred...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tendolkar UM,Varaiya A,Ahuja AS,Motwane SA,Gogate AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the case of a patient with a massive pyelonephritis and a urosepsis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. This case is unusual as the focus was distant from the respiratory tract, the usual primary site of infection caused by this organism. No other primary site of infection was documented. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dufke S,Kunze-Kronawitter H,Schubert S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00