Clonal expansion and microevolution of quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype typhi in Vietnam from 1996 to 2004.

abstract：:Several antimicrobial agents used in selective media for the isolation of Arcobacter were found to be inhibitory to strains belonging to this genus. All three species tested were susceptible to colistin and rifampin at concentrations used in selective media. Arcobacter skirrowii was the most susceptible species. 5-Flu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Houf K,Devriese LA,De Zutter L,Van Hoof J,Vandamme P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was recoved from 20% (36/180) of women attending a venereal disease clinic. All infected women had chlamydial antibodies in their serum and cervical secretions. However, the background rates of chlamydial antibody in chlamydia-negative women were very high. Measurement of antibodies in serum (com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,Cles L,Ray R,Hines PA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillomatous digital dermatitis (PDD) is an infectious foot disease of cattle that is prevalent throughout the world. Although it has been prevalent in Japan since the first case was reported in 1992, full epidemiological and bacteriological examinations have not been conducted. We collected 91 lesions of PDD from 80...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yano T,Yamagami R,Misumi K,Kubota C,Moe KK,Hayashi T,Yoshitani K,Ohtake O,Misawa N

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray platform, based on the nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) of the rRNA gene, was developed to identify 32 fungal pathogens at the species level. The probe sequences were spotted onto polycarbonate slides with a mini-microarray printer, and after the hybridiz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sturaro LL,Gonoi T,Busso-Lopes AF,Tararam CA,Levy CE,Lyra L,Trabasso P,Schreiber AZ,Kamei K,Moretti ML

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human erythrocyte receptor which mediates mannose-resistant hemagglutination by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli possessing colonization factor antigen II is not universally distributed among donors. Mannose-resistant hemagglutination-positive erythrocytes are more common among black donors than nonblack donors; t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans DJ Jr,Evans DG,Diaz SR,Graham DY

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased human parvovirus B19 infection rate has been observed in immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we sought to determine the prevalence of parvovirus B19 infection in adult cancer patients receiving multiple courses of systemic chemotherapy. From March 1999 through April 2000, 59 men and 68 women, with a m...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuo SH,Lin LI,Chang CJ,Liu YR,Lin KS,Cheng AL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni was isolated from the feces of 14.8% of a random sample of the healthy population of rural southern India. The rate of isolation was highest in preschool children. This finding emphasizes the need to identify markers of pathogenicity in strains of C. fetus subsp. jejuni, which so far ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rajan DP,Mathan VI

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for assessment of the barrier quality of medical exam gloves includes visual inspection and a water leak test. Neither method tests directly the ability of gloves to prevent penetration by microorganisms. Methods that use microorganisms (viruses and bacteria) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Broyles JM,O'Connell KP,Korniewicz DM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15 to 35% of patients with a first episode of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea relapse within 2 months. Between 1994 and 1997, strains from 93 hospitalized patients with C. difficile recurrences were fingerprinted by using both serotyping and PCR-ribotyping. The results showed that 48.4% of clin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barbut F,Richard A,Hamadi K,Chomette V,Burghoffer B,Petit JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described method for detecting rubella-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody based on absorption of IgG by Staphylococcus aureus strain Cowan I has been applied to 198 sera collected during a recent rubella epidemic in Israel. Modification of the original method introduced for the present study includes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Handsher R,Fogel A

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an initial experiment, culture-grown Borrelia burgdorferi was added to freshly collected uninfected human blood. This in vitro study demonstrated that more spirochetes were distributed into the plasma than into the serum fraction. In a subsequent clinical study, B. burgdorferi was recovered from plasma cultures of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wormser GP,Bittker S,Cooper D,Nowakowski J,Nadelman RB,Pavia C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes and macrophages and the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, an emerging zoonosis. The Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) has been implicated as the primary vector of E. chaffeensis. The present study examined the sensitivity of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Felek S,Unver A,Stich RW,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute and convalescent-phase sera obtained from 10 patients infected with a Japanese strain of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsia were tested by the indirect immunoperoxidase test, the Weil-Felix test, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and immunoblotting. By the Weil-Felix test, the reactivity of these s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Amano K,Hatakeyama H,Okuta M,Suto T,Mahara F

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic anticoagulant sodium amylosulfate (SAS) at concentrations of 125 to 2,000 microgram/ml failed to completely neutralize the bactericidal activity of 80 and 50% (by volume) fresh human serum. Furthermore, SAS failed to inhibit the alternative pathway of complement activation in 80% (by volume) fresh human ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Traub WH

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshly isolated clinical strains of Klebsiella were tested for the ability to fix dinitrogen by the acetylene reduction assay. Ability to detect this trait was markedly affected by cultural conditions. When the test was run at 37 degrees C in the presence of yeast extract (50 mg/liter), only 1.6% of the organisms wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chambers CA,Silver WS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularemia is the zoonotic disease caused by the gram-negative coccobacillus Francisella tularensis. Its wide distribution in the environment poses a challenge for understanding the transmission, ecology, and epidemiology of the disease. F. tularensis is also considered a potential biological weapon due to its extreme ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Versage JL,Severin DD,Chu MC,Petersen JM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipooligosaccharide configurations were predicted in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates based on the presence of seven oligosaccharide extension-initiating genes (or alleles). Predicted configurations with 2 to 3 oligosaccharide extensions were more prevalent among middle ear than throat strains. In addition,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCrea KW,Xie J,Daniel D,Ulrich-Lewis JT,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of molecular identification techniques has revealed an increasing number of new species within Aspergillus section Terrei. We phenotyped a set of 26 clinical isolates that showed genetic differences from Aspergillus terreus sensu stricto by analyzing sequences from PCR-amplified β-tubulin and calmodulin genes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Guinea J,Sandoval-Denis M,Escribano P,Peláez T,Guarro J,Bouza E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of fever, brain abscesses, and Gemella morbillorum bacteremia after anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) therapy in a 21-year-old acne inversa patient currently taking long-term dapsone. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing such a case. During antimicrobial therapy, t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vossen MG,Gattringer KB,Khalifeh N,Koreny M,Spertini V,Mallouhi A,Willeit M,Volc-Platzer B,Asboth F,Graninger W,Thalhammer F,Lagler H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens is a well-known cause of nosocomial infections and outbreaks, particularly in critically ill neonates and immunocompromised patients. Numerous methods have been proposed for typing. We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing to analyze an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miranda G,Kelly C,Solorzano F,Leanos B,Coria R,Patterson JE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was investigated in 49 homosexual men who seroconverted to HIV (cases) as compared with 49 matched controls who remained seronegative to HIV during a longitudinal study. EBV infection was reactivated in cases 6 months, but n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rahman MA,Kingsley LA,Atchison RW,Belle S,Breinig MC,Ho M,Rinaldo CR Jr

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of fungi produce the hydrolytic enzyme beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HexNAcase), which can be readily detected in assays by using p-nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide as a substrate. In the present study we developed a microtiter plate-based HexNAcase assay for distinguishing Candida albicans and Candi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Niimi K,Shepherd MG,Cannon RD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vaginitis caused by Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extremely rare, in recent years we have experienced an increasing frequency of S. cerevisiae isolation from the vaginas of fertile-age women. In order to investigate the epidemiology of these vaginal infections, a total of 40 isolates of S. cerevisiae derived fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Posteraro B,Sanguinetti M,D'Amore G,Masucci L,Morace G,Fadda G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza viruses related to the markedly antigenically divergent strains B/Yamagata/16/88 and B/Victoria/2/87 are circulating in human populations. Adults develop cross-reacting antibodies against recent and earlier influenza B virus strains after vaccination with B/Yamagata/16/88, probably because of previous influe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Levandowski RA,Gross PA,Weksler M,Staton E,Williams MS,Bonelli J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first case of severe pneumonia possibly caused by Leptotrichia species with oral bacteria. This was found in a healthy but elderly subject whose bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. The combination of this method and microscopic observation provided useful info...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawanami T,Fukuda K,Yatera K,Kido T,Yoshii C,Taniguchi H,Kido M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay of sputum or nasopharyngeal specimens has shown promising results in the detection of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (PncCAP). We applied qPCR for the autolysin gene (lytA) and compared sputum and nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) pneumococcal loads in elderly patients with c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saukkoriipi A,Palmu AA,Pascal T,Verlant V,Hausdorff WP,Jokinen J

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa toxin is one of several proposed virulence factors which may be responsible for chronic P. aeruginosa infections in these patients. With a highly specific, sensitive, and quantita...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cukor G,Blacklow NR,Nowak NA,Rich CM,Braverman LE,Fischer RA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five percent of 108 nontypable strains of Staphylococcus aureus from clinical and environmental sources were phage typable after heat shock and acridine orange treatment. Although phage patterns were produced by different types of treatment, the same phage groups were present, showing specificity. The newly typa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Perkins RE,Kundsin RB

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewingella americana was isolated from two blood cultures from a 75-year-old male after cholecystectomy. The characteristics of this strain are compared with the reported biochemical characteristics of 44 American strains. Previously described infections and pseudoinfections with E. americana are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Devreese K,Claeys G,Verschraegen G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody (MAb)-based sandwich direct enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MSD-ELISA) methods that can detect foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) antigens, both multiserotype (MSD-ELISA/MS) (for O, A, C, and Asia 1) and single-serotype (MSD-ELISA/SS) (for O, A, and Asia 1, specifically), were developed. MAb 1H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Morioka K,Fukai K,Yoshida K,Yamazoe R,Onozato H,Ohashi S,Tsuda T,Sakamoto K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00