Sequence variation in the outer membrane protein-encoding gene cmeC, conferring multidrug resistance among Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains isolated from different hosts.

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus are closely related pathogenic organisms that are difficult to differentiate phenotypically or genotypically. It is well known that vegetative and spore forms of bacilli are quite distinct both morphologically and chemically, but spore-specific chemical markers allowing these spe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fox A,Black GE,Fox K,Rostovtseva S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial cerebrospinal fluid samples were obtained from 14 multiple sclerosis patients over a period of several months and were tested under code for Inoue-Melnick virus. In five of the positive patients, virus was present in 28 of 32 specimens collected over a period of 2 to 5 months. Four patients, from whom a total o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Melnick JL,Seidel E,Wang SS,Muchinik G,Rashti EJ,Jacobs LD,Freeman AI,O'Malley J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gram-negative bacillus, SMC-8986(T), which was isolated from the purulent exudate of an epidermal cyst but could not be identified by a conventional microbiologic method, was characterized by a variety of phenotypic and genotypic analyses. Sequences of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that this bacterium belongs to the ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Peck KR,Oh WS,Lee NY,Lee JH,Song JH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) early protein, p41, encoded by the U27 gene has been detected in oligodendrocytes of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients by using a monoclonal antibody (MAb to p41/38). We here report the antigenic epitope of HHV-6 p41 recognized by this MAb. First, we established that the MAb to p41/38 re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xu Y,Linde A,Dahl H,Winberg G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, the global emergence of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae has posed great concern to public health. Data concerning the role of environmental contamination in the dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are currently lacking. Here, we aimed to examine the extent of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lerner A,Adler A,Abu-Hanna J,Meitus I,Navon-Venezia S,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The Leishmania species cause a variety of human disease syndromes. Methods for diagnosis and species differentiation are insensitive and many require invasive sampling. Although quantitative PCR (qPCR) methods are reported for leishmania detection, no systematic method to quantify parasites and determine the species i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weirather JL,Jeronimo SM,Gautam S,Sundar S,Kang M,Kurtz MA,Haque R,Schriefer A,Talhari S,Carvalho EM,Donelson JE,Wilson ME

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNA intergenic spacer PCR (tDNA-PCR) was evaluated for its usefulness in the differentiation of enterococcal species of human and animal origin. This technique was carried out for 124 strains belonging to 17 enterococcal species and generated DNA fragments, which were separated by capillary electrophoresis. tDNA-PCR ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baele M,Baele P,Vaneechoutte M,Storms V,Butaye P,Devriese LA,Verschraegen G,Gillis M,Haesebrouck F

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) plays a key role in the development of cervical and laryngeal cancers. The aim of our study was to compare the performance of a new hydrogel-based HPV genotyping biochip assay (Biochip) to a commercially available and CE-marked conventional PCR followed by reverse hybridization (GenID-PCR). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schenk T,Brandstetter T,Zur Hausen A,Alt-Mörbe J,Huzly D,Rühe J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the performance of a recently introduced commercial chessboard method using 12 antisera, in comparison with that of the 55-antiserum panel used in determining the serogroups and types (SGTs) of Streptococcus pneumoniae, both of which were carried out by a coagglutination technique. Of a total of 150 strai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lalitha MK,Thomas K,Kumar RS,Steinhoff MC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spores of Henneguya salminicola, a common tissue parasite of salmonid fishes in the northern hemisphere, were observed in stool specimens from two different patients with diarrhea. The spores' superficial resemblance to human spermatozoa resulted, in one instance, in an incorrect report, leading to suspicion of se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McClelland RS,Murphy DM,Cone DK

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples collected from 68 patients (age, mean +/- the standard deviation [SD], 56.3 +/- 12.8 years) at admission who were subsequently molecularly diagnosed as having hepatitis E and from 2,781 individuals who were assumed not to have been recently infected with hepatitis E virus (HEV; negative controls; 52.9 +/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Kusakai S,Mizuo H,Suzuki K,Fujimura K,Masuko K,Sugai Y,Aikawa T,Nishizawa T,Okamoto H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal colonization was studied in 19 children monitored from birth through the age of 2 years. For this purpose, pneumococcal isolates were characterized by capsular typing, restriction fragment end labeling (RFEL), and penicillin-binding protein (PBP) genotyping. Fifty-eight isolates were collected and were fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sluijter M,Faden H,de Groot R,Lemmens N,Goessens WH,van Belkum A,Hermans PW

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Nocardia takedensis is a recently described species isolated from soil. The first clinical isolate in Japan has recently been reported. This report describes the first clinical isolate of N. takedensis in Spain from a respiratory specimen. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Betrán A,Rezusta A,Lezcano MA,Villuendas MC,Revillo MJ,Boiron P,Rodríguez-Nava V

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Porphyromonas gingivalis collagenase-specific serum immunoglobulin A (IgA), IgM, and IgG responses from 20 patients with early-onset periodontitis (EOP), 20 patients with adult periodontitis, (AP), and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were examined by immunoblot analysis. A recombinant collagenase antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wittstock M,Flemmig TF,Schmidt H,Mutters R,Karch H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cag pathogenicity island-containing Helicobacter pylori (type I) induces signal transduction pathways resulting in tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins adjacent to the site of bacterial adhesion on host gastric epithelial cells. Conventional block PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and real-time Light...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Owen RJ,Sharp SI,Chisholm SA,Rijpkema S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an accurate nonradioactive colony hybridization assay (NCHA) using a digoxigenin-labeled polynucleotide probe and an antidigoxigenin alkaline phosphatase conjugate for the identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) harboring genes for colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I), coli surface anti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sommerfelt H,Grewal HM,Gaastra W,Svennerholm AM,Bhan MK

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening infection that mainly occurs in immunocompromised patients. Here, we compared the novel Aspergillus-specific galactomannoprotein (GP) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG) to the established Platelia Aspergillus galactom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dichtl K,Seybold U,Ormanns S,Horns H,Wagener J

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus (NV) is the most common causative agent of nonbacterial gastroenteritis. Reports of surveillance of NV in facilities that reported outbreaks are frequently found in publications, but reports of that in facilities without outbreaks are not found. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of NV isolates deriv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Okabayashi T,Yokota S,Ohkoshi Y,Ohuchi H,Yoshida Y,Kikuchi M,Yano K,Fujii N

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since January 1996, and over a 3-year time span, a significant spread of serotype 6B multidrug-resistant (MDR) pneumococci, susceptible to penicillin and resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, was noted in young carriers living in central and southern ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Syrogiannopoulos GA,Bogaert D,Grivea IN,Beratis NG,De Groot R R,Hermans PW

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine-, cytochalasin B-, and cycloheximide-treated and untreated McCoy cells were inoculated with representative strains of Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes, as well as with clinical specimens from a pediatric population, and the quality and quantity of the cytoplasmic inclusions were ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： La Scolea LJ Jr,Keddell JE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies of 10 opportunistic DNA viruses were determined by multiplex real-time PCR in paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain tissue of HIV-infected individuals. In the CSF, viruses were detectable in 45/55 cases: JC virus (JCV) in 62%, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in 44%, cytomegalovirus (CMV) in 25%, varicell...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kannangai R,Sachithanandham J,Mahadevan A,Abraham AM,Sridharan G,Desai A,Ravi V,Shankar SK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transrectal prostate biopsy is the most common procedure used to establish the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Prior to biopsy, patients are commonly given ciprofloxacin for prophylaxis. However, a complication of the procedure is infection with ciprofloxacin-resistant organisms, in particular resistant Escherichia co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liss MA,Nakamura KK,Peterson EM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal bite wounds are often infected with bacteria from the animal's oral flora. We report what we believe to be the first case of bacteremia with Bacteroides pyogenes resulting from an infected cat bite. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Madsen IR,Justesen US

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium (colistin-oxolinic acid-blood agar) for streptococci is described. Streptococci of medical and veterinary importance grew well on the medium. Gram-negative organisms, staphylococci. Bacillus spp., and coryneforms are all inhibited. It was concluded that the medi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petts DN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated 677 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains from humans to determine their serotypes, virulence genes, and clinical signs in patients. Six different Shiga toxin types (1, 1c, 2, 2c, 2d, and 2e) were distributed in the STEC strains. Intimin (eae) genes were present in 62.6% of the str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beutin L,Krause G,Zimmermann S,Kaulfuss S,Gleier K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of staphylococcal alpha- or alpha-beta-toxins correlated well with production of coagulase or thermonuclease (or both) in 203 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from milk and should be reliable indicators of S. aureus in the absence of Staphylococcus intermedius. Failures to produce toxin, tube coagulase, or th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jasper DE,Infante F,Dellinger JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three molecular typing methods were used to study the relationships among 184 Campylobacter strains isolated from humans, cattle, and chickens. All strains were genotyped by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and sequence analysis of a genomic region with short t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schouls LM,Reulen S,Duim B,Wagenaar JA,Willems RJ,Dingle KE,Colles FM,Van Embden JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody-based coagglutination test directly detected Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal in 83 of 120 watery diarrheal stool specimens; on culture, 90 samples were positive. Thus, with 92% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 100% positive and 95% negative predictive values, the coagglutination test is a u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qadri F,Chowdhury A,Hossain J,Chowdhury K,Azim T,Shimada T,Islam KM,Sack RB,Albert MJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00