Significant genetic and antigenic variability within the env gene of systemic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group O populations during the natural course of a heterosexual infection: a pilot study.

abstract：:In a prospective study of 16 patients with Legionnaires disease confirmed by cultural isolation of Legionella pneumophila from the respiratory tract, 38% (6 of 16) had positive blood cultures. Daily subcultures were made onto buffered charcoal-yeast extract plates from 6B aerobic and 7C anaerobic BACTEC blood culture ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rihs JD,Yu VL,Zuravleff JJ,Goetz A,Muder RR

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination of semiclosed disposable circuits of Healthdyne and Bourns ventilators was studied in a newborn intensive care unit over a 2-year period. A total of 379 fluid samples was obtained from inspiratory and expiratory tubing condensates and traps and from thermal humidifier columns fed with prefilled conta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Malecka-Griggs B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etest is a new concept for MIC determinations for antimicrobial agents that is based on a predefined antibiotic gradient on a plastic strip calibrated with a continuous logarithmic MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. Etest was compared with a reference agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of clinical i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoffner SE,Klintz L,Olsson-Liljequist B,Bolmström A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of the fungus Geotrichum candidum in humans has not been clearly defined. A patient with acute leukemia who developed a fatal disseminated G. candidum infection while neutropenic is described. At autopsy examination, this patient was misdiagnosed on the basis of histopathology as having disseminated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kassamali H,Anaissie E,Ro J,Rolston K,Kantarjian H,Fainstein V,Bodey GP

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous analysis of the microbiology of advanced caries by culture and real-time PCR emphasized the high incidence and abundance of gram-negative anaerobic species, particularly Prevotella-like bacteria. The diversity of Prevotella-like bacteria was further explored by analyzing pooled bacterial DNA from lesions of c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nadkarni MA,Caldon CE,Chhour KL,Fisher IP,Martin FE,Jacques NA,Hunter N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the use of bacteriophage sensitivity, seroagglutination with polyclonal antisera raised in rabbits or horses, seroagglutination with murine monoclonal antibody, and the serum agar precipitin technique for the detection of K1 capsular polysaccharide among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli obtained from ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cross A,Orskov I,Orskov F,Sadoff J,Gemski P

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic use of a direct fluorescent-antibody test for detection of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli in human fecal specimens (n = 497) was compared with detection by culturing (specificity, 99.7%; sensitivity, 40%). Conjugates were prepared from immunoglobulin G antibody against 22 Lior C. jejuni and C. coli refere...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hodge DS,Prescott JF,Shewen PE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six Pasteurella multocida strains (40 P. multocida subsp. septica and 16 P. multocida subsp. multocida strains) isolated from the mouths of 56 dogs among the 134 living in a French canine military training center (132e Groupe Cynophile de l'Armée de Terre, Suippes, France) were studied by use of enterobacterial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loubinoux J,Lozniewski A,Lion C,Garin D,Weber M,Le Faou AE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 121 pneumococcal serogroup 6 isolates (including 30 serotype 6C and 24 serotype 6D isolates) by serotype-specific PCR and the Quellung reaction, using "old" and "new" pool B, factor 6b, and new factor 6d antisera. In combination with group B and other factor antisera, factor 6d antiserum can reliably identif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oftadeh S,Satzke C,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellar (H) antigens are mostly encoded by genes at the fliC locus in E. coli. We have sequenced 11 H7 fliC genes from Escherichia coli strains that belong to seven O serotypes. These sequences, together with those of nine other H7 fliC genes (from strains of three different O serotypes) sequenced recently (S. D. Re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang L,Rothemund D,Curd H,Reeves PR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we compared typed F. nucleatum strains with isolates from various human periodontal diseases, canines, and a Macaca mulatta monkey. All isolates displayed biochemical reactions similar to those of the typed strains in the API 20A system (Analytab Products, Plainville, N.Y.). The human and monkey ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vincent JW,Falkler WA Jr,Craig JA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori was grown in low numbers from the saliva of one of nine patients who were positive for gastric H. pylori. The saliva-derived isolate from this patient was identical to the antral biopsy-derived isolate from the same patient and differed from isolates cultured from the antral biopsies of all other p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferguson DA Jr,Li C,Patel NR,Mayberry WR,Chi DS,Thomas E

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Fast and accurate identification and typing of pathogens are essential for effective surveillance and outbreak detection. The current routine procedure is based on a variety of techniques, making the procedure laborious, time-consuming, and expensive. With whole-genome sequencing (WGS) becoming cheaper, it has huge po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Joensen KG,Scheutz F,Lund O,Hasman H,Kaas RS,Nielsen EM,Aarestrup FM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)-producing bacteria are considered potential global health threats. It is necessary to monitor NDM-1 and its variants in clinical isolates in order to understand the NDM-1 epidemic and the impact of its variants on β-lactam resistance. To reduce the lengthy time needed for cloning an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Huang L,Hu X,Zhou M,Yang Y,Qiao J,Wang D,Yu J,Cui Z,Zhang Z,Zhang XE,Wei H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 54 unrelated Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from cerebrospinal fluid samples from neonates and 60 unrelated strains isolated from carriers that had been previously studied by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (R. Quentin, H. Huet, F.-S. Wang, P. Geslin, A. Goudeau, and R. K. Selander, J. Cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chatellier S,Ramanantsoa C,Harriau P,Rolland K,Rosenau A,Quentin R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin-nalidixic acid agar, although recently recommended as a replacement for blood agar for primary plating of urine specimens ( Fung et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 16:632-636, 1982), has also been reported to suppress the growth of some strains of staphylococci that are susceptible to colistin (polymyxin E). The sus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fung JC,McKinley G,Tyburski MB,Berman M,Goldstein J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the media examined, thioglycolate broth supplemented with 5% lysed sheep blood, Butzler antibiotic mixture, and 0.1% lauryl sulfate was the most sensitive enrichment medium for recovery of wild-type strains of Campylobacter jejuni from cecal contents of chickens and chicken livers. It allowed the retrieval of 1 CFU...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barot MS,Bokkenheuser VD

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid tests for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage are important to limit the transmission of MRSA in the health care setting. We evaluated the performance of the BD GeneOhm MRSA real-time PCR assay using a diverse collection of MRSA isolates, mainly from Copenhagen, Denmark, but ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bartels MD,Boye K,Rohde SM,Larsen AR,Torfs H,Bouchy P,Skov R,Westh H

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a sensitive and specific sodB-based quantitative PCR assay to detect Ehrlichia spp. The assay's limit of detection was 5 copies/reaction, and it did not amplify nonspecific DNA. Compared with a 16S rRNA gene PCR target, the sodB target may offer an improved molecular diagnostic assay to detect Ehrlichia s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qurollo BA,Riggins D,Comyn A,Zewde MT,Breitschwerdt EB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA of the newly identified human metapneumovirus (HMPV) was detected in nasopharyngeal aspirates of 11 of 63 (17.5%) young children with respiratory tract disease. Markers of infection caused by another member of the Pneumovirinae subfamily of the family Paramyxoviridae, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), were identi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viazov S,Ratjen F,Scheidhauer R,Fiedler M,Roggendorf M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the risk of a nosocomial spread of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis (P. carinii hominis), air filter samples from rooms of P. carinii pneumonia (PCP) patients, adjacent corridors, and other hospital environments have been investigated for the presence of P. carinii hominis. Amplified DNA from air filter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Olsson M,Lidman C,Latouche S,Björkman A,Roux P,Linder E,Wahlgren M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not always possible to culture feces immediately, and appropriate methods for transport of human specimens, unlike those from animals, have not been fully evaluated. Therefore, we took serial subcultures in two phases from six transport media inoculated with human diarrheal stools known to be positive for Campyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang WL,Reller LB,Smallwood B,Luechtefeld NW,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a group of 596 delivering Ghanaian women, the sensitivities of peripheral blood thick film microscopy, ICT Malaria P.f/P.v test, and PCR in detecting microscopically confirmed placental Plasmodium falciparum infection were 42, 80, and 97%, respectively. In addition to the gross underestimation of placental malaria ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mockenhaupt FP,Ulmen U,von Gaertner C,Bedu-Addo G,Bienzle U

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reverse transcription-seminested PCR (RT-snPCR) assay was developed for the detection and identification of enterovirus (EV) RNA in clinical specimens. Three conserved protein motifs were identified by aligning the VP3 and VP1 sequences of prototype EV strains. Consensus degenerate primers were designed from a conse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nix WA,Oberste MS,Pallansch MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strains display genetic polymorphisms, and these polymorphisms can be analyzed to study viral transmission and pathogenesis. Recently, short tandem repeat (STR) length polymorphisms have been identified in the HCMV genome. We assessed the utility of STRs in characterizing HCMV strains and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Walker A,Petheram SJ,Ballard L,Murph JR,Demmler GJ,Bale JF Jr

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model DNA microarray has been prepared and shown to facilitate typing and subtyping of human influenza A and B viruses. Reverse transcriptase PCR was used to prepare cDNAs encoding approximately 500-bp influenza virus gene fragments, which were then cloned, sequenced, reamplified, and spotted to form a glass-bound m...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li J,Chen S,Evans DH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of filarial infections among individuals residing in areas where the disease is not endemic requires both strong clinical suspicion and expert training in infrequently practiced parasitological methods. Recently developed filarial molecular diagnostic assays are highly sensitive and specific but have lim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fink DL,Fahle GA,Fischer S,Fedorko DF,Nutman TB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data pertaining to 20 strains of Yensinia enterocolitica isolated from the cecal content of swine slaughtered at Toronto Abattoirs are presented. Fifteen of 20 cultures belonged to the two predominant human serotypes in Ontario (i.e., serotype O:3 and O:5,27.) Seven cultures of Y. enterocolitica O:3 belonged to the "C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toma S,Deidrick VR

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00