Multiplex real-time PCR targeting the RNase P RNA gene for detection and identification of Candida species in blood.

abstract：:This study investigated a rare area of endemicity with a high prevalence of both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, in Putian County, China. Among 1,050 subjects, the overall prevalence of HBsAg seropositivity was 15.8%, and that of anti-HCV seropositivity was 28.9%. Intrafamilial viral tr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu WP,Lin GX,Shi S,Dong JH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological study of several multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolated from five patients demonstrated in vivo dissemination of a 100-kb plasmid encoding the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase TEM-24 from a clonal strain of Enterobacter aerogenes to different strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neuwirth C,Siebor E,Pechinot A,Duez JM,Pruneaux M,Garel F,Kazmierczak A,Labia R

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Ehrlichia canis causes a potentially fatal rickettsial disease of dogs that requires rapid and accurate diagnosis in order to initiate appropriate therapy leading to a favorable prognosis. We recently reported the cloning of two immunoreactive E. canis proteins, P28 and P140, that were applicable for serodiagnosis of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McBride JW,Corstvet RE,Breitschwerdt EB,Walker DH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High incidence rates of isoniazid-, rifampin-, and multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis have been reported in countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Genotypic (unlike phenotypic) drug resistance assays do not require viable cultures but require accurate knowledge of both the target gene and the mutations associat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nikolayevsky V,Brown T,Balabanova Y,Ruddy M,Fedorin I,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica serovar O:3 bacteria with and without plasmid-encoded proteins were compared as antigens in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Good correlations between the two antigen preparations were obtained for immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgA antibodies of patients with yersiniosis. For routine di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Granfors K,Lahesmaa-Rantala R,Ståhlberg TH,Toivanen A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moderately repetitive sequence Ca3 was used to fingerprint strains of Candida albicans isolated from vulvovaginal infections of 10 women and strains isolated from their male partners. The Dendron software package was then used to compare the DNA fingerprints of these strains with those of vaginal commensals from w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmid J,Rotman M,Reed B,Pierson CL,Soll DR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major unanswered questions regarding the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in foods is how many cells must be ingested in order to cause illness. To answer this question, studies were undertaken by using Macaca fascicularis (cynomolgus monkey) as an animal model. Healthy nonhuman primates were dosed with v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farber JM,Daley E,Coates F,Beausoleil N,Fournier J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While high-copy-number IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (HCN-RFLP) is the gold standard for typing most Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, the time taken for culturing and low throughput make it impractical for large-scale prospective typing of large numbers of isolates. The development of a new ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gopaul KK,Brown TJ,Gibson AL,Yates MD,Drobniewski FA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague and is considered a category A priority pathogen due to its potential for high transmissibility and the significant morbidity and mortality it causes in humans. Y. pestis is endemic to the western United States and much of the world, necessitating programs to monitor fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chandler JC,Baeten LA,Griffin DL,Gidlewski T,DeLiberto TJ,Petersen JM,Pappert R,Young JW,Bevins SN

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the Mycoplasma Duo kit (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur) with PCR for detection of Ureaplasma spp. in endotracheal aspirates from 60 premature neonates. The overall agreement between the two tests was 96%. The Mycoplasma Duo assay is a useful alternative to culture and PCR for detection of neonatal Ureaplasma i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cheah FC,Anderson TP,Darlow BA,Murdoch DR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple agar-well diffusion bioassay suitable for measurement of flucytosine or ketoconazole was developed by using Candida pseudotropicalis ATCC 46764 as the assay organism. A test medium composed of (per liter) 7 g of Trypticase peptone, 7 g of YNB (yeast-nitrogen base), 15 g of glucose, and 15 g of agar was seeded...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bodet CA 3rd,Jorgensen JH,Drutz DJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three nasal swab samples that tested positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on initial testing by the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay (BD-MRSA PCR; BD GeneOhm, San Diego, CA) were culture positive only for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) from an enrichment broth. The 23 recovered isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stamper PD,Louie L,Wong H,Simor AE,Farley JE,Carroll KC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularemia caused by Francisella tularensis is a zoonotic infection of the Northern Hemisphere that mainly affects the skin, lymph nodes, bloodstream, and lungs. Other manifestations of tularemia are very rare, especially those with musculoskeletal involvement. Presenting in 2016, we diagnosed two cases of periprosthet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chrdle A,Trnka T,Musil D,Fucentese SF,Bode P,Keller PM,Achermann Y

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PRA) of the hsp65 gene (A. Telenti, F. Marchesi, M. Balz, F. Bally, E. C. Böttger, and T. Bodmer, J. Clin. Microbiol. 31:175-178, 1993) was applied to 108 mycobacterial isolates representing 34 species to evaluate its potential as a rapid reference method. A total...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Devallois A,Goh KS,Rastogi N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leifsonia aquatica is an aquatic bacterium that is typically found in environmental water habitats. Infections due to L. aquatica are rare and commonly catheter associated in immunocompromised patients. We report the first case of an acute septicemia caused by L. aquatica in a healthy immunocompetent host after cryope...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Han L,Lei JE,Wang X,Guo LT,Kang QY,He L,Xu JR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From August 1996 to May 1997, six verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains were isolated from stool specimens of adults suffering from hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). All the isolates were stx2 positive and belonged to different serotypes: O6:H4, O91:H10, O91:H21, O rough:H16, OX3:H-, and O nontypeable: H-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonnet R,Souweine B,Gauthier G,Rich C,Livrelli V,Sirot J,Joly B,Forestier C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-year period, all Pasteurella strains recovered at the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory, Lund, Sweden, were studied biochemically with respect to their relationship to the recently described taxa of this genus. Of 159 strains recovered from 146 infected humans, 95 were identified as Pasteurella multocida ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holst E,Rollof J,Larsson L,Nielsen JP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API 20S system (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) was evaluated for the rapid identification of multiply antibiotic-resistant aerobic diphtheroids. Sixty-eight clinical isolates of multiply resistant Centers for Disease Control group JK and group D2 corynebacteria had API 20S profiles which were clearly differen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelly MC,Smith ID,Anstey RJ,Thornley JH,Rennie RP

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is implicated in the etiology of chronic periodontitis. Genotyping studies suggest that genetic variability exists among P. gingivalis strains; however, the extent of variability remains unclear and regions of variability remain largely unidentified. To assess P. gingivalis strain diversity, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Igboin CO,Griffen AL,Leys EJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether DNA detection of high-risk human papillomavirus could represent a reliable screening technique and a useful follow-up method, we investigated the performance of the Hybrid Capture II assay in detecting high-grade cervical lesions. The test positivity at 1.86 pg/ml had a high sensitivity (94.7%) an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin HP,Huang YY,Wu HY,Kao JT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of positive Aspergillus tests in COVID-19 patients and investigate the association between COVID-19 and a positive Aspergillus test result. We compared the proportion of positive Aspergillus tests in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU for > 24 hours with two contr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yusuf E,Vonk A,van den Akker JPC,Bode L,Sips GJ,Rijnders BJA,de Steenwinkel J,Verkaik NJ,Vogel M,van der Eerden M,van Westreenen M

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the quantitative results from and quality of the inoculation patterns of urine specimens produced by two automated instruments, the Copan WASP and the BD InoqulA. Five hundred twenty-six urine samples submitted in 10-ml canisters containing boric acid were processed within 30 min on an InoqulA ins...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iversen J,Stendal G,Gerdes CM,Meyer CH,Andersen CØ,Frimodt-Møller N

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the accuracy and utility of the Eiken Systek No. 1 (Eiken system; Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan), we conducted a clinical comparison, with 345 Enterobacteriaceae isolates, of the Eiken System with API 20E (Analytab Products, Inc., Plainview, N.Y.) and conventional methods. The Eiken system is a 21...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castillo CB,Bruckner DA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total immunoglobulin E (IgE) and specific IgE were assayed by a radioimmunosorbent test and a reverse enzyme immunoassay in patients with hookworm infections before and after treatment. A total of 77 subjects (30 patients with hookworm infections and 47 subjects as controls) were studied. Both specific and total IgE l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC,Sehgal R,Shetty P,Dilawari JB

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the prevalence and species distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in relation to age in 385 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) (mean age +/- standard deviation [range], 12.0 +/- 6.1 [1 to 24] years; sex ratio, 0.53) attending three Parisian centers. The overall prevalence of NTM in sputum was 8.1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pierre-Audigier C,Ferroni A,Sermet-Gaudelus I,Le Bourgeois M,Offredo C,Vu-Thien H,Fauroux B,Mariani P,Munck A,Bingen E,Guillemot D,Quesne G,Vincent V,Berche P,Gaillard JL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of a commercially available qualitative plasma PCR assay (AMPLICOR CMV test; Roche Diagnostics) and the pp65 antigenemia assay (AG) were evaluated for the monitoring of cytomegalovirus (CMV) viremia in 43 allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients. In addition, the suitabilities of both assays for tri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Solano C,Muñoz I,Gutiérrez A,Farga A,Prósper F,García-Conde J,Navarro D,Gimeno C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in Finland was studied by spoligotyping 380 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. The isolates were obtained during a 1-year study period from July 2000 to June 2001 and represented 90% of new M. tuberculosis findings by culture in the whole country during the study perio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Puustinen K,Marjamäki M,Rastogi N,Sola C,Filliol I,Ruutu P,Holmström P,Viljanen MK,Soini H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection and accurate identification of methicillin-resistant staphylococci are critical for the effective management of infections caused by these organisms. We describe a multiplex PCR-based assay for the direct detection of methicillin-resistant staphylococci from blood culture bottles (BacT/Alert; Organon-T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Louie L,Goodfellow J,Mathieu P,Glatt A,Louie M,Simor AE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cyp51-related genes (cyp51A and cyp51B) encoding 14-alpha sterol demethylase-like enzymes were identified in the opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. PCR amplification using degenerate oligonucleotides based on conserved areas of cytochrome P450 demethylases of other filamentous fungi and yeasts all...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mellado E,Diaz-Guerra TM,Cuenca-Estrella M,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00