A quick and cost-effective method for diagnosing disseminated histoplasmosis in children.

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ceftibuten was studied in 572 bacterial strains and was compared with the activity of other orally administered beta-lactams. Ceftibuten displayed high activity against the Enterobacteriaceae, generally being 16-fold more active than cefuroxime, cefaclor, cephalexin, or amoxicillin-clavulanic ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM,Ashby JP,Thornber D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth or agar dilution susceptibility test results for Enterobacteriaceae (11,775 strains), anaerobes (2888 strains), staphylococci (2206 strains), Haemophilus spp. (840 strains), group A streptococci (280 strains), group B streptococci (269 strains), Streptococcus pneumoniae (709 strains), and 160 other streptococci ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Friedland IR,Isaacs R,Mixson LA,Motyl M,Woods GL

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of primary isolation plate colonial morphologic criteria (CMC) of a flat, nonmucoid, lactose-fermenting, gram-negative rod on MacConkey agar and the spot indole (SI) test from the sheep blood agar plate was evaluated as a means for identification of Escherichia coli in comparison to kit (Micro-ID, API-20E) and...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bale MJ,McLaws SM,Fenn JP,Matsen JM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the MIC and minimum biofilm bactericidal concentration (MBBC) of tedizolid and vancomycin against 97 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 74 isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis associated with prosthetic joint infection. All isolates were vancomycin susceptible in the planktonic state; all staphyloco...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Schmidt-Malan SM,Greenwood Quaintance KE,Karau MJ,Patel R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garenoxacin is a novel des-F(6)-quinolone with a chemical structure that lacks the C6 position fluorine and has a unique difluoromethoxy substitution at position C8. This study evaluated the in vitro activity of garenoxacin tested against a large collection of Enterobacteriaceae collected worldwide. The bacterial isol...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sader HS,Fritsche TR,Jones RN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-probe group A Streptococcus direct test (GASD), a nucleic acid probe assay for detecting GAS from throat swabs, has recently been developed. The test uses an acridium ester-labeled DNA probe which is complementary to the rRNA of Streptococcus pyogenes. In this study, 318 single culturette throat swabs were tes...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Heelan JS,Wilbur S,Depetris G,Letourneau C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the molecular epidemiology and microbiological characteristics of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) isolates that cause bacteremia in Korean hospitals, focusing especially on ST131. Our data suggest that ST131 isolates possessed more virulence traits and showed more multid...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Cha MK,Kang CI,Kim SH,Cho SY,Ha YE,Wi YM,Chung DR,Peck KR,Song JH,Korean Network for Study on Infectious Diseases (KONSID).

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, a Gram-negative intracellular bacterium, can give rise to Q fever in humans and is transmitted mainly by inhalation of infected aerosols from animal reservoirs. Serology is commonly used to diagnose Q fever, but the early cellular immune response-i.e., C. burnetii-specific interferon γ (IFN-γ) produ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Schoffelen T,Self JS,Fitzpatrick KA,Netea MG,van Deuren M,Joosten LA,Kersh GJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in-vitro activity of fluconazole against 46,831 yeast isolates collected over a two-year period from 57 laboratories in 33 countries worldwide was assessed using a disc diffusion method. Candida albicans was the organism isolated most frequently, accounting for 68.6% of the total number of isolates. C. glabrata, C...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Liebowitz LD,Ashbee HR,Evans EG,Chong Y,Mallatova N,Zaidi M,Gibbs D,Global Antifungal Surveillance Group.

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a comparative analysis of intravascular catheter-related infection before and after routine use of antibiotic-bonded catheters in an intensive care unit. Cefazolin-bonded catheters were placed in patients requiring catheterization for at least 3 days, or with remote infection, standard catheters at other tim...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Kamal GD,Divishek D,Kumar GC,Porter BR,Tatman DJ,Adams JR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with varicella complicated by streptococcal cellulitis developed an intracerebral bleed in the absence of thrombocytopenia, serious coagulopathy, or a detectable vascular lesion. We postulate that during the acute infection with varicella, a cerebral endothelial lesion was produced which later caused the...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Fikrig E,Barg NL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We concurrently evaluated host- and organism-related factors in determining the outcomes of 160 invasive pneumococcal diseases episodes in 158 Taiwanese children during 2001 and 2006. Most (138/160, 86.2%) episodes occurred at age less than 60 months, and an underlying condition was present in 35 (22.2%) cases. Common...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Chen CJ,Lin CL,Chen YC,Wang CW,Chiu CH,Lin TY,Huang YC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presented with inflamed hands and Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae bacteremia. Because a high incidence of endocarditis has been reported with this organism, a transesophageal echocardiogram was obtained, which was normal. Treatment with oral moxifloxacin resolved all manifestations of illness. The association b...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Drekonja DM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pncA gene mutations associated with pyrazinamide (PZA) resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex were determined in 26 PZA-resistant isolates in Japan. Of the 26 PZA-resistant isolates included, 21 were negative for pyrazinamidase (PZase). Of these, 20 isolates had various pncA mutations, resulting in alter...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Miyagi C,Yamane N,Yogesh B,Ano H,Takashima T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, we have detected in the United Kingdom and in the United States several isolates of Candida glabrata that grew poorly unless bile was available. Cholesterol, a component of bile, stimulated equivalent growth of the bile-dependent isolates. The bile-dependent C. glabrata isolates appeared resista...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Hazen KC,Stei J,Darracott C,Breathnach A,May J,Howell SA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient case report describes an Enterococcus faecium strain isolated from a blood culture that was resistant to linezolid (MIC, 8 microg/mL; G2576U mutation of 23S rRNA). Co-resistances were identified for vancomycin, ampicillin, macrolides, fluoroquinolones, chloramphenicol, rifampin, gentamicin (high-level), nitr...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Jones RN,Della-Latta P,Lee LV,Biedenbach DJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the intestinal mucosa by Clostridium difficile (CD) is toxin mediated. Two enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for toxin-A detection, the automated Vitek immunodiagnostic assay system CDA (Vidas CDA), and the Premier toxin A (Premier) were tested for their ability to detect toxin A in 301 stool samples and compared w...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Knapp CC,Sandin RL,Hall GS,Ludwig MD,Rutherford I,Washington JA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma genitalium is a sexually transmissible, pathogenic bacterium and a significant cause of nongonococcal urethritis in both men and women. Due to the difficulty of the culture of M. genitalium from clinical samples, the laboratory diagnosis of M. genitalium infection is almost exclusively carried out using nuc...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Edwards T,Burke P,Smalley HB,Gillies L,Longhurst D,Vipond B,Hobbs G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus species isolated from poultry sources were characterized for their resistance to antibiotics, plasmid content, presence of van genes and their diversity by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR). The results showed that all isolates were multi-resistance to the antibiotics...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Radu S,Toosa H,Rahim RA,Reezal A,Ahmad M,Hamid AN,Rusul G,Nishibuchi M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective evaluation of the kinetics of cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroconversion with CMV IgM, IgG, and IgG avidity assays, in a Swiss pregnant women population, has shown that the current published CMV serologic diagnostic algorithms were valid and fit for use. In 19% of the cases analyzed, CMV-specific IgM was detec...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Maine GT,Stricker R,Stricker R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, Clostridium spp. have rapidly reemerged as human and animal pathogens. The detection and identification of pathogenic Clostridium spp. is therefore critical for clinical diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy. Traditional diagnostic techniques for clostridia are laborious, are time consuming, and may adv...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Janvilisri T,Scaria J,Gleed R,Fubini S,Bonkosky MM,Gröhn YT,Chang YF

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we evaluated the in vitro activity of fosfomycin and 7 other comparator agents against 307 Escherichia coli isolates including ciprofloxacin-resistant or extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing isolates. Bacterial isolates were collected from urine and blood from patients at a Korean tertiary-...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ko KS,Suh JY,Peck KR,Lee MY,Oh WS,Kwon KT,Jung DS,Lee NY,Song JH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of procalcitonin (PCT), neopterin, and C-reactive protein (CRP) alone and in combination to differentiate bacterial from viral etiology in patients with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) were evaluated. Sera obtained on the day of hospitalization for LRTI from 139 patients with confirmed bacterial ...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Ip M,Rainer TH,Lee N,Chan C,Chau SS,Leung W,Leung MF,Tam TK,Antonio GE,Lui G,Lau TK,Hui DS,Fuchs D,Renneberg R,Chan PK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine laboratory testing for adenovirus (Adv) requires a procedure that is rapid and reliable, especially for samples from children and immunosuppressed patients, when diarrhea may signal the onset of severe gastrointestinal disorders. An improved culture technique for Adv isolation, using centrifugation step of 24-...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Durepaire N,Ranger-Rogez S,Denis F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of antimicrobial agent resistance among ninety-eight Haemophilus influenzae isolates was assessed by six different antibiotic test methods: agar dilution on Mueller-Hinton agar supplemented with 5% lysed horse blood (MH-LHB), E-test using both Haemophilus test medium (HTM) agar and chocolate Mueller-Hint...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Giger O,Mortensen JE,Clark RB,Evangelista A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella serotyping is an essential first step for identification of isolates associated with disease outbreaks. The Salmonella genoserotyping array (SGSA) is a microarray-based alternative to standard serotyping designed to rapidly identify 57 of the most commonly reported serovars through detection of the genes en...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Yoshida C,Lingohr EJ,Trognitz F,MacLaren N,Rosano A,Murphy SA,Villegas A,Polt M,Franklin K,Kostic T,OIE Reference Laboratory for Salmonellosis.,Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety.,Kropinski AM,Card RM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial activity of sulbactam or ampicillin alone and in combination on ampicillin-resistant, beta-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacteria (Citrobacter freundii and Escherichia coli) was studied. Inhibition of beta-lactamase activity by sulbactam was investigated using intact and disrupted cells. Minimal inhi...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Bello H,del Solar E,González C,Garcia A,Urrea R,Zemelman R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces pyogenes (Corynebacterium pyogenes), a well-known pathogen in many animals, was isolated from 11 Danish patients since 1968. Bacteriologic characteristics and clinical pictures of the patients are described. Ability to hydrolyze gelatine, to produce beta-glucuronidase, to reach with antisera against group-...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Gahrn-Hansen B,Frederiksen W

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely and rapid diagnosis of multidrug resistance in tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a challenge both for a microbiologist and neurologist. The present study was conducted to evaluate role of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using rpoB, IS6110, and MPB64 as targets in diagnosis of TBM in 110 patients and sub...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： Sharma K,Modi M,Kaur H,Sharma A,Ray P,Varma S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its ability to cause serious and fatal infections, Staphylococcus aureus remains one of the most feared microorganisms. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has long been a common pathogen in healthcare facilities, but within the past decade, it has emerged as a problematic pathogen in the community setti...

journal_title：Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

authors： von Eiff C,Taylor KL,Mellmann A,Fattom AI,Friedrich AW,Peters G,Becker K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00