Clonal structure of Enterococcus faecalis isolated from Polish hospitals: characterization of epidemic clones.

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：:We have evaluated the KOH test, the antibiotic disk identification test, and the Gram stain reaction for the preliminary grouping of gram-positive and gram-negative anaerobes and have assessed the value of erythromycin 60-micrograms-disk resistance as a predictive index of clindamycin resistance among anaerobes. By te...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bourgault AM,Lamothe F

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is a globally significant zoonosis, the control of which is difficult and resource intensive. Serological tests form a vital part of a multifactorial approach to control and are often performed in large numbers. The aim of the present study was to develop a new assay to improve the efficiency, ease, and ef...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McGiven JA,Thompson IJ,Commander NJ,Stack JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologies of a number of retinopathies, including serpiginous choroiditis and acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR), remain uncertain. Recently, we provided evidence that AZOOR is caused by Candida famata infection. The purpose of this article was to investigate the presence of fungal infection in five pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pisa D,Ramos M,García P,Escoto R,Barraquer R,Molina S,Carrasco L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two normal human sera from healthy blood donors were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in order to determine the amounts and avidities of immunoglobulins M and G antibodies to lipopolysaccharides of seven Fisher's immunotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to exotoxin A. The patterns of specificity...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grzybowski J,Trafny EA,Wrembel-Wargocka J,Patzer J,Dzierzanowska D,Zawistowska-Marciniak I,Kłos M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether the Etest can be used as an alternative to agar dilution to determine antimicrobial susceptibilities of ceftriaxone, cefixime, and cefpodoxime in Neisseria gonorrhoeae surveillance. One hundred fifteen clinical and laboratory isolates of N. gonorrhoeae were tested following the Clinical Laboratory I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu H,Taylor TH Jr,Pettus K,Trees D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of hospital infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated by pyocin typing. The typing method, which determined the pyocin activity of clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa on 27 indicator strains, was 43.7% reproducible, but elimination of 9 indicator strains doubled the reproducibility and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bruun FN,McGarrity GJ,Blakemore WS,Coriell LL

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificities and sensitivities of the Bactec mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) system for the recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from pleural fluid are not statistically different than those of the Myco/F lytic liquid culture system. The time to positivity is shorter in the MGIT system (12.7 versus 2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harausz E,Lusiba JK,Nsereko M,Johnson JL,Toossi Z,Ogwang S,Boom WH,Joloba ML,Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU).

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mariPOC is a novel point-of-care test system for rapid detection of respiratory tract infections. We compared the performance of the mariPOC test to that of bacterial culture for detecting group A streptococcus (GAS) in 219 pharyngitis patients (ages 1-64 years) and 109 healthy asymptomatic controls (ages 19-69 years)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vakkila J,Koskinen JO,Brandt A,Muotiala A,Liukko V,Soittu S,Meriluoto S,Vesalainen M,Huovinen P,Irjala K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Arabinitol (DA) is a useful diagnostic marker for candidiasis in patients with neutropenia and other high-risk groups, but its use in unselected patients with a broad range of underlying diseases and conditions has not been studied. We used an automated enzymatic fluorometric assay to measure serum DA/creatinine rat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yeo SF,Huie S,Sofair AN,Campbell S,Durante A,Wong B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-step single-tube betaine-free reverse transcription (RT)-loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay was developed for rapid diagnosis of hepatitis E virus. This assay amplified the target gene in less than 45 min (even as short as 20 min) under isothermal conditions at 63 degrees C, and the sensitivity of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lan X,Yang B,Li BY,Yin XP,Li XR,Liu JX

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further investigate the pathogenic potential of different Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies, specimens from 27 patients with different manifestations of Lyme borreliosis were analyzed by PCR and reverse line blotting (RLB). In samples from Lyme arthritis patients, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto was predominantly ident...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lünemann JD,Zarmas S,Priem S,Franz J,Zschenderlein R,Aberer E,Klein R,Schouls L,Burmester GR,Krause A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was made on the effect of acetone fixation on infectivity and immunofluorescent antigenicity of respiratory syncytial virus and adenovirus type 5, lipid- and nonlipid-containing viruses, respectively. Viruses were allowed to replicate in HEp-2 cells, and the cells were then fixed in acetone at 5 C for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bardell D

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis in recent years has become an important public health issue in Taiwan. The resistant strains that cause human infections are considered to be from pigs. In this study, we characterized 157 swine and 42 human Salmonella serovar Choleraesu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang CC,Lin YH,Chang CF,Yeh KS,Chiu CH,Chu C,Chien MS,Hsu YM,Tsai LS,Chiou CS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 30 isolates of Treponema hyodysenteriae collected in the Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) area were serotyped by agar gel double immunodiffusion by using extracted lipopolysaccharide and hyperimmune rabbit antisera. Only 17% (5 of 30) of the isolates were typed with antisera specific for each of the seven k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li ZS,Bélanger M,Jacques M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes of TT virus (TTV) and TTV-like minivirus DNA were detected in 80% and 61% of cervical swabs from healthy women, respectively, regardless of concurrent human papillomavirus infection. These results show that the potential exists for sexual transmission of TTV and related viruses. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fornai C,Maggi F,Vatteroni ML,Pistello M,Bendinelli M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MICs and minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) were evaluated for the four antibiotics azithromycin, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, and doxycycline against the three main genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. In MBC testing, statistically significant differences between the genospecies could be found in 7 ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sicklinger M,Wienecke R,Neubert U

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4 (HCV-4) infection is considered to be difficult to treat and has become increasingly prevalent in European countries, including The Netherlands. Using a molecular epidemiological approach, the present study investigates the genetic diversity and evolutionary origin of HCV-4 in Amster...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de Bruijne J,Schinkel J,Prins M,Koekkoek SM,Aronson SJ,van Ballegooijen MW,Reesink HW,Molenkamp R,van de Laar TJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many truly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-negative serum samples may be unnecessarily subjected to costly and time-consuming Western blots (immunoblots). An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of using a recombinant protein-based enzyme immunosorbent assay (EIA; Cambridge BioScience [C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lepine DG,Neumann PW,Frenette SL,O'Shaughnessy MV

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old patient developed severe shock due to administration of a Yersinia enterocolitica-contaminated red blood cell concentrate. Y. enterocolitica (serotype O:9, biotype II) was cultivated from the residual blood in the blood bag and from a stool sample of the blood donor. In the donor's plasma immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strobel E,Heesemann J,Mayer G,Peters J,Müller-Weihrich S,Emmerling P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mupirocin is a topical antimicrobial used to eradicate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization, usually in the absence of susceptibility testing. We hypothesized that high-level (HL) mupirocin resistance was associated with multidrug resistance (MDR). To this end, unique patient isolates identi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cadilla A,David MZ,Daum RS,Boyle-Vavra S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of swabs and viral transport medium during epidemics may prompt the use of unvalidated alternatives. Swabs collected and transported dry or in saline were compared to commercially available swab/medium combinations for PCR detection of influenza, enterovirus, herpes simplex virus, and adenovirus. Each was de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Druce J,Garcia K,Tran T,Papadakis G,Birch C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is now recognized as the major agent responsible for nosocomial diarrhea in adults. Among the genotyping methods available, arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), PCR-ribotyping, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) have been widely used for investigating outbreaks of C. difficile infections. Ho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bidet P,Lalande V,Salauze B,Burghoffer B,Avesani V,Delmée M,Rossier A,Barbut F,Petit JC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of cerebrospinal fluid from 103 patients with aseptic meningitis were tested by PCR for detection of leptospires, and the results were compared with those of the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of immunoglobulin M (ELISA-IgM). Of these samples, 39.80%...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Romero EC,Billerbeck AE,Lando VS,Camargo ED,Souza CC,Yasuda PH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a duplex, real-time PCR assay for detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (blaKPC) and New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (blaNDM) genes. Accuracy was assessed with 158 Gram-negative bacillary isolates, including 134 carbapenemase producers. The assay had 100% sensitivity and specificity compared with r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cunningham SA,Noorie T,Meunier D,Woodford N,Patel R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida lipolytica was recovered from the blood and the central venous catheter in a patient receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Two C. lipolytica strains from different geographical areas and the ATCC 9773 strain of C. lipolytica were used as controls. C. lipolytica was identified by standard methods. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： D'Antonio D,Romano F,Pontieri E,Fioritoni G,Caracciolo C,Bianchini S,Olioso P,Staniscia T,Sferra R,Boccia S,Vetuschi A,Federico G,Gaudio E,Carruba G

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of a reference strain of Yersinia enterocolitica serovar O15, Ye614, was examined for its chemical structure and antigenicity. The O15 LPS was partially hydrolyzed with diluted acetic acid and fractionated on a Sephadex G-50 column. Only one peak was detected at fractions where the R-core olig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawaoka Y,Wauters G,Otsuki K,Tsubokura M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth curves of the yeast form of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis B-339 based on total and viable cell counts were determined. Crude culture filtrate antigens were obtained after 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 days of incubation. Different patterns of proteins were obtained by affinity chromatography on Sepharose 4B-immunog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： De Camargo Z,Unterkircher C,Campoy SP,Travassos LR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of cavitary pulmonary disease caused by Purpureocillium lilacinum is described. The isolate showed atypical microscopic characteristics similar to Acremonium and Fusarium spp., which necessitated molecular identification by sequencing of multiple conserved loci. The patient responded to voriconazole, re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khan Z,Ahmad S,Al-Ghimlas F,Al-Mutairi S,Joseph L,Chandy R,Sutton DA,Guarro J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new phenomenon of synergistic hemolysis by Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxin and the streptococcal CAMP factor on human and guinea pig erythrocytes is described. A possible mode of action of the CAMP factors is suggested. On human blood agar all of the tested isolates of group B streptococci gave an arrowhead-shap...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gubash SM

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00