Unusual naturally occurring humoral and cellular mutated epitopes of hepatitis B virus in a chronically infected argentine patient with anti-HBs antibodies.

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has many potential applications in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. In particular, it has been successfully applied to the detection of pathogens present in low copy numbers such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Here we describe a time-resolved fluorescence-based hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dahlén PO,Iitiä AJ,Skagius G,Frostell A,Nunn MF,Kwiatkowski M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive second-generation hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen assay has recently been developed. We compared viral disappearance and first-phase kinetics between commercially available core antigen (Ag) assays, Lumipulse Ortho HCV Ag (Lumipulse-Ag), and a quantitative HCV RNA PCR assay, Cobas Amplicor HCV ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Saito H,Higashimoto M,Atsukawa K,Ishii H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya fever is a mosquito-borne disease of key public health importance in tropical and subtropical countries. Although severe joint pain is the most distinguishing feature of chikungunya fever, diagnosis remains difficult because the symptoms of chikungunya fever are shared by many pathogens, including dengue f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Okabayashi T,Sasaki T,Masrinoul P,Chantawat N,Yoksan S,Nitatpattana N,Chusri S,Morales Vargas RE,Grandadam M,Brey PT,Soegijanto S,Mulyantno KC,Churrotin S,Kotaki T,Faye O,Faye O,Sow A,Sall AA,Puiprom O,Chaichana P,

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to antimonial drugs has been documented in Leishmania isolates transmitted in South America, Europe, and Asia. The frequency and distribution of resistance to these and other antileishmanial drugs are unknown. Technical constraints have limited the assessment of drug susceptibility of clinical strains of Le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fernández O,Diaz-Toro Y,Valderrama L,Ovalle C,Valderrama M,Castillo H,Perez M,Saravia NG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four isolates of Actinobacillus seminis were typed by PCR ribotyping, repetitive extragenic palindromic element (REP)-based PCR, and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-based PCR. Five types were distinguished by REP-PCR, and nine types were distinguished by ERIC-PCR. PCR ribotyping produced ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Appuhamy S,Coote JG,Low JC,Parton R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new agglutination test (Monostaph +; Bionor, Skien, Norway) has been developed. This new agglutination test has been compared with two other agglutination tests for the identification of 128 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and 82 coagulase-negative staphylococci. The sensitivities of both Monostaph + and Pastorex ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tveten Y

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose cefepime-tazobactam (1:1; WCK 4282), a novel antibacterial combination consisting of the β-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam and a fourth-generation cephalosporin, is under clinical development for the treatment of serious Gram-negative infections. A quality control (QC) study was performed to establish disk di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riedel S,Huband MD,Sader HS,Flamm RK,Jones RN

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Enigma MiniLab assay for influenza A and B viruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was compared to a centralized laboratory respiratory virus panel. The positive and negative percent agreement for influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and RSV were 79.2% (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Douthwaite ST,Walker C,Adams EJ,Mak C,Vecino Ortiz A,Martinez-Alier N,Goldenberg SD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and timely diagnosis of dengue virus (DEN) infections is essential for the differential diagnosis of patients with febrile illness and hemorrhagic fever. In the present study, the diagnostic value of a newly developed immune-complex dissociated nonstructural-1 (NS-1) antigen dot blot immunoassay (DBI) was com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koraka P,Burghoorn-Maas CP,Falconar A,Setiati TE,Djamiatun K,Groen J,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody specific for group D Salmonella antigen 9 was used in an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting the antigen in urine specimens collected from patients with clinical typhoid fever in Jakarta, Indonesia. The ELISA had a sensitivity of 95% in identifying patients in whom Sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chaicumpa W,Ruangkunaporn Y,Burr D,Chongsa-Nguan M,Echeverria P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters like zone reading, inoculum density, and plate streaking influence the precision and accuracy of disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). While improved reading precision has been demonstrated using automated imaging systems, standardization of the inoculum and of plate streaking have not bee...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hombach M,Maurer FP,Pfiffner T,Böttger EC,Furrer R

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new PCR-reverse dot blot hybridization (RDBH) assay was developed for the rapid identification of Mycobacterium species in clinical isolates. The assay, which targets the 16S rRNA, was evaluated for 27 mycobacterial reference strains and 340 clinical isolates that were simultaneously identified by DNA sequencing and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wu X,Zhang J,Liang J,Lu Y,Li H,Li C,Yue J,Zhang L,Liu Z

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 180 healthy cats found that 15.6% were feline leukemia virus (FeLV) positive, 8.3% were feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) positive, and 1.1% were FIV and FeLV positive, which corresponded to 30.4, 13.8, and 2.6, of 115 cats with FIV- and FeLV-related symptoms, respectively. Differences were seen in the se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arjona A,Escolar E,Soto I,Barquero N,Martin D,Gomez-Lucia E

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel gelatin particle agglutination test (MLPA) for the serodiagnosis of leprosy; this test is especially useful for clinical practice and epidemiological surveys of leprosy in countries in which the disease is endemic. The antigen used in the test is the chemically synthesized trisaccharide moiety of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Izumi S,Fujiwara T,Ikeda M,Nishimura Y,Sugiyama K,Kawatsu K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ImmunoCard STAT! Cryptosporidium/Giardia rapid assay (Meridian Bioscience, Inc.) is a solid-phase qualitative immunochromatographic assay that detects and distinguishes between Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum in aqueous extracts of human fecal specimens (fresh, frozen, unfixed, or fixed in 5 or 10% form...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garcia LS,Shimizu RY,Novak S,Carroll M,Chan F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests commonly used for routine determination of anti-Toxoplasma gondii immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies show a high level of consistency. However, considerable variations between commercial screening tests are still observed in detecting antibodies present at low concentrations, leading to a number of discrepant and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Franck J,Garin YJ,Dumon H

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically important species of Candida and related organisms were compared for extent of nucleotide divergence in the 5' end of the large-subunit (26S) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) gene. This rDNA region is sufficiently variable to allow reliable separation of all known clinically significant yeast species. Of the 204 descri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurtzman CP,Robnett CJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis, a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, emphasizes the need to improve the diagnostic tools for this disease. We established a LightCycler-based real-time PCR assay to detect and quantify rapidly, specifically, and sensitively Aspergillus fumigatu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Spiess B,Buchheidt D,Baust C,Skladny H,Seifarth W,Zeilfelder U,Leib-Mösch C,Mörz H,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 2,559 routine clinical specimens were cultured for mycobacteria by using BACTEC Middlebrook 7H12 medium (BACTEC), Lowenstein-Jensen slants (LJ), and Mycobactosel selective Middlebrook 7H11 slants (M7H11). Thirty-three isolates (1.3%) of M. avium complex and 82 isolates (3.2%) of M. tuberculosis were recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirihara JM,Hillier SL,Coyle MB

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BHI agars supplemented with vancomycin 4 (BHI-V4) and 3 (BHI-V3) mg/liter have been proposed for screening vancomycin intermediately susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) and heteroresistant (hVISA) phenotypes, respectively, but growth interpretation criteria have not been established. We reviewed the growth result...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khatib R,Riederer K,Sharma M,Shemes S,Iyer SP,Szpunar S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus type 4 is one of the major serotypes isolated from patients with adenoviral conjunctivitis. In 2001 we encountered nosocomial infections with epidemic conjunctivitis in the ophthalmology ward of one hospital in Sapporo, which is in the northern part of Japan. Adenoviruses were isolated from the patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ariga T,Shimada Y,Ohgami K,Tagawa Y,Ishiko H,Aoki K,Ohno S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were produced which were specific for Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The MAbs also reacted with LPS present in a partially purified antigen derived from a saline extract of the organism. The epitope to which the MAbs were directed was a carbohydrate whi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Durham JA,Antone SM,Cunningham MW,Confer AW

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannheimia glucosida, M. haemolytica, and M. ruminalis were isolated from cases of acute mastitis in ewes. M. glucosida was found to be a common cause of clinical mastitis in sheep. Selected phenotypic tests in addition to genotyping were needed to definitively identify Mannheimia species causing ovine mastitis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Omaleki L,Barber SR,Allen JL,Browning GF

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VlsE, the variable surface antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi, contains an immunodominant conserved region named IR(6). In the present study, the diagnostic performance of a peptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on a 26-mer synthetic peptide (C(6)) with the IR(6) sequence was explored. Sensitivity was a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liang FT,Steere AC,Marques AR,Johnson BJ,Miller JN,Philipp MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1896 precore (PC) mutation is the most frequent cause of hepatitis B virus e-antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Detection of the 1896 PC mutation has application in studies monitoring antiviral therapy and the natural history of the disease. Identification of this mutation is usual...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Waltz TL,Marras S,Rochford G,Nolan J,Lee E,Melegari M,Pollack H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay of sputum or nasopharyngeal specimens has shown promising results in the detection of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (PncCAP). We applied qPCR for the autolysin gene (lytA) and compared sputum and nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) pneumococcal loads in elderly patients with c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saukkoriipi A,Palmu AA,Pascal T,Verlant V,Hausdorff WP,Jokinen J

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mainstay of laboratory diagnosis for Lyme disease is two-tiered serological testing, in which a reactive first-tier enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or an immunofluorescence assay is supplemented by separate IgM and IgG immunoblots. Recent data suggest that the C6 ELISA can be substituted for immunoblots ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wormser GP,Levin A,Soman S,Adenikinju O,Longo MV,Branda JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) was diagnosed by clinical signs and lesions in five out of six white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a North American zoo. The clinical signs and histopathological lesions in these deer were typical of MCF. Antibody to an epitope conserved among the MCF viruses was detected in t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li H,Dyer N,Keller J,Crawford TB

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the sensitivity of the BinaxNOW pneumococcal urinary antigen (PUA) test for adult pneumococcal pneumonia caused by different serotypes. In this study, we aimed to analyze the trends in the sensitivity of the PUA test over a 15-year period (2001 to 2015) and to analyze its sensitivity for pneumoco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shoji H,Domenech A,Simonetti AF,González A,García-Somoza D,Cubero M,Martí S,Maeda M,Tubau F,Liñares J,Domínguez MA,Carratalà J,Ardanuy C

更新日期：2018-01-24 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