Occurrence of the enterotoxin gene cluster and the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene among clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is related to clonal type and agr group.

abstract：:Owing to the difficulties in isolating the virus and the lack of routine surveillance, the clinical significance of human parainfluenza virus 4 (HPIV-4) is less well defined than that of the other human parainfluenza viruses. We describe the first outbreak of HPIV-4 infection in a developmental disabilities unit, invo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lau SK,To WK,Tse PW,Chan AK,Woo PC,Tsoi HW,Leung AF,Li KS,Chan PK,Lim WW,Yung RW,Chan KH,Yuen KY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performance of Organon Teknika's NucliSens and Roche Diagnostic Systems' Monitor quantitative human immunodeficiency type 1 RNA assays. Both had similar linearity and sensitivity over most of the dynamic range of the assays, although the Monitor assay was superior at the low range of RNA values while t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dyer JR,Pilcher CD,Shepard R,Schock J,Eron JJ,Fiscus SA

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:PCR-amplified 16S rRNA gene sequences were obtained directly from tissue specimens from eight cats with presumptive feline leprosy. Acid-fast bacilli were observed in sections from all eight specimens, but culture for mycobacteria was successful for one specimen only. Analysis of the V2 variable region of each 16S rRN...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hughes MS,Ball NW,Beck LA,de Lisle GW,Skuce RA,Neill SD

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia hermannii was isolated in pure culture from a patient with acute purulent conjunctivitis after a minor ocular injury. This is the first report of E. hermannii isolated as the sole pathogen from an infected site without prior antibiotic exposure, confirming the pathogenic potential of the microorganism. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poulou A,Dimitroulia E,Markou F,Tsakris A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium microti is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex of bacteria. This species was originally identified as a pathogen of small rodents and shrews and was associated with limited diversity and a much reduced spoligotype pattern. More recently, specific deletions of chromosomal DNA have been show...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith NH,Crawshaw T,Parry J,Birtles RJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a highly specific, sensitive, and economical hemadsorption immunosorbent technique for the detection of dengue-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody. The technique is based on the reaction of human sera with anti-human IgM immobilized onto a solid phase followed by the detection of dengue-specific IgM ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gunasegaran K,Lim TW,Ahmed A,Aaskov JG,Lam SK,Pang T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight Staphylococcus aureus strains initially identified by Vitek GPS-BS or GPS-SA cards as resistant to oxacillin, but susceptible to most non-beta-lactam antibiotics, were found on further testing to be susceptible to oxacillin and ceftizoxime by disk diffusion tests. For all these strains, the MICs of oxacillin wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ribeiro J,Vieira FD,King T,D'Arezzo JB,Boyce JM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates that cause detachment of cell monolayers during in vitro adherence assays (cell-detaching E. coli [CDEC]) were recently reported as a potential new group of enteropathogenic bacteria. In the present study, 269 E. coli isolates from feces of children 1 to 5 years of age were identified as CDEC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marques LR,Abe CM,Griffin PM,Gomes TA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysis and filtration of blood culture specimens were combined with impedance detection of bacterial growth to facilitate the diagnosis of bacteremia. A blood lysis-filtration technique (Zierdt et al., 1976) was coupled to a simple, inexpensive automated detection system. The practical and technical aspects of the impe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kagan RL,Schuette WH,Zierdt CH,MacLowry JD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies reactive with three different viral polypeptides were evaluated singly and in combination as the capture antibody(s) in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay system for the detection of bovine enteric coronavirus. Similar levels of sensitivity were found for all combinations tested. A sensitive, h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Crouch CF,Raybould TJ,Acres SD

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid colorimetric method for the identification of pathogenic Neisseria (Identicult-Neisseria; Scott Laboratories, Inc.) based on beta-galactosidase, gamma-glutamylaminopeptidase, and gamma-prolylaminopeptidase is described. All 82 clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 9 clinical isolates of N. meningitidis, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hosmer ME,Cohenford MA,Ellner PD

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis occurred in London, Ontario, during the month of September 1985. A total of 55 residents and 18 employees of a nursing home developed diarrhea, and 17 residents (age range, 78 to 99 years) died. Specimens from 38 patients, 37 employees and contacts, and 10 autopsies were invest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Krishnan C,Fitzgerald VA,Dakin SJ,Behme RJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty rotavirus-positive stool specimens from children with diarrhea were classified into G and P genotypes. G typing was done by PCR and then by hybridization with G type-specific (G1 to G4) oligonucleotide probes, whereas nested PCR was performed for P typing. Thirty-nine samples could be classified into both G and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Husain M,Seth P,Dar L,Broor S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rose Bengal and counterimmunoelectrophoresis, two tests that detect antibodies against different structural antigens, when carried out on spinal fluid permitted rapid diagnosis of human Brucella meningitis. The Rose Bengal test was positive in five out of five patients studied, and counterimmunoelectrophoresis was pos...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Díaz R,Maraví-Poma E,Delgado G,Rivero A

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 which were grown in the presence of 1 mg of benzalkonium chloride (BC) per ml caused only a mild conjunctivitis when they were dropped onto the scratched corneas of rabbits. In contrast, cells of the BC-sensitive parent strain induced a severe keratoconjunctivitis. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Adair FW,Liauw HL,Geftic SG,Gelzer J

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an accurate nonradioactive colony hybridization assay (NCHA) using a digoxigenin-labeled polynucleotide probe and an antidigoxigenin alkaline phosphatase conjugate for the identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) harboring genes for colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I), coli surface anti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sommerfelt H,Grewal HM,Gaastra W,Svennerholm AM,Bhan MK

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus. Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus, we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thaipadungpanit J,Amornchai P,Nickerson EK,Wongsuvan G,Wuthiekanun V,Limmathurotsakul D,Peacock SJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas caviae was recovered as the sole potential enteric pathogen from the stools of 14 of 17 symptomatic children (10 younger than 1 year of age) while Aeromonas hydrophila, Aeromonas sobria, and Plesiomonas shigelloides were isolated once each. The infants from whom A. caviae was isolated all presented with a wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Namdari H,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described method for detecting rubella-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody based on absorption of IgG by Staphylococcus aureus strain Cowan I has been applied to 198 sera collected during a recent rubella epidemic in Israel. Modification of the original method introduced for the present study includes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Handsher R,Fogel A

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus terreus isolates collected from patients at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, and at The University Hospital of Innsbruck, Austria, were analyzed using random amplification of polymorphic DNA-PCR with three different primers. No strain similarity in either institution was detected, indicatin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lass-Flörl C,Grif K,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter cetorum sp. nov. has been cultured from the stomach of Atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutus) and the feces of Pacific white-sided (L. obliquidens) and Atlantic bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) dolphins and a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas). H. cetorum has high homology to Helicobacter ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Harper CG,Whary MT,Feng Y,Rhinehart HL,Wells RS,Xu S,Taylor NS,Fox JG

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the interaction of Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) with gram-negative bacteria, soluble antigens from sonicated Pseudomonas aeruginosa were studied by various crossed-immunoelectrophoresis methods before and after reaction with LAL. Of 64 possible, at least 7 antigens were affected, as indicated by prec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baek L,Høiby N,Hertz JB,Espersen F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand the role of Mycobacterium leprae nasal carriage in the maintenance of infection reservoirs and transmission of leprosy, we applied a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that detected a 531-bp fragment of the pra gene of M. leprae on nasal swab specimens collected through a total population su...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klatser PR,van Beers S,Madjid B,Day R,de Wit MY

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for susceptibility to pyrazinamide (PZA) and analysis of the pncA gene sequences of 423 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates have revealed a unique silent nucleotide substitution that enables the rapid identification of "M. canettii" (proposed name). Moreover, the lack of a defined mutation within the p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Somoskovi A,Dormandy J,Parsons LM,Kaswa M,Goh KS,Rastogi N,Salfinger M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive, and specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is described. We have improved all three PCR steps: sample preparation, DNA amplification, and detection of the amplified product. Some of the improvements have been described pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Albert J,Fenyö EM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two isolates of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus of various geographical origins (Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Texas, Missouri, Maryland, California, and Florida) were examined for genetic variation by the base excision sequence scanning (BESS T-scan) method. A fragment was amplified in the envelope gene with t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Charrel RN,Lévy N,Tesh RB,Chandler LJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred sixty Enterobacteriaceae and nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli, isolated during one week in May 2004 at five hospitals in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, were evaluated for the presence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs). A prevalence of 7.8% was found, in contrast to the 1% observed in 1997. CTX...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： al Naiemi N,Bart A,de Jong MD,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Rietra PJ,Debets-Ossenkopp YJ,Wever PC,Spanjaard L,Bos AJ,Duim B

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemically defined medium that simulates female genital tract secretions was developed for the growth of the vaginal microflora. Qualitative and quantitative studies of the growth of predominant components of the vaginal microflora indicated that all vaginal isolates tested were able to grow in this defined medium. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Geshnizgani AM,Onderdonk AB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR of a Candida albicans cytochrome P-450 lanosterol-alpha-demethylase (P450-L1A1) gene segment is a rapid and sensitive method of detection in clinical specimens. This enzyme is a target for azole antifungal action. In order to directly detect and identify the clinically most important species of Candida, we cloned ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burgener-Kairuz P,Zuber JP,Jaunin P,Buchman TG,Bille J,Rossier M

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00