Characterization of human metapneumovirus infections in Israel.

abstract：:Several unusual fatty acids characterized strains of Francisella tularensis. Long-chain (C20-C26) acids and the hydroxy acids 2-hydroxy-decanoate, 3-hydroxy-hexadecanoate, and 3-hydroxy-octadecanoate appeared to be of special diagnostic value. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jantzen E,Berdal BP,Omland T

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1991 and 1995, an apparent high rate of Staphylococcus warneri bacteremias at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, raised the possibility of a virulent nosocomial strain. In a retrospective review of 30 S. warneri bacteremias in children, organisms were viable and verified in 22 episo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Buttery JP,Easton M,Pearson SR,Hogg GG

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and -2, respectively) nuclear antigens were used to identify cells infected with HSV-1 or -2 by indirect immunofluorescence in conjunction with flow cytometry after virus amplification of MRC-5 cell monolayers. The results indicate th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McSharry JJ,Costantino R,McSharry MB,Venezia RA,Lehman JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony immunoblot method was developed for serotyping the capsular polysaccharides expressed by Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The method was rapid and specific and was performed with either polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies specific for each of the capsule types. S. aureus isolates were obtained from patients wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee JC,Liu MJ,Parsonnet J,Arbeit RD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections have been described in only small numbers of pediatric patients. In none of these studies were multivariate analyses performed to assess which factors were independent risk factors in these patients. In the present cohort study of patients admitted to our h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Singh-Naz N,Sleemi A,Pikis A,Patel KM,Campos JM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, isolated from ticks and vertebrate animals in Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, were identified and characterized by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of rrf (5S)-rrl (23S) intergenic spacer amplicons. A total of 241 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin T,Oliver JH Jr,Gao L,Kollars TM Jr,Clark KL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivations periodically occur in oral mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues. Until now, EBV reactivation has been diagnosed by serologic profiles that suggest virus replication. Serologic responses, however, are delayed and do not necessarily indicate ongoing replicative activity....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Maurmann S,Fricke L,Wagner HJ,Schlenke P,Hennig H,Steinhoff J,Jabs WJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2003, three novel genotypes of H1 influenza viruses have been recovered from Canadian pigs, including a wholly human H1N2 virus and human-swine reassortants. These isolates demonstrate that human-lineage H1N2 viruses are infectious for pigs and that viruses with a human PB1/swine PA/swine PB2 polymerase complex ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karasin AI,Carman S,Olsen CW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preemptive ganciclovir (GCV) therapy is adopted increasingly in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients, but occasional cases of increasing cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia levels occur during preemptive GCV therapy. This prospective study investigated the incidence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park SY,Lee SO,Choi SH,Kim YS,Woo JH,Sung H,Kim MN,Kim DY,Lee JH,Lee JH,Lee KH,Kim SH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typing of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis strains presents a challenge, since they are genetically monomorphic and traditional molecular techniques have limited discriminatory power. The recent advances and availability of whole-genome sequencing have extended possibilities for the characterization of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leão C,Goldstone RJ,Bryant J,McLuckie J,Inácio J,Smith DG,Stevenson K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data pertaining to 20 strains of Yensinia enterocolitica isolated from the cecal content of swine slaughtered at Toronto Abattoirs are presented. Fifteen of 20 cultures belonged to the two predominant human serotypes in Ontario (i.e., serotype O:3 and O:5,27.) Seven cultures of Y. enterocolitica O:3 belonged to the "C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Toma S,Deidrick VR

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces viscosus is a gram-positive, non-acid-fact, facultative, catalase-positive, filamentous, or diphtheroidal microorganism. It was isolated from six canine infections during a period of 1.5 years. The organism was cultured from exudate and flaky granules aspirated from infectious granulomas and empyemas. All ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davenport AA,Carter GR,Patterson MJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies raised against purified Trypanosoma cruzi urinary antigens were used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) capture test for parasite antigens present in urine specimens of Argentinean and Brazilian patients with Chagas' disease. At diagnosis, antigenuria was demonstrated by ELISA in all...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Corral RS,Altcheh J,Alexandre SR,Grinstein S,Freilij H,Katzin AM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic value of RT-PCR of amniotic fluid (AF) for prenatal diagnosis of congenital rubella virus infection in 45 pregnant women with confirmed primary infection was assessed. Specificity of RT-PCR was 100% and sensitivity ranged between 83 and 95%. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Macé M,Cointe D,Six C,Levy-Bruhl D,Parent du Châtelet I,Ingrand D,Grangeot-Keros L

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although screening for maternal toxoplasmic seroconversion during pregnancy is based on immunodiagnostic assays, the diagnosis of clinically relevant toxoplasmosis greatly relies upon molecular methods. A problem is that this molecular diagnosis is subject to variation of performances, mainly due to a large diversity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sterkers Y,Varlet-Marie E,Cassaing S,Brenier-Pinchart MP,Brun S,Dalle F,Delhaes L,Filisetti D,Pelloux H,Yera H,Bastien P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia takedensis is a recently described species isolated from soil. The first clinical isolate in Japan has recently been reported. This report describes the first clinical isolate of N. takedensis in Spain from a respiratory specimen. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Betrán A,Rezusta A,Lezcano MA,Villuendas MC,Revillo MJ,Boiron P,Rodríguez-Nava V

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA in clinical specimens is considered a cornerstone in the diagnosis of CMV disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate a newly designed LightCycler-based quantitative CMV PCR. Specimens of human origin (n = 200) were tested using the LightCycler PCR, the quantitative COBA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schaade L,Kockelkorn P,Ritter K,Kleines M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alpha-toxin disk test is described in which group B streptococci completed the hemolysis of sheep erythrocytes partially lysed by the alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens. The test was performed satisfactorily on the sheep blood agar primary isolation plate, as well as on pure cultures. A total of 95% of strains ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith JA,Ngui-Yen JH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an important pathogen of animals and humans and is the causative agent of necrotic enteritis (NE) in poultry. This study focuses on the typing of intestinal C. perfringens isolates (n = 61) from outbreaks of NE collected from several areas of Southern Ontario, using a recently developed mult...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chalmers G,Bruce HL,Hunter DB,Parreira VR,Kulkarni RR,Jiang YF,Prescott JF,Boerlin P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequencing of the VP1 hypervariable region of the human enterovirus (HEV) genome has become the reference test for typing field isolates. This study describes a new strategy for typing HEV at the serotype level that uses a reverse transcription-PCR assay targeting the central part of the VP2 capsid protein. Two pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nasri D,Bouslama L,Omar S,Saoudin H,Bourlet T,Aouni M,Pozzetto B,Pillet S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter species are emerging nosocomial pathogens. As with most multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, the polymyxins are often the only therapeutic option. In this study involving clinical isolates of E. cloacae and E. aerogenes, susceptibility testing methods with polymyxin B were ana...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Landman D,Salamera J,Quale J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we present clinical descriptions of 12 Hawaiian patients from whom Escherichia vulneris or E. hermannii strains were isolated. All but two patients had soft-tissue infections with multiple bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus. The other two had purulent conjunctivitis associated with S. aureus a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pien FD,Shrum S,Swenson JM,Hill BC,Thornsberry C,Farmer JJ 3rd

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied nine solid and two liquid media for their suitability to select Aeromonas and Plesiomonas spp. from human stools, using artificially contaminated samples as well as 254 samples from outpatients with and without diarrhea. Media with optimal sensitivity and specificity for Aeromonas spp. were alkaline peptone...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： von Graevenitz A,Bucher C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) genes of 42 strains representing 23 species of the genus Trichosporon were partially sequenced to determine their molecular phylogenetic relationships. Almost half of the 22 strains investigated (from 11 different species) contained introns in their sequences. Analysis of a 396-bp co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biswas SK,Wang L,Yokoyama K,Nishimura K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three clinical isolates of charcoal-black-pigmented, gram-positive coryneform rods were received for identification by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and were provisionally designated CDC fermentative coryneform group 4 (FCG4). Forty-five of these were characterized by morphological, physio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Daneshvar MI,Hollis DG,Weyant RS,Jordan JG,MacGregor JP,Morey RE,Whitney AM,Brenner DJ,Steigerwalt AG,Helsel LO,Raney PM,Patel JB,Levett PN,Brown JM

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:The potential clinical value of colony counts determined by the lysis-centrifugation blood culture method was studied by reviewing the records of eight patients with persistent septicemia in whom colony counts were available on at least 3 days. Colony counts of the five patients who survived decreased steadily as the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whimbey E,Wong B,Kiehn TE,Armstrong D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NeutRELISA, a modification of the receptor enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed for the detection of verocytotoxin 1 (VT1) which permits the rapid detection of neutralizing antibodies (NAb) against this toxin, has been performed. A standard concentration of VT1 was preincubated with VT-immune or nonimmune r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boulanger J,Petric M,Lingwood C,Law H,Roscoe M,Karmali M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of infection with Fusarium molds are increasing, and a diverse number of Fusarium spp. belonging to different species complexes can cause infection. Conventional species identification in the clinical laboratory is time-consuming and prone to errors. We therefore evaluated whether matrix-assisted laser desor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Triest D,Stubbe D,De Cremer K,Piérard D,Normand AC,Piarroux R,Detandt M,Hendrickx M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and 2 (anti-HIV 1 and 2) test is described. It uses recombinant p24 and peptides covering gp32, gp41, and gp120 to identify HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections. This test has been shown to be specific (99.5%) and sensitive (99.8%). In this respect, the assay was equal or superior ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hess G,Avillez F,Lourenco MH,D'Agostino F,Cambie G,Piot P,Vercauteren G,Michl U,Melchior W,Bayer H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00