Recurrent osteomyelitis caused by infection with different bacterial strains without obvious source of reinfection.

abstract：:The first World Health Organization (WHO) international standards (ISs) for nucleic acid amplification techniques were established two decades ago, with the initial focus on blood screening for three major viral targets, i.e., hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, and human immunodeficiency virus 1. These reference ma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baylis SA,Wallace P,McCulloch E,Niesters HGM,Nübling CM

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is known to be a major cause of peptic ulceration. The jhp0562 gene, encoding a glycosyltransferase involved in the synthesis of the lipopolysaccharide, was associated with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children. The beta-(1,3)-galactosyltransferase [beta-(1,3)GalT] gene (jhp0563), involved in Lewi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oleastro M,Santos A,Cordeiro R,Nunes B,Mégraud F,Ménard A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidia (phylum Microsproa) have recently become recognized as common opportunistic protozoans in the United States and worldwide, particularly affecting immunodeficient patients. Microsporidian organisms within the genus Encephalitozoon are the cause of nephrologic, ophthalmic, pneumologic, gastroenteric, and s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Enriquez FJ,Ditrich O,Palting JD,Smith K

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new test principle for the simultaneous detection of total approximate titers and immunoglobulin M antibodies has been developed and applied to the detection of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen. The method is based on the combination of a competition radioimmunoassay, for the determination of total antibody tite...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Angarano G,Monno L,Santantonio TA,Pastore G

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continue to harbor the same genotype during hospital readmissions. We characterized 140 MRSA strains isolated from 33 persistent MRSA carriers with hospital readmissions. Nearly half of the patients continued to harbor the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eghbaria S,Schnitser K,Danial-Farran N,Keness Y,Bisharat N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth on different media and the influence of culture conditions were studied on 19 recently isolated strains of Haemophilus ducreyi, none of which had more than four passages on artificial media. The results were compared with 10 laboratory strains, which had an unknown number of passages in vitro. For all strains, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sturm AW,Zanen HC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was developed for the detection of poliovirus antigen. Rabbit and guinea pig antisera for the assay were raised against purified poliovirus type 3/Fin (strain 3/Fin/K) isolated from a fecal specimen from a meningitis patient during an outbreak of poliomyelitis in Finland in 1984....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ukkonen P,Huovilainen A,Hovi T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) is a straightforward, sensitive method for determining the presence and relative abundance of individual oligomannosyl residues in Candida mannoprotein, the major antigenic determinant located on the outer surface of the yeast cell wall. The single terminal alde...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Goins TL,Cutler JE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) are zoonotic infections. In Africa, the potential exists for additional cross-species transmissions from at least 33 different species of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected nonhuman primates (NHPs) through hunting and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ndongmo CB,Switzer WM,Pau CP,Zeh C,Schaefer A,Pieniazek D,Folks TM,Kalish ML

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was recoved from 20% (36/180) of women attending a venereal disease clinic. All infected women had chlamydial antibodies in their serum and cervical secretions. However, the background rates of chlamydial antibody in chlamydia-negative women were very high. Measurement of antibodies in serum (com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,Cles L,Ray R,Hines PA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were studied by comparing chromosomal DNA fingerprint patterns produced by digestion of chromosomal DNA with BamHI, followed by agarose electrophoresis and hybridization with radiolabeled probes of insertion sequence IS6110. DNA fingerprints of 14 isolates from separate members of f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mazurek GH,Cave MD,Eisenach KD,Wallace RJ Jr,Bates JH,Crawford JT

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-induced L phase of growth of the group B, type III streptococcal strain 76-043 was examined for biochemical properties used for the identification of group B streptococci. After numerous serial subcultures in the cell wall-defective state, this stable L phase continued to produce hemolysin, hippuricase,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Flores AE,Ferrieri P

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight clinical Acinetobacter isolates with different epidemic behavior were investigated for the presence of integrons and plasmids and for antibiotic susceptibility. Integrons were demonstrated in 50% of the strains by an integrase gene PCR. Epidemic strains of Acinetobacter baumannii were found to contain sign...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koeleman JG,Stoof J,Van Der Bijl MW,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Savelkoul PH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses (NVs) are important human pathogens that cause acute gastroenteritis. Genetically related animal enteric NVs have also been described, but there is no evidence of interspecies transmission of NVs. In this study we characterized antibody prevalence among domestic pigs by using recombinant capsid antigens of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farkas T,Nakajima S,Sugieda M,Deng X,Zhong W,Jiang X

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing frequencies of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain isolation have been reported from many countries. The overall prevalence of MRSA in Norway is still very low. MRSA isolates (n = 67) detected between 1995 and 2003 in northern Norway were analyzed by pulsed-field gel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hanssen AM,Fossum A,Mikalsen J,Halvorsen DS,Bukholm G,Sollid JU

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards has recently changed the oxacillin breakpoint from >/=4 mg/liter to >/=0. 5 mg/liter to detect methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) because the previous breakpoint lacked sensitivity. To determine the correlation between the new oxacilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hussain Z,Stoakes L,Massey V,Diagre D,Fitzgerald V,El Sayed S,Lannigan R

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infection with the coelomycetous fungus Nattrassia mangiferae is a very rare disease affecting only the immunocompromised host. We report the first case of a disseminated infection with spondylodiscitis and granular skin lesions due to N. mangiferae in a renal transplant patient. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Willinger B,Kopetzky G,Harm F,Apfalter P,Makristathis A,Berer A,Bankier A,Winkler S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By an immunomagnetic-bead (IMB) separation technique, isolation of Helicobacter pylori from gastrointestinal and fecal samples of gnotobiotic mice infected with the microorganism was tried. The isolation rate of H. pylori from stomach samples after IMB separation was not higher than that of direct culture of the sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Osaki T,Taguchi H,Yamaguchi H,Kamiya S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for infections caused by gram-negative organisms expressing plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamases are limited because these organisms are usually resistant to all the beta-lactam antibiotics, except for cefepime, cefpirome, and the carbapenems. These organisms are a major concern in nosocomial infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Pérez FJ,Hanson ND

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two difficult-to-cultivate group A coxsackieviruses (i.e., group A types other than A7, A9, and A16), collected primarily from throat swab specimens of patients suffering from fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, and cough during the 1986 enterovirus season, were isolated in less than 24-h-old suckling mice. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lipson SM,Walderman R,Costello P,Szabo K

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex agglutination test (LAT) based on polystyrene beads sensitized with inactivated avian influenza virus H5N1 particles was developed. Compared with the hemagglutination inhibition test, the sensitivity and specificity of the LAT were 88.8 and 97.6%, respectively, in detecting 830 serum samples from vaccinated ch...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xu X,Jin M,Yu Z,Li H,Qiu D,Tan Y,Chen H

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the first well-documented reported case of the recovery of Blastomyces dermatitidis from the blood of a patient with disseminated blastomycosis. The isolate was recovered by using a lysis-centrifugation method and inhibitory mold agar after 6 days of incubation at 30 degrees C. One of six blood s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Musial CE,Wilson WR,Sinkeldam IR,Roberts GD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of single stool specimens was done to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites among 1,000 primary school children. A questionnaire was completed by each child's parents. Specimens were examined by using wet-mount preparation, formaline-ether concentration, and Sheather's flotation technique. Trichrome...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nimri L,Batchoun R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe enzyme immunoassays that use synthetic oligopeptides to discriminate serologically between human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I and II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) infections. The peptides represented 20-amino acid segments between residues 111 and 130 (MA1) and residues 116 and 135 (MA2) of the p19 gag proteins...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonis J,Baillou A,Barin F,Verdier M,Janvier B,Denis F

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early identification of tuberculosis in the clinical setting is of great importance in order for specific therapy to be swiftly initiated. MB REDOX (Heipha Diagnostika), a growth-based medium without radioactive materials, was evaluated and was compared to the BACTEC system for detection of mycobacteria, including the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liu YC,Huang TS,Huang WK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic status and structure of Streptococcus dysgalactiae have been the object of much confusion. Bacteria belonging to this species are usually referred to as Lancefield group C or group G streptococci in clinical settings in spite of the fact that these terms lack precision and prevent recognition of the exac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jensen A,Kilian M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of antibodies to dengue virus is described. This method correlates well with a hemagglutination inhibition technique. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay can also be specific for human immunoglobulin M antibodies when a mu-chain-specific antiglobulin-enzyme conj...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dittmar D,Cleary TJ,Castro A

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical value of immunoenzymatic (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) detection of anti-Toxoplasma immunoglobulin E (IgE) was assessed by studying 2,036 sera from 792 subjects, comprising seronegative controls and subjects with acute, active, reactivated, or congenital toxoplasmosis. Included were nonimmunized adu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foudrinier F,Villena I,Jaussaud R,Aubert D,Chemla C,Martinot F,Pinon JM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis can identify sequence polymorphisms by comparing the melting curves of amplicons generated by real-time PCR amplification. We describe the application of this technique to identify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis types I, II, and III. The HRM approach was based on ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castellanos E,Aranaz A,De Buck J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00