First isolation of Bartonella alsatica from a valve of a patient with endocarditis.

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：:Accurate and internationally comparable human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA genotyping is essential both for evaluation of HPV vaccines and for effective monitoring and implementation of vaccination programs. The World Health Organization (WHO) HPV Laboratory Network (LabNet) regularly issues international proficiency stud...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eklund C,Forslund O,Wallin KL,Zhou T,Dillner J,WHO Human Papillomavirus Laboratory Network.

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori was grown in low numbers from the saliva of one of nine patients who were positive for gastric H. pylori. The saliva-derived isolate from this patient was identical to the antral biopsy-derived isolate from the same patient and differed from isolates cultured from the antral biopsies of all other p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferguson DA Jr,Li C,Patel NR,Mayberry WR,Chi DS,Thomas E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood culture bottles containing antibiotic binding resins are routinely used to minimize artificial sterilization in the presence of antibiotics. However, the resin binding kinetics can differ between antibiotics and concentrations. This study assessed the impact of clinically meaningful peak, midpoint, and trough co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen IH,Nicolau DP,Kuti JL

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-two isolates of Pasteurella (48 strains of Pasteurella multocida and 4 strains of atypical Pasteurella) were identified by conventional and commercial test systems. All strains fermented glucose, sucrose, and fructose in purple broth base (Difco Laboratories) with bromocresol purple as indicator, although the at...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oberhofer TR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spores of Henneguya salminicola, a common tissue parasite of salmonid fishes in the northern hemisphere, were observed in stool specimens from two different patients with diarrhea. The spores' superficial resemblance to human spermatozoa resulted, in one instance, in an incorrect report, leading to suspicion of se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McClelland RS,Murphy DM,Cone DK

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six Pasteurella multocida strains (40 P. multocida subsp. septica and 16 P. multocida subsp. multocida strains) isolated from the mouths of 56 dogs among the 134 living in a French canine military training center (132e Groupe Cynophile de l'Armée de Terre, Suippes, France) were studied by use of enterobacterial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loubinoux J,Lozniewski A,Lion C,Garin D,Weber M,Le Faou AE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic composition and antibiotic sensitivities of 50 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus obtained from various clinics in the Republic of Georgia were characterized. S. aureus strains ATCC 700699 and ATCC 29737 were included as reference standards in all analyses. All 52 strains had identical 16S rRNA pro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Revazishvili T,Bakanidze L,Gomelauri T,Zhgenti E,Chanturia G,Kekelidze M,Rajanna C,Kreger A,Sulakvelidze A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen representative pathogenic bacterial species were used to create septicemia in rabbits, by injecting 10(6) colony-forming units into the marginal ear vein. At a selected time, usually 30 to 60 min after injection, heart blood was drawn into heparin and dispensed in 5.0-,0.5-, and 0.1-ml volumes into duplicate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zierdt CH,Peterson DL,Swan JC,MacLowry JD

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared trends of annual resistance rates calculated from results for all isolates and for the first isolate of Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter baumannii per patient over a 3-year period from 2001 through 2003. Antimicrobial susceptibility results of inpatients were extracted from a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee SO,Cho YK,Kim SY,Lee ES,Park SY,Seo YH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is uncertain which methods for the diagnosis of rectal gonococcal and chlamydial infection are optimal. This study evaluated the performance of culture and nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) for rectal chlamydial and gonococcal diagnosis. From July 2003 until February 2007, 441 rectal test sets were collected...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bachmann LH,Johnson RE,Cheng H,Markowitz L,Papp JR,Palella FJ Jr,Hook EW 3rd

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On occasion, a patient may have two or more clinical cultures yielding a coagulase-negative staphylococcus If these multiple isolates have the same phenotype, one might conclude that the same strain was reisolated from the patient, indicating its persistent and pathological presence. We examined the validity of this c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christensen GD,Parisi JT,Bisno AL,Simpson WA,Beachey EH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototheca spp. are environmental algae that may cause serious infection in the immunocompromised patient. Clinical manifestations may mimic other diseases. We present a case of fatal infection in a 78-year-old cardiac transplant recipient and discuss pitfalls in the clinical and laboratory diagnoses. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McMullan B,Muthiah K,Stark D,Lee L,Marriott D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium ulcerans has revealed two new insertion sequences (ISs), IS2404 and IS2606. IS2404 was identified by complete sequencing of a previously described repetitive DNA segment from M. ulcerans. This element is 1,274 bp long, contains 12-bp inverted repeats and a single open reading frame ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stinear T,Ross BC,Davies JK,Marino L,Robins-Browne RM,Oppedisano F,Sievers A,Johnson PD

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 1-year period, the prevalence of thymidine-dependent (TD) Staphylococcus aureus in patients at two geographically distinct cystic fibrosis (CF) centers was determined. Of 200 CF patients who had their respiratory secretions cultured, 95 harbored S. aureus, and 20 (21%) had TD S. aureus as their predominant st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gilligan PH,Gage PA,Welch DF,Muszynski MJ,Wait KR

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculovirus-expressed foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) nonstructural protein 3AB was used as the antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. This assay allowed the differentiation of vaccinated from infected pigs. Serial studies were performed using sera collected from pigs in the field. Positive reactions wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chung WB,Sorensen KJ,Liao PC,Yang PC,Jong MH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the established commercial system Sherlock (MIDI, Inc.), cellular fatty acid methyl ester analysis for differentiation among Burkholderia cepacia complex species was proven. The identification key based on the diagnostic fatty acids is able to discern phenotypically related Ralstonia pickettii and Pandoraea spp....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Krejcí E,Kroppenstedt RM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we show that antibodies to baculovirus recombinant DNA polymerase of human cytomegalovirus are present in human sera during natural infection. Specific antibody was found to be of the immunoglobulin G class, produced at low titers only for a short period of time at the beginning of acute infection and no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Landini MP,Lazzarotto T,Ertl PF

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that multiple consecutive isolates of Legionella pneumophila from two cardiac transplant patients remained genomically stable, despite exposure to host defenses and antimicrobial agents. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marrie TJ,Johnson WM,Tyler SD,Bezanson GS,Burbridge S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the Helicobacter pylori ClariRes assay (Ingenetix, Vienna, Austria) for the detection of H. pylori infection and the simultaneous clarithromycin susceptibility testing of the H. pylori isolates in stool samples from 100 symptomatic children. The results obtained by this nov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lottspeich C,Schwarzer A,Panthel K,Koletzko S,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for optimal therapeutic outcomes in patients infected with HIV. Currently, none of the commercially available fourth-generation assays differentiate HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies (Ab) or the HIV-1 p24 antigen (Ag). The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a novel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Salmona M,Delarue S,Delaugerre C,Simon F,Maylin S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease (JD) in cattle and may be associated with Crohn's disease (CD) in humans. It is the slowest growing of the cultivable mycobacteria, and culture from clinical, veterinary, food, or environmental specimens can take 4 months or even lon...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Imirzalioglu C,Dahmen H,Hain T,Billion A,Kuenne C,Chakraborty T,Domann E

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin biopsies of 36 patients with erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) before therapy and those of 8 patients after therapy were examined for Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by PCR. Skin biopsies of 27 patients with dermatological diseases other than Lyme borreliosis and those of 10 healthy persons ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brettschneider S,Bruckbauer H,Klugbauer N,Hofmann H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus; Qiagen, Germantown, MD) interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) received FDA clearance in 2017 and will replace the prior version of the assay, the QFT-Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT). Here, we compared performances of the QFT-Plus assay and the QFT-GIT version in a diverse patient populat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Theel ES,Hilgart H,Breen-Lyles M,McCoy K,Flury R,Breeher LE,Wilson J,Sia IG,Whitaker JA,Clain J,Aksamit TR,Escalante P

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) for detection of serum antibodies to staphylococcal teichoic acids was evaluated against teichoic acids prepared by sonic treatment or lysostaphin extraction of Staphylococcus aureus (Lafferty strain). Of 54 patient sera from suspected cases of staphylococcal endocarditis,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Leffell MS,Folds JD,Wasilauskas B

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a stress test, the recently introduced RapID CB Plus system (Remel Inc. [formerly Innovative Diagnostic Systems], Norcross, Ga.) was challenged with a diverse set of gram-positive rods comprising 345 strains of coryneform bacteria and 33 strains of Listeria spp. representing a total of 49 different taxa. Overall, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Funke G,Peters K,Aravena-Roman M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of standard fixatives (10% neutral buffered formalin, ethanol and mercury based) on the detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were studied. Mercury-based fixatives (Zenker's and Carnoy-Lebrun's fluids) strongly inhibited PCR amplification of M. leprae DNA. Ten percent...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fiallo P,Williams DL,Chan GP,Gillis TP

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of CHROMagar STEC and CHROMagar STEC O104 (CHROMagar Microbiology, Paris, France) media for the detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) was assessed with 329 stool specimens collected over 14 months from patients with suspected STEC infections (June 2011 to August 2012). The CHROMaga...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gouali M,Ruckly C,Carle I,Lejay-Collin M,Weill FX

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs) may evolve so rapidly that multiple profiles emerge during an outbreak. A total of 190 isolates from eight Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium outbreaks and 15 isolates from seven patients were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and VNTR typing. Small changes in loc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hopkins KL,Maguire C,Best E,Liebana E,Threlfall EJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently sequenced genome of Campylobacter jejuni RM1221 revealed the presence of three integrated bacteriophage-like elements. In this study, genes from the first element, a Mu-like bacteriophage, were amplified by PCR and used to probe pulsed-field gels of clinical C. jejuni strains obtained from a waterborne ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barton C,Ng LK,Tyler SD,Clark CG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00