Defining the normal bacterial flora of the oral cavity.

abstract：:Six isolates of Mycobacterium avium of genotype dnaJ(+) IS901(-) IS1311(+) IS1245(+) and serotypes 6 (n = 1), 6/9, (n = 2), and 9 (n = 3) were obtained within a 5-month period from a human immunodeficiency virus-negative patient treated for tuberculosis. The isolates were identified with PvuII restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dvorska L,Bartos M,Ostadal O,Kaustova J,Matlova L,Pavlik I

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a follow-up study, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections in 145 children from two communities located in northeastern Argentina were monitored for 2 years. The occurrence of diarrhea was monitored by weekly household visits. Of 730 fecal specimens collected, 137 (19%) corresponded to diarrheal episodes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Viboud GI,Jouve MJ,Binsztein N,Vergara M,Rivas M,Quiroga M,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess is challenging, as most patients at the time of diagnosis do not have a concurrent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Fecal testing for E. histolytica parasite antigen or DNA is negative in most patients. A real-time PCR assay was evaluated for detection ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque R,Kabir M,Noor Z,Rahman SM,Mondal D,Alam F,Rahman I,Al Mahmood A,Ahmed N,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyomavirus BK (BKV) causes asymptomatic latent infection in the human host that is reactivated during periods of immune suppression. Detection by conventional tube cell culture is difficult and time consuming because BKV exhibits slow growth with late (14 to 28 days) and subtle cytopathic effects. We developed a she...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marshall WF,Telenti A,Proper J,Aksamit AJ,Smith TF

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typing and in vitro cultivation of rotavirus-positive human stool samples stored unintentionally at ambient tropical temperatures for 2 1/2 months showed that rotavirus is stable and may still be infectious in vitro. This indicates that stool specimen collection for rotavirus studies can be performed in areas and sett...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fischer TK,Steinsland H,Valentiner-Branth P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid samples from 257 patients with suspected herpes simplex virus encephalitis were prospectively analyzed by herpes simplex virus polymerase chain reaction. The polymerase chain reaction indicated herpes simplex virus encephalitis in 9 serologically proven cases and in 14 additional patients. Increase...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Puchhammer-Stöckl E,Heinz FX,Kundi M,Popow-Kraupp T,Grimm G,Millner MM,Kunz C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the case of a patient with a massive pyelonephritis and a urosepsis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. This case is unusual as the focus was distant from the respiratory tract, the usual primary site of infection caused by this organism. No other primary site of infection was documented. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dufke S,Kunze-Kronawitter H,Schubert S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently available diagnostics for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have major limitations. Despite mounting evidence that toxin detection is paramount for diagnosis, conventional toxin immunoassays are insufficiently sensitive and cytotoxicity assays too complex; assays that detect toxigenic organisms (toxi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Song L,Zhao M,Duffy DC,Hansen J,Shields K,Wungjiranirun M,Chen X,Xu H,Leffler DA,Sambol SP,Gerding DN,Kelly CP,Pollock NR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens submitted for diagnosis of herpes simplex virus infections were inoculated into shell vials and conventional culture tubes. Inoculated culture tubes were incubated with rolling at 96 rpm. Immunoperoxidase (IP) staining and cytopathic effects (CPE) were used to detect positive cultures. At 24 h, 42 (53%) of t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hughes JH,Hamparian VV,Mavromoustakis CT

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achromobacter species are increasingly being detected in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, with an unclear epidemiology and impact. We studied a cohort of patients attending a Canadian adult CF clinic who had positive sputum cultures for Achromobacter species in the period from 1984 to 2013. Infection was categorized as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edwards BD,Greysson-Wong J,Somayaji R,Waddell B,Whelan FJ,Storey DG,Rabin HR,Surette MG,Parkins MD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the partial rpoB gene were determined from 38 Legionella species, including 15 serogroups of Legionella pneumophila. These sequences were then used to infer the phylogenetic relationships among the Legionella species in order to establish a molecular differentiation method appropriate for t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ko KS,Lee HK,Park MY,Lee KH,Yun YJ,Woo SY,Miyamoto H,Kook YH

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:The new colorimetric Vitek 2 YST card was evaluated for identification of yeasts (136 strains) with respect to the influence of different source media. The Vitek 2 YST card achieved satisfactory results for all yeast species tested, with the exception of Candida guilliermondii, Candida norvegensis, Candida parapsilosi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Valenza G,Strasen J,Schäfer F,Frosch M,Kurzai O,Abele-Horn M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement fixation (CF) test is the current reference serologic test for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. However, it is reported to be insensitive and nonspecific, and it is labor intensive. To determine if a faster and more sensitive diagnosis of M. pneumoniae could be obtained, we examined 50 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thacker WL,Talkington DF

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction was used to detect human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with exanthem subitum. Amplified products were detected by agarose gel electrophoresis and dot blot hybridization with a cloned DNA probe. No cross-hybridization with DNAs of five other ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kondo K,Hayakawa Y,Mori H,Sato S,Kondo T,Takahashi K,Minamishima Y,Takahashi M,Yamanishi K

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is now routinely performed in clinical microbiology laboratories to assess isolate relatedness. With appropriately developed analytics, the same data can be used for prediction of antimicrobial susceptibility. We assessed WGS data for identification using open-source tools and antibiotic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferreira I,Beisken S,Lueftinger L,Weinmaier T,Klein M,Bacher J,Patel R,von Haeseler A,Posch AE

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Because self-collected vaginal swabs (VS) are potentially very useful for screening asymptomatic women for Chlamydia trachomatis infection, a multicenter study evaluated that specimen with nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). The objective was to determine whether VS are equal to Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schachter J,McCormack WM,Chernesky MA,Martin DH,Van Der Pol B,Rice PA,Hook EW 3rd,Stamm WE,Quinn TC,Chow JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial DNA probe kit designed to detect rRNA from legionellae was evaluated for its ability to correctly discriminate between legionellae and non-legionellae taken from culture plates. The probe kit, made by the Gen-Probe Corp. (San Diego, Calif.), was radiolabeled with 125I, and probe bacterial RNA hybridizatio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edelstein PH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the microbiologic and clinical value of primary broth culture of wound specimens collected with swabs and submitted to the laboratory in transport medium, we compared the results of primary agar culture with the results of a corresponding primary broth culture for 344 aerobic specimens and 176 anaer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silletti RP,Ailey E,Sun S,Tang D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FUNGITEST method (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Paris, France) is a microplate-based procedure for the breakpoint testing of six antifungal agents (amphotericin B, flucytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and miconazole). We compared the FUNGITEST method with a broth microdilution test, performed accord...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davey KG,Holmes AD,Johnson EM,Szekely A,Warnock DW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical Clostridium difficile isolates of patients with diarrhea or pseudomembranous colitis usually produce both toxin A and toxin B, but an increasing number of reports mention infections due to toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive (A(-)/B(+)) strains. Thirty-nine clinical toxin A(-)/B(+) isolates, and 12 other unrel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van den Berg RJ,Claas EC,Oyib DH,Klaassen CH,Dijkshoorn L,Brazier JS,Kuijper EJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:An assessment was made of the necessity of performing routine screening for Staphylococcus aureus in stool specimens. A total of 527 stool specimens were evaluated. Because of the rare incidence of staphylococcal enterocolitis and the high ($2.50) screening cost, the results of this evaluation suggest that such a scre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cashman JS,Smith CB,Weidner M,Matsen JM

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial transmission of Neisseria meningitidis has only rarely been reported. Here, we present a significant spatiotemporal association of two cases of invasive meningococcal disease identified by retrospective cluster analysis with the program SaTScan. The most likely epidemiological link was simultaneous hospital...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elias J,Health Office in the Rural District Office Wartburgkreis.,Claus H,Frosch M,Vogel U

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a blood spot test for syphilis antibody using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technology. Dried blood was eluted by buffered saline or, for a supplementary confirmatory test, by treponemal-antibody test diluent. Eluates were diluted in an absorption buffer (Calypte Biomedical, Berkeley, Calif.) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stevens R,Pass K,Fuller S,Wiznia A,Noble L,Duva S,Neal M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida famata (teleomorph Debaryomyces hansenii) has been described as a medically relevant yeast, and this species has been included in many commercial identification systems that are currently used in clinical laboratories. Among 53 strains collected during the SENTRY and ARTEMIS surveillance programs and previousl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castanheira M,Woosley LN,Diekema DJ,Jones RN,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection is a common complication in late-stage AIDS. We describe a patient seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus with a disseminated infection caused by mycobacteria. Acid-fast rods were visible by microscopy in stool and bone marrow and in specimens from skin, liver, spleen,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirschner P,Vogel U,Hein R,Böttger EC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) was recently reported as a potential infective complication affecting critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, with incidence rates varying from 8 to 33% dependin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Borman AM,Palmer MD,Fraser M,Patterson Z,Mann C,Oliver D,Linton CJ,Gough M,Brown P,Dzietczyk A,Hedley M,McLachlan S,King J,Johnson EM

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A new self-contained medium system for the cultivation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was compared to modified Thayer-Martin medium for the diagnosis of gonorrhea from endocervical specimens. There was no difference in the ability of the two methods to support the growth of N. gonorrhoeae. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beverly A,Bailey-Griffin JR,Schwebke JR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivities of MRC-5 and mink lung (ML) cells in centrifugation culture were compared simultaneously for the detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) IE antigen (immediate-early antigen) from clinical specimens. Of 413 samples assayed, 51 (12%) were positive for CMV by both centrifugation and standard cell culture. At...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gleaves CA,Hursh DA,Meyers JD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00