Purification of sputum samples through sucrose improves detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：:Many truly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-negative serum samples may be unnecessarily subjected to costly and time-consuming Western blots (immunoblots). An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of using a recombinant protein-based enzyme immunosorbent assay (EIA; Cambridge BioScience [C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lepine DG,Neumann PW,Frenette SL,O'Shaughnessy MV

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of the Beijing genotype family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are a cause of particular concern because of their increasing dissemination in the world and their association with drug resistance. Phylogenetically, this family includes distinct ancient and modern sublineages. The modern strains, contrary to the a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ribeiro SC,Gomes LL,Amaral EP,Andrade MR,Almeida FM,Rezende AL,Lanes VR,Carvalho EC,Suffys PN,Mokrousov I,Lasunskaia EB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described a novel megaplasmid-encoded adhesin produced by certain Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains that lack the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island. This adhesin, designated Saa (STEC autoagglutinating adhesin), may be a marker for a subset of LEE-negative STEC strain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Penicilliosis, caused by the dimorphic fungus Penicillium marneffei, is an important opportunistic systemic fungal infection affecting immunocompromised individuals living in areas where penicilliosis is endemic. We have demonstrated previously that a urinary enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with purified rab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desakorn V,Simpson AJ,Wuthiekanun V,Sahassananda D,Rajanuwong A,Pitisuttithum P,Howe PA,Smith MD,White NJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imferon, an iron-dextran complex, enhances the growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis. The use of Imferon as a replacement for ferric nitrate, in a defined supplement for GC agar significantly increased the average colony sizes of both gonococci and meningococci. In comparison with Thayer-Martin medium, I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Payne SM,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the M. avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) directly from primary BACTEC cultures was evaluated by using acridinium-ester-labeled DNA probes (AccuProbe; GenProbe, Inc., San Diego, Calif.). In preliminary experiments, blood present in samples was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans KD,Nakasone AS,Sutherland PA,de la Maza LM,Peterson EM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alere i Influenza A&B assay is a newly developed rapid molecular assay which has the potential to generate results within 15 min from sample collection. In this study, we evaluated the Alere i Influenza A&B assay by using salvaged frozen respiratory specimens that were collected in viral transport medium from chil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bell JJ,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA Sequencing System are designed to sequence the protease (PR)- and reverse transcriptase (RT)-coding regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pol. Studies were undertaken to determine the accuracy of this assay system in detecting resistance-associated mut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuritzkes DR,Grant RM,Feorino P,Griswold M,Hoover M,Young R,Day S,Lloyd RM Jr,Reid C,Morgan GF,Winslow DL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for differentiation between wild and vaccine-derived strains of poliovirus are required, particularly in countries where wild and vaccine-related strains coexist. For this differentiation, we tested the method of Inouye and Hondo (S. Inouye and R. Hondo, Arch. Virol. 129:311-316, 1993) for discrimination of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeda N,Sakae K,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Hondo R,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,013 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were identified in parallel by the Repliscan (Cathra International, Ontario, Canada) and API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) systems. There was a 62% agreement at the genus level between the two systems. Of the 38% discrepant results, Repliscan classified 22% as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Quall CO,Fox JM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of new cytomegalovirus (CMV) assays for use on the Architect instrument has been developed, including a CMV avidity assay based on a new technology. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance characteristics of the fully automated CMV immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgG avidity tests on the Arch...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lagrou K,Bodeus M,Van Ranst M,Goubau P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previously demonstrated sensitive and specific enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for rotavirus, one using polyclonal and monoclonal antisera (TestPack Rotavirus [TPK]; Abbott Laboratories) and the other using only monoclonal anti-rotavirus antibodies (Rotaclone [RTC]; Cambridge BioScience Corporation), were evaluated as ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dennehy PH,Gauntlett DR,Spangenberger SE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to cervical cancer, integration of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA into the host genome has been considered a rare event in cancer precursor lesions (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN]). With our new real-time PCR method, we demonstrated that integrated HPV type 16 (HPV16) is already present in CIN le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peitsaro P,Johansson B,Syrjänen S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of invasive mycosis due to Blastobotrys serpentis and B. proliferans identified by sequencing in a preterm patient and a rhabdomyosarcoma patient, respectively, are reported. Both species revealed elevated fluconazole and echinocandin MICs by the CLSI broth microdilution method. Additionally, B. serpentis exhibi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kumar A,Babu R,Bijulal S,Abraham M,Sasidharan P,Kathuria S,Sharma C,Meis JF,Chowdhary A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory and clinical diagnostic classification of seropositive individuals, followed by treatment and supportive therapy, is an established component of Chagas' disease control in areas where this disease is endemic. However, most Chagas' disease patients live in remote areas where neither equipped laboratories nor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roddy P,Goiri J,Flevaud L,Palma PP,Morote S,Lima N,Villa L,Torrico F,Albajar-Viñas P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While high-copy-number IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (HCN-RFLP) is the gold standard for typing most Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, the time taken for culturing and low throughput make it impractical for large-scale prospective typing of large numbers of isolates. The development of a new ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gopaul KK,Brown TJ,Gibson AL,Yates MD,Drobniewski FA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in young women are transient, but whether the clearance differs among different HPV genotypes and the different factors predicting genotype-specific clearance are partly unknown. In the Finnish Family HPV Study, 131 of 252 women (mean age, 25.5 years) clea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Louvanto K,Syrjänen KJ,Rintala MA,Grénman SE,Syrjänen SM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus type 4 is one of the major serotypes isolated from patients with adenoviral conjunctivitis. In 2001 we encountered nosocomial infections with epidemic conjunctivitis in the ophthalmology ward of one hospital in Sapporo, which is in the northern part of Japan. Adenoviruses were isolated from the patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ariga T,Shimada Y,Ohgami K,Tagawa Y,Ishiko H,Aoki K,Ohno S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vaginitis caused by Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extremely rare, in recent years we have experienced an increasing frequency of S. cerevisiae isolation from the vaginas of fertile-age women. In order to investigate the epidemiology of these vaginal infections, a total of 40 isolates of S. cerevisiae derived fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Posteraro B,Sanguinetti M,D'Amore G,Masucci L,Morace G,Fadda G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the detection of circulating free and complexed staphylococcal antigens in various clinical categories of staphylococcal infections. Circulating immune complexes were studied by the polyethylene glycol precipitation method. Circulating immune complexes and staphyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lentino JR,Rytel MW

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hundred consecutive, single patient isolates of Enterobacter spp., Serratia spp., Citrobacter spp., and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were evaluated for AmpC production using a variety of inducer-substrate antibiotic combinations in a disk approximation format. The combinations examined included cefoxitin-piperacillin, i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dunne WM Jr,Hardin DJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bocavirus (HBoV) was discovered in 2005 and is associated with respiratory tract symptoms in young children. Three additional members of the genus Bocavirus, HBoV2, -3, and -4, were discovered recently from fecal specimens, and early results indicate an association between HBoV2 and gastrointestinal disease. In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kantola K,Sadeghi M,Antikainen J,Kirveskari J,Delwart E,Hedman K,Söderlund-Venermo M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenomonas sputigena is a curved motile anaerobic gram-negative rod that is a part of the normal upper respiratory tract of man. We present a case of speticemia associated with this organism and believe it to be the first such report describing systemic disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCarthy LR,Carlson JR

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replica plating can be used for the detection of antibiotic resistance in normal flora. We have evaluated this application of the replica plating method by comparing it with a five-colony method. The replica plating method uses a single plate for each antibiotic, with a concentration just above that for borderline res...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Osterblad M,Leistevuo T,Huovinen P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) are orbiviruses that infect both livestock and wild ruminants. Antigenic cross-reactivity between BTV and EHDV often results in serologic misdiagnosis. Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (c-ELISAs) show increased sensitivity and specific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mecham JO,Wilson WC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal DNAs of selected Bacteroides organisms whose relatedness had been previously determined by "conventional" filter-annealing studies (J. L. Johnson, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 28:245, 1978) were further analyzed by restriction endonuclease analysis coupled with the Southern hybridization procedure (E. M. South...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bradbury WC,Murray RG,Mancini C,Morris VL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sensititre Breakpoint Autoreader system (SBAS) is a broth microdilution method with one to three concentrations of each antibiotic and innovative fluorescence technology to define inhibitory endpoints. We tested 248 gram-negative bacilli and 80 gram-positive cocci using both the rapid (5 h) and overnight (18 h) SB...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nolte FS,Krisher KK,Beltran LA,Christianson NP,Sheridan GE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New blood culture media containing antibiotic-binding polymeric beads have been developed for the BacT/Alert (bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC) blood culture system. To assess the performance of these new media, we compared the new BacT/Alert aerobic medium (FA Plus) with resins to BacT/Alert FA medium with activated char...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirn TJ,Mirrett S,Reller LB,Weinstein MP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in childhood diarrhea is controversial. The aim of the present study was to search for genes linked with diarrhea in atypical EPEC strains from a case-control study among Norwegian children. Using DNA microarray analysis, genomic DNAs from strains isolated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Afset JE,Bruant G,Brousseau R,Harel J,Anderssen E,Bevanger L,Bergh K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00