Corynebacterium resistens sp. nov., a new multidrug-resistant coryneform bacterium isolated from human infections.

abstract：:Genetic determinants of the invasive phenotype of Shigella spp. and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC), two common agents of bacillary dysentery, are encoded on large (180- to 210 kilobase), nonconjugative plasmids. Several plasmid-encoded antigens have been implicated as important bacterial ligands that mediate t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Venkatesan M,Buysse JM,Vandendries E,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy strains can be differentiated by their behavior in bioassays and by molecular analyses of the disease-associated prion protein (PrP) in a posttranslationally transformed conformation (PrPSc). Until recently, isolates from cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) appeared ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jacobs JG,Langeveld JP,Biacabe AG,Acutis PL,Polak MP,Gavier-Widen D,Buschmann A,Caramelli M,Casalone C,Mazza M,Groschup M,Erkens JH,Davidse A,van Zijderveld FG,Baron T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West African tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is difficult to diagnose due to the low number of spirochetes in the bloodstream of patients. Previously, the causative microorganism, Borrelia crocidurae, had never been cultured in vitro. TBRF was rapidly diagnosed for two patients returning from western Africa with fev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Dam AP,van Gool T,Wetsteyn JC,Dankert J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three nasal swab samples that tested positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on initial testing by the BD GeneOhm MRSA assay (BD-MRSA PCR; BD GeneOhm, San Diego, CA) were culture positive only for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) from an enrichment broth. The 23 recovered isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stamper PD,Louie L,Wong H,Simor AE,Farley JE,Carroll KC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA encoding two repeat units of 120-kDa protein of Ehrlichia chaffeensis was cloned into the expression vector pGEX and expressed in Escherichia coli. The sensitivity and specificity of a dot blot assay for detection of human antibodies with the recombinant protein were 86 and 100%, respectively, compared with an ind...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu XJ,Crocquet-Valdes P,Cullman LC,Walker DH

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the G and P serotypes of group A bovine rotaviruses from 149 samples of feces or intestinal contents collected from calves showing clinical signs of neonatal diarrhea was performed by a nested reverse transcription-PCR typing assay. The G6 serotype was the most prevalent, accounting for viruses in 55....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Falcone E,Tarantino M,Di Trani L,Cordioli P,Lavazza A,Tollis M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of 123 Streptococcus suis strains of capsular types 2, 1/2, 3, 7, and 9, isolated from pigs in France and from humans in different countries, was evaluated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of DNA restricted with SmaI. The method was highly discriminative (D = 0.98), results were reprodu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berthelot-Hérault F,Marois C,Gottschalk M,Kobisch M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We standardized and assessed the performance of an in-house microtiter assay for determining the susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates to isoniazid based on mycobacteriophage amplification technology. Seventy isolates (43 resistant and 27 sensitive according to the BACTEC 460 radiometric met...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Galí N,Domínguez J,Blanco S,Prat C,Alcaide F,Coll P,Ausina V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a fatal case of acute lower respiratory tract disease with human rhinovirus C (HRV-C) as the unique cause in a 19-month-old girl with a history of repeated episodes of bronchiolitis. HRV-C type 8 nucleic acids were observed in respiratory, stool, and cerebrospinal fluid samples, and infectious virions were i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lupo J,Schuffenecker I,Morel-Baccard C,Bardet J,Payen V,Kaiser L,Constant S,Lobrinus JA,Lin-Marq N,Lina B,Morand P,Tapparel C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (QT-NASBA) assay for the detection of Plasmodium parasites has been developed. Primers and probes were selected on the basis of the sequence of the small-subunit rRNA gene. Quantification was achieved by coamplification of the RNA in the sample with one modified...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schoone GJ,Oskam L,Kroon NC,Schallig HD,Omar SA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania species cause a variety of human disease syndromes. Methods for diagnosis and species differentiation are insensitive and many require invasive sampling. Although quantitative PCR (qPCR) methods are reported for leishmania detection, no systematic method to quantify parasites and determine the species i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weirather JL,Jeronimo SM,Gautam S,Sundar S,Kang M,Kurtz MA,Haque R,Schriefer A,Talhari S,Carvalho EM,Donelson JE,Wilson ME

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of fluorescence resonance energy transfer, molecular-beacon, and TaqMan probes to detect single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the presence of a wild-type allele was evaluated using drug resistance-conferring SNPs in mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA. It was found that both the absolute quantity and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yesilkaya H,Meacci F,Niemann S,Hillemann D,Rüsch-Gerdes S,LONG DRUG Study Group.,Barer MR,Andrew PW,Oggioni MR

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:A specific PCR for the detection of a variant of the gene encoding Shiga toxin 1 (stx(1)) called stx(1(OX3)) (GenBank accession no. Z36901) was developed. The PCR was used to investigate 148 Stx(1)-producing Escherichia coli strains from human patients (n = 72), cattle (n = 27), sheep (n = 48), and a goat (n = 1) for ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koch C,Hertwig S,Lurz R,Appel B,Beutin L

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indirect immunoperoxidase antibody technique (IPA) has been applied to determine immunoglobulin (Ig)G to humans cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies in 114 blood donor sera, four cases of congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease, and four cases of acquired CMV infection. The results have been compared with those obtai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gerna G,McCloud CJ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics and the presence of human Fc(gamma) receptors of 52 throat isolates of group C beta-hemolytic streptococci were examined. Among these isolates, 38 were identified as "Streptococcus milleri" and 14 were identified as "Streptococcus equisimilis." The differentiation of group C "S. equisim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lebrun L,Guibert M,Wallet P,de Maneville MM,Pillot J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHROMagar MRSA was evaluated for its ability to identify methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A well-defined collection consisting of 216 MRSA strains and 241 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates was used. The sensitivity of CHROMagar MRSA after 24 h of incubation was 95.4%, increasing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Diederen B,van Duijn I,van Belkum A,Willemse P,van Keulen P,Kluytmans J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect hemagglutinating and immunofluorescent antibody responses to Herpesvirus hominis types 1 and 2 were compared to neutralizing antibody responses in infected humans from whom H. hominis type 1 or 2 was isolated. The indirect immunofluorescent antibody test was shown to be the most sensitive and specific for pri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson LD,Fuccillo DA,Stalder H,Oxman MA,Fraser CE,Madden DL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly emerged Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has infected at least 1,082 people, including 439 fatalities. So far, no empirical virus isolation study has been done to elucidate infectious virus secretion or serotype variability. Here, we used 51 respiratory samples from 32 patients with co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Muth D,Corman VM,Meyer B,Assiri A,Al-Masri M,Farah M,Steinhagen K,Lattwein E,Al-Tawfiq JA,Albarrak A,Müller MA,Drosten C,Memish ZA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p44 gene of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (aoHGE) encodes a 44-kDa major outer surface protein. A technique was developed for the typing of the aoHGE based on the PCR amplification of the p44 gene followed by a multiple restriction digest with HindIII, EcoRV, and AspI to generate restriction fragmen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carter SE,Ravyn MD,Xu Y,Johnson RC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Senftenberg is a common nontyphoidal Salmonella serotype which causes human Salmonella infections worldwide. In this study, 182 S. Senftenberg isolates, including 17 atypical non-hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-producing isolates, were detected in China from 2005 to 2011. The microbiological and gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yi S,Xie J,Liu N,Li P,Xu X,Li H,Sun J,Wang J,Liang B,Yang C,Wang X,Hao R,Wang L,Wu Z,Zhang J,Wang Y,Huang L,Sun Y,Klena JD,Meng J,Qiu S,Song H

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Four Mycoplasma arthritidis strains, two virulent (158p10p9 and 14124p10) and two avirulent (PG6 and H606), were examined for differences in their antigenic compositions. Rabbit antisera prepared against each strain were compared for their reactivities against both homologous and heterologous strains by enzyme-linked ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Washburn LR,Hirsch S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative evaluations of immune status for rubella virus are described for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, hemagglutination inhibition, and indirect hemagglutination. A 92.1% agreement between enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and indirect hemagglutination assay was demonstrated for rubella immune status. Enzyme-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Truant AL,Barksdale BL,Huber TW,Elliott LB

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-nine isolates of clinical origin, tentatively identified as Scopulariopsis or Microascus, were morphologically and molecularly characterized by a combined analysis of the D1/D2 domains of the 28S rRNA gene and a fragment of the elongation factor 1-α gene (EF1-α) sequences. The most prevalent species was Scopula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sandoval-Denis M,Sutton DA,Fothergill AW,Cano-Lira J,Gené J,Decock CA,de Hoog GS,Guarro J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potomac horse fever, a recently recognized disease of equines, characterized by high fever, leukopenia, and a profuse diarrhea, was studied for its etiology. An Ehrlichia organism was isolated in equine macrophage-fibroblast cell cultures and mouse macrophage cell cultures from the mononuclear cells of blood of infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dutta SK,Myrup AC,Rice RM,Robl MG,Hammond RC

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the BD MAX enteric bacterial panel (EBP) to culture for the detection of Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, and Shiga toxin-producing enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 in seeded stool samples. The EBP panel demonstrated superior sensitivity and reliably detected Salmonella, EHEC O157, Shigel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson NW,Buchan BW,Ledeboer NA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the applicability of molecular epidemiological techniques to the identification of the causal agent of an outbreak of diarrhea caused by ingestion of food contaminated with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). The outbreak occurred at four elementary schools in July 1996 and affected more t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mitsuda T,Muto T,Yamada M,Kobayashi N,Toba M,Aihara Y,Ito A,Yokota S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BD Phoenix system was evaluated for species-level identification of yeasts (250 clinical isolates) and compared with the Vitek 2 system, using ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis as the gold standard. Considering only the species included in each system's database, 96.3% (236/245) and 91....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Posteraro B,Ruggeri A,De Carolis E,Torelli R,Vella A,De Maio F,Ricciardi W,Posteraro P,Sanguinetti M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ERA strain of rabies virus was adapted to growth on monolayers of a porcine kidney cell line (PK-2A). A reproducible plaque assay system was subsequently developed, which appears to be satisfactory for conducting plaque neutralization tests. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strating A,Mitzel JR,Slater EA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00