Dissemination of multisusceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Singapore.

abstract：:We tested 16,191 strains of Candida against posaconazole and voriconazole, using the CLSI M27-A3 broth microdilution (BMD) method (24-h incubation), in order to define wild-type (WT) populations and epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs). From 2001 to 2009, 8,619 isolates of Candida albicans, 2,415 isolates of C. glabra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Boyken L,Hollis RJ,Kroeger J,Messer SA,Tendolkar S,Diekema DJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Sentinel mouse seroconversion to infectious agents is critical for laboratory animal facility disease monitoring. We report spontaneous emergence of non-sex-linked agammaglobulinemia with B-cell deficiency and cutaneous Staphylococcus aureus granulomatosis (botryomycosis) in a cohort of related Swiss Webster sentinel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bridgeford EC,Fox JG,Nambiar PR,Rogers AB

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium species are opportunistic nosocomial pathogens that often cause fatal invasive mycoses. We designed a primer pair that amplifies by PCR a fragment of a gene coding for the rRNA of Fusarium species. The DNAs of the main Fusarium species and Neocosmospora vasinfecta but not the DNAs from 11 medically important ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hue FX,Huerre M,Rouffault MA,de Bievre C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using sequence analysis of Shiga toxin 1 (Stx 1) genes from human and ovine Stx-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains, we identified an Stx1 variant in STEC of human origin that was identical to the Stx1 variant from ovine STEC, but demonstrated only 97.1 and 96.6% amino acid sequence identity in its A and B su...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhang W,Bielaszewska M,Kuczius T,Karch H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-speed centrifugation-mediated adsorption was evaluated as an enhancement of infectivity of clinical and laboratory strains of cytomegalovirus (CMV) occurring with cells grown in conventional culture tubes. The time required for reporting of primary isolates of CMV from urine specimens adsorbed onto monolayers of W...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oefinger PE,Shawar RM,Loo SH,Tsai LT,Arnett JK

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial bronchopneumonia is a frequent complication in patients with chronic intratracheal intubation. Despite targeted antibiotic treatment, production of abundant bronchial secretion containing pathogen bacteria often tends to be chronic, and so mortality drastically increases. This problem led to an investigatio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klekner A,Bagyi K,Bognar L,Gaspar A,Andrasi M,Szabo J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis in recent years has become an important public health issue in Taiwan. The resistant strains that cause human infections are considered to be from pigs. In this study, we characterized 157 swine and 42 human Salmonella serovar Choleraesu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chang CC,Lin YH,Chang CF,Yeh KS,Chiu CH,Chu C,Chien MS,Hsu YM,Tsai LS,Chiou CS

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:The DNA hybridization assay for genes encoding for Escherichia coli enterotoxins was used to examine water specimens in Thailand. In a reconstruction experiment, the DNA hybridization assay was 10(4) times more sensitive than testing random E. coli in the Y-1 adrenal and suckling mouse assays in identifying enterotoxi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Echeverria P,Seriwatana J,Chityothin O,Chaicumpa W,Tirapat C

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used for the screening of horse sera from The Gambia for antibodies against African horse sickness virus (AHSV). The AHSV antigen used for coating was semipurified according to the method of Manning and Chen (Curr. Microbiol. 4:381, 1980); control mock-infected Vero ce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Staeuber N,Fye B,Zinsstag J,McCullough KC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown the public health importance of identifying individuals with acute human immunodeficiency virus infection (AHI); however, the cost of nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) makes individual testing of at-risk individuals prohibitively expensive in many settings. Pooled NAAT (or group testi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Westreich DJ,Hudgens MG,Fiscus SA,Pilcher CD

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new latex agglutination test (Pastorex Staph-Plus, Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur), consisting of a mixture of latex particles coated with fibrinogen and immunoglobulin G for the detection of clumping factor and protein A and latex particles sensitized with monoclonal antibodies directed to Staphylococcus aureus serotyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fournier JM,Bouvet A,Mathieu D,Nato F,Boutonnier A,Gerbal R,Brunengo P,Saulnier C,Sagot N,Slizewicz B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Staphylococcus aureus is increasingly used as part of infection prevention practices. In this study, we established a long-read technology-based WGS screening program of all first-episode methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infections at a major urban hospital. A s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sullivan MJ,Altman DR,Chacko KI,Ciferri B,Webster E,Pak TR,Deikus G,Lewis-Sandari M,Khan Z,Beckford C,Rendo A,Samaroo F,Sebra R,Karam-Howlin R,Dingle T,Hamula C,Bashir A,Schadt E,Patel G,Wallach F,Kasarskis A,Gi

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance (PMCR) is a global public health concern, given its ease of transmissibility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two methods for the detection of PMCR from bacterial colonies: (i) the NG-Test MCR-1 lateral flow immunoassay (LFA; NG Biotech, Guipry, France) and (ii) the EDTA-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenwick AJ,Bergman Y,Lewis S,Yee R,Uhlemann AC,Cole N,Kohner P,Ordak C,Green DA,Schuetz AN,Humphries R,Simner PJ

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The data available for the diagnosis of chlamydial infections in infants which compare direct fluorescent-monoclonal-antibody stains (DFAs) with culture are limited to one reagent, MicroTrak (Syva Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.). We therefore performed a comparison of Pathfinder (Kallestad Diagnostics, Chaska, Minn.) and Mic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR,Cummings C,Williams TH,Worku M

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to rapidly recognize Ebola virus infections is critical to quickly limit further spread of the disease. A rapid, sensitive, and specific laboratory diagnostic test is needed to confirm outbreaks of Ebola virus infection and to distinguish it from other diseases that can cause similar clinical symptoms. A o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gibb TR,Norwood DA Jr,Woollen N,Henchal EA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect immunofluorescence method was developed and used to detect urinary excretion of abnormal transitional cells infected with JC virus (JCV) or BK virus (BKV). This method was compared with urinary cytology, electron microscopy, viral culture, and viral serology in groups of immunosuppressed renal transplant r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hogan TF,Padgett BL,Walker DL,Borden EC,McBain JA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting on a nosocomial outbreak of 213 cases of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection involving 2,812 enterococcal isolates from patients over a period of 36 months. In 1990, the Enterococcus faecium vancomycin susceptibility rate was found to be 85.7% (36 of 42 cases), and an incidence of 10.9% (42 of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boyle JF,Soumakis SA,Rendo A,Herrington JA,Gianarkis DG,Thurberg BE,Painter BG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the population structure of Enterococcus faecalis from Polish hospitals, 291 isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and a novel multilocus sequence typing scheme (P. Ruiz-Garbajosa et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2220-2228, 2006). The isolates originated from geographically widespread medical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawalec M,Pietras Z,Daniłowicz E,Jakubczak A,Gniadkowski M,Hryniewicz W,Willems RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of coagulase-negative staphylococcal slime production and adherence with the development and outcome of bloodstream infections in two Finnish hospitals was evaluated. Analysis of 64 strains from 62 adult septicemias disclosed 34 (53%) adherent slime producers. In comparison, only 142 (29%) of 489 sing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kotilainen P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of 58 multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Germany and 55 susceptible strains from a reference collection comprising major phylogenetic lineages confirmed that variations in Rv2629, 191A/C and 965C/T, are specific for genotypes Beijing and Ghana, respectively, but not i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Homolka S,Köser C,Archer J,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Niemann S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic examination of a permanently stained fecal preparation revealed the unusual inclusion of a Giardia lamblia cyst within the cytoplasm of an Entamoeba coli trophozoite. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Logan AL,Turner WE,Price J Jr

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies reactive with three different viral polypeptides were evaluated singly and in combination as the capture antibody(s) in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay system for the detection of bovine enteric coronavirus. Similar levels of sensitivity were found for all combinations tested. A sensitive, h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Crouch CF,Raybould TJ,Acres SD

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of rapid tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has become standard in HIV testing algorithms employed in resource-limited settings. We report an extensive HIV rapid test validation study conducted among Ugandan blood bank donors at low risk for HIV infection. The operational characteristics of four read...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eller LA,Eller MA,Ouma BJ,Kataaha P,Bagaya BS,Olemukan RL,Erima S,Kawala L,de Souza MS,Kibuuka H,Wabwire-Mangen F,Peel SA,O'Connell RJ,Robb ML,Michael NL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease analysis of virulence plasmid DNA was used to study the epidemiology of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infections. The origin of Y. pseudotuberculosis could be divided into two focus areas: Eastern Asia and Europe. Wild animals were an important reservoir for the Y. pseudotuberculosis seen in inf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukushima H,Gomyoda M,Kaneko S,Tsubokura M,Takeda N,Hongo T,Shubin FN

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the distribution in France of the Enterobacter aerogenes prevalent clone isolated in the hospitals of the Marseille area (A. Davin-Regli, D. Monnet, P. Saux, C. Bosi, R. Charrel, A. Barthelemy, and C. Bollet, J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:1474-1480, 1996). A total of 123 E. aerogenes is...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bosi C,Davin-Regli A,Bornet C,Mallea M,Pages JM,Bollet C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four independent molecular methods were used to characterize the Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar choleraesuis live vaccine strains SC-54 and Suisaloral and to differentiate them from S. choleraesuis field isolates. Plasmid analysis revealed the presence of seven plasmid profiles. A virulence plasmid of 52-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Weide-Botjes M,Liebisch B,Schwarz S,Watts JL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During February and March 1984, 207 fecal samples from infants and children with gastroenteritis were tested for rotavirus with four techniques: two enzyme immunoassays (Rotazyme; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill., and Enzygnost-Rotavirus; Calbiochem-Behring, La Jolla, Calif.) and two latex agglutination tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sambourg M,Goudeau A,Courant C,Pinon G,Denis F

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardization of sequence chromatogram analysis is required for consistent genotypic tropism determination across laboratories. A freely available, fast, and automated chromatogram analysis tool (RECall) provided tropism interpretations equivalent to those of manual sequence editing of 521 V3 loop HIV-1 population s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pou C,Bellido R,Casadellà M,Puig T,Clotet B,Harrigan R,Paredes R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00