Pyogenic liver abscess due to Rhodococcus equi in an immunocompetent host.

abstract：:The BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Instrument Systems, Sparks, Md.) is a new continuous-monitoring blood culture system that uses internal, fluorescent-CO2 sensors. In a multicenter clinical trial, organism yield and times to detection with the prototype BACTEC 9240 system were compared with those of the BAC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nolte FS,Williams JM,Jerris RC,Morello JA,Leitch CD,Matushek S,Schwabe LD,Dorigan F,Kocka FE

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Infections due to small-colony variants (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with chronic and recurrent infections are an emerging problem; however, studies with this subpopulation are hampered by the fact that SCVs may exhibit unstable phenotypes, making them difficult to study, particularly in broth media. In...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker K,Laham NA,Fegeler W,Proctor RA,Peters G,von Eiff C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) is a sensitive method for detection of RNA virus nucleic acid sequences in clinical respiratory specimens. Previous studies have focused on RT-PCR for a single virus, but this approach is limited by the inability to establish a specific etiology when the RT-PCR result is negative and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gilbert LL,Dakhama A,Bone BM,Thomas EE,Hegele RG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty rotavirus-positive stool specimens from children with diarrhea were classified into G and P genotypes. G typing was done by PCR and then by hybridization with G type-specific (G1 to G4) oligonucleotide probes, whereas nested PCR was performed for P typing. Thirty-nine samples could be classified into both G and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Husain M,Seth P,Dar L,Broor S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a method to reduce oxygen tension and produce anaerobic conditions conveniently by coculture with a nonfermentative organism. The biochemical reactions of 94 strains representing 41 different species were determined using prereduced media and gas chromatography according to standard methods. The standa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hussain Z,Bürger H,Lannigan R,Groves DJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple method for extracting specific cell-free antigens of Coccidioides immitis and Histoplasma capsulatum from agar slant cultures was developed. The extracts were analyzed in immunodiffusion tests for the presence of C. immitis or H. capsulatum specific antigens. These extracts were compared with cultur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaufman L,Standard P

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing number of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has stimulated the interest of investigators in finding a rapid method for susceptibility testing. We used commercially available rRNA DNA-bioluminescence-labelled probes (Accu-Probe, Gen Probe, Inc. San Diego, Calif.) for this purpose. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin-Casabona N,Xairó Mimó D,González T,Rossello J,Arcalis L

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have assessed the time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in bloodstream infections (BSIs). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the time to positivity (TTP) of blood cultures in patients with Staphylococcus aureus BSIs and to assess its impact on clinical outcome. We perfo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marra AR,Edmond MB,Forbes BA,Wenzel RP,Bearman GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis strains usually requires three to six serial passages in shell vials to attain sufficient antigen for typing procedures. To circumvent this problem, we developed a rapid low-passage method for serotyping of C. trachomatis clinical isolates. Isolates with an inclusion count of greate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suchland RJ,Stamm WE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium amycolatum has not been reported as a cause of human infections up to now, but usually the bacterium is misidentified in clinical specimens as Corynebacterium xerosis. We report the first case of neonatal sepsis due to Corynebacterium amycolatum with a fatal outcome in a premature infant. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berner R,Pelz K,Wilhelm C,Funke A,Leititis JU,Brandis M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first documented case of canine strangles due to infection with Streptococcus equi in a dog with enlarged lymph nodes. Genetic typing, via sequencing of 12 housekeeping genes and the SeM gene, demonstrated the isolate to be a member of a common equine strain type circulating in the United Kingdom. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ladlow J,Scase T,Waller A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microhematocrit concentration method (MH) for immediate diagnosis of Chagas' disease during the acute stage or in congenital cases was standardized. Parasitemia as low as 1,000 parasites per ml was detected, after centrifugation of six 50-microliters capillary tubes, by 10-min microscopic observation of each buffy c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feilij H,Muller L,Gonzalez Cappa SM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of enzyme immunoassay and RNA electrophoresis, rotavirus serotyping was performed with stool specimens from 605 children. Serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4 accounted for 63, 9, 9, and 19% of the cases, respectively, with considerable yearly variation. An average of three serotypes cocirculated each year. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Begue RE,Dennehy PH,Huang J,Martin P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cultivable equine rotavirus isolates, two of North American, six of British, and two of Irish origin, were compared with standard rotavirus strains and with each other by cross neutralization, neutralization with a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), hybridization to a simian rotavirus (SA-11) VP7 gene probe, a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Browning GF,Chalmers RM,Fitzgerald TA,Snodgrass DR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to increase the application potential of the direct agglutination test (DAT) for the detection of anti-Leishmania antibodies in human serum samples, we developed an antigen based on stained and freeze-dried Leishmania donovani promastigotes. We describe here the evaluation of the performance of the DAT based ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Meredith SE,Kroon NC,Sondorp E,Seaman J,Goris MG,van Ingen CW,Oosting H,Schoone GJ,Terpstra WJ,Oskam L

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for its potential utility in the detection of antigen in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with tuberculous meningitis. Cerebrospinal fluids examined included those from untreated (group Ia) and treated (group Ib) Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis, nonse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kadival GV,Mazarelo TB,Chaparas SD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the bacterium most commonly surmised to cause antimicrobial- and hospital-associated diarrhea in developed countries worldwide, and such infections are thought to be increasing in frequency and severity. A laboratory-based study was carried out to characterize C. difficile strains isolated fro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martin H,Willey B,Low DE,Staempfli HR,McGeer A,Boerlin P,Mulvey M,Weese JS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods offer several advantages in assessing past or recent exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, but there persist many pitfalls in the use of these methods for determining specific immunoglobulin M (IgM). The efficiency of absorption of sera by IgG-coated latex beads,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Joassin L,Reginster M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid (2.5 h) direct enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for Clostridium difficile toxin A was developed for clinical use. Specimen centrifugation and filtration were not required. The EIA detected toxin A levels in patient stool as low as 20 pg (2 ng/ml of stool). The test was 5,000 times more sensitive for toxin A than it wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DiPersio JR,Varga FJ,Conwell DL,Kraft JA,Kozak KJ,Willis DH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has become an increasing burden on health care resources since their discovery over 20 years ago. Current techniques employed for their detection include time-consuming and laborious phenotypic methods or molecular methods requiring costly equipment and consumables...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffin PM,Price GR,Schooneveldt JM,Schlebusch S,Tilse MH,Urbanski T,Hamilton B,Venter D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicenter study, the consistency of international units expressed by five commercially available rubella virus immunoglobulin G kits was evaluated. The linearity and within-run and between-run precision were determined for each kit. All kits demonstrated good linearity and had within-run and between-run precisi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dimech W,Bettoli A,Eckert D,Francis B,Hamblin J,Kerr T,Ryan C,Skurrie I

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive sera from 106 chronically infected patients which had previously been genotyped were characterized by serotyping. Genotypes were determined by a first-generation line probe assay (INNO-LiPA HCV) and by sequence analyses of the core, core-E1, and NS5B regions. HCV serotypes were determi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Doorn LJ,Kleter B,Pike I,Quint W

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with mycobacterial bacteremia documented by Du Pont Isolator (Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del.) blood cultures underwent microscopic examination of buffy coat blood smears. Of 30 patients, 14 were culture positive for Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare comp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Eng RH,Bishburg E,Smith SM,Mangia A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging enteric pathogen that causes acute and chronic diarrhea among children, human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, and travelers to developing regions of the world. The pathogenesis of EAEC strains involves the production of biofilm. In this study, we deter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mohamed JA,Huang DB,Jiang ZD,DuPont HL,Nataro JP,Belkind-Gerson J,Okhuysen PC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) nonstructural 1 (NS1) protein constitute a marker of natural JEV infection among populations vaccinated with inactivated JE vaccine. In Japan, with few recent human JE cases, the natural infection rate is critical to evaluate the necessity of continuing JE vaccination. A...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Konishi E,Shoda M,Ajiro N,Kondo T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological study of several multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolated from five patients demonstrated in vivo dissemination of a 100-kb plasmid encoding the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase TEM-24 from a clonal strain of Enterobacter aerogenes to different strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neuwirth C,Siebor E,Pechinot A,Duez JM,Pruneaux M,Garel F,Kazmierczak A,Labia R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preemptive ganciclovir (GCV) therapy is adopted increasingly in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients, but occasional cases of increasing cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia levels occur during preemptive GCV therapy. This prospective study investigated the incidence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park SY,Lee SO,Choi SH,Kim YS,Woo JH,Sung H,Kim MN,Kim DY,Lee JH,Lee JH,Lee KH,Kim SH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of the Etest and the disk diffusion methods for testing of the susceptibilities of 235 Candida glabrata isolates to fluconazole and voriconazole were compared with that of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) approved standard broth microdilution (BMD) method. The NCCLS met...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

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

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 1,510 sputum samples examined from 1,016 patients with bronchopulmonary disorders, Nocardia asteroides was isolated from 67 samples by paraffin baiting, as compared with only 30 isolations by the conventional technique of culturing on Sabouraud dextrose agar. This higher efficacy of the paraffin bait technique was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Singh M,Sandhu RS,Randhawa HS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00