Real-time TaqMan PCR for quantifying oral bacteria during biofilm formation.

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi expresses a conserved, species-specific 39-kDa protein (P39) that can stimulate antibodies during human infection. To confirm that anti-P39 antibodies are produced consistently in animals exposed to infectious spirochetes, white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, and laboratory white mice, Mus musc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Simpson WJ,Burgdorfer W,Schrumpf ME,Karstens RH,Schwan TG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were studied by comparing chromosomal DNA fingerprint patterns produced by digestion of chromosomal DNA with BamHI, followed by agarose electrophoresis and hybridization with radiolabeled probes of insertion sequence IS6110. DNA fingerprints of 14 isolates from separate members of f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mazurek GH,Cave MD,Eisenach KD,Wallace RJ Jr,Bates JH,Crawford JT

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection in men has traditionally been limited to men who present with urethral symptoms, thereby limiting the detection of asymptomatic chlamydia infection in men. In order to effectively screen both symptomatic and asymptomatic men, we evaluated a newly developed polymerase chain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jaschek G,Gaydos CA,Welsh LE,Quinn TC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1991 and 1995, an apparent high rate of Staphylococcus warneri bacteremias at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, raised the possibility of a virulent nosocomial strain. In a retrospective review of 30 S. warneri bacteremias in children, organisms were viable and verified in 22 episo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Buttery JP,Easton M,Pearson SR,Hogg GG

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently tested serum from a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient for the presence of cryptococcal antigen using the Meridian latex agglutination (LA) test (Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System). Two pronase-treated serum specimens from the patient had LA titers of 80 and 160, but the patient ha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Whittier S,Hopfer RL,Gilligan P

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infections caused by staphylococci are usually attributed to Staphylococcus epidermidis or S. saprophyticus. The case study reported here describes a persistent urinary tract infection caused by S. haemolyticus in a 38-year-old male whose infection was ultimately resolved through the use of the antibioti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gunn BA,Davis CE Jr

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high-copy-number insertion sequences, IS2404 and IS2606, were recently identified in Mycobacterium ulcerans and were shown by Southern hybridization to possess restriction fragment length polymorphism between strains from different geographic origins. We have designed a simple genotyping method that captures these...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stinear T,Davies JK,Jenkin GA,Portaels F,Ross BC,Oppedisano F,Purcell M,Hayman JA,Johnson PD

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated that sodium gluconate was the factor causing false-positive galactomannan (GM) antigenemia of Plasma-Lyte hydration solution. Infusion of sodium gluconate-containing solution but not gluconate-free Plasma-Lyte resulted in positive serum GM antigenemia. Serum GM concentrations also correlated with the v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Petraitiene R,Petraitis V,Witt JR 3rd,Durkin MM,Bacher JD,Wheat LJ,Walsh TJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia plymuthica was isolated from the blood and from a central venous catheter tip in a 54-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and clinical signs of sepsis. This was the seventh reported isolate of S. plymuthica from a clinical specimen and the first in which the organism was clearly a significant pathogen. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Horowitz HW,Nadelman RB,Van Horn KG,Weekes SE,Goyburu L,Wormser GP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR for protein D (hpd#3) was used to differentiate nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) from Haemophilus haemolyticus. While 90% of nasopharyngeal specimens and 100% of lower-airway specimens from 84 Indigenous Australian children with bronchiectasis had phenotypic NTHI isolates confirmed as H. influenzae, onl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hare KM,Binks MJ,Grimwood K,Chang AB,Leach AJ,Smith-Vaughan H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood cultures (BCs) are the standard method for diagnosis of bloodstream infections (BSIs). However, the average BC contamination rate (CR) in U.S. hospitals is 2.9%, potentially resulting in unnecessary antibiotic use and excessive therapy costs. Several studies have compared various skin antisepsis agents without a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Story-Roller E,Weinstein MP

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EasyNAT assay was evaluated for the detection of tuberculosis in sputum smears from presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in an African high-TB and high-HIV setting. The sensitivity of the EasyNAT assay was 66.7%, and the specificity and positive predictive value were 100% for the culture-positive patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mhimbira FA,Bholla M,Sasamalo M,Mukurasi W,Hella JJ,Jugheli L,Reither K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 drug resistance (HIVDR) assays are important tools in clinical management of HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and surveillance of drug-resistant variants at population levels. The high cost associated with commercial assays hinders their use in resource-limited settings. We adopted and valid...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Inzaule S,Yang C,Kasembeli A,Nafisa L,Okonji J,Oyaro B,Lando R,Mills LA,Laserson K,Thomas T,Nkengasong J,Zeh C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis causes three main types of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL), localized cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), and disseminated leishmaniasis (DL). All forms are observed among individuals of Corte de Pedra, Brazil. We previously used random amplified markers...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Queiroz A,Sousa R,Heine C,Cardoso M,Guimarães LH,Machado PR,Carvalho EM,Riley LW,Wilson ME,Schriefer A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1994, a cross-contamination problem leading to false-positive cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was revealed in a mycobacteriology laboratory processing 30,000 to 35,000 samples per year. Molecular strain typing based on restriction fragment length polymorphism confirmed the contaminations. Out of 1,439 po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bauer J,Thomsen VO,Poulsen S,Andersen AB

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Corynebacterium isolates submitted to the national reference laboratory in Spain, between 2014 and 2019, in order to describe the current situation and improve our knowledge regarding these emerging pathogens. Ep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoefer A,Pampaka D,Herrera-León S,Peiró S,Varona S,López-Perea N,Masa-Calles J,Herrera-León L

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for infections caused by gram-negative organisms expressing plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamases are limited because these organisms are usually resistant to all the beta-lactam antibiotics, except for cefepime, cefpirome, and the carbapenems. These organisms are a major concern in nosocomial infe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Pérez FJ,Hanson ND

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic utility of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA detection in cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnosis of central nervous system lymphoma was evaluated with two different PCR assays to test a collection of cerebrospinal fluid samples from 24 AIDS patients with central nervous system disorders. A PCR assay amplifyin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arribas JR,Clifford DB,Fichtenbaum CJ,Roberts RL,Powderly WG,Storch GA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus. Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus, we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thaipadungpanit J,Amornchai P,Nickerson EK,Wongsuvan G,Wuthiekanun V,Limmathurotsakul D,Peacock SJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient suffered a typical attack of typhoid fever due to a lactose-negative, fully susceptible Salmonella typhi strain. During convalescence she became febrile, and a lactose-fermenting S. typhi strain resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and trimethoprim was isolated from blood culture. T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cohen SL,Wylie BA,Sooka A,Koornhof HJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-reactivity between Legionella spp. and Capnocytophaga ochracea was noted by latex agglutination tests (Serobact Legionella; Disposable Products, Adelaide, Australia). Four of 11 (36%) C. ochracea isolates agglutinated with latex reagents designed to identify Legionella pneumophila serogroups. C. ochracea isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen S,Hicks L,Yuen M,Mitchell D,Gilbert GL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that whole blood contains significantly more hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA than plasma. To validate the whole-blood-based HCV RNA detection method, a prospective comparison of HCV RNA detection in whole blood and plasma from 50 patients with chronic liver disease was undertaken. Whole-blood an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stapleton JT,Klinzman D,Schmidt WN,Pfaller MA,Wu P,LaBrecque DR,Han Jq,Phillips MJ,Woolson R,Alden B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

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：:A 42-plex clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-based typing technique (spoligotyping) was recently developed at the French National Reference Center for Legionella. It allows the subtyping of the Legionella pneumophila sequence type 1/Paris pulsotype. In this report, we present the transfe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gomgnimbou MK,Ginevra C,Peron-Cane C,Versapuech M,Refrégier G,Jacotin N,Sola C,Jarraud S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organism resembling Corynebacterium striatum was isolated from the blood of a patient with acute aortic valvular insufficiency and no history of valvular heart disease. At autopsy, histopathologic examination of the aortic valve revealed pleomorphic gram-positive bacilli and destruction of valvular tissue. Our isol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Markowitz SM,Coudron PE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid and sensitive assay for the detection of Salmonella serovars in veterinary clinical specimens. This method utilizes a short cultivation period followed by PCR. For detection of the amplified product, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA) was u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stone GG,Oberst RD,Hays MP,McVey S,Chengappa MM

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of neonatal infection caused by Enterobacter sakazakii are reported from the Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, the National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland. These infections occurred during a 9-month period in 1986 and 1987. Two of the neonates, who were normal at birth, survived but were left...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Biering G,Karlsson S,Clark NC,Jónsdóttir KE,Lúdvígsson P,Steingrímsson O

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malassezia yeasts are associated with several dermatological disorders. The conventional identification of Malassezia species by phenotypic methods is complicated and time-consuming, and the results based on culture methods are difficult to interpret. A comparative molecular approach based on the use of three molecula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gupta AK,Boekhout T,Theelen B,Summerbell R,Batra R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:spa typing is a method used in molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Due to the lack of an amplification product in one of 55 MRSA cases, a new PCR setup, which allows an indicative description of a previously unknown type, was performed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Reischauer M,Bernkopf M,Webersinke C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 522 patients with Propionibacterium acnes bacteremia (PAB), 18 (3.5%) had clinically significant PAB. Of these 18 patients, 10 (55.6%) had hospital-acquired bacteremia and 6 (33.3%) had undergone invasive procedures before development of PAB. One patient with a ventricular septal defect presented with infective end...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park HJ,Na S,Park SY,Moon SM,Cho OH,Park KH,Chong YP,Kim SH,Lee SO,Kim YS,Woo JH,Kim MN,Choi SH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00