Bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in wildlife in Spain.

abstract：:Trichophyton rubrum was easily differentiated from T. mentagrophytes by its ability to assimilate sorbitol with an API 20C AUX strip. One hundred percent of 36 T. rubrum strains and none of 147 T. mentagrophytes strains assimilated sorbitol. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rezusta A,Rubio MC,Alejandre MC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanted orthopedic implants from 54 patients with aseptic failure and 24 patients with prosthetic knee or hip infection were sonicated in polyethylene bags. The sensitivities of periprosthetic tissue and sonicate fluid cultures for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection were 54% and 75%, whereas the specificiti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Trampuz A,Piper KE,Hanssen AD,Osmon DR,Cockerill FR,Steckelberg JM,Patel R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 50 strains of Staphylococcus aureus, including 41 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains, were characterized by one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins. The protein patterns contained 40-50 discrete bands and were highly reproducible. Partial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Costas M,Cookson BD,Talsania HG,Owen RJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection and colonization, involving MRSA strains which differ from common human health care-associated clones, have become serious emerging conditions in equine veterinary hospitals. In 2010, MRSA spa type t535 caused an outbreak involving both horses and personnel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steinman A,Masarwa S,Tirosh-Levy S,Gleser D,Kelmer G,Adler A,Carmeli Y,Schwaber MJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microagglutination test for Francisella tularensis, with 0.025-ml amounts of diluted sera and 0.025-ml amounts of safranin-O-stained antigen in U-bottom microtitration plates, was compared with a tube agglutination test by using 137 sera. There was 86.3% agreement (+/- 1 dilution variation) between the microagglutin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brown SL,McKinney FT,Klein GC,Jones WL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serotyping scheme for Enterobacter cloacae based on heat-stable somatic antigens is described. A total of 28 antisera were prepared in rabbits, and titers of agglutinins were high (greater than 640). Some cross-reactions were observed, and 11 sera required absorption before routine use. Of 300 clinical isolates from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaston MA,Bucher C,Pitt TL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gag-based molecular beacon assay utilizing real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification technology has been developed to differentiate between the two genetic subclusters of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype C (C and C') circulating in Ethiopia. Of 41 samples, 36 could be classified as C or ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ayele W,Pollakis G,Abebe A,Fisseha B,Tegbaru B,Tesfaye G,Mengistu Y,Wolday D,van Gemen B,Goudsmit J,Dorigo-Zetsma W,de Baar MP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a virulence factor of Staphylococcus aureus, which is associated with skin and soft-tissue infections and necrotizing pneumonia. To develop a rapid phenotypic assay, recombinant PVL F component was used to generate monoclonal antibodies by phage display. These antibodies were spott...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Monecke S,Müller E,Buechler J,Rejman J,Stieber B,Akpaka PE,Bandt D,Burris R,Coombs G,Hidalgo-Arroyo GA,Hughes P,Kearns A,Abós SM,Pichon B,Skakni L,Söderquist B,Ehricht R

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia ficaria was isolated from sputum in a 62-year-old man and from tracheal aspiration fluid in a 62-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress. These strains are the second and third isolations of S. ficaria from human sources. The case reports are presented, together with the laboratory findings and the bio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brouillard JA,Hansen W,Compere A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare methods for subtyping Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolates, 96 isolates obtained from various locations in the United States and northwestern Europe were subtyped by five methods: monoclonal antibody (MAb)-based serotyping and serosubtyping, DNA macrorestriction analysis by pulsed-field gel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swaminathan B,Matar GM,Reeves MW,Graves LM,Ajello G,Bibb WF,Helsel LO,Morales M,Dronavalli H,el-Swify M,DeWitt W,Hunter SB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR amplification technology for the detection of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) ribonucleic acid in cell culture and clinical specimens was developed. With oligoribonucleotide primers selected from genome segment 10 of EHDV serotype 1 (EHDV-1), which codes for two nonstructural proteins (NS3 and NS3a), th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aradaib IE,Wilson WC,Schore CE,Mohammed ME,Yilma TD,Cullor JS,Osburn BI

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilophila wadsworthia is a common inhabitant of the human colon and has been associated with appendicitis and other local sites of inflammation in humans. Challenge-exposure or prevalence studies in laboratory and other animals have not been reported. B. wadsworthia is closely related phylogenetically to Desulfovibrio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McOrist AL,Warhurst M,McOrist S,Bird AR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses of 85 patients to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 antigens were quantitated by densitometric analysis of Western blot (immunoblot) assays. All patients had been classified into the following three clinical categories: asymptomatic (ASY), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related complex ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmidt G,Amiraian K,Frey H,Wethers J,Stevens RW,Berns DS

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A qualitative multiplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and liquid hybridization assay for the detection of human enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, parechoviruses, and Aichi virus was developed. Furthermore, a separate assay for the recognition of hepatitis A virus was established to complement the test pattern so that all ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jokela P,Joki-Korpela P,Maaronen M,Glumoff V,Hyypiä T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sera from 4 of 25,000 individuals tested for antibodies against streptococci, extremely high antideoxyribonuclease B titers ( > 10(6) U/ml) were found. Two of the cases were diagnosed as monoclonal gammopathies. The M-components were shown to possess the anti-deoxyribonuclease B activity. The other two cases were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hederstedt B,Holm SE,Norberg R

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni was isolated from the feces of 14.8% of a random sample of the healthy population of rural southern India. The rate of isolation was highest in preschool children. This finding emphasizes the need to identify markers of pathogenicity in strains of C. fetus subsp. jejuni, which so far ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rajan DP,Mathan VI

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the Phoenix automated microbiology system (BD Diagnostic Systems, Sparks, MD) for the identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of challenge and clinical staphylococci and enterococci recovered from patients in a tertiary-care medical center. In total, 424 isolates were tested: 90...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carroll KC,Borek AP,Burger C,Glanz B,Bhally H,Henciak S,Flayhart DC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria include a large number of pathogens. Identification to species level is important for diagnoses and treatments. Here, we report the development of a Web-accessible database of the hsp65 locus sequences (http://msis.mycobacteria.info) from 149 out of 150 Mycobacterium species/subspecies. This database can ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dai J,Chen Y,Lauzardo M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 121 pneumococcal serogroup 6 isolates (including 30 serotype 6C and 24 serotype 6D isolates) by serotype-specific PCR and the Quellung reaction, using "old" and "new" pool B, factor 6b, and new factor 6d antisera. In combination with group B and other factor antisera, factor 6d antiserum can reliably identif...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oftadeh S,Satzke C,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel panfungal PCR assay which detects the small-subunit rRNA gene sequence of the two major fungal organism groups was used to test whole-blood specimens obtained from a series of blood or bone marrow transplant recipients. The 580-bp PCR product was identified after amplification by panfungal primers and hybridiz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Burik JA,Myerson D,Schreckhise RW,Bowden RA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of Clostridium glycolicum wound infections in immunocompetent adults. The bacterium was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the third published report of the recovery of this organism from human clinical material and highlights the importance of the organism as a potential human patho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jiang W,Abrar S,Romagnoli M,Carroll KC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory tests are essential for confirming sporadic cases and outbreaks of rubella. Detection of rubella virus is often necessary to confirm rubella cases and to identify specimens to be used to characterize wild-type rubella viruses. The sensitivities of four methods for detecting rubella virus infection using thr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhu Z,Xu W,Abernathy ES,Chen MH,Zheng Q,Wang T,Zhang Z,Li C,Wang C,He W,Zhou S,Icenogle J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP)-PCR, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR, and Salmonella enteritidis repetitive element-PCR methods for bacterial strain typing were performed with DNA extracted by boiling members of each of the currently recognized species of human viridans group strep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Alam S,Brailsford SR,Whiley RA,Beighton D

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoglycans from mycoplasmas possess the ability to induce the elaboration of procoagulant activity. This represents a third endotoxic property for these polymers, in addition to the pyrogenicity and clotting of Limulus lysate reported previously. Lipoglycans from three species of Acholeplasma (A. axanthum, A. granula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miragliotta G,Barone G,Monno RA,Fumarola D,Smith PF

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested 606 specimens for cytomegalovirus infection. Fifty-two specimens were positive by conventional culture versus forty-three by pre-cytopathic effect detection. Twenty-nine specimens were positive by both methods. Because of toxicity, specimens should be set up on both conventional and shell vial culture system...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rabella N,Drew WL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study to compare the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test with the cell culture method in diagnosing urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infections was performed. From 497 patients (212 women, 285 men) attending an outpatient clinic for sexually transmitted diseases, a total of 814 samples (female patients, cervix and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vogels WH,van Voorst Vader PC,Schröder FP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven rotavirus strains dually reactive to serotype G1- and G2-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) from hospitalized children with rotavirus diarrhea were culture adapted. Six strains were neutralized with G1 antiserum to a higher titer than that of G2, and one was neutralized with G1 and G2 antisera to equal titers...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ranshing SS,Kelkar SD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmic lymphadenopathy (TL) is the most common clinical manifestation of acute acquired toxoplasma infection in normal individuals. The diagnosis is established by serologic methods and lymph node biopsy. Recently, tests for avidity of toxoplasma immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies have been introduced to help disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montoya JG,Huffman HB,Remington JS

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:Viral load testing for cytomegalovirus (CMV) has become the standard for the diagnosis of infection and monitoring of therapy at many transplant centers. However, no viral load test has been approved by the FDA. Therefore, many laboratories rely on laboratory-developed assays. This study evaluated the performance char...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Caliendo AM,Ingersoll J,Fox-Canale AM,Pargman S,Bythwood T,Hayden MK,Bremer JW,Lurain NS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00