Computer-assisted surveillance for detecting clonal outbreaks of nosocomial infection.

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：:Three hundred thirty-one yeast and yeast-like isolates were cultivated on eosin methylene blue agar. While the sensitivity rate for Candida kefyr isolates producing a metallic green sheen was 81.8%, the high positive predictive value (100%) for yeast isolates with this phenotype belonging to C. kefyr suggests that the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Munson EL,Troy DR,Weber JK,Messer SA,Pfaller MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, three novel avian-origin swine influenza viruses (SIVs) were first isolated from pigs in Guangdong Province, southern China, yet little is known about the seroprevalence of avian influenza viruses among pigs in southern China. Here, we report for the first time the seroprevalence of avian H3, H4, and H6 infl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Su S,Qi W,Chen J,Zhu W,Huang Z,Xie J,Zhang G

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration of mumps virus RNA detection was studied during a mumps outbreak in a highly vaccinated university population. Seven of the eight reverse transcription-PCR-positive specimens were collected during the first 3 days of parotitis, suggesting that viral shedding is minimal after the first 3 days of symptoms. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bitsko RH,Cortese MM,Dayan GH,Rota PA,Lowe L,Iversen SC,Bellini WJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray for detection of Campylobacter spp. was recently developed and applied to detect Campylobacter spp. directly from chicken feces. Sixty-five pooled chicken cloacal swab samples from 650 individual broiler chickens were included in the study. The results of Campylobacter sp. detection obtained with DNA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Keramas G,Bang DD,Lund M,Madsen M,Bunkenborg H,Telleman P,Christensen CB

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred ninety single sera from adults in Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea were tested for antibodies to human calicivirus (HCV) by a radioimmunoassay blocking test. A high prevalence of antibodies was observed in samples collected in Japan and Southeast Asia. Of 240 serum specimens collected fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nakata S,Chiba S,Terashima H,Nakao T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases in Brazil of human subcutaneous infections due to Phaeoacremonium spp. The first case was caused by Phaeoacremonium aleophilum. The patient presented with a unique fistulized nodule on the left ankle. The fungus was detected by direct microscopic examination and was isolated repeatedly from mater...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Guarro J,Alves SH,Gené J,Grazziotin NA,Mazzuco R,Dalmagro C,Capilla J,Zaror L,Mayayo E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally acquired infection of humans with a marine mammal-associated Brucella sp. has only been reported once previously in a study describing infections of two patients from Peru. We report the isolation and characterization of a strain of Brucella from a New Zealand patient that appears most closely related to str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McDonald WL,Jamaludin R,Mackereth G,Hansen M,Humphrey S,Short P,Taylor T,Swingler J,Dawson CE,Whatmore AM,Stubberfield E,Perrett LL,Simmons G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to Staphylococcus aureus capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8 were used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to serotype 74 and 42 coagulase-negative isolates from cow and goat milk, respectively. Eighteen (15.5%) isolates were typable: 13 Staphylococcus haemolyticus, 1 S. hyicus, 1 S. simula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poutrel B,Mendolia C,Sutra L,Fournier JM

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several biochemical test systems were studied for their potential usefulness for the examination of strains of Campylobacter species. Most (81%) of the C. jejuni strains hydrolyzed sodium hippurate, but strains of C. fetus, C. sputorum, and C. fecalis did not. Some (46%) of the C. jejuni strains and all of the C. sput...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hébert GA,Hollis DG,Weaver RE,Lambert MA,Blaser MJ,Moss CW

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalin-ethyl ether sedimentation, Formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation, and zinc sulfate flotation techniques were compared using over 250 clinical parasitology specimens. Fifty positive specimens were identified, and a variety of parasites, including amoebae, flagellates, cestodes, nematodes, and trematodes, were e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Truant AL,Elliott SH,Kelly MT,Smith JH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1896 precore (PC) mutation is the most frequent cause of hepatitis B virus e-antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Detection of the 1896 PC mutation has application in studies monitoring antiviral therapy and the natural history of the disease. Identification of this mutation is usual...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Waltz TL,Marras S,Rochford G,Nolan J,Lee E,Melegari M,Pollack H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant gene fusion protein composed of an Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) peptide epitope fused to the amino end of the cholera toxin B subunit was used to detect STa produced by clinical isolates of enterotoxigenic E. coli (STa-ETEC) by a single monoclonal antibody-based inhibition GM1 enzyme-li...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sanchez J,Holmgren J,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida dubliniensis is a newly recognized fungal pathogen causing mucosal disease in AIDS patients. Although preliminary studies indicate that most strains of C. dubliniensis are susceptible to established antifungal agents, fluconazole-resistant strains have been detected. Furthermore, fluconazole-resistant strains ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Messer SA,Gee S,Joly S,Pujol C,Sullivan DJ,Coleman DC,Soll DR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man sustained a crush injury to the tibia, which subsequently became infected with Saksenaea vasiformis. He was treated with debridement and a free myocutaneous flap, but amputation was necessary because of mycotic osteomyelitis. S. vasiformis was recovered and identified on the basis of its characterist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pierce PF,Wood MB,Roberts GD,Fitzgerald RH Jr,Robertson C,Edson RS

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 400,000 people worldwide are known to have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) beginning in December 2019. The virus has now spread to over 168 countries including the United States, where the first cluster of cases was observed in the Seattle metropolitan area in Was...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nalla AK,Casto AM,Huang MW,Perchetti GA,Sampoleo R,Shrestha L,Wei Y,Zhu H,Jerome KR,Greninger AL

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar mitis sequence type 136 (ST136) strain was recovered from a toe infection of an unvaccinated patient recently returned from India. The isolate was resistant to clindamycin, erythromycin (ermX positive), tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, intermediate to ceft...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mina NV,Burdz T,Wiebe D,Rai JS,Rahim T,Shing F,Hoang L,Bernard K

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Etest is a new concept for MIC determinations for antimicrobial agents that is based on a predefined antibiotic gradient on a plastic strip calibrated with a continuous logarithmic MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. Etest was compared with a reference agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of clinical i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoffner SE,Klintz L,Olsson-Liljequist B,Bolmström A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-induced L phase of growth of the group B, type III streptococcal strain 76-043 was examined for biochemical properties used for the identification of group B streptococci. After numerous serial subcultures in the cell wall-defective state, this stable L phase continued to produce hemolysin, hippuricase,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Flores AE,Ferrieri P

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four human coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43) are associated with a range of respiratory outcomes, including bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Their epidemiologies and clinical characteristics are poorly described and are often reliant on case reports. To address these problems, we conducted a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gaunt ER,Hardie A,Claas EC,Simmonds P,Templeton KE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was noted in our laboratory that certain strains of Haemophilus influenzae yielded zone sizes interpreted as resistant to the ampicillin (AMP) disk on chocolate-Mueller-Hinton agar (CMH) but showed no evidence of beta-lactamase (beta-Lac) activity. Although it is known that a second mechanism of AMP resistance exis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Heelan JS,Chesney D,Guadagno G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 201 Mycoplasma pneumoniae clinical isolates from Beijing, China, isolated from 2008 to 2011, were clustered into 16 multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) types, of which 6 new MLVA types have never been reported previously. Type 1 isolates based on p1 gene genotyping were mainly MLVA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zhao F,Liu G,Cao B,Wu J,Gu Y,He L,Meng F,Zhu L,Yin Y,Lv M,Zhang J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rothia spp. are Gram-positive cocco-bacilli that cause a wide range of serious infections, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Risk factors for Rothia mucilaginosa (previously known as Stomatococcus mucilaginosus) bacteremia include prolonged and profound neutropenia, malignancy, and an indwelling vascular foreign ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ramanan P,Barreto JN,Osmon DR,Tosh PK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial multiplex PCR (hyplex SuperBug ID) was tested with a collection of 132 clinical Enterobacteriaceae strains producing different carbapenemases. The sensitivity for the detection of KPC-, VIM-, NDM-, and OXA-48-encoding genes was 100%, whereas two IMP variants were missed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaase M,Szabados F,Wassill L,Gatermann SG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from an ongoing Swedish intervention project, the observed durations of nasopharyngeal carriage of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSP) (MIC of penicillin G of >or=0.5 microg/ml) stratified by both pneumococcal serogroup and age of the carrier were compared. The means and 95% confidence...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Högberg L,Geli P,Ringberg H,Melander E,Lipsitch M,Ekdahl K

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV 16) plays a cardinal role in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer. HPV 16 has intratypic variants which show different geographical distributions and different oncogenic potentials. To analyze the presence of sequence variations of HPV 16 variants in northeast China, 71 cervical carcin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shang Q,Wang Y,Fang Y,Wei L,Chen S,Sun Y,Li B,Zhang F,Gu H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium polyanethole sulfonate (SPS; trade name, Liquoid) is a constituent in culture media used to grow bacteria from blood samples from patients suspected of bacteremia. SPS prevents the killing of bacteria by innate cellular and humoral factors. We analyzed the effect of SPS on the three complement activation pathwa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Palarasah Y,Skjoedt MO,Vitved L,Andersen TE,Skjoedt K,Koch C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorogenic assay for the detection of beta-glucosidase was developed as part of a simplified conventional method to distinguish Staphylococcus warneri and Staphylococcus hominis isolated from bovine body sites. The assay is based on the fact that strains of S. warneri produce beta-glucosidase, while strains of S. h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： White DG,Harmon RJ,Langlois BE

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas caviae was recovered as the sole potential enteric pathogen from the stools of 14 of 17 symptomatic children (10 younger than 1 year of age) while Aeromonas hydrophila, Aeromonas sobria, and Plesiomonas shigelloides were isolated once each. The infants from whom A. caviae was isolated all presented with a wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Namdari H,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00