Detection of Helicobacter pylori in gastric mucosa of patients with gastroduodenal diseases by PCR-restriction analysis using the RNA polymerase gene (rpoB).

abstract：:Growth curves of the yeast form of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis B-339 based on total and viable cell counts were determined. Crude culture filtrate antigens were obtained after 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 days of incubation. Different patterns of proteins were obtained by affinity chromatography on Sepharose 4B-immunog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： De Camargo Z,Unterkircher C,Campoy SP,Travassos LR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disk diffusion tests, inoculated directly from positive blood cultures, were evaluated for accuracy of reading zone diameters after 4- and 6-h and overnight incubation. In comparisons with results from standard disk diffusion tests, the 4-h results were in agreement for 83% of tests with gram-positive organisms and 64...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coyle MB,McGonagle LA,Plorde JJ,Clausen CR,Schoenknecht FD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) has been steadily increasing in countries of the former USSR. The availability of rapid and reliable methods for the detection of drug resistance to second-line drugs is vital for adequate patient management. We evaluated the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ignatyeva O,Kontsevaya I,Kovalyov A,Balabanova Y,Nikolayevskyy V,Toit K,Dragan A,Maxim D,Mironova S,Kummik T,Muntean I,Koshkarova E,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus gattii emerged in North America in 1999 as a human and veterinary pathogen on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The emergent subtype, VGIIa, and the closely related subtype VGIIb can now be found in the United States in Washington, Oregon, and California. We performed multilocus sequence typing and anti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iqbal N,DeBess EE,Wohrle R,Sun B,Nett RJ,Ahlquist AM,Chiller T,Lockhart SR,Cryptococcus gattii Public Health Working Group.

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First-catch early morning urine samples from patients attending a genitourinary medicine clinic were tested by three different enzyme immunoassays. The results suggest significant differences in the sensitivities and specificities of the different assays. The direct visualization of elementary bodies in urine deposits...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paul ID,Caul EO

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex method using the SNaPshot technique was developed to screen for six common mycobacterial species: Mycobacteria tuberculosis, M. avium, M. intracellulare, M. chelonae, M. kansasii, and M. gordonae. A total of 468 mycobacterial clinical isolates were subjected to analysis for the presence of the six mycobact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang H,Yue J,Han M,Yang J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most common diseases in high-performance German Holstein dairy cows is left-sided displacement of the abomasum (LDA). Hypomotility of the abomasum is detrimental during the pathogenesis of LDA. It is known that improper interactions between the gut microbiota and the enteric nervous system contribute to dys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Song ES,Jung SI,Park HJ,Seo KW,Son JH,Hong S,Shim M,Kim HB,Song KH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared examination of unstained and Gram-stained smears as methods of evaluating sputum quality. Of 100 slides examined, 96 (96%) were graded identically. Each discrepancy between methods was near the cutoff for specimen acceptability. We concluded that examination of unstained smears can provide an accurate, cos...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wetterau LM,Zeimis RT,Hollick GE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the plasmid profiles of 136 Shigella isolates in Bangladesh to determine whether plasmid profiles could be used for differentiation of strains for epidemiological studies. Many different plasmid patterns were observed within each species, indicating that many genetically different strains of Shigella are re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tacket CO,Shahid N,Huq MI,Alim AR,Cohen ML

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe early childhood caries (ECC), while strongly associated with Streptococcus mutans using selective detection (culture, PCR), has also been associated with a widely diverse microbiota using molecular cloning approaches. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microbiota of severe ECC using anaerobic culture. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tanner AC,Mathney JM,Kent RL,Chalmers NI,Hughes CV,Loo CY,Pradhan N,Kanasi E,Hwang J,Dahlan MA,Papadopolou E,Dewhirst FE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive meningococcal disease is mainly caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, B, C, X, W, and Y. The serogroup is typically determined by slide agglutination serogrouping (SASG) and real-time PCR (RT-PCR). We describe a whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based method to characterize the capsule polysaccharide syn...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marjuki H,Topaz N,Rodriguez-Rivera LD,Ramos E,Potts CC,Chen A,Retchless AC,Doho GH,Wang X

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA probes (Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif.) directed at the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex were used to identify acid-fast bacilli directly from specimens grown in BACTEC 12B bottles (Becton Dickinson and Co., Towson, Md.). Clinical specimens were inoculated directly...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peterson EM,Lu R,Floyd C,Nakasone A,Friedly G,de la Maza LM

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:A total of 101 food-borne and waterborne outbreaks that were caused by norovirus and that resulted in more than 4,100 cases of illness were reported to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control from January 2002 to December 2006. Sequence and epidemiological data for isolates from 73 outbreaks were analyzed...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lysén M,Thorhagen M,Brytting M,Hjertqvist M,Andersson Y,Hedlund KO

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Inconsistent quality control results in disk diffusion testing of cefaclor, cefamandole, cefonicid, and cefuroxime with Haemophilus influenzae ATCC 49247 and Haemophilus test medium (HTM) prompted a search for an alternative control strain that would provide more reliable results. A five-laboratory study was conducted...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jorgensen JH,Barry AL,Doern GV,Ferraro MJ,Murray PR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1999 and 2002, 496 invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) isolates from clinical microbiological departments in Denmark and subsequently 487 (98%) questionnaires from the clinicians treating the patients were received as part of a national surveillance. emm types and streptococcal superantigen (SAg) genes were d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ekelund K,Skinhøj P,Madsen J,Konradsen HB

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The R/B and Minitek systems for the identification of Enterobacteriaceae were evaluated, and the results were compared with those obtained by conventional methods. Both systems were rapid and allowed correct identification of about 85% of the 294 isolates (23 species) examined. The individual biochemical reactions sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shayegani M,Hubbard ME,Hiscott T,McGlynn D

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subgroups and serotypes of 178 strains of rotavirus isolated from diarrheic and healthy children in Bangui, Central African Republic, during a 27-month period were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The subgroup was determined for 152 of the viral strains, 18.4% being subgroup I and 81.6% being subgr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Georges-Courbot MC,Beraud AM,Beards GM,Campbell AD,Gonzalez JP,Georges AJ,Flewett TH

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interfering substances have been reported to inhibit PCR assays for the direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens. Using an internal control, we determined that 52% of respiratory specimens interfered with our PCR assay. On the basis of these findings, we tried to circumvent the problem by s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Forbes BA,Hicks KE

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O111:H- strains, 18 of which were isolated from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) and 18 from patients suffering from diarrhea, were investigated for their enterohemolytic phenotypes and genotypes. Twenty-two strains were EHEC hemolysin (EHEC Hly) po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmidt H,Karch H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Congo red-magnesium oxalate agar medium was developed to detect expression of virulence-associated calcium dependency and Congo red absorption in Yersinia enterocolitica. Of the 157 pathogenic serotypes tested, 119 (75.8%) were positive; 98% of nonpathogenic serotypes and strains of three other Yersinia species were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Riley G,Toma S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodophor and alcohol pledgets were compared with the Medi-Flex Prep Kit II for skin disinfection before venipuncture. Of 12,367 blood cultures collected, 6,362 were done with conventional pledgets and 6, 005 were done with Medi-Flex kits. Contamination occurred in 351 of 6,362 blood cultures (5.5%; range, 3.7 to 8.1%)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wilson ML,Weinstein MP,Mirrett S,Reimer LG,Fernando C,Meredith FT,Reller LB

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many laboratory workers prefer the rhodamine-auramine method of staining acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in primary specimen smears rather than carbol fuchsin stains because the stain is more readily interpreted and yields greater sensitivity. The increasing incidence of AFB infections serves as an impetus to optimize the rho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McCarter YS,Robinson A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years testing responsibilities for high-consequence pathogens have been expanded from national reference laboratories into networks of local and regional laboratories in order to support enhanced disease surveillance and to test for surge capacity. This movement of testing of select agents and high-consequen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hietala SK,Crossley BM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cag pathogenicity island-containing Helicobacter pylori (type I) induces signal transduction pathways resulting in tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins adjacent to the site of bacterial adhesion on host gastric epithelial cells. Conventional block PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and real-time Light...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Owen RJ,Sharp SI,Chisholm SA,Rijpkema S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two national surveys were conducted to describe the incidence and prevalence of Enterobacter aerogenes in 21 Belgian hospitals in 1996 and 1997 and to characterize the genotypic diversity and the antimicrobial resistance profiles of clinical strains of E. aerogenes isolated from hospitalized patients in Belgium in 199...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： De Gheldre Y,Struelens MJ,Glupczynski Y,De Mol P,Maes N,Nonhoff C,Chetoui H,Sion C,Ronveaux O,Vaneechoutte M,Groupement pour le Dépistage, l'Etude et la Prevention des Infections Hospitalières (GDEPIH-GOSPIZ).

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have developed a reverse transcription (RT)-nested polymerase chain reaction (n-PCR) for the detection of mumps virus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with neurological infections. A specific 112-bp fragment was amplified by this method with primers from the nucleoprotein of the mumps v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poggio GP,Rodriguez C,Cisterna D,Freire MC,Cello J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria are ubiquitous in the environment but rarely infect immunocompetent patients. We describe a pediatric case of Mycobacterium simiae complex lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent child and review the natural history, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and current management of the disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cruz AT,Goytia VK,Starke JR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00