Characterization of Finnish Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by spoligotyping.

abstract：:A case of severe progressive subcutaneous abscesses and necrotizing tenosynovitis of the right arm of a 30-year-old woman caused by Rhodococcus aurantiacus is reported. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsukamura M,Hikosaka K,Nishimura K,Hara S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of immunoglobulin G avidity to determine the dengue immune status of 105 pairs of serum samples from patients infected with dengue virus. This study shows that a simple avidity test, for which only one acute-phase serum sample is required, is potentially more useful...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Matheus S,Deparis X,Labeau B,Lelarge J,Morvan J,Dussart P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza epidemics arise through the accumulation of viral genetic changes, culminating in a novel antigenic type that is able to escape host immunity. Following an outbreak of the A/Fujian/411/2002-like strains in Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea, in 2002, Australia and New Zealand experienced substanti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kang S,Yang IS,Lee JY,Park Y,Oh HB,Kang C,Kim KH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no previous reports of human infection due to Acinetobacter baylyi. In this study, we report on six patients with bacteremia due to A. baylyi, based on analysis of the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer and the 16S rRNA gene. All six patients had multiple underlying diseases. The infection was nosocomially acqui...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen TL,Siu LK,Lee YT,Chen CP,Huang LY,Wu RC,Cho WL,Fung CP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From August 1996 to May 1997, six verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains were isolated from stool specimens of adults suffering from hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). All the isolates were stx2 positive and belonged to different serotypes: O6:H4, O91:H10, O91:H21, O rough:H16, OX3:H-, and O nontypeable: H-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bonnet R,Souweine B,Gauthier G,Rich C,Livrelli V,Sirot J,Joly B,Forestier C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza viruses have been shown to decrease the ability of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) to respond to a variety of stimuli. This study was done to determine if viral neuraminidase was responsible for decreased PMN function. Treatment of human PMN with purified neuraminidases from influenza virus, Vibrio choler...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Abramson JS,Wiegand GL,Lyles DS

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 322 single and paired serum samples from children (newborn to 10 years old), young adults (18 to 20 years old), pregnant women and their cord serum samples, and elderly people (more than 70 years old) was tested for antibodies to enteric adenovirus types 40 and 41 by neutralization test. Serum samples were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shinozaki T,Araki K,Ushijima H,Fujii R

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：: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：:Since their first detection in 1988, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates have rapidly spread in Iceland to account for close to 20% of all pneumococcal disease in that country by 1993. The major component (70%) of the resistant pneumococci identified from 1989 to 1992 was the progeny of a single mul...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vilhelmsson SE,Tomasz A,Kristinsson KG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-frequency switching and strain variability at the site of infection was assessed in 11 patients with acute Candida albicans vaginitis. By cloning cells directly from the site of infection, it was demonstrated that 4 of the 11 isolates contained multiple-switch phenotypes at the site of infection and that 9 of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Soll DR,Langtimm CJ,McDowell J,Hicks J,Galask R

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 32 patients for whom highly active antiretroviral therapy was failing, a good agreement between drug resistance-associated mutations in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was found (k = 0.85). The mutations with the lowest agreement were 20R, 63P, and 84V in the protease gene and 184V in the reve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sarmati L,Nicastri E,Uccella I,D'Ettorre G,Parisi SG,Palmisano L,Galluzzo C,Concia E,Vullo V,Vella S,Andreoni M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease (COVID) serological tests are essential to determine the overall seroprevalence of a population and to facilitate exposure estimates within that population. We performed a head-to-head assessment of enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) and point-of-care lateral flow assays (POCTs) to detect severe acute resp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Charlton CL,Kanji JN,Johal K,Bailey A,Plitt SS,MacDonald C,Kunst A,Buss E,Burnes LE,Fonseca K,Berenger BM,Schnabl K,Hu J,Stokes W,Zelyas N,Tipples G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred thirty-two lactose-negative colonies isolated from human feces on stool differential agar media were flooded with one drop of MUCAP Test reagent (Biolife Italiana S.r.I., Milan, Italy) and observed under a Wood lamp for the development of a blue fluorescence over or around the colony. On the basis of manu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aguirre PM,Cacho JB,Folgueira L,López M,García J,Velasco AC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardization of sequence chromatogram analysis is required for consistent genotypic tropism determination across laboratories. A freely available, fast, and automated chromatogram analysis tool (RECall) provided tropism interpretations equivalent to those of manual sequence editing of 521 V3 loop HIV-1 population s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pou C,Bellido R,Casadellà M,Puig T,Clotet B,Harrigan R,Paredes R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas producing monoclonal antibodies to VP7, a major neutralizing protein of serotype 9 rotavirus (strain W161), were prepared. One monoclonal antibody, W161-6A1, was shown to neutralize only serotype 9 rotavirus strains and reacted specifically with serotype 9 rotaviruses in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Midthun K,Valdesuso J,Kapikian AZ,Hoshino Y,Green KY

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method for detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in nasopharyngeal aspirates, involving a combination of reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction amplification (RT-PCR), has been developed. The RT-PCR assay employs oligonucleotide primers specific for the region of the RSV genome which enco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC,Lawrence AJ,Goldwater PN,Harris RJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an immunoblot assay (IB), we tested sera from 100 patients with erythema migrans (EM) seen in 1991 a the Westchester County Medical Center Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center. Convalescent-phase sera were available from 59 patients. Fifty-five pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Aguero-Rosenfeld ME,Nowakowski J,McKenna DF,Carbonaro CA,Wormser GP

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated treponemal immunoassays are used for syphilis screening with the reverse-sequence algorithm; discordant results (e.g., enzyme immunoassay [EIA] reactive and reactive plasma reagin [RPR] nonreactive) are resolved with a second treponemal test. We conducted a study to determine automated immunoassay signal str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fakile YF,Jost H,Hoover KW,Gustafson KJ,Novak-Weekley SM,Schapiro JM,Tran A,Chow JM,Park IU

更新日期：2017-12-26 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：:This is the first reported case of native valve endocarditis caused by Engyodontium album. This fungus, rarely seen as a human pathogen, is separated from Tritirachium species by its lack of pigmentation and from Beauveria species by the presence of conidiogenous cells in whorls. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Augustinsky J,Kammeyer P,Husain A,deHoog GS,Libertin CR

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for the detection of measles immunoglobulin G antibody (MEASELISA). This assay was found to be comparable to the measles hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) test. Approximately 500 sera from three centers were tested by MEASELISA and the HAI test. MEASELISA demo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boteler WL,Luipersbeck PM,Fuccillo DA,O'Beirne AJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal data on the E6/E7 mRNA-based Aptima human papillomavirus (AHPV) assay exceeding three years in comparison to the gold standard Digene Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) test are not available. We previously reported the cross-sectional data of the German AHPV Screening Trial (GAST) in which 10,040 women were recruite...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Iftner T,Neis KJ,Castanon A,Landy R,Holz B,Woll-Herrmann A,Iftner A,Staebler A,Wallwiener D,Hann von Weyhern C,Neis F,Haedicke-Jarboui J,Martus P,Brucker S,Henes M,Sasieni P

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the antibody response in women with postpartum fever from whom Ureaplasma urealyticum had been isolated from the bloodstream. Acute- and convalescent-phase sera were tested for immunoglobulin G to the polypeptides of five serovars (1, 2, 3, 4, and 8), representing the two genomic clusters of U. urealyt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee GY,Kenny GE

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA detection and typing are important for diagnosis and management of HPV-associated diseases. One of the most commonly used PCR methods, GP5+/6+, shows weaknesses in amplifying certain types. To circumvent this limitation, we developed and validated broad-spectrum primers targeting the GP5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmitt M,Dondog B,Waterboer T,Pawlita M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae is an important cause of pneumonia in pigs around the world, but confirming its presence in (or absence from) pigs can be difficult. Culture for diagnosis is impractical, and seroconversion is often delayed after natural infection, limiting the use of serology. Numerous PCR assays for the dete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Strait EL,Madsen ML,Minion FC,Christopher-Hennings J,Dammen M,Jones KR,Thacker EL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several problems remain before molecular biology-based techniques, such as PCR, are widely accepted for the detection of infectious agents. Among the most formidable of these problems are the inability of the tests to distinguish between viable and nonviable organisms. We approached this problem by using the fact that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jou NT,Yoshimori RB,Mason GR,Louie JS,Liebling MR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the application of a range of typing procedures to the identification and classification of 6,264 cultures of nontuberculous mycobacteria from human sources and the environment are reported. Seroagglutination, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay applied to whole bacteria or the glycolipid typing antige...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsang AY,Denner JC,Brennan PJ,McClatchy JK

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the rapid detection of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli in stool samples by PCR was evaluated. Verotoxin-1 and verotoxin-2 genes in DNA extracted directly from stool samples were amplified with oligonucleotide primers. Stools spiked with control organisms, E. coli C600 (H19B) (verotoxin-1) or E. coli ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ramotar K,Waldhart B,Church D,Szumski R,Louie TJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 147 isolates of Burkholderia pseudomallei, B. mallei, and B. thailandensis was characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The 128 isolates of B. pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, were obtained from diverse geographic locations, from humans and animals with disease, and from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Godoy D,Randle G,Simpson AJ,Aanensen DM,Pitt TL,Kinoshita R,Spratt BG

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00