Trichosporon loubieri infection in a patient with adult polycystic kidney disease.

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：:Complement-fixing antibody was detected in 13 of 16 patients with histological and/or culture evidence of infection with Nocardia species. The antigen used was a filtrate of soluble substances secreted into liquid growth medium by cultures of N. asteroides. Apparent false positives reactions were found in three of thr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shainhouse JZ,Pier AC,Stevens DA

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new serological assay, the recombinant flow cytometric immunofluorescence assay (r-FIFA), was developed for the early detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibodies by using recombinant insoluble forms of HIV-1 Gag-p45, Gag-gp41 chimeric protein, gp160, Po197 polyprotein as antigens and autologo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hu YW,Birch P,Balaskas E,Zeibdawi A,Scalia V,Thériault-Valin SA,Gill P,Aye MT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to characterize an unusual mycobacterial isolate from a 44-year-old patient living in France, we applied phenotypic characterizations and various previously described molecular methods for the taxonomic classification of mycobacteria. The results of the investigations were compared to those obtained in a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chemlal K,Huys G,Laval F,Vincent V,Savage C,Gutierrez C,Laneelle MA,Swings J,Meyers WM,Daffe M,Portaels F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between (unculturable) gastrospirillum-like organisms (GLO) and ulcerative lesions in the pars oesophagea in stomachs of swine has been claimed. In dogs GLO detected by microscopy may represent several Helicobacter species or subspecies. Therefore we investigated which Helicobacter spp. are present in s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roosendaal R,Vos JH,Roumen T,van Vugt R,Cattoli G,Bart A,Klaasen HL,Kuipers EJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Kusters JG

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the use of bacteriophage sensitivity, seroagglutination with polyclonal antisera raised in rabbits or horses, seroagglutination with murine monoclonal antibody, and the serum agar precipitin technique for the detection of K1 capsular polysaccharide among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli obtained from ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cross A,Orskov I,Orskov F,Sadoff J,Gemski P

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia isolations increased from 0.7 to 11.7/1,000 acid-fast bacillus and mycological cultures (P less than 0.000001). Only three isolations from one patient represented infection. Pseudoepidemic strain identity was confirmed by DNA fingerprinting; the isolate causing infection was distinct. The end of the pseudoepi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Patterson JE,Chapin-Robertson K,Waycott S,Farrel P,McGeer A,McNeil MM,Edberg SC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15 to 35% of patients with a first episode of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea relapse within 2 months. Between 1994 and 1997, strains from 93 hospitalized patients with C. difficile recurrences were fingerprinted by using both serotyping and PCR-ribotyping. The results showed that 48.4% of clin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barbut F,Richard A,Hamadi K,Chomette V,Burghoffer B,Petit JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis can identify sequence polymorphisms by comparing the melting curves of amplicons generated by real-time PCR amplification. We describe the application of this technique to identify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis types I, II, and III. The HRM approach was based on ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Castellanos E,Aranaz A,De Buck J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an 8.5-year period (1974 to 1982), 56 Yersinia enterocolitica isolates from patients residing mainly in the New York City area were studied. Evaluation of these isolates revealed a marked increase in bacteremic episodes caused by strains of serogroups of O:3 and O:5,27 and the overall emergence of serogroup O:3...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bottone EJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative amounts of D-arabinitol (fungal origin) and L-arabinitol (part of normal human metabolism) in urine were determined by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry from 61 hospitalized patients with hematological malignancies. Seventeen neutropenic patients with acute leukemia (with 53 samples) had disseminated y...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lehtonen L,Anttila VJ,Ruutu T,Salonen J,Nikoskelainen J,Eerola E,Ruutu P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bovine group B rotavirus strains were detected from diarrheic calves during a surveillance study of rotaviral diarrhea in West Bengal, India. The sequence analysis of VP7 and NSP5 genes of these strains demonstrates a high degree of sequence variation from other group B rotavirus strains, indicating the emergenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barman P,Ghosh S,Das S,Varghese V,Chaudhuri S,Sarkar S,Krishnan T,Bhattacharya SK,Chakrabarti A,Kobayashi N,Naik TN

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used a nested multiplex PCR method to detect three periodontal pathogens in subgingival plaque collected before treatment and at 2 and 6 months posttreatment from 107 patients with severe, generalized periodontitis. The proportions of the patients who harbored these bacteria before periodontal treatment wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ready D,D'Aiuto F,Spratt DA,Suvan J,Tonetti MS,Wilson M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence rates of Mycoplasma genitalium infections and coinfections with other sexually transmitted organisms and the frequency of a macrolide antibiotic resistance phenotype were determined in urogenital specimens collected from female and male subjects enrolled in a multicenter clinical study in the United Sta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Getman D,Jiang A,O'Donnell M,Cohen S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colorimeter capable of measuring results of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) reactions directly in the wells of a microtiter plate is described. This colorimeter proved to be as accurate as a conventional spectrophotometer in assessing ELISA reactions, but had the advantage of not requiring transfer of the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Clem TR,Yolken RH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To halt the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) epidemic requires interventions that can prevent transmission of numerous HIV-1 subtypes. The most frequently transmitted viruses belong to the subtypes A, B, and C and the circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) AE and AG. A fast one-tube assay that identifies and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： de Baar MP,Timmermans EC,Bakker M,de Rooij E,van Gemen B,Goudsmit J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methodologic study was performed to compare the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot hybridization, two commonly used testing strategies for the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Three laboratories tested masked aliquots of exfoliated cervical cell specimens obtained from 120 women by c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schiffman MH,Bauer HM,Lorincz AT,Manos MM,Byrne JC,Glass AG,Cadell DM,Howley PM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from a bacteremic patient. This strain, together with other isolates of V. vulnificus, was compared with V. alginolyticus, V. fluvialis, and V. parahaemolyticus with regard to growth characteristics on enteric agar media (enabling isolation and identification) and production of exoenzyme...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Desmond EP,Janda JM,Adams FI,Bottone EJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine progressive pneumonia virus (OPPV) is a lentivirus which causes a progressive disease in sheep. Immunodominant epitopes have been identified in the envelope gp40 glycoprotein. Synthetic peptides representing these regions are able to detect the presence of OPPV antibodies in 96% of infected sheep. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kwang J,Torres JV

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-Probe AMPLIFIED Chlamydia Trachomatis Assay (AMP CT) uses transcription-mediated amplification and hybridization protection assay procedures to qualitatively detect Chlamydia trachomatis rRNA in urine, endocervical swab, and urethral specimens. The performance of the AMP CT was compared to that of cell culture...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferrero DV,Meyers HN,Schultz DE,Willis SA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the performance of Organon Teknika's NucliSens and Roche Diagnostic Systems' Monitor quantitative human immunodeficiency type 1 RNA assays. Both had similar linearity and sensitivity over most of the dynamic range of the assays, although the Monitor assay was superior at the low range of RNA values while t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dyer JR,Pilcher CD,Shepard R,Schock J,Eron JJ,Fiscus SA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg is the second most frequently occurring serovar in Quebec and the third-most prevalent in Canada. Given that conventional pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) subtyping for common Salmonella serovars, such as S. Heidelberg, yields identical subtypes for the majority of isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bekal S,Berry C,Reimer AR,Van Domselaar G,Beaudry G,Fournier E,Doualla-Bell F,Levac E,Gaulin C,Ramsay D,Huot C,Walker M,Sieffert C,Tremblay C

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been found to be an accurate, rapid, and inexpensive method for the identification of bacteria and yeasts. Previous evaluations have compared the accuracy, time to identification, and costs of the MALDI-TOF MS method agains...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tan KE,Ellis BC,Lee R,Stamper PD,Zhang SX,Carroll KC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated a rare area of endemicity with a high prevalence of both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, in Putian County, China. Among 1,050 subjects, the overall prevalence of HBsAg seropositivity was 15.8%, and that of anti-HCV seropositivity was 28.9%. Intrafamilial viral tr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu WP,Lin GX,Shi S,Dong JH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INTRODUCTIONSyndromic panels were first FDA cleared for detection of respiratory pathogens in 2008. Since then, other panels have been approved by the FDA, and most recently, the FilmArray meningitis/encephalitis panel (BioFire, Salt Lake City, UT) has become available. This assay detects 14 targets within 1 h and inc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dien Bard J,Alby K

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides is a rare cause of keratitis usually associated with trauma. We report a case of corneal ulceration caused by N. asteroides in a patient with leprosy. This is the first case report of nocardial keratitis from Southeast Asia. The diminished corneal sensation in a patient with leprosy could be a pred...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tendolkar UM,Varaiya A,Ahuja AS,Motwane SA,Gogate AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) began in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly worldwide. The response by the Alberta Precision Laboratories, Public Health Laboratory (ProvLab), AB, Canada...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pabbaraju K,Wong AA,Douesnard M,Ma R,Gill K,Dieu P,Fonseca K,Zelyas N,Tipples GA

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining malaria transmission and known difficulties with current diagnostic tools for malaria, such as microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in particular at low parasite densities, still warrant the search for sensitive diagnostic tests. Molecular tests need substantial simplification before implementation i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mens PF,de Bes HM,Sondo P,Laochan N,Keereecharoen L,van Amerongen A,Flint J,Sak JR,Proux S,Tinto H,Schallig HD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an initial experiment, culture-grown Borrelia burgdorferi was added to freshly collected uninfected human blood. This in vitro study demonstrated that more spirochetes were distributed into the plasma than into the serum fraction. In a subsequent clinical study, B. burgdorferi was recovered from plasma cultures of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wormser GP,Bittker S,Cooper D,Nowakowski J,Nadelman RB,Pavia C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated three rapid identification systems-The Biomerieux rapid ID 32 STREP (ID32), the BBL Crystal rapid gram-positive identification (Crystal), and the Remel IDS RapID STR (IDS) systems-for their ability to identify 7 strains of Alloiococcus otitidis, 27 strains of Dolosigranulum pigrum, 3 strains of Ignavigran...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： LaClaire LL,Facklam RR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00