Bartonella henselae and Bartonella elizabethae as potential canine pathogens.

abstract：:The NucliSENS easyMAG automated system was compared to the column-based Qiagen method for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA extraction from whole blood before viral load determination using the corresponding R-gene amplification kits. Both extraction techniques exhibited a total agreement of 81.3% ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pillet S,Bourlet T,Pozzetto B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bla(OXA-51-like) was sought in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter species in a multiplex PCR, which also detects bla(OXA-23-like) and class 1 integrase genes. All isolates that gave a band for bla(OXA-51-like) identified as A. baumannii. This gene was detected in each of 141 isolates of A. baumannii but not in those o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Turton JF,Woodford N,Glover J,Yarde S,Kaufmann ME,Pitt TL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 128-member specimen pooling scheme for acute HIV infection (AHI) detection was evaluated using 21 AHI specimens (range, 1,520 to 500,000 copies/ml) previously identified by RNA testing of 16-member plasma pools. HIV-1 RNA was detectable in 128-member pools for all 21 specimens; however, one pool created from a speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sullivan TJ,Patel P,Hutchinson A,Ethridge SF,Parker MM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total, 521 nonrespiratory specimens (91 urine, 30 gastric aspirate, 245 tissue, 113 pleural fluid, 19 cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], and 23 stool specimens) submitted to the German National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria (NRL) from May 2009 to August 2010 were comparatively investigated with the new molecular-ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hillemann D,Rüsch-Gerdes S,Boehme C,Richter E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of inactivating mycoplasma contaminants in sera by using binary ethyleneimine was tried. When used at the concentration recommended for inactivating viruses, 0.001 M, binary ethyleneimine inactivated only two of five mycoplasma species. Even at a concentration of 0.01 M, the compound did not consistently inac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Christianson GG,Pemberton JR,Koski TA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a group B streptococcus multiplex PCR assay which allows, by direct analysis of the amplicon size, determination of the surface protein antigen genes of alpha-C protein, epsilon protein, Rib, Alp2, Alp3, and Alp4. The multiplex PCR assay offers a rapid and simple method of subtyping Streptococcus agalacti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Creti R,Fabretti F,Orefici G,von Hunolstein C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 4,000 endocervical specimens tested with the Chlamydiazyme enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Abbott Laboratories), 233 (5.8%) gave positive results (A492 above the cutoff), which were confirmed with a blocking reagent (Abbott). An additional 34 specimens (14.6%) with chlamydial antigen were detected and confirmed ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kellogg JA,Seiple JW,Stroll ES

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses isolated from either domesticated or wild carnivores should be immunologically compared with known viruses of this group which could have been included in the diet of the animal before being considered to be previously undescribed herpesviruses native to the carnivore in question. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Porter DD,Larsen AE,Cox NA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether DNA detection of high-risk human papillomavirus could represent a reliable screening technique and a useful follow-up method, we investigated the performance of the Hybrid Capture II assay in detecting high-grade cervical lesions. The test positivity at 1.86 pg/ml had a high sensitivity (94.7%) an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lin HP,Huang YY,Wu HY,Kao JT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia ficaria was first described in 1979 as part of the fig tree ecosystem (P.A.D. Grimont, F. Grimont, and M. P. Starr, Curr. Microbiol. 2:277-282, 1979). Since then, it has been isolated from clinical specimens from a few human patients (C. Bollet, J. Freney, P. de Micco, F. Grimont, and P.A.D. Grimont, Méd. Mal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Darbas H,Jean-Pierre H,Paillisson J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently described genus Pandoraea contains five named species (Pandoraea apista, Pandoraea pulmonicola, Pandoraea pnomenusa, Pandoraea sputorum, and Pandoraea norimbergensis) and four unnamed genomospecies. Pandoraea spp. have mainly been recovered from the respiratory tracts of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Acc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Coenye T,Liu L,Vandamme P,LiPuma JJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported rate of detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA within atherosclerotic lesions by PCR varies between 0 and 100%. In this study, identical sets of coded experimental atheroma samples (n = 15) and spiked controls (n = 5) were analyzed by 16 test methods in nine centers by means of PCR. The positive controls w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Apfalter P,Blasi F,Boman J,Gaydos CA,Kundi M,Maass M,Makristathis A,Meijer A,Nadrchal R,Persson K,Rotter ML,Tong CY,Stanek G,Hirschl AM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search has been made for corynebacterial phospholipase D, "ovis toxin," a sphingomyelinase (phosphatidylcholine phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.4), among a wide variety of corynebacteria. Phospholipase D activity has been found in strains exhibiting the biochemical properties characteristic of Corynebacterium pseudotuber...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barksdale L,Linder R,Sulea IT,Pollice M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess is challenging, as most patients at the time of diagnosis do not have a concurrent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Fecal testing for E. histolytica parasite antigen or DNA is negative in most patients. A real-time PCR assay was evaluated for detection ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque R,Kabir M,Noor Z,Rahman SM,Mondal D,Alam F,Rahman I,Al Mahmood A,Ahmed N,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona was not frequently encountered in Finland until an increase in rates of isolation among animal and feed was seen in 1994. A small outbreak among cattle farms in the regions of Oulu and Vaasa in northwestern Finland in 1994-1995 included eight farms. After the outbreak,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lindqvist N,Siitonen A,Pelkonen S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-reaction between Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and chlamydiae is described. A water-soluble, heat stable, non-dialyzable antigen was extracted from Acinetobacter species by boiling. This antigen fixed complement in the presence of homologous hyperimmune sera from rabbits or guinea pigs and in the presence of het...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brade H,Brunner H

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microwave-accelerated direct immunofluorescence staining method which requires only 20 min from specimen receipt to interpretation is as effective as conventional methods for detecting respiratory syncytial virus and influenza A virus antigens in clinical specimens. The time required compares favorably with that for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hite SA,Huang YT

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their biofilm-forming capacity, invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates, which cause the majority of nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections (BSIs), are thought to be selected at the time of catheter insertion from a population of less virulent commensal strains. This fact allows the predict...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rohde H,Kalitzky M,Kröger N,Scherpe S,Horstkotte MA,Knobloch JK,Zander AR,Mack D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 215 typical strains of Candida albicans were studied for their ability to assimilate 11 carbon compounds. All isolates assimilated lactic acid, ribitol, succinic acid, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside. None of the isolates assimilated cellobiose and salicin; 1.9% of the isolates assimilated L-arabinose. Citri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Syverson RE

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study of nasopharyngeal colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae was performed among 573 children attending 29 day-care centers (DCCs) in Norway prior to the start of mass vaccination with the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7). A sensitive sampling method was employed, including tr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vestrheim DF,Høiby EA,Aaberge IS,Caugant DA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Isolator 10 lysis-centrifugation blood culture system (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.) was compared with the BACTEC radiometric method (Johnston Laboratories, Inc., Towson, Md.) with 6B and 7D broth media for the recovery of bacteria and yeasts. From 11,000 blood cultures, 1,174 clinically ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Brannon P,Kiehn TE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates of animal and human origin, matched by phage type, antimicrobial resistance pattern, and place of isolation, were analyzed by microbiological and molecular techniques, including pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and plasmid profiling. PFGE identified 10 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cooke FJ,Wain J,Fookes M,Ivens A,Thomson N,Brown DJ,Threlfall EJ,Gunn G,Foster G,Dougan G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For prevention and control of gonorrhea, an objective, highly discriminating, and reproducible molecular epidemiological characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is essential. In the present study, in pursuance of providing such qualities, pyrosequencing technology, a fast real-time DNA sequence analysis, was applied...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Unemo M,Olcén P,Jonasson J,Fredlund H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first documented case of endocarditis in a man infected with Bartonella alsatica, which causes bacteremia in healthy wild rabbits. B. alsatica was identified by serology and culture and by PCR of an aortic valve specimen. B. alsatica should be added to the list of zoonotic agents of blood culture-negativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Raoult D,Roblot F,Rolain JM,Besnier JM,Loulergue J,Bastides F,Choutet P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin concentrations were determined in middle-ear effusions (MEEs) from 89 children with chronic otitis media by using the Limulu's amoebocyte lysate assay. Mean concentrations of endotoxin in Haemophilus influenzae-positive and Streptococcus pneumoniae-positive MEEs were 157 and 21.8 ng/ml, respectively, and wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： DeMaria TF,Prior RB,Briggs BR,Lim DJ,Birck HG

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 non-B subtypes/circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) are increasing worldwide. Since subtype identification can be clinically relevant, we assessed the added value in HIV-1 subtyping using updated molecular phylogeny (Mphy) and the performance of routinely used automated tools. Updated Mphy (2015 updated referenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fabeni L,Berno G,Fokam J,Bertoli A,Alteri C,Gori C,Forbici F,Takou D,Vergori A,Zaccarelli M,Maffongelli G,Borghi V,Latini A,Pennica A,Mastroianni CM,Montella F,Mussini C,Andreoni M,Antinori A,Perno CF,Santoro MM,

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of the novel BACTEC MGIT 960 pyrazinamide (PZA) kit (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Sparks, Md.) was assessed for testing of susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to PZA. Results generated by the BACTEC MGIT 960 system (Becton Dickinson) were compared with those obtained with the BACTEC ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfyffer GE,Palicova F,Rüsch-Gerdes S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis occurred in London, Ontario, during the month of September 1985. A total of 55 residents and 18 employees of a nursing home developed diarrhea, and 17 residents (age range, 78 to 99 years) died. Specimens from 38 patients, 37 employees and contacts, and 10 autopsies were invest...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Krishnan C,Fitzgerald VA,Dakin SJ,Behme RJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-resolution melting (HRM) assay to scan for mutations in the rpoB, inhA, ahpC, and katG genes and/or promoter regions for the detection of rifampin and isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For assay development, 23 drug-resistant isolates of M. tuberculosis having 29 different mu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ong DC,Yam WC,Siu GK,Lee AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of endogenous amplification inhibitors in urine may produce false-negative results for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis nucleic acids by tests such as PCR, ligase chain reaction (LCR), and transcription-mediated amplification (TMA). Consecutive urine specimens from 101 pregnant women and 287 nonpreg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mahony J,Chong S,Jang D,Luinstra K,Faught M,Dalby D,Sellors J,Chernesky M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00