Practical and sensitive screening strategy for detection of influenza virus.

abstract：:Matched vaginal and cervical specimens from 96 subjects were analyzed by quantitative PCR for the presence and concentration of bacterial vaginosis-associated microbes and commensal Lactobacillus spp. Detection of these microbes was 92% concordant, indicating that microbial floras at these body sites are generally sim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith WL,Hedges SR,Mordechai E,Adelson ME,Trama JP,Gygax SE,Kaunitz AM,Hilbert DW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a nested PCR with Borrelia flagellin gene (flaB) primers and DNA sequencing to determine if Borrelia lonestari was present in Amblyomma americanum ticks removed from military personnel and sent to the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In our pre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stromdahl EY,Williamson PC,Kollars TM Jr,Evans SR,Barry RK,Vince MA,Dobbs NA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections exhibit similar clinical symptoms; however, the therapies for these two types of infections are different. Therefore, the rapid and accurate identification of M. tuberculosis and NTM species is very important for the control of tuber...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Xiao G,He X,Zhang S,Liu Y,Liang Z,Liu H,Zhang J,Ou M,Cai S,Lai W,Zhang T,Ren L,Zhang G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the results obtained with six commercial MIC test systems (Etest, MicroScan, Phoenix, Sensititre, Vitek Legacy, and Vitek 2 systems) and three reference methods (agar dilution, disk diffusion, and vancomycin [VA] agar screen [VScr]) with the results obtained by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson JM,Anderson KF,Lonsway DR,Thompson A,McAllister SK,Limbago BM,Carey RB,Tenover FC,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple method for the rapid detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) that uses a one-tube reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) and total RNA extracted directly from a variety of bovine specimens, including whole blood and tissues. Reagents for both RT and PCR were combined in a one-tube, single-buff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hamel AL,Wasylyshen MD,Nayar GP

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two rapid, simple, and reliable procedures for routine purification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA from serum. HBV DNA could be purified from 24 serum samples in 1.5 to 2 h and was recovered in the initial reaction vessel. Both procedures have in common that HBV DNA is complexed with silica particles in th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boom R,Sol CJ,Heijtink R,Wertheim-van Dillen PM,van der Noordaa J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metarhizium viride has been associated with fatal systemic mycoses in chameleons, but subsequent data on mycoses caused by this fungus in reptiles are lacking. The aim of this investigation was therefore to obtain information on the presence of M. viride in reptiles kept as pets in captivity and its association with c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schmidt V,Klasen L,Schneider J,Hübel J,Pees M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to equid herpesvirus 1, which mediates single radial hemolysis, is that responsible for neutralization. Hemagglutination inhibition antibody is not necessarily involved in neutralization or hemolysis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klingeborn B,Dinter Z

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 28 unrelated isolates of the Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar dublin (S. dublin) collected during a 6-year period, as well as four samples of the S. dublin live vaccine strain Bovisaloral and its prototype strain S. dublin 442/039, were investigated by different molecular typing methods for the f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liebisch B,Schwarz S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia canis causes a potentially fatal rickettsial disease of dogs that requires rapid and accurate diagnosis in order to initiate appropriate therapy leading to a favorable prognosis. We recently reported the cloning of two immunoreactive E. canis proteins, P28 and P140, that were applicable for serodiagnosis of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McBride JW,Corstvet RE,Breitschwerdt EB,Walker DH

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Two commercial assays that detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB) in clinical specimens by rRNA target amplification (AMTDII) and ligase chain reaction (LCx) were evaluated. The tests were applied to 457 respiratory (n = 273) and extrapulmonary (n = 184) specimens collected from 357 patients. The results were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Piersimoni C,Callegaro A,Scarparo C,Penati V,Nista D,Bornigia S,Lacchini C,Scagnelli M,Santini G,De Sio G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI). Currently, there are limited data on the bacterial load in both men and women and on both genital and extragenital sites. Therefore, we quantified N. gonorrhoeae bacterial loads in a large population of women, heterosexual men, and men w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Veer BMJW,Hoebe CJPA,Dukers-Muijrers NHTM,van Alphen LB,Wolffs PFG

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for discrimination between scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in sheep is of importance for establishing whether BSE has entered the sheep population. Since BSE has not yet been found in sheep at the farm level, such discrimination procedures can be developed only with experimental sheep BS...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Thuring CM,Erkens JH,Jacobs JG,Bossers A,Van Keulen LJ,Garssen GJ,Van Zijderveld FG,Ryder SJ,Groschup MH,Sweeney T,Langeveld JP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia identification required laborious and time-consuming phenotypic and chemotaxonomic methods until molecular methods were developed in the mid-1990s. Here we reassessed the capacity of PCR-restriction enzyme pattern analysis (PRA) of the hsp65 gene to differentiate Nocardia species, including 36 new species. Ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Nava V,Couble A,Devulder G,Flandrois JP,Boiron P,Laurent F

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of IS6110 as a marker for molecular epidemiological studies is limited when a Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate has five or fewer copies of IS6110. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with a highly polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequence located in the plasmid pTBN12 (PGRS RFLP) and spoligotypin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Flores L,Jarlsberg LG,Kim EY,Osmond D,Grinsdale J,Kawamura M,Desmond E,Hopewell PC,Kato-Maeda M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection and colonization, involving MRSA strains which differ from common human health care-associated clones, have become serious emerging conditions in equine veterinary hospitals. In 2010, MRSA spa type t535 caused an outbreak involving both horses and personnel ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Steinman A,Masarwa S,Tirosh-Levy S,Gleser D,Kelmer G,Adler A,Carmeli Y,Schwaber MJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an Australian database for the identification of Aspergillus, Scedosporium, and Fusarium species (n = 28) by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). In a challenge against 117 isolates, species identification significantly improved when the in-house-bui...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sleiman S,Halliday CL,Chapman B,Brown M,Nitschke J,Lau AF,Chen SC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a molecular epidemiology study on 120 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients presenting pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Burkina Faso. Classical antibiogram studies and genetic characterization, using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Godreuil S,Torrea G,Terru D,Chevenet F,Diagbouga S,Supply P,Van de Perre P,Carriere C,Bañuls AL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is an intestinal parasite causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. More tools are needed to understand the epidemiology and molecular pathogenesis of amebiasis. A cDNA library was constructed by using poly(A)+ RNA isolated from an axenic strain of E. histolytica, HM1:IMSS, which exp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Burch DJ,Li E,Reed S,Jackson TF,Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato complex. Bio-Rad Laboratories has developed a fully automated multiplex bead-based assay for the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to B. burgdorferi The BioPlex 2200 Lyme Total assay exhibits an improved rate of seropositivity in p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hahm JB,Breneman JW 4th,Liu J,Rabkina S,Zheng W,Zhou S,Walker RP,Kaul R

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The API 20S system (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) and the AutoMicrobic Gram-Positive Identification system (GPI; Vitek Systems, Hazelwood, Mo.) were evaluated for their capacity to identify the non-beta-hemolytic streptococci and aerococci to the species level. The 20S system identified 86% (six of seven strains...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Facklam R,Bosley GS,Rhoden D,Franklin AR,Weaver N,Schulman R

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staphylococcal methicillin resistance determinant, mecA, resides on a mobile genetic element, staphylococcus chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec). The distribution of SCCmec in nature is limited to relatively few clonal complexes of related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We have previously report...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Katayama Y,Robinson DA,Enright MC,Chambers HF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the first isolation of a new Shigella flexneri serotype, designated 4s, in Beijing, China. Genotypic and phenotypic profiling suggests that this isolate is a clone of the S. flexneri serotype X variant reference strain. Of particular concern is the multidrug resistance exhibited by this isolate. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Qiu S,Wang Z,Chen C,Liu N,Jia L,Liu W,Wang L,Hao R,Zhang L,Wang Y,Song H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2011 to December 2013, a total of 262 samples, from 188 patients suspected of having syphilis were tested for the presence of treponemal DNA by PCR amplification of five chromosomal loci, including the polA (TP0105), tmpC (TP0319), TP0136, TP0548, and 23S rRNA genes. Altogether, 146 samples from 103 patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grillová L,Pĕtrošová H,Mikalová L,Strnadel R,Dastychová E,Kuklová I,Kojanová M,Kreidlová M,Vaňousová D,Hercogová J,Procházka P,Zákoucká H,Krchňáková A,Vašků V,Šmajs D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for preparing smears for proficiency testing and quality control in acid-fast microscopy. The work was prompted by the increased demand for acid-fast bacilli positive smears with characteristic microscopic appearance and among-smear uniformity. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smithwick RW,Stratigos CB

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative antischistosomal drugs are required since praziquantel is virtually the only drug available for treatment and morbidity control of schistosomiasis. Manual microscopic reading is the current "gold standard" to assess the in vitro antischistosomal properties of test drugs; however, it is labor-intensive, sub...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Manneck T,Braissant O,Haggenmüller Y,Keiser J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae has proved to be difficult to isolate and propagate in cell culture. We compared the growth of three strains of C. pneumoniae, TW-183 and two clinical isolates from Brooklyn, N.Y., in five cell lines, including HeLa 229, McCoy, HL, HEp-2, and HTED, an immortalized human tracheal cell line. HEp-2 w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Roblin PM,Dumornay W,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of imported malaria cases and the high fatality rate in Europe make the search for new and easy diagnostic methods necessary. Rapid diagnosis tests (RDTs) are, in part, developed to cover the lack of diagnosis experience. Unfortunately, our data suggest that the accuracy of RDTs is insufficient and could incr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rubio JM,Buhigas I,Subirats M,Baquero M,Puente S,Benito A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectromelia virus, an orthopoxvirus that can cause extensive morbidity and mortality (mousepox) in colonized mice, has been epizootically responsible for serious disruption of biomedical research since 1930. The lack of a sensitive and specific serological assay for infection with this virus became apparent during outb...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Buller RM,Bhatt PN,Wallace GD

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00