Taxonomic subgroups of Pasteurella multocida correlate with clinical presentation.

abstract：:Antigens of Rhodococcus equi were analyzed by immunoblotting with naturally infected foal sera. Immunoblots of whole-cell antigen preparations of clinical isolates of R. equi revealed that major protein bands with molecular masses of 15 to 17 kDa were present in all clinical isolates tested and all isolates virulent f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takai S,Koike K,Ohbushi S,Izumi C,Tsubaki S

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old woman developed severe, recurrent breast abscesses caused by Corynebacterium minutissimum. Prior reports of C. minutissimum infection have been limited to erythrasma, a minor dermatosis. The microbiological and clinical features of this species were reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berger SA,Gorea A,Stadler J,Dan M,Zilberman M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass spectrometry (MS) method that detects a serum disaccharide (DS) (MS-DS) was recently described for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections (IFI). We carried out a European collaborative study to evaluate this assay. Patients with the following IFI were selected according to the availability of sera obtained...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cornu M,Sendid B,Mery A,François N,Mikulska M,Letscher-Bru V,De Carolis E,Damonti L,Titecat M,Bochud PY,Alanio A,Sanguinetti M,Viscoli C,Herbrecht R,Guerardel Y,Poulain D

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 522 patients with Propionibacterium acnes bacteremia (PAB), 18 (3.5%) had clinically significant PAB. Of these 18 patients, 10 (55.6%) had hospital-acquired bacteremia and 6 (33.3%) had undergone invasive procedures before development of PAB. One patient with a ventricular septal defect presented with infective end...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Park HJ,Na S,Park SY,Moon SM,Cho OH,Park KH,Chong YP,Kim SH,Lee SO,Kim YS,Woo JH,Kim MN,Choi SH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrence of osteomyelitis by the same bacterial strain is well known. We report three patients with a second episode of osteomyelitis at the same site caused by different strains of bacteria from the original. Formerly infected and altered bone surface might present a region of diminished resistance for a new infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Uçkay I,Assal M,Legout L,Rohner P,Stern R,Lew D,Hoffmeyer P,Bernard L

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the performance of three commercially available monoclonal antibodies for confirmation of the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in cell culture by examining their abilities to stain inclusions of eight strains of C. pneumoniae. The antibodies tested were two unconjugated C. pneumoniae-specific monoclonal r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Montalban GS,Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to classify bovine serum as positive, negative, or doubtful for antibodies to Brucella abortus. Spectrophotometric data from assays of 64 serologically positive and 32 serologically negative bovine sera were analyzed statistically to define the range of spectrophoto...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Heck FC,Williams JD,Pruett J

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：:VlsE, the variable surface antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi, contains an immunodominant conserved region named IR(6). In the present study, the diagnostic performance of a peptide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on a 26-mer synthetic peptide (C(6)) with the IR(6) sequence was explored. Sensitivity was a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liang FT,Steere AC,Marques AR,Johnson BJ,Miller JN,Philipp MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on cultural and biochemical tests, a total of 84 strains (72 clinical and 12 environmental isolates from the Caribbean Isles, Europe, and the Indian subcontinent) were identified as members of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). They were further characterized with MAC, M. avium, and M. intracellulare probes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Devallois A,Picardeau M,Paramasivan CN,Vincent V,Rastogi N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) or aspergilloma and normal sera were analyzed for specific antibodies by Western (immuno-) blotting with Aspergillus fumigatus antigens transferred electrophoretically onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes. Western blot analysis demonstrated con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurup VP,Greenberger PA,Fink JN

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:A newly developed commercial serological test (Iatron Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan) for the rapid identification of medically important species of Candida was evaluated against the API 20C (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) and the standard Wickerham assimilation and fermentation procedures. Our results indicate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shinoda T,Kaufman L,Padhye AA

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of clinical isolates of Nocardia to the species level is important for defining the spectrum of disease produced by each species and for predicting antimicrobial susceptibility. We evaluated the usefulness of PCR amplification of a portion of the Nocardia 16S rRNA gene and subsequent restriction endonuc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Conville PS,Fischer SH,Cartwright CP,Witebsky FG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular techniques such as spa typing and multilocus sequence typing use DNA sequence data for differentiating Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Although spa typing is capable of detecting both genetic micro- and macrovariation, it has less discriminatory power than the more labor-intensive pulsed-field gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koreen L,Ramaswamy SV,Naidich S,Koreen IV,Graff GR,Graviss EA,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicenter study, 113 blood samples from 19 organ transplant patients were analyzed for cytomegalovirus by the pp65 antigenemia assay and a quantitative DNA hybridization assay. Overall, there was 84% agreement among the results obtained by the two tests. Fifteen of 16 episodes of active infection were detected ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bossart W,Bienz K,Wunderli W

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global HIV treatment programs need sensitive and affordable tests to monitor HIV drug resistance. We compared mutant detection by the oligonucleotide ligation assay (OLA), an economical and simple test, to massively parallel sequencing. Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (K103N, V106M, Y181C, and G190A) and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beck IA,Deng W,Payant R,Hall R,Bumgarner RE,Mullins JI,Frenkel LM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an outbreak of diarrhea in a general hospital in 1992, 166 Clostridium difficile isolates from 102 patients were typed by restriction enzyme analysis (REA), arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), and protein profile analysis (PP) techniques. A total of 18 types and 5 subtypes were identified by REA, 32 types were ide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rafferty ME,Baltch AL,Smith RP,Bopp LH,Rheal C,Tenover FC,Killgore GE,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD,Schoonmaker DJ,Hannett GE,Shayegani M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to compare three automated systems and the Gram stain for their ability to detect significant bacteriuria. A total of 1,000 urine specimens were evaluated by Autobac MTS (General Diagnostics), Auto Microbic system (AMS; Vitek Systems, Inc.), and MS-2 (Abbott Laboratories) and compared with a semi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pezzlo MT,Tan GL,Peterson EM,de la Maza LM

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of viridans streptococci isolated from the blood cultures of 86 patients was determined. Isolates that were significant or suggestive of infection represented only 21% of the cases. Among 54 isolates for which the species was known, Streptococcus sanguis II was the most common. However, a sig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Swenson FJ,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PRA) using the novel region of the rpoB gene was developed for rapid and precise identification of mycobacteria to the species level. A total of 50 mycobacterial reference strains and 3 related bacterial strains were used to amplify the 360-bp region of rpoB, and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lee H,Park HJ,Cho SN,Bai GH,Kim SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera (920) were tested to evaluate the use of heated versus unheated sera in the hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis. The heated and unheated samples were tested on the same day with the hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis kit according to the manufacturer's protocol. Agreement of results between t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hambie EA,Larsen SA,Perryman MW,Pettit DE,Feeley JC

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helcococcus kunzii was isolated by sonication and conventional cultures obtained from a case of infection following total knee prosthesis in an immunocompetent patient. The patient recovered uneventfully. This is the first known case of an H. kunzii prosthetic joint infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Jorge C,Cordero J,Marin M,Esteban J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively evaluated a new PCR-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit (Onychodiag; BioAdvance, France) for the diagnosis of dermatophytic onychomycosis by testing nail samples from 438 patients with suspected onychomycosis and from 108 healthy controls in three independent laboratories. In two laboratories, sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Savin C,Huck S,Rolland C,Benderdouche M,Faure O,Noacco G,Menotti J,Candolfi E,Pelloux H,Grillot R,Coupe S,Derouin F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several instruments for automated or semiautomated susceptibility testing are currently available. Three of these instruments, Autobac (General Diagnostics, Warner-Lambert Co., Morris Plains, N.J.), MS-2 (Abbott Laboratories, Dallas, Tex.), and AutoMicrobic system (AMS) (Vitek, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.) were compared for ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kelly MT,Latimer JM,Balfour LC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and highly sensitive real-time PCR detection and quantification method for infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV), a single-stranded DNA virus, and white spot virus (WSV), a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) virus infecting penaeid shrimp (Penaeus sp.), was developed using the GeneAmp 5700 se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dhar AK,Roux MM,Klimpel KR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A premarket trial of the Becton Dickinson Directigen respiratory syncytial virus membrane-based enzyme immunoassay compared the test with virus isolation for the detection of respiratory syncytial virus in 583 nasopharyngeal aspirates. After modification, the Directigen test showed a sensitivity of 83% and a specifici...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kok T,Barancek K,Burrell CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from Brucella-infected bovines were analyzed by immunoblotting by using sonicated cell extracts of B. melitensis or B. abortus and a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with monoclonal antibodies against outer membrane proteins (OMPs) with molecular masses of 10, 16.5, 19, 25 to 27, 36 to 38, an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cloeckaert A,Kerkhofs P,Limet JN

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a controlled study of children younger than 5 years in Bangladesh to determine whether enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) was associated with diarrhea in this population. ETBF was isolated from 22 (6.1%) of 358 patients and 5 (1.2%) of 425 controls (P = 0.0001). In children younger than 1 year, h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sack RB,Albert MJ,Alam K,Neogi PK,Akbar MS

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica serovar O:3 bacteria with and without plasmid-encoded proteins were compared as antigens in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Good correlations between the two antigen preparations were obtained for immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgA antibodies of patients with yersiniosis. For routine di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Granfors K,Lahesmaa-Rantala R,Ståhlberg TH,Toivanen A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00