Skin disease presenting as an outbreak of pseudobacteremia in a laboratory worker.

abstract：:Statistical analysis of a limiting dilution assay (LDA) showed that the occurrence of infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-harboring cells in serially diluted samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of HIV-1-seropositive patients fits the model describing a single-hit Poisson distributi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu W,Manolikakis G,Andrieu JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of a clinically daptomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate occurred during treatment of methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteremia and probable vertebral osteomyelitis. The breakthrough isolate was indistinguishable from pretreatment daptomycin-susceptible isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marty FM,Yeh WW,Wennersten CB,Venkataraman L,Albano E,Alyea EP,Gold HS,Baden LR,Pillai SK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a fatal case of acute lower respiratory tract disease with human rhinovirus C (HRV-C) as the unique cause in a 19-month-old girl with a history of repeated episodes of bronchiolitis. HRV-C type 8 nucleic acids were observed in respiratory, stool, and cerebrospinal fluid samples, and infectious virions were i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lupo J,Schuffenecker I,Morel-Baccard C,Bardet J,Payen V,Kaiser L,Constant S,Lobrinus JA,Lin-Marq N,Lina B,Morand P,Tapparel C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a satisfactory means to reliably distinguish between the two closely related species Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis in the clinical mycology laboratory has proved difficult because these two species are phenotypically so similar. In this study, we have detected homologues of the pH-regula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurzai O,Heinz WJ,Sullivan DJ,Coleman DC,Frosch M,Mühlschlegel FA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although screening for maternal toxoplasmic seroconversion during pregnancy is based on immunodiagnostic assays, the diagnosis of clinically relevant toxoplasmosis greatly relies upon molecular methods. A problem is that this molecular diagnosis is subject to variation of performances, mainly due to a large diversity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sterkers Y,Varlet-Marie E,Cassaing S,Brenier-Pinchart MP,Brun S,Dalle F,Delhaes L,Filisetti D,Pelloux H,Yera H,Bastien P

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing members of the Enterobacteriaceae are often resistant to multiple drug classes, making therapy of urinary infections with oral antibiotics difficult. Previously it was shown that amoxicillin-clavulanate can provide clavulanate inhibition of ESBLs and protect an oral ce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Campbell JD,Lewis JS 2nd,McElmeel ML,Fulcher LC,Jorgensen JH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ImmunoCard STAT! Cryptosporidium/Giardia rapid assay (Meridian Bioscience, Inc.) is a solid-phase qualitative immunochromatographic assay that detects and distinguishes between Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum in aqueous extracts of human fecal specimens (fresh, frozen, unfixed, or fixed in 5 or 10% form...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Garcia LS,Shimizu RY,Novak S,Carroll M,Chan F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated DNA sequencing was used to characterize mutations associated with rifampin resistance in a 69-bp region of the gene, rpoB, encoding the beta subunit of RNA polymerase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The data confirmed that greater than 90% of rifampin-resistant strains have sequence alterations in this region...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kapur V,Li LL,Iordanescu S,Hamrick MR,Wanger A,Kreiswirth BN,Musser JM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli (ESBLEC) in Spain increased 8-fold from 2000 to 2006. ESBL type, clonal relationship, antimicrobial susceptibility, and clinical data about infections caused by ESBLEC are evaluated in a second nationwide study developed in 2006. From...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Díaz MA,Hernández-Bello JR,Rodríguez-Baño J,Martínez-Martínez L,Calvo J,Blanco J,Pascual A,Spanish Group for Nosocomial Infections (GEIH).

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the treatment of serious bacterial infections, the rapid institution of appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy may be lifesaving. Choosing the correct antibiotic or combination of antibiotics is becoming very important, as multidrug resistance is found in many pathogens. Using a collection of 75 well-characterized ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hujer KM,Hujer AM,Endimiani A,Thomson JM,Adams MD,Goglin K,Rather PN,Pennella TT,Massire C,Eshoo MW,Sampath R,Blyn LB,Ecker DJ,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant filamentous forms of Escherichia coli were observed on direct Gram stain of blood cultures from a patient being treated with the beta-lactam antibiotic cephalexin. After the institution of an alternative antibiotic regimen which included a different cell wall-active agent, E. coli of normal morphology was det...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Magnussen CR,Hruska JF

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the integration of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) into the host genome occurs preferentially with the disruption of the E2 gene, a ratio of E2 to E7 gene copies is often used as a marker for integration. It is largely undetermined, however, whether ratio estimates are affected by HPV intratypic variat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jiang M,Baseman JG,Koutsky LA,Feng Q,Mao C,Kiviat NB,Xi LF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis spores have been used as a biological weapon in the United States. We wanted to develop a safe, rapid method of sample preparation that provided safe DNA for the detection of spores in environmental and clinical specimens. Our method reproducibly detects B. anthracis in samples containing <10 spores...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Luna VA,King D,Davis C,Rycerz T,Ewert M,Cannons A,Amuso P,Cattani J

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:A total of 238 isolates of Providencia stuartii obtained from infected patients in six Dublin hospitals were grouped by using serological and bacteriocin typing methods and tested for sensitivity to a number of antimicrobial agents. Most isolates were resistant to several of these agents. Resistance to tetracycline, r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McHale PJ,Keane CT,Dougan G

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of PCR-based molecular typing of Helicobacter pylori strains by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of a 1, 161-bp nucleotide sequence of the midregion of the vacA gene are reported. A total of 48 H. pylori strains isolated from gastric biopsy specimens obtained from 18 patients with peptic u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Donati M,Storni E,D'Apote L,Moreno S,Tucci A,Poli L,Cevenini R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-1/2 immunoassays, including five enzyme immunoassays and one rapid test, were challenged with up to 250 serum samples collected from various global sites. The serum samples were from individuals known to be infected wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Koch WH,Sullivan PS,Roberts C,Francis K,Downing R,Mastro TD,Nkengasong J,Hu D,Masciotra S,Schable C,Lal RB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two group A, subgroup I, rotavirus strains possessing "super short" RNA patterns were adapted to growth in MA-104 cells. Both produced marked cytopathic effect in primary culture. Reciprocal cross-neutralization titers, polypeptide analysis, and the serum neutralizing antibody response of an infected child suggested t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Albert MJ,Unicomb LE,Bishop RF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Swedish bovine and a Dutch human phage set for coagulase-negative staphylococci were used to phage type coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk from Minnesota dairy herds. A comparison was also made of the deoxyribonuclease activity of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine milk in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holmberg O,Lyon RH,Price D,Farnsworth RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaraldehyde-fixed sheep erythrocytes (GA-SRBC) were used in the indirect hemagglutination test for the detection of Pasteurella antibody. GA-SRBC were stable for at least 6 months. Heat extract or potassium thiocyanate extract antigens of Pasteurella strains could be adsorbed onto GA-SRBC or tanned GA-SRBC, respect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sawada T,Rimler RB,Rhoades KR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional ribotyping detects genomic restriction fragment length polymorphisms by probing chromosomal DNA with rRNA. Although it is a powerful method for determining the molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens, technical difficulties limit its application. As an alternative, polymorphisms were sought in the 16...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kostman JR,Edlind TD,LiPuma JJ,Stull TL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new oligochromatographic assay, Speed-Oligo Novel Influenza A H1N1, was designed and optimized for the specific detection of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus. The assay is based on a PCR method coupled to detection of PCR products by means of a dipstick device. The target sequence is a 103-bp fragment within the hema...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pérez-Ruiz M,Navarro-Marí JM,Bautista-Marín MF,Pedrosa-Corral I,Sanbonmatsu-Gámez S,Camacho AG,Rojas J,Ruiz-Ortiz J,Rodríguez-Granger J,Carrillo JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological markers for hepatitis B virus in male homosexuals demonstrated a high prevalence of past and present infection. Seropositivity of 91% for hepatitis B e antigen or antibody was demonstrated by radioimmunoassay in hepatitis B surface antigen-positive specimens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murphy BL,Schreeder MT,Maynard JE,Hadler SC,Sheller MJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of rapid-cycle PCR combined with colorimetric microwell hybridization for detecting Bordetella pertussis was investigated. Rapid cycling was performed with an air thermocycler (model 1605; Idaho Technology, Idaho Falls, Idaho). Although the instrument was originally designed to be used with capillary tubes, an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Buck GE

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Variability of disease manifestations has been noted in patients with Lyme disease. A contributing factor to this variation may be the number of spirochetes present in infected patients. We evaluated clinical and laboratory findings for patients with erythema migrans with regard to the number of Borrelia burgdorferi o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liveris D,Wang G,Girao G,Byrne DW,Nowakowski J,McKenna D,Nadelman R,Wormser GP,Schwartz I

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes, a major human pathogen, is still considered susceptible to beta-lactams, but for other relevant antibiotics, highly variable resistance rates have been reported. Since no data were available from Iran, we tested 1,335 throat isolates from two different regions of the country for their antibioti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Jasir A,Tanna A,Noorani A,Mirsalehian A,Efstratiou A,Schalen C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance methods that measure St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus activity in nature may provide forewarning of its epidemic occurrence in humans. An antigen capture enzyme immunoassay was developed to detect SLE virus in infected mosquitoes. The assay detected purified SLE viral antigen at a concentration of 62 pg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsai TF,Bolin RA,Montoya M,Bailey RE,Francy DB,Jozan M,Roehrig JT

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism and hybridization of DNA extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria, and nonmycobacterial species with a probe derived from IS6110 confirmed that IS6110 was specific to M. tuberculosis complex. In addition, DNA amplification with IS6110-specific prim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Githui WA,Wilson SM,Drobniewski FA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00