Detection of Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica/Entamoeba dispar, and Cryptosporidium parvum antigens in human fecal specimens using the triage parasite panel enzyme immunoassay.

abstract：:Two hundred seventy nasopharyngeal aspirates were tested in duplicate with the Ortho Diagnostics, Inc. (Raritan, N.J.), respiratory syncytial virus antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The test was sensitive (80 to 82%) and specific (96%) when compared with cell culture. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay det...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bromberg K,Tannis G,Daidone B,Clarke L,Sierra MF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a total of 29 non-human immunodeficiency virus 1 cryptococcal meningitis cases, titer changes in the latex agglutination test before and after therapy were reviewed along with clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and therapy regimens. The cryptococcal antigen titer decreased for every case after therapy a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lu H,Zhou Y,Yin Y,Pan X,Weng X

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genotyping study of 285 Hybrid Capture 2 low-risk probe cocktail-positive specimens showed cross-reactivity with several untargeted human papillomavirus genotypes. Cross-reactivity was often clinically beneficial due to the detection of untargeted low-risk genotypes. A total of 8.4% of positive results, usually weak...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Poljak M,Kocjan BJ,Kovanda A,Lunar MM,Lepej SZ,Planinic A,Seme K,Vince A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is known to be a major cause of peptic ulceration. The jhp0562 gene, encoding a glycosyltransferase involved in the synthesis of the lipopolysaccharide, was associated with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in children. The beta-(1,3)-galactosyltransferase [beta-(1,3)GalT] gene (jhp0563), involved in Lewi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Oleastro M,Santos A,Cordeiro R,Nunes B,Mégraud F,Ménard A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for differentiation between wild and vaccine-derived strains of poliovirus are required, particularly in countries where wild and vaccine-related strains coexist. For this differentiation, we tested the method of Inouye and Hondo (S. Inouye and R. Hondo, Arch. Virol. 129:311-316, 1993) for discrimination of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Takeda N,Sakae K,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Hondo R,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has become an increasing burden on health care resources since their discovery over 20 years ago. Current techniques employed for their detection include time-consuming and laborious phenotypic methods or molecular methods requiring costly equipment and consumables...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Griffin PM,Price GR,Schooneveldt JM,Schlebusch S,Tilse MH,Urbanski T,Hamilton B,Venter D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and 2 (anti-HIV 1 and 2) test is described. It uses recombinant p24 and peptides covering gp32, gp41, and gp120 to identify HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections. This test has been shown to be specific (99.5%) and sensitive (99.8%). In this respect, the assay was equal or superior ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hess G,Avillez F,Lourenco MH,D'Agostino F,Cambie G,Piot P,Vercauteren G,Michl U,Melchior W,Bayer H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among nine patients with bacteremia caused by Granulicatella or Gemella in a 6-year period (July 1995 to June 2001), three had bacteremia caused by erythromycin-resistant Granulicatella adiacens and one had bacteremia caused by erythromycin-resistant Gemella haemolysans. All four isolates possessed mef genes, whereas ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woo PC,To AP,Lau SK,Fung AM,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial transmission of Neisseria meningitidis has only rarely been reported. Here, we present a significant spatiotemporal association of two cases of invasive meningococcal disease identified by retrospective cluster analysis with the program SaTScan. The most likely epidemiological link was simultaneous hospital...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elias J,Health Office in the Rural District Office Wartburgkreis.,Claus H,Frosch M,Vogel U

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:The Roche Linear Array (LA) and Innogenetics INNO-LiPA human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping assays were compared for paraffin-embedded vulval tissues. The LA detected amplifiable DNA in 28 (57%) out of 49 biopsy specimens, 20 (40%) being HPV genotyped, compared to 49 (100%) and 41 (83%), respectively, detected by the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tan SE,Garland SM,Rumbold AR,Tabrizi SN

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two multiplex PCRs were developed for the detection of necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli virulence genes. M1 contained the primers for the toxins and the aerobactin, and M2 contained the primers for the adhesins. They were validated by single PCRs performed with reference E. coli strains and by multiplex PCRs with necro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Van Bost S,Jacquemin E,Oswald E,Mainil J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of amikacin in serum were determined in 106 serum specimens by a latex agglutination inhibition card test and by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Linear regression analysis demonstrated a high degree of correlation between the two assays (latex = 0.95 (RIA) + 0.69; r = 0.97). Assay of three control sera containing 7.5, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Khabbaz RF,Standiford HC,Bernstein D,Nipper HC,Tatem BA,Smalls U,Drusano GL,Caplan E

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluronic polyols markedly improved the growth of two human lymphocyte cell lines when added to the growth medium in concentrations of 0.05 to 0.1%. The results of the current studies suggest that, in addition to the protective effect of polyols against mechanical damage of mammalian cells in submerged cultures, the pl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mizrahi A

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fosfomycin has been shown to have a wide spectrum of activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; however, breakpoints have been established only for Escherichia coli or Enterobacterales per the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibilit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith EC,Brigman HV,Anderson JC,Emery CL,Bias TE,Bergen PJ,Landersdorfer CB,Hirsch EB

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was adapted to real-time LightCycler System PCR for efficient and rapid amplification of seven housekeeping genes in the same PCR run and real-time detection of the products. The method was evaluated on a representat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Berglund C,Mölling P,Sjöberg L,Söderquist B

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics differentiating Escherichia coli strains that cause cystitis or pyelonephritis from fecal E. coli remain incompletely defined, particularly among adult women in the United States. Accordingly, phylogenetic group, O antigens, and virulence factors (VFs) were analyzed among 329 E. coli isolates from the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Johnson JR,Owens K,Gajewski A,Kuskowski MA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus sputi caused tuberculosislike lymphadenitis of mesenteric lymph nodes in swine. This is the first study reporting that R. sputi can be a pathogen in swine. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tsukamura M,Komatsuzaki C,Sakai R,Kaneda K,Kudo T,Seino A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory-based surveillance network of 11 clinical virological laboratories for influenza viruses was established in Taiwan under the coordination of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Taiwan. From October 2000 to March 2004, 3,244 influenza viruses were isolated, including 1,969 influenza A and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shih SR,Chen GW,Yang CC,Yang WZ,Liu DP,Lin JH,Chiu SC,Chen HY,Tsao KC,Huang CG,Huang YL,Mok CK,Chen CJ,Lin TY,Wang JR,Kao CL,Lin KH,Chen LK,Eng HL,Liu YC,Chen PY,Lin JS,Wang JH,Lin CW,Chan YJ,Lu JJ,Hsi

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the electrophoretic profiles of the outer membrane proteins could be used to differentiate Campylobacter jejuni (16 strains) from Campylobacter coli (10 strains). This observation was confirmed by the study of DNA homology obtained by a quantitative filter hybridization method. The hippurate hydrolysis tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Derclaye I,Delor I,Van Bouchaute M,Moureau P,Wauters G,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrolysis of esculin in the presence of bile has been utilized for many years for the identification of bacteria. It is especially useful in differentiating species of the genus Streptococcus. The procedure is a two-step one. First, the bacterium must grow in a particular concentration of bile, and second, it mus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Edberg SC,Trepeta RW,Kontnick CM,Torres AR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the excellent performance of rapid tuberculosis (TB) nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests and the clear benefits of immediate diagnosis of TB disease, NAA tests frequently are not used in the diagnosis of pulmonary TB cases, particularly TB cases with smear-negative sputa. Public health laboratories prim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Han LL,Elvin P,Bernardo J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether pathogenic clusters of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains occur, we typed 136 isolates, cultured from specimens from patients (n = 49) with various clinical entities and from ticks (n = 83) or dogs (n = 4) from different geographic regions, by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wang G,van Dam AP,Spanjaard L,Dankert J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey in 2000 to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in Vancouver downtown east side injection drug users (IDUs) revealed an MRSA nasal colonization incidence of 7.4%. This is a follow-up study to determine the current prevalence of MRSA colonization and to further characterize th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Al-Rawahi GN,Schreader AG,Porter SD,Roscoe DL,Gustafson R,Bryce EA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat to TB control worldwide. Globally, only 40% of the 340,000 notified TB patients estimated to have multidrug-resistant-TB (MDR-TB) were detected in 2015. This study was carried out to evaluate the utility of high-resolution melt curve analysis (HRM) for the rapid and d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anthwal D,Gupta RK,Bhalla M,Bhatnagar S,Tyagi JS,Haldar S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A duplex PCR to detect Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis was developed with the insertion sequences IS481 (B. pertussis) and IS1001 (B. parapertussis) and evaluated with specimens from 520 consecutive patients presenting with possible pertussis. No culture-positive-PCR-negative results occurred, giving...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farrell DJ,Daggard G,Mukkur TK

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Analytab Products, Inc. (API), anaerobic multitest microsystem (MICRO) was compared with the Center for Disease Control conventional (CONV) thioglycolate (supplemented with hemin and vitamin K1) system and with pre-reduced anaerobically sterilized (PRAS) media as recommended by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moore HB,Sutter VL,Finegold SM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rapid one-step immunochromatographic test using monoclonal antibodies for detection of Helicobacter pylori antigen in stool in children was evaluated on coded stool samples from 159 children (mean age, 9.7 +/- 5.0 years; 118 from Munich, 41 from Vienna): 86 children were H. pylori infected defined by positive cu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Antos D,Crone J,Konstantopoulos N,Koletzko S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of primary invasive cutaneous infections caused by the zoophilic dermatophytic species Microsporum canis are presented. The first case occurred in a liver transplant recipient who was receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Multiple erythematous papules were seen on both legs, and a biopsy revealed invasive fun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： King D,Cheever LW,Hood A,Horn TD,Rinaldi MG,Merz WG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of bacteremia caused by Janibacter melonis, a recently described aerobic actinomycete originally isolated from a spoiled oriental melon. Our patient's blood culture isolate was identified by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the first report of the recovery of Janibacter species from humans. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Elsayed S,Zhang K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00