Rapid phenotypic characterization method for herpes simplex virus and Varicella-Zoster virus thymidine kinases to screen for acyclovir-resistant viral infection.

abstract：:Scedosporium prolificans is a soil saprophyte that is associated with a large variety of infectious processes and with respiratory colonization in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report the first described case of S. prolificans keratouveitis associated with the intraocular long-term retention of a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Arthur S,Steed LL,Apple DJ,Peng Q,Howard G,Escobar-Gomez M

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans (serotype D) and C. neoformans var. grubii (serotype A) differ in geographic prevalence and dermatotropism, with C. neoformans var. neoformans strains being more prevalent among isolates from temperate countries as well as from skin infections. Analysis of 19 strains from each s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Martinez LR,Garcia-Rivera J,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of microbiologic methods that detect early replication of cytomegalovirus (CMV) posttransplantation will enhance the process of initiating preemptive antiviral therapy prior to the appearance of CMV disease. Using PCR techniques we sought to determine which region of the CMV genome present in peripher...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mendez JC,Espy MJ,Smith TF,Wilson JA,Paya CV

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six Pasteurella multocida strains (40 P. multocida subsp. septica and 16 P. multocida subsp. multocida strains) isolated from the mouths of 56 dogs among the 134 living in a French canine military training center (132e Groupe Cynophile de l'Armée de Terre, Suippes, France) were studied by use of enterobacterial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loubinoux J,Lozniewski A,Lion C,Garin D,Weber M,Le Faou AE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to both isoniazid (INH) and rifampin (RIF) is spreading. It has become a public health problem in part because the standard culture methods used to determine the appropriate treatment regimen for patients often take months following the presumptive diagnosis of tuberculosis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Massire C,Ivy CA,Lovari R,Kurepina N,Li H,Blyn LB,Hofstadler SA,Khechinashvili G,Stratton CW,Sampath R,Tang YW,Ecker DJ,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis strains usually requires three to six serial passages in shell vials to attain sufficient antigen for typing procedures. To circumvent this problem, we developed a rapid low-passage method for serotyping of C. trachomatis clinical isolates. Isolates with an inclusion count of greate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Suchland RJ,Stamm WE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of clinical NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates obtained from two surveillance networks of carbapenem-producing Enterobacterales from 2018-2019, namely Switzerland (NARA) and Germany (SurvCARE), were analyzed. The 33 NDM-5-producing E. coli isolates were highly resistant to β-lactams including the novel ß-lactam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chakraborty T,Sadek M,Yao Y,Imirzalioglu C,Stephan R,Poirel L,Nordmann P

更新日期：2020-12-23 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：:Etest is a new concept for MIC determinations for antimicrobial agents that is based on a predefined antibiotic gradient on a plastic strip calibrated with a continuous logarithmic MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. Etest was compared with a reference agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of clinical i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoffner SE,Klintz L,Olsson-Liljequist B,Bolmström A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhi was isolated from 369 and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated from 6 of 515 Vietnamese patients with suspected enteric fever. Compared with conventional broth culture of blood, direct plating of the buffy coat had a diagnostic sensitivity of 99.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 97.1 to 100%). Blood ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wain J,Diep TS,Ho VA,Walsh AM,Nguyen TT,Parry CM,White NJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six isolates of Mycobacterium avium of genotype dnaJ(+) IS901(-) IS1311(+) IS1245(+) and serotypes 6 (n = 1), 6/9, (n = 2), and 9 (n = 3) were obtained within a 5-month period from a human immunodeficiency virus-negative patient treated for tuberculosis. The isolates were identified with PvuII restriction fragment len...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dvorska L,Bartos M,Ostadal O,Kaustova J,Matlova L,Pavlik I

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of peritonitis caused by Roseomonas mucosa which led to technique failure in an adolescent patient with HIV receiving peritoneal dialysis. Identification of the causative organism by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis is described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Boyd MA,Laurens MB,Fiorella PD,Mendley SR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Escherichia fergusonii has been identified for decades, it has rarely been recovered from clinical specimens and its clinical significance remains unclear. We describe a case of E. fergusonii bacteremia in a diabetic patient with pancreatic cancer. The isolate was confirmed by three commercial identification ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lai CC,Cheng A,Huang YT,Chung KP,Lee MR,Liao CH,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two in a group of five naturally seropositive donkey stallions were found to shed equine arteritis virus (EAV) in their semen as demonstrated by virus isolation. Direct intramuscular inoculation of sonicated semen from one virus-shedding stallion (S3) caused clinical disease in two donkeys from which virus was recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Paweska JT,Volkmann DH,Barnard BJ,Chirnside ED

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document for the first time an infectious but nonarthritogenic variant of Borrelia burgdorferi. Strain 25015, previously isolated from an Ixodes dammini larva collected in upstate New York, was infectious but failed to produce arthritis or carditis in laboratory rats and mice. By contrast, pathogenic strain N40 inv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Anderson JF,Barthold SW,Magnarelli LA

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was isolated from the blood of 192 of 410 seropositive individuals. Original isolations were made in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures, and only one-fifth of the HIV isolates could be adapted to replicate in continuous T-cell lines. Of the 192 HIV isolates, 42 had...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bolton V,Pedersen NC,Higgins J,Jennings M,Carlson J

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was used to examine genetic relationships among 63 isolates of Mycobacterium bovis and 13 other members of the M. tuberculosis complex. The isolates were divided into five electrophoretic types, with a mean genetic diversity of 0.1. The strains were genetically homogenous, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Feizabadi MM,Robertson ID,Cousins DV,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response of infants and children immunized with Formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine 20 years ago was determined by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specific for the RSV fusion (F) and large (G) glycoproteins and a neutralization assay. Twenty-one young infants (2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Murphy BR,Prince GA,Walsh EE,Kim HW,Parrott RH,Hemming VG,Rodriguez WJ,Chanock RM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Crohn's disease in humans is largely unknown. Clinical signs of Crohn's disease partly resemble the clinical picture of Johne's disease in ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. Because of the high prevalence of these bacteria in (products of) ruminants and their remarkable th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Overduin P,Schouls L,Roholl P,van der Zanden A,Mahmmod N,Herrewegh A,van Soolingen D

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgA antibodies against the major surface protein of Toxoplasma gondii were determined in a total of 195 human sera and five human cerebrospinal fluids by using a P30 membrane extract and the immunoblot technique. By using two different T. gondii strains (RH and BK) simultaneously as antigens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gross U,Roos T,Appoldt D,Heesemann J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of PCR for the amplification of target nucleic acid sequences in clinical diagnostics may often be reduced due to the presence of inhibitory factors. Hemolytic serum contains a number of PCR inhibitors, one of which is hemin. In this study we have found that conventional methods of DNA extraction were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Klein A,Barsuk R,Dagan S,Nusbaum O,Shouval D,Galun E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p44 gene of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (aoHGE) encodes a 44-kDa major outer surface protein. A technique was developed for the typing of the aoHGE based on the PCR amplification of the p44 gene followed by a multiple restriction digest with HindIII, EcoRV, and AspI to generate restriction fragmen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Carter SE,Ravyn MD,Xu Y,Johnson RC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter cross-sectional survey was conducted comparing a commercially available chlamydial optical immunoassay (OIA) to the chlamydial ligase chain reaction (LCR). Endocervical samples from 415 outpatients visiting clinics from three hospitals in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, were evaluated. Relative to the LCR, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Widjaja S,Cohen S,Brady WE,O'reilly K,Susanto,Wibowo A,Cahyono,Graham RR,Porter KR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A washing procedure that removed maximum numbers of contaminating microorganisms from whole surgical gloves was developed. Washing, coupled with membrane filtration, proved to be a simple and effective method for bioburden determinations on whole gloves. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lammerding AM,Day DF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A batch of fetal calf serum was encountered which suppressed the number of Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions seen when it was used in conjunction with cycloheximide-treated McCoy cells. The batch of serum did not affect the number of inclusions detected in irradiated or untreated McCoy cells. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Evans RT

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the utility of the commercial Allplex genital ulcer real-time PCR multiplex assay for detecting Treponema pallidum, herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and 2 (HSV-2), and Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L (lymphogranuloma venereum [LGV]) DNA in mucosal and genital ulcers in the context of suspected syphilis. In ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grange PA,Jary A,Isnard C,Burrel S,Boutolleau D,Touati A,Bébéar C,Saule J,Martinet P,Robert JL,Moulene D,Vermersch-Langlin A,Benhaddou N,Janier M,Dupin N

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of wild rats from a known scrub typhus focus in the Philippines with cyclophosphamide did not significantly enhance the isolation rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi using mouse inoculation techniques. Similarly, cyclophosphamide treatment of mice inoculated with organs of wild rats did not increase the recover...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Peenen PF,Ho CM,See R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA encoding two repeat units of 120-kDa protein of Ehrlichia chaffeensis was cloned into the expression vector pGEX and expressed in Escherichia coli. The sensitivity and specificity of a dot blot assay for detection of human antibodies with the recombinant protein were 86 and 100%, respectively, compared with an ind...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu XJ,Crocquet-Valdes P,Cullman LC,Walker DH

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00