Monitoring treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: can PCR be applied?

abstract：:A rapid method for the detection of acetylneuraminyl hydrolase, EC 3.2.1.18 (sialidase or neuraminidase), was developed by using 2'-(4-methylumbelliferyl)alpha-D-N-acetylneuraminic acid as substrate in a filter paper spot test. The method was compared to conventional assays that use 2'-(4-methylumbelliferyl)alpha-D-N-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moncla BJ,Braham P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the interaction of Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) with gram-negative bacteria, soluble antigens from sonicated Pseudomonas aeruginosa were studied by various crossed-immunoelectrophoresis methods before and after reaction with LAL. Of 64 possible, at least 7 antigens were affected, as indicated by prec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Baek L,Høiby N,Hertz JB,Espersen F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is a small nonmotile gram-negative coccobacillus that is found in the nasopharynx and gastrointestinal tract of many wild and domesticated animals. In humans it most commonly causes cellulitis and localized superficial skin abscesses following an animal bite or scratch. The respiratory tract is t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen HI,Hulten K,Clarridge JE 3rd

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Vibrio metschnikovii and Vibrio gazogenes are two new Vibrio species that have been little studied. Thirteen strains of V. metschnikovii were highly related to the type strain, NCTC 8443, by DNA-DNA hybridization. Relatedness values were 83 to 90% at 60 degrees C and 75 to 84% at the more stringent 75 degrees C. Diver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Farmer JJ 3rd,Hickman-Brenner FW,Fanning GR,Gordon CM,Brenner DJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New blood culture media containing antibiotic-binding polymeric beads have been developed for the BacT/Alert (bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC) blood culture system. To assess the performance of these new media, we compared the new BacT/Alert aerobic medium (FA Plus) with resins to BacT/Alert FA medium with activated char...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kirn TJ,Mirrett S,Reller LB,Weinstein MP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the media examined, thioglycolate broth supplemented with 5% lysed sheep blood, Butzler antibiotic mixture, and 0.1% lauryl sulfate was the most sensitive enrichment medium for recovery of wild-type strains of Campylobacter jejuni from cecal contents of chickens and chicken livers. It allowed the retrieval of 1 CFU...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barot MS,Bokkenheuser VD

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of nosocomial pneumonia. To characterize pathogen-derived and host-related factors in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with MRSA pneumonia, we evaluated the Improving Medicine through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneum...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Haque NZ,Arshad S,Peyrani P,Ford KD,Perri MB,Jacobsen G,Reyes K,Scerpella EG,Ramirez JA,Zervos MJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical microbiological diagnosis of human brucellosis is time-consuming, hazardous, and subject to variable interpretation. Intact-cell matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was evaluated for the routine identification of Brucella spp. Analysis of mass peak patt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Karger A,Melzer F,Timke M,Bettin B,Kostrzewa M,Nöckler K,Hohmann A,Tomaso H,Neubauer H,Al Dahouk S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to characterize an unusual mycobacterial isolate from a 44-year-old patient living in France, we applied phenotypic characterizations and various previously described molecular methods for the taxonomic classification of mycobacteria. The results of the investigations were compared to those obtained in a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chemlal K,Huys G,Laval F,Vincent V,Savage C,Gutierrez C,Laneelle MA,Swings J,Meyers WM,Daffe M,Portaels F

更新日期：2002-07-01 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 epidemiology of 278 strains of Salmonella typhimurium isolated from 1973 to 1981 from animals in New York State was studied by using four "fingerprinting" techniques, bacteriophage type (B.R. Callow, J. Hyg. 57:346-359, 1959), biotype (J. P. Duguid, E. S. Anderson, G. A. Alfredsson, R. Barker, and D. C. Old, J. Me...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McDonough PL,Timoney JF,Jacobson RH,Khakhria R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although substantial epidemiologic evidence links Streptococcus mutans to caries, the pathobiology of caries may involve more complex communities of bacterial species. Molecular methods for bacterial identification and enumeration now make it possible to more precisely study the microbiota associated with dental carie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker MR,Paster BJ,Leys EJ,Moeschberger ML,Kenyon SG,Galvin JL,Boches SK,Dewhirst FE,Griffen AL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methodologic study was performed to compare the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot hybridization, two commonly used testing strategies for the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Three laboratories tested masked aliquots of exfoliated cervical cell specimens obtained from 120 women by c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schiffman MH,Bauer HM,Lorincz AT,Manos MM,Byrne JC,Glass AG,Cadell DM,Howley PM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven commercial immunochromatographic assays intended for the detection of group A rotavirus antigens in human stool samples were evaluated. These assays showed similar levels of diagnostic accuracy and were suitable for the detection of rotavirus in patients with acute gastroenteritis but missed some asymptomatic ro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kaplon J,Fremy C,Pillet S,Mendes Martins L,Ambert-Balay K,Aho SL,Pothier P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marburg virus (MARV) causes a severe hemorrhagic fever in humans with a high mortality rate. The rapid and accurate identification of the virus is required to appropriately provide infection control and outbreak management. Here, we developed and evaluated a one-step reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal ampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kurosaki Y,Grolla A,Fukuma A,Feldmann H,Yasuda J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces viscosus is a gram-positive, non-acid-fact, facultative, catalase-positive, filamentous, or diphtheroidal microorganism. It was isolated from six canine infections during a period of 1.5 years. The organism was cultured from exudate and flaky granules aspirated from infectious granulomas and empyemas. All ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Davenport AA,Carter GR,Patterson MJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an important pathogen of animals and humans and is the causative agent of necrotic enteritis (NE) in poultry. This study focuses on the typing of intestinal C. perfringens isolates (n = 61) from outbreaks of NE collected from several areas of Southern Ontario, using a recently developed mult...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chalmers G,Bruce HL,Hunter DB,Parreira VR,Kulkarni RR,Jiang YF,Prescott JF,Boerlin P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex PCR (mPCR) protocol was developed for simultaneous detection of the gyrB gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis, and the specificity was evaluated using 141 coccus strains. Genomic DNAs purified from S. pneumoniae, S. mitis, and S. oralis strains were efficiently de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim W,Park HK,Hwang WJ,Shin HS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sensititre Breakpoint Autoreader system (SBAS) is a broth microdilution method with one to three concentrations of each antibiotic and innovative fluorescence technology to define inhibitory endpoints. We tested 248 gram-negative bacilli and 80 gram-positive cocci using both the rapid (5 h) and overnight (18 h) SB...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nolte FS,Krisher KK,Beltran LA,Christianson NP,Sheridan GE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have assessed the time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in bloodstream infections (BSIs). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the time to positivity (TTP) of blood cultures in patients with Staphylococcus aureus BSIs and to assess its impact on clinical outcome. We perfo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Marra AR,Edmond MB,Forbes BA,Wenzel RP,Bearman GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multi-health center study, a new rapid optical immunoassay (OIA) for the detection of Shiga toxin types 1 and 2, the BioStar OIA SHIGATOX kit (Inverness Medical Professional Diagnostics, Inc.), was used to prospectively screen 742 fresh fecal samples for Shiga toxins in parallel with the Premier enterohemorrhagic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Teel LD,Daly JA,Jerris RC,Maul D,Svanas G,O'Brien AD,Park CH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new latex agglutination test (Pastorex Staph-Plus, Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur), consisting of a mixture of latex particles coated with fibrinogen and immunoglobulin G for the detection of clumping factor and protein A and latex particles sensitized with monoclonal antibodies directed to Staphylococcus aureus serotyp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fournier JM,Bouvet A,Mathieu D,Nato F,Boutonnier A,Gerbal R,Brunengo P,Saulnier C,Sagot N,Slizewicz B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traveler's diarrhea (TD) is the most common infectious illness acquired by visitors to developing nations. The purpose of this study was to utilize molecular diagnostic techniques to determine the prevalence of norovirus (NoV) in TD occurring among visitors from the United States to Guatemala and Mexico. Stool samples...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chapin AR,Carpenter CM,Dudley WC,Gibson LC,Pratdesaba R,Torres O,Sanchez D,Belkind-Gerson J,Nyquist I,Kärnell A,Gustafsson B,Halpern JL,Bourgeois AL,Schwab KJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission from a MRSA index person to household contacts were assessed in this prospective study. Between January 2005 and December 2007, 62 newly diagnosed MRSA index persons (46 patients and 16 health care workers) and their ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mollema FP,Richardus JH,Behrendt M,Vaessen N,Lodder W,Hendriks W,Verbrugh HA,Vos MC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of 45 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans revealed an unusually high incidence of C. neoformans var. gattii in South Australia (65%) and in the Northern Territory (95%). In assessing all the available data from Australian isolates of C. neoformans, there appeared to be an endemic focus for the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ellis DH

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：:A total of 1,013 isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were identified in parallel by the Repliscan (Cathra International, Ontario, Canada) and API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) systems. There was a 62% agreement at the genus level between the two systems. Of the 38% discrepant results, Repliscan classified 22% as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Quall CO,Fox JM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New variants of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) viruses were detected in Taiwan between 2012 and 2013. Some of these variants were not detected in clinical specimens using a common real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assay that targeted the conserved regions of the viral matrix (M) genes. An analysis o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yang JR,Kuo CY,Huang HY,Wu FT,Huang YL,Cheng CY,Su YT,Chang FY,Wu HS,Liu MT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of resistance during therapy with cefamandole contributes to treatment failure. A simple cefoxitin disk test was recently described which detects a cefamandole-active inducible beta-lactamase not otherwise detectable with cefamandole as the inducer. A case of breakthrough Enterobacter bacteremia due to se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Beckwith DG,Jahre JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00