Analysis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and PCR of human liver abscess aspirates from patients in China for Entamoeba histolytica.

abstract：:CDC eugonic oxidizer group 2 (EO-2) is a group of unclassified gram-negative bacterial strains isolated from various human sources. As determined by biochemical tests and analyses of fatty acid compositions, these organisms form a homogeneous group that appears to be distinct from but related to other Paracoccus speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Daneshvar MI,Hollis DG,Weyant RS,Steigerwalt AG,Whitney AM,Douglas MP,Macgregor JP,Jordan JG,Mayer LW,Rassouli SM,Barchet W,Munro C,Shuttleworth L,Bernard K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-Ids) were raised in a rabbit against a murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) neutralizing the yeast killer toxin produced by a strain of Pichia (Hansenula) anomala. In an immunodiffusion test, the anti-Ids produced in the rabbit recognized the antigen-binding site of the MAb used as the immu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:Seventy-two normal human sera from healthy blood donors were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in order to determine the amounts and avidities of immunoglobulins M and G antibodies to lipopolysaccharides of seven Fisher's immunotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to exotoxin A. The patterns of specificity...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Grzybowski J,Trafny EA,Wrembel-Wargocka J,Patzer J,Dzierzanowska D,Zawistowska-Marciniak I,Kłos M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system cysticercosis is common in countries where Taenia solium occurs in pigs and the level of hygiene and sanitation is low. The clinical presentation may include epileptic seizures, focal neurological deficits, hydrocephalus, or aseptic meningitis. The disease is frequently seen in California reside...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mohammad IN,Heiner DC,Miller BL,Goldberg MA,Kagan IG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the frequency with which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) peripheral blood mononuclear cell cultures convert from positive to negative in subjects enrolled in a substudy of AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) 320, which compared the efficacy of treatment with a combination of indinavir, zidovudine, and l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Demeter LM,Bosch RJ,Coombs RW,Fiscus S,Bremer J,Johnson VA,Erice A,Jackson JB,Spector SA,Squires KM,Fischl MA,Hughes MD,Hammer SM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of performing routine aerobic subcultures of both vented and unvented blood culture bottles has not been evaluated critically. We studied 4,954 pairs of blood culture bottles consisting of one vented biphasic tryptic soy broth bottle (Roche Diagnostics) and one unvented Thiol broth bottle (Difco Laboratories...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Westfall LM,Murray PR

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API 20S system (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) and the AutoMicrobic Gram-Positive Identification system (GPI; Vitek Systems, Hazelwood, Mo.) were evaluated for their capacity to identify the non-beta-hemolytic streptococci and aerococci to the species level. The 20S system identified 86% (six of seven strains...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Facklam R,Bosley GS,Rhoden D,Franklin AR,Weaver N,Schulman R

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia asteroides is a rare cause of keratitis usually associated with trauma. We report a case of corneal ulceration caused by N. asteroides in a patient with leprosy. This is the first case report of nocardial keratitis from Southeast Asia. The diminished corneal sensation in a patient with leprosy could be a pred...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tendolkar UM,Varaiya A,Ahuja AS,Motwane SA,Gogate AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from five Campylobacter species was digested with a mixture of XhoI and BglII restriction endonucleases and analyzed by Southern hybridization by using a probe complementary to the DNA coding for the 16S rRNA. Each of the Campylobacter species, including C. jejuni, C. coli, C. laridis, C. fetus, and C. upsal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Moureau P,Derclaye I,Gregoire D,Janssen M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is an important pathogen in the etiology of severe periodontitis. For epidemiological studies on the prevalence of certain pathogenic clones and transmission of this bacterium, adequate typing methods are necessary. The purpose of this study was to compare six different typing meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Steenbergen TJ,Bosch-Tijhof CJ,van Winkelhoff AJ,Gmür R,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free growth medium for the opportunistic pathogenic ameba Balamuthia mandrillaris is presented. This represents an advance over the use of monkey kidney cells for growth of the amebas and can be helpful in isolation of these amebas from brain tissue from cases in which amebic meningoencephalitis is a diagnostic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schuster FL,Visvesvara GS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the microbiologic and clinical value of primary broth culture of wound specimens collected with swabs and submitted to the laboratory in transport medium, we compared the results of primary agar culture with the results of a corresponding primary broth culture for 344 aerobic specimens and 176 anaer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Silletti RP,Ailey E,Sun S,Tang D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method for the rapid detection of serotype 1 Marek's disease virus (MDV) was developed. The method used a set of three pairs of primers to amplify the MEQ gene for detecting serotype 1 MDV. The MDV LAMP method did not cross-react with serotype 2 and serotype 3, nor did t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Angamuthu R,Baskaran S,Gopal DR,Devarajan J,Kathaperumal K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) a-sequence (a-seq) is located in the joining region between the long (L) and short (S) unique sequences of the virus (L-S junction), and this hypervariable junction has been used to differentiate HCMV strains. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Zaia JA,Gallez-Hawkins G,Churchill MA,Morton-Blackshere A,Pande H,Adler SP,Schmidt GM,Forman SJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection in central and southern Italy, sera from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seronegative subjects, with and without Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), were analyzed by immunofluorescence assay, using BC-3, a cell line latently infected with HHV-8....

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Cattani P,Capuano M,Cerimele F,La Parola IL,Santangelo R,Masini C,Cerimele D,Fadda G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, sensitive counterimmunoelectrophoresis assay was developed to detect adenovirus in stools of patients with gastroenteritis. The parameters of the assay were optimized, and its sensitivity and efficiency was examined. The assay promises to be a useful alternative to conventional techniques of cell culture isol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mankikar SD,Middleton PJ,Petric M

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a decade ago the first cryptococcal lateral flow assay (LFA) became available. This affordable point-of-care test has undeniably led to tremendous improvements in early detection of cryptococcosis (1,2). However, from several studies it must be concluded that the reliability of recently introduced LFA's falls sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shi D,Haas PJ,Boekhout T,Hahn RC,Hagen F

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether rinsing with oral antiseptics before sputum collection would reduce contamination of mycobacterial cultures, 120 patients with suspected tuberculosis were randomly assigned to rinse with chlorhexidine or cetylpyridinium mouthwash before collection. The culture contamination rate was significantly low...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Peres RL,Palaci M,Loureiro RB,Dietze R,Johnson JL,Golub JE,Ruffino-Netto A,Maciel EL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy may be limited by the development of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) resistance. Monitoring for resistance will perhaps allow changes in therapy prior to deterioration in the patient's clinical or immunologic status. Our objective was to develop a rapid, specific...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Frenkel LM,Wagner LE 2nd,Atwood SM,Cummins TJ,Dewhurst S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PGMY-PCR for human papillomavirus (HPV) was evaluated, in parallel with nested PCR (nPCR), in samples with noted Hybrid Capture II (HCII) and MY-PCR results. PGMY-PCR detected HPV DNA in 2.5% of HCII-negative-MY-PCR-negative samples and in 71.7% of HCII-positive-MY-PCR-negative samples; also, it detected the MY-PC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Giovannelli L,Lama A,Capra G,Giordano V,Aricò P,Ammatuna P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

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 genes encoding the 56-kDa polypeptides were amplified by polymerase chain reaction from the genomic DNAs of three serotypes of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, Gilliam, Karp, and Boryong. The amplified products were cloned into expression vector pIH821, and the recombinant antigens were expressed in Escherichia coli as f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kim IS,Seong SY,Woo SG,Choi MS,Kang JS,Chang WH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staphylococcal methicillin resistance determinant, mecA, resides on a mobile genetic element, staphylococcus chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec). The distribution of SCCmec in nature is limited to relatively few clonal complexes of related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We have previously report...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Katayama Y,Robinson DA,Enright MC,Chambers HF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroviruses have been reported in encephalitis cases. However, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of enteroviruses in encephalitis are not fully established. We prospectively investigated 204 children with encephalitis over a period of 2 years (2009 to 2010) for enterovirus. Enterovirus was detected in 45 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kumar A,Shukla D,Kumar R,Idris MZ,Misra UK,Dhole TN

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-throughput multiplex bead suspension array was developed for the rapid subgenogrouping of EV71 strains, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms observed within the VP1 region with a high sensitivity as low as 1 PFU. Of 33 viral isolates and 55 clinical samples, all EV71 strains were successfully detected and c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Wu Y,Tan EL,Yeo A,Chan KP,Nishimura H,Cardosa MJ,Poh CL,Quak SH,Chow VT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) technique was evaluated as a procedure for rapid detection and identification of members of the Bacteroidaceae. Antisera were prepared against 31 members of this family, including species of Bacteroides and Fusobacterium commonly isolated from human infections. The antisera had d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stauffer LR,Hill EO,Holland JW,Altemeier WA

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively studied 156 patients with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia requiring admission. Several respiratory specimens were obtained for the detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae by cell culture and PCR. Three serum samples were obtained from each patient. Serological diagnosis of a C. pneumoniae infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Verkooyen RP,Willemse D,Hiep-van Casteren SC,Joulandan SA,Snijder RJ,van den Bosch JM,van Helden HP,Peeters MF,Verbrugh HA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-reactivity between Legionella spp. and Capnocytophaga ochracea was noted by latex agglutination tests (Serobact Legionella; Disposable Products, Adelaide, Australia). Four of 11 (36%) C. ochracea isolates agglutinated with latex reagents designed to identify Legionella pneumophila serogroups. C. ochracea isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen S,Hicks L,Yuen M,Mitchell D,Gilbert GL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) p27 in saliva was tested for its accuracy and sensitivity in diagnosing FeLV infections. Saliva and serum samples from 564 clinical cases were tested with a 99.2% specificity. The overall accuracy of the saliva ELISA reactive to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lewis MG,Wright KA,Lafrado LJ,Shanker PJ,Palumbo NE,Lemoine ED,Olsen RG

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00