VP4 and VP7 genotyping of rotavirus samples recovered from infected children in Ireland over a 3-year period.

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus produced an inhibitory factor that suppressed slime formation by Psuudomonas aeruginosa but had little effect on the growth of the organism. The inhibitory factor was not found in broth cultures but could be extracted from cultures grown on solid agar. The inhibitory factor moderately inhibited g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Shibl AM,Al-Sowaygh IA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A noncompetitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that enables the quantitation of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) to as little as 30 pg/ml and the detection of TSST-1 to 10 pg/ml in phosphate-buffered saline including 33% human serum or plasma was developed. It takes only 3 h to complete this assay after plate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Miwa K,Fukuyama M,Kunitomo T,Igarashi H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification and differentiation of orthopoxviruses by PCR were achieved with primers based on genome sequences encoding the hemagglutinin (HA) protein, an infected-cell membrane antigen that distinguishes orthopoxviruses from other poxvirus genera. The initial identification step used a primer pair of consens...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ropp SL,Jin Q,Knight JC,Massung RF,Esposito JJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-house surveillance for healthcare-associated infection is no longer the recommended practice because of the large personnel time investment required. We developed a computer-based tracking system using microbiologic data as an aid in detecting potential outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections on a hospital...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hacek DM,Cordell RL,Noskin GA,Peterson LR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus of strains subgenus F (AdV F) are the most common strains detected in acute gastroenteritis cases in developing countries. Subgenus F is represented by AdV serotype 40 (AdV-40) and AdV-41. Most of the reports have described the predominance of AdV-41 in acute gastroenteritis cases. To gain insight int...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dey RS,Ghosh S,Chawla-Sarkar M,Panchalingam S,Nataro JP,Sur D,Manna B,Ramamurthy T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is more sensitive than microscopy for detecting Pneumocystis jirovecii in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. We therefore developed a qPCR assay and compared the results with those of a routine immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and clinical data. The assay included automated DNA extraction, ampli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Botterel F,Cabaret O,Foulet F,Cordonnier C,Costa JM,Bretagne S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, 21 inhabitants of a German nursing home fell ill with acute gastroenteritis after consumption of minced beef heart (P. Graf and L. Bader, Epidemiol. Bull. 41:327-329, 2000). Two residents died during hospital treatment. Seventeen Clostridium perfringens strains were collected from two different dishes and fro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schalch B,Bader L,Schau HP,Bergmann R,Rometsch A,Maydl G,Kessler S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine sensitivity and specificity of immunofluorescence assay (IFA) for detection of Helicobacter pylori, we studied 151 patients. Biopsies of gastric mucosae were obtained for culture, histological testing, and IFA. H. pylori serum antibodies were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. IFA was done on Fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rivera E,López-Vidal Y,Luqueño V,Ruiz-Palacios GM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two multiplex PCR enzyme immunoassays (PCR-EIAs) were developed for Staphylococcus aureus exotoxin gene screening as an alternative to the conventional biological assays, which depend on detectable amounts of toxins produced. One set of oligonucleotide primers and probes was designed to search for enterotoxin A to E g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Becker K,Roth R,Peters G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive sera from 106 chronically infected patients which had previously been genotyped were characterized by serotyping. Genotypes were determined by a first-generation line probe assay (INNO-LiPA HCV) and by sequence analyses of the core, core-E1, and NS5B regions. HCV serotypes were determi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van Doorn LJ,Kleter B,Pike I,Quint W

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:There is a greatly increased interest in Herpesvirus hominis infections especially those of type 2 associated with genital lesions or neonatal disease. Physicians are eager to confirm the clinical impression with a specific virologic diagnosis such as isolation of the agent and its typing, and type-specific antibody r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hanna L,Keshishyan H,Jawetz E,Coleman VR

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：:The performance of CHROMagar STEC and CHROMagar STEC O104 (CHROMagar Microbiology, Paris, France) media for the detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) was assessed with 329 stool specimens collected over 14 months from patients with suspected STEC infections (June 2011 to August 2012). The CHROMaga...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gouali M,Ruckly C,Carle I,Lejay-Collin M,Weill FX

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:In a cohort of subjects from Italy, anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HCV RNA [HCV(+) subgroup] prevalences were 24.6 and 79.6%, respectively. HCV types 1b and 2a/c accounted for 95% of infections. Adjusted alanine aminotransferase levels were higher in males than in females and in RNA-positive subjects than in RNA-neg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Osella AR,Sonzogni L,Cavallini A,Foti L,Guerra V,Di Leo A,Mondelli MU,Misciagna G,Silini EM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine babesiosis is a serious threat to the cattle industry. We prepared blood DNA samples from 13 cattle with clinical babesiosis from the Badulla (n = 8), Jaffna (n = 3), and Kilinochchi (n = 2) districts in Sri Lanka. These DNA samples tested positive in PCR assays specific for Babesiabovis (n = 9), Babesia bigemi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sivakumar T,Tuvshintulga B,Zhyldyz A,Kothalawala H,Yapa PR,Kanagaratnam R,Vimalakumar SC,Abeysekera TS,Weerasingha AS,Yamagishi J,Igarashi I,Silva SSP,Yokoyama N

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans strains were isolated from cohorts of Brazilian nursery school children and genotyped by arbitrarily primed PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Of 24 children with two to five S. mutans isolates, 29% carried two or more genotypes. The presence of matching genotypes of S. mut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mattos-Graner RO,Li Y,Caufield PW,Duncan M,Smith DJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rose Bengal and counterimmunoelectrophoresis, two tests that detect antibodies against different structural antigens, when carried out on spinal fluid permitted rapid diagnosis of human Brucella meningitis. The Rose Bengal test was positive in five out of five patients studied, and counterimmunoelectrophoresis was pos...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Díaz R,Maraví-Poma E,Delgado G,Rivero A

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-year period, all Pasteurella strains recovered at the Clinical Microbiological Laboratory, Lund, Sweden, were studied biochemically with respect to their relationship to the recently described taxa of this genus. Of 159 strains recovered from 146 infected humans, 95 were identified as Pasteurella multocida ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Holst E,Rollof J,Larsson L,Nielsen JP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,835 Yersinia spp. were isolated from 925 (60.5%) of 1,530 wild mice and from 139 (79.9%) of 174 moles living in mountainous areas of eastern Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The Yersinia spp. included 1,106 Yersinia enterocolitica, 26 Y. enterocolitica-like, 176 Yersinia mollaretii, 149 Yersinia frederiksenii, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fukushima H,Gomyoda M,Kaneko S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of commercially available microdilution trays were inoculated with log-phase cultures, stationary-phase cultures, and direct suspensions of 18- to 24-h colonies, with essentially comparable results. Direct pick-up of colonies was also tested with two Prompt inoculation systems (3M Co.); they were found to be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barry AL,Badal RE,Hawkinson RW

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reverse transcription-seminested PCR (RT-snPCR) assay was developed for the detection and identification of enterovirus (EV) RNA in clinical specimens. Three conserved protein motifs were identified by aligning the VP3 and VP1 sequences of prototype EV strains. Consensus degenerate primers were designed from a conse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nix WA,Oberste MS,Pallansch MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing interpretive breakpoints for any given organism-drug combination requires integration of the MIC distribution, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters, and the relationship between the in vitro activity and outcome from both in vivo and clinical studies. Using data generated by standardized broth mic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pfaller MA,Diekema DJ,Rex JH,Espinel-Ingroff A,Johnson EM,Andes D,Chaturvedi V,Ghannoum MA,Odds FC,Rinaldi MG,Sheehan DJ,Troke P,Walsh TJ,Warnock DW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in plasma and serum samples is a costly procedure in both time and reagents. Additionally, cell-associated viral RNA may not be detected. This study evaluated the accuracy of HCV RNA quantitation in small-volume whole-blood (WB) samples, which would be appropriate for point-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bruns T,Steinmetzer K,Ermantraut E,Stallmach A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivities of MRC-5 and mink lung (ML) cells in centrifugation culture were compared simultaneously for the detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) IE antigen (immediate-early antigen) from clinical specimens. Of 413 samples assayed, 51 (12%) were positive for CMV by both centrifugation and standard cell culture. At...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Gleaves CA,Hursh DA,Meyers JD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotypic typing by restriction fragment length polymorphism and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that two neonates in a neonatal ward were infected with the same Campylobacter jejuni strain. Isolates from the mother and brother of the index patient were identical to each other but distinct from the neonatal ty...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Llovo J,Mateo E,Muñoz A,Urquijo M,On SL,Fernández-Astorga A

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira is a highly diverse genus comprising many species and serogroups in Brazil as well as all over the world. However, a study by arbitrarily primed PCR of 44 leptospiral strains isolated from humans during three different outbreaks in Brazilian urban centers reveals that 43 of 44 isolates exhibit very similar ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pereira MM,Matsuo MG,Bauab AR,Vasconcelos SA,Moraes ZM,Baranton G,Saint Girons I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed pulsed-field gel electrophoresis on Escherichia coli O157 isolates (n = 318) from 199 healthy animals in a longitudinal study carried out on nine farms. Investigation of the restriction types proved that at the farm level, the same clones can be detected on sampling occasions separated by as much as 17 mo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Liebana E,Smith RP,Batchelor M,McLaren I,Cassar C,Clifton-Hadley FA,Paiba GA

更新日期：2005-02-01 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