DNA banding pattern polymorphism in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and criteria for defining strains.

abstract：:A rapid and accurate method to identify the species and antibiotic resistance of Candida spp. in blood is vital to increase the survival rates of patients with bloodstream infections. However, the extremely low levels of Candida spp. in blood make rapid diagnosis by standard blood culture difficult. In this study, we ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Chen XL,Zheng H,Li WG,Zhong YH,Chen XP,Lu JX

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniases are heterogenous entities. The Leishmania species that a given patient harbors usually cannot be determined clinically, and this identification is essential to prescribe the best species-specific therapeutic regimen. Our diagnosis procedure includes a real-time PCR assay targeted a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Foulet F,Botterel F,Buffet P,Morizot G,Rivollet D,Deniau M,Pratlong F,Costa JM,Bretagne S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the detection of circulating free and complexed staphylococcal antigens in various clinical categories of staphylococcal infections. Circulating immune complexes were studied by the polyethylene glycol precipitation method. Circulating immune complexes and staphyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lentino JR,Rytel MW

更新日期：1982-12-01 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：:The recently sequenced genome of Campylobacter jejuni RM1221 revealed the presence of three integrated bacteriophage-like elements. In this study, genes from the first element, a Mu-like bacteriophage, were amplified by PCR and used to probe pulsed-field gels of clinical C. jejuni strains obtained from a waterborne ou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Barton C,Ng LK,Tyler SD,Clark CG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis was transmitted from an immunized boy to his father and possibly to other family members. This case report demonstrates that although unusual, acute adult B. pertussis infection can occur. B. pertussis immunization may not prevent infection but can reduce the severity. B. pertussis was detected in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith S,Tilton RC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative, anaerobic bacilli are unusual organisms to be isolated in cases of acute septic arthritis. We report the isolation of Fusobacterium necrophorum from joint aspirate in a case of acute septic arthritis, which presented 3 weeks after the drainage of a dental abscess. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sonsale PD,Philipson MR,Bowskill J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A micro enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect the presence of amoebic antigen in polyethylene-glycol-precipitated circulating immune complexes (CIC). A cutoff dilution of greater than 1:160 for the precipitates was taken to be of clinical significance. Among the patients with amoebic liver abscess, 93% ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Vinayak VK,Purnima,Singh K,Venkatwswarlu K,Nain CK,Mehta SK

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of sequence type 398 (ST398) has frequently been detected in pigs and pig handlers. However, in Malaysia, sampling 360 pigs and 90 pig handlers from 30 farms identified novel ST9-spa type t4358-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type V MRSA strains that were found...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Neela V,Mohd Zafrul A,Mariana NS,van Belkum A,Liew YK,Rad EG

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During lyssavirus surveillance, 1,221 bats of at least 30 species were collected from 25 locations in Kenya. One isolate of Lagos bat virus (LBV) was obtained from a dead Eidolon helvum fruit bat. The virus was most similar phylogenetically to LBV isolates from Senegal (1985) and from France (imported from Togo or Egy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kuzmin IV,Niezgoda M,Franka R,Agwanda B,Markotter W,Beagley JC,Urazova OY,Breiman RF,Rupprecht CE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 50 strains of Staphylococcus aureus, including 41 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains, were characterized by one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins. The protein patterns contained 40-50 discrete bands and were highly reproducible. Partial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Costas M,Cookson BD,Talsania HG,Owen RJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in childhood diarrhea is controversial. The aim of the present study was to search for genes linked with diarrhea in atypical EPEC strains from a case-control study among Norwegian children. Using DNA microarray analysis, genomic DNAs from strains isolated ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Afset JE,Bruant G,Brousseau R,Harel J,Anderssen E,Bevanger L,Bergh K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virology laboratories historically have used direct fluorescent-antibody assay (DFA) and culture to detect six or seven respiratory viruses. Following the discovery of five new human respiratory viruses since 2000, there is an increasing need for diagnostic tests to detect these emerging viruses. We have developed a n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mahony J,Chong S,Merante F,Yaghoubian S,Sinha T,Lisle C,Janeczko R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) typing method has recently been developed and used for typing and subtyping of Salmonella spp., but it is complicated and labor intensive because it has to analyze all spacers in two CRISPR loci. Here, we developed a more convenient and efficient meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Li H,Li P,Xie J,Yi S,Yang C,Wang J,Sun J,Liu N,Wang X,Wu Z,Wang L,Hao R,Wang Y,Jia L,Li K,Qiu S,Song H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection continues to be a challenge for many clinical microbiology laboratories. A new lateral flow assay, the C.Diff Quik Chek Complete assay, which tests for the presence of both glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and C. difficile toxins A and B, was evaluated for its ability to d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sharp SE,Ruden LO,Pohl JC,Hatcher PA,Jayne LM,Ivie WM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for seven genomic loci was developed for Enterococcus faecalis. MLVA and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) resulted in 37 and 31 genotypes among 83 strains, respectively. Both typing schemes were highly concordant (90.4%). MLVA is an excellent alternative ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Titze-de-Almeida R,Willems RJ,Top J,Rodrigues IP,Ferreira RF 2nd,Boelens H,Brandileone MC,Zanella RC,Felipe MS,van Belkum A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for preparing smears for proficiency testing and quality control in acid-fast microscopy. The work was prompted by the increased demand for acid-fast bacilli positive smears with characteristic microscopic appearance and among-smear uniformity. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smithwick RW,Stratigos CB

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of synthetic oligonucleotide primers, designed from the gene encoding a 32-kDa intraerythrocytic piroplasm surface protein of Theileria sergenti, were used to amplify parasite DNA from the blood of T. sergenti-infected cattle by means of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR-amplified DNA was examined by ele...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Tanaka M,Onoe S,Matsuba T,Katayama S,Yamanaka M,Yonemichi H,Hiramatsu K,Baek BK,Sugimoto C,Onuma M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two difficult-to-cultivate group A coxsackieviruses (i.e., group A types other than A7, A9, and A16), collected primarily from throat swab specimens of patients suffering from fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, and cough during the 1986 enterovirus season, were isolated in less than 24-h-old suckling mice. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Lipson SM,Walderman R,Costello P,Szabo K

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci obtained from patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis were cultured in nutrient broth in an atmosphere of air containing 5% carbon dioxide (reflecting the CO2 tension found in freshly used dialysate). Significant differences were observed between the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Denyer SP,Davies MC,Evans JA,Finch RG,Smith DG,Wilcox MH,Williams P

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella henselae is the main causative agent of cat-scratch disease, and both B. henselae and Bartonella quintana cause angioproliferative disorders such as bacillary angiomatosis. To increase the sensitivity of Bartonella detection by PCR and to improve the species differentiation, we developed a semiquantitative,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Sander A,Penno S

更新日期：1999-10-01 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 EasyNAT assay was evaluated for the detection of tuberculosis in sputum smears from presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in an African high-TB and high-HIV setting. The sensitivity of the EasyNAT assay was 66.7%, and the specificity and positive predictive value were 100% for the culture-positive patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mhimbira FA,Bholla M,Sasamalo M,Mukurasi W,Hella JJ,Jugheli L,Reither K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropheryma whipplei, the agent of Whipple's disease, is a gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that belongs to the group of actinobacteria. In order to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against this bacterium, we inoculated mice with two different strains, Slow2 and Endo5. We produced 13 and 10 MAbs against Slow2 and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu Y,Kowalczewska M,Decloquement P,Nappez C,La Scola B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonpigmented rapidly growing mycobacterium was isolated from wound liquid outflow, bone tissue biopsy, and excised skin tissue from a 31-year-old woman who suffered an accidental open right tibia fracture and prolonged stay in a river. The three isolates grew in 3 days at 24 to 37 degrees C. 16S rRNA sequence analys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Adékambi T,Stein A,Carvajal J,Raoult D,Drancourt M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of the Legionnaires disease bacterium (LDB) that was isolated by Joseph E. McDade from a postmortem lung specimen of a patient with fatal atypical pneumonia at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Togus, Maine was serologically different from 16 other strains of LDB that had been isolated previously from p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： McKinney RM,Thomason BM,Harris PP,Thacker L,Lewallen KR,Wilkinson HW,Hebert GA,Moss CW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and characterized a phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C (PC-PLC) gene from Burkholderia pseudomallei. DNA sequence analysis of the gene indicated an open reading frame coding for 700 amino acids with a 34-amino-acid signal peptide. When cleaved, this yields a secreted 73-kDa mature protein. The d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Korbsrisate S,Suwanasai N,Leelaporn A,Ezaki T,Kawamura Y,Sarasombath S

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a rare but sight-threatening ocular infection. Outbreaks have been associated with contaminated water and contact lens wear. The epidemiology and pathology may be associated with unique genotypes. We determined the Rns genotype for 37 clinical isolates from 23 patients presenting at the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ledee DR,Iovieno A,Miller D,Mandal N,Diaz M,Fell J,Fini ME,Alfonso EC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain the lipolytic activities (specifically, esterase) of those species of Candida that are most commonly isolated from human infections. Eight species of Candida were surveyed for their ability to hydrolyze various polyoxyethylene sorbitan compounds (Tweens). Of the 64 is...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rudek W

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have spurred intense research efforts around the world to deal with the serious threat to health posed by this novel coronavirus. A rapid, reliable diagnostic assay is needed for monitoring the spread of the disease. Here we report a method for eliminating f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hui RK,Zeng F,Chan CM,Yuen KY,Peiris JS,Leung FC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00