abstract：:The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). While molecular-based testing is used to diagnose COVID-19, serologic testing of antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 is used to detect past infection. While most serologic assays are qualitativ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Higgins V,Fabros A,Kulasingam V

更新日期：2021-01-22 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：:This study assessed the diagnostic performance of the new COVID19SEROSpeed IgM/IgG rapid test (BioSpeedia, a spinoff of the Pasteur Institute of Paris) for the detection of antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in comparison to other commercial antibody assays through a large ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Plebani M,Parčina M,Bechri I,Zehender G,Terkeš V,Abdel Hafith B,Antinori S,Pillet S,Gonzalo S,Hoerauf A,Lai A,Morović M,Bourlet T,Torre A,Pozzetto B,Galli M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing efforts for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been burdened by the scarcity of testing materials and personal protective equipment for health care workers. The simple and painless process of saliva collection allows for widespread testing, but enthusiasm is hampered by variable ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yee R,Truong TT,Pannaraj PS,Eubanks N,Gai E,Jumarang J,Turner L,Peralta A,Lee Y,Dien Bard J

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of viruses is relevant to a number of scientific and clinical disciplines, including the practice of diagnostic virology. Here, we provide an update to our previous review of taxonomic changes for disease-causing viruses in humans and vertebrate animals, covering changes between 2018 and 2020. Recen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loeffelholz MJ,Fenwick BW

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current article summarizes recent changes in nomenclature for fungi of medical importance published in the years 2018 to 2019, including new species and revised names for existing ones. Many of the revised names have been widely adopted without further discussion. However, those that concern common pathogens of hu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Borman AM,Johnson EM

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has put the clinical laboratory in the spotlight. The news media is regularly seeking out interviews with microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, and pathologists. Increased public exposure offers opportunities to improve how laboratory professionals communicate our insights. We can emph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Mazer BL

更新日期：2021-01-21 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：: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：:As microbial genomics makes increasingly important contributions to clinical and public health microbiology, the interpretation of whole-genome sequence data by nonspecialists becomes essential. In the absence of capsule-based vaccines, two protein-based vaccines have been used for the prevention of invasive serogroup...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Rodrigues CMC,Jolley KA,Smith A,Cameron JC,Feavers IM,Maiden MCJ

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of an ongoing pandemic that has infected over 36 million and killed over 1 million people. Informed implementation of government public health policies depends on accurate data on SARS-CoV-2 immunity at a population scale. We hypothesized that d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pisanic N,Randad PR,Kruczynski K,Manabe YC,Thomas DL,Pekosz A,Klein SL,Betenbaugh MJ,Clarke WA,Laeyendecker O,Caturegli PP,Larman HB,Detrick B,Fairley JK,Sherman AC,Rouphael N,Edupuganti S,Granger DA,Granger SW,Coll

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) was recently reported as a potential infective complication affecting critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, with incidence rates varying from 8 to 33% dependin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Borman AM,Palmer MD,Fraser M,Patterson Z,Mann C,Oliver D,Linton CJ,Gough M,Brown P,Dzietczyk A,Hedley M,McLachlan S,King J,Johnson EM

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus ST45 is a major global MRSA lineage with huge strain diversity and a high clinical impact. It is one of the most prevalent carrier lineages but also frequently causes severe invasive disease, such as bacteremia. Little is known about its evolutionary history. In this study, we used whole-genome s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Effelsberg N,Stegger M,Peitzmann L,Altinok O,Coombs GW,Pichon B,Kearns A,Randad PR,Heaney CD,Bletz S,Schaumburg F,Mellmann A

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:On 24 August 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website to highlight that asymptomatic individuals, even those with exposure to a COVID-19-positive contact, do not necessarily need to be tested unless they have medical conditions associated with increased risk of severe illness from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Schuetz AN,Hemarajata P,Mehta N,Campbell S,Mitchell S,Palavecino E,Butler-Wu S,Miller MB

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Corynebacterium isolates submitted to the national reference laboratory in Spain, between 2014 and 2019, in order to describe the current situation and improve our knowledge regarding these emerging pathogens. Ep...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hoefer A,Pampaka D,Herrera-León S,Peiró S,Varona S,López-Perea N,Masa-Calles J,Herrera-León L

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of positive Aspergillus tests in COVID-19 patients and investigate the association between COVID-19 and a positive Aspergillus test result. We compared the proportion of positive Aspergillus tests in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU for > 24 hours with two contr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yusuf E,Vonk A,van den Akker JPC,Bode L,Sips GJ,Rijnders BJA,de Steenwinkel J,Verkaik NJ,Vogel M,van der Eerden M,van Westreenen M

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:MARC-145 cell line is commonly used to isolate porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) for diagnostics, research and vaccine production, but it yields frustratingly low success rates of virus isolation (VI). ZMAC cell line, derived from porcine alveolar macrophages, has become available but its uti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yim-Im W,Huang H,Park J,Wang C,Calzada G,Gauger P,Harmon K,Main R,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high virological response rates achieved with current directly acting antiviral agents (DAAs) against hepatitis C virus (HCV), around 2% to 5% of treated patients do not achieve a sustained viral response. The identification of amino acid substitutions associated with treatment failure requires analytical ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Soria ME,García-Crespo C,Martínez-González B,Vázquez-Sirvent L,Lobo-Vega R,de Ávila AI,Gallego I,Chen Q,García-Cehic D,Llorens-Revull M,Briones C,Gómez J,Ferrer-Orta C,Verdaguer N,Gregori J,Rodríguez-Frías F,Buti M,Este

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Johne's disease (JD) is an economically important infectious disease in livestock farming caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis As an alternative to serological tests, which are used mainly for the screening of whole herds, we developed a novel ResoLight-based real-time PCR (RL-PCR) assay with pooled f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kawaji S,Nagata R,Minegishi Y,Saruyama Y,Mita A,Kishizuka S,Saito M,Mori Y

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of residual plasma viremia in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-suppressed HIV-infected individuals is critical for characterizing the latent reservoir and evaluating the impact of cure interventions. Ultracentrifugation-based single-copy assays are sensitive but labor intensive. Fully automated replicate testing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Bakkour S,Deng X,Bacchetti P,Grebe E,Montalvo L,Worlock A,Stone M,Deeks SG,Richman DD,Busch MP

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI). Currently, there are limited data on the bacterial load in both men and women and on both genital and extragenital sites. Therefore, we quantified N. gonorrhoeae bacterial loads in a large population of women, heterosexual men, and men w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： van der Veer BMJW,Hoebe CJPA,Dukers-Muijrers NHTM,van Alphen LB,Wolffs PFG

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus has widely evolved resistance to the most commonly used class of antifungal chemicals, the azoles. Current methods for identifying azole resistance are time-consuming and depend on specialized laboratories. There is an urgent need for rapid detection of these emerging pathogens at point-of-care t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Yu LS,Rodriguez-Manzano J,Moser N,Moniri A,Malpartida-Cardenas K,Miscourides N,Sewell T,Kochina T,Brackin A,Rhodes J,Holmes AH,Fisher MC,Georgiou P

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologic methods are an important part of a clinical laboratory's portfolio of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests and are essential to the broader response to coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19), including epidemiological studies and vaccine development. There are currently ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Loeffelholz MJ

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne diseases, due to a diversity of bacterial pathogens, represent a significant and increasing public health threat throughout the Northern Hemisphere. A high-throughput 16S V1-V2 rRNA gene-based metagenomics assay was developed and evaluated using >13,000 residual samples from patients suspected of having tic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Kingry L,Sheldon S,Oatman S,Pritt B,Anacker M,Bjork J,Neitzel D,Strain A,Berry J,Sloan L,Respicio-Kingry L,Dietrich E,Bloch K,Moncayo A,Srinivasamoorthy G,Hu B,Hinckley A,Mead P,Kugeler K,Petersen J

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a multifaceted rapid response by the scientific community, bringing researchers, health officials, and industry together to address the ongoing public health emergency. To meet this challenge, participants need an informed approach for working safely with the etiological agent, t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Welch SR,Davies KA,Buczkowski H,Hettiarachchi N,Green N,Arnold U,Jones M,Hannah MJ,Evans R,Burton C,Burton JE,Guiver M,Cane PA,Woodford N,Bruce CB,Roberts ADG,Killip MJ

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoassay (Roche Diagnostics) was developed to provide accurate, reliable detection of antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We evaluated sensitivity, specificity, cross-reactivity, and agreement with a vesicular stomatitis virus-based pseudoneutraliz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Muench P,Jochum S,Wenderoth V,Ofenloch-Haehnle B,Hombach M,Strobl M,Sadlowski H,Sachse C,Torriani G,Eckerle I,Riedel A

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory diphtheria, characterized by a firmly adherent pseudomembrane, is caused by toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, with similar illness produced occasionally by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans or, rarely, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis While diphtheria laboratory confirmation requir...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Williams MM,Waller JL,Aneke JS,Weigand MR,Diaz MH,Bowden KE,Simon AK,Peng Y,Xiaoli L,Cassiday PK,Winchell J,Tondella ML

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fosfomycin has been shown to have a wide spectrum of activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; however, breakpoints have been established only for Escherichia coli or Enterobacterales per the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibilit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Smith EC,Brigman HV,Anderson JC,Emery CL,Bias TE,Bergen PJ,Landersdorfer CB,Hirsch EB

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) release assays (IGRAs) are increasingly used to test for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. Although highly specific, IGRAs have a relatively high false-negative rate in active TB patients. A more sensitive assay is needed. IFN-γ-induced protein 10 (IP-10) is an alternative biomarker with a 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Blauenfeldt T,Villar-Hernández R,García-García E,Latorre I,Holm LL,Muriel-Moreno B,De Souza-Galvão ML,Millet JP,Sabriá F,Sánchez-Montalva A,Ruiz-Manzano J,Pilarte J,Jiménez MA,Centeno C,Torres C,Molina-Pinargote I,Gonzále

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease (COVID) serological tests are essential to determine the overall seroprevalence of a population and to facilitate exposure estimates within that population. We performed a head-to-head assessment of enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) and point-of-care lateral flow assays (POCTs) to detect severe acute resp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Charlton CL,Kanji JN,Johal K,Bailey A,Plitt SS,MacDonald C,Kunst A,Buss E,Burnes LE,Fonseca K,Berenger BM,Schnabl K,Hu J,Stokes W,Zelyas N,Tipples G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobes are an important but uncommon cause of bloodstream infections (BSIs). For pediatric patients, routine inclusion of an anaerobic blood culture alongside the aerobic remains controversial. We implemented automatic anaerobic blood culture alongside aerobic blood cultures in a pediatric emergency department (ED)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Dien Bard J,Chang TP,Yee R,Manshadi K,Lichtenfeld N,Choi HJ,Festekjian A

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood tuberculosis (TB) presents significant diagnostic challenges associated with paucibacillary disease and requires a more sensitive test. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Ultra) compared to other microbiological tests using respiratory samples from Ugandan children in the SHINE tria...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ssengooba W,Iragena JD,Nakiyingi L,Mujumbi S,Wobudeya E,Mboizi R,Boulware D,Meya DB,Choo L,Crook AM,Lebeau K,Joloba M,Demers AM,Cresswell FV,Gibb DM

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) began in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly worldwide. The response by the Alberta Precision Laboratories, Public Health Laboratory (ProvLab), AB, Canada...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Pabbaraju K,Wong AA,Douesnard M,Ma R,Gill K,Dieu P,Fonseca K,Zelyas N,Tipples GA

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery of bats with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related coronaviruses (CoVs) raised the specter of potential future outbreaks of zoonotic SARS-CoV-like disease in humans, which largely went unheeded. Nevertheless, the novel SARS-CoV-2 of bat ancestral origin emerged to infect humans in Wuhan, China, in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Saif LJ,Jung K

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcus (GAS) species cause bacterial pharyngitis in both adults and children. Early and accurate diagnosis of GAS is important for appropriate antibiotic therapy to prevent GAS sequalae. The Revogene Strep A molecular assay (Meridian Bioscience Canada Inc, Quebec City, QC, Canada) is an automated real-t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Banerjee D,Michael J,Schmitt B,Salimnia H,Mhaissen N,Goldfarb DM,Lachance P,Faron ML,Aufderheide T,Ledeboer N,Weissfeld A,Selvarangan R

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is now routinely performed in clinical microbiology laboratories to assess isolate relatedness. With appropriately developed analytics, the same data can be used for prediction of antimicrobial susceptibility. We assessed WGS data for identification using open-source tools and antibiotic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Ferreira I,Beisken S,Lueftinger L,Weinmaier T,Klein M,Bacher J,Patel R,von Haeseler A,Posch AE

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid amplification tests, such as PCR, are the method of choice for respiratory virus testing, due to their superior diagnostic accuracy and fast turnaround time. The Panther Fusion (Fusion; Hologic) system has an array of highly sensitive in vitro diagnostic (IVD) real-time PCR assays for respiratory viruses,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Stellrecht KA,Cimino JL,Maceira VP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 400,000 people worldwide are known to have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) beginning in December 2019. The virus has now spread to over 168 countries including the United States, where the first cluster of cases was observed in the Seattle metropolitan area in Was...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Nalla AK,Casto AM,Huang MW,Perchetti GA,Sampoleo R,Shrestha L,Wei Y,Zhu H,Jerome KR,Greninger AL

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease caused by the Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato complex. Bio-Rad Laboratories has developed a fully automated multiplex bead-based assay for the detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to B. burgdorferi The BioPlex 2200 Lyme Total assay exhibits an improved rate of seropositivity in p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Hahm JB,Breneman JW 4th,Liu J,Rabkina S,Zheng W,Zhou S,Walker RP,Kaul R

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance (PMCR) is a global public health concern, given its ease of transmissibility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two methods for the detection of PMCR from bacterial colonies: (i) the NG-Test MCR-1 lateral flow immunoassay (LFA; NG Biotech, Guipry, France) and (ii) the EDTA-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical microbiology

authors： Fenwick AJ,Bergman Y,Lewis S,Yee R,Uhlemann AC,Cole N,Kohner P,Ordak C,Green DA,Schuetz AN,Humphries R,Simner PJ

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00