Clinical Specimens
Direct Identification of Vibrio vulnificus in Clinical Specimens by Nested PCR
... Recently, several research groups developed PCR protocols targeting the V. vulnificus-specific genes to detect the micro- organism in various environmental sources (1, 5, 8, 15). Hill et al. developed a PCR protocol ...
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Recovery of Mycobacteria from Clinical Specimens and Assessing Drug Susceptibility Test of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Specimens by MGIT
... Tuberculosis is a disease of global importance. One third of the world population is estimated to be infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis and eight million new cases of tuberculosis arise each year (1). The most ...
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Speciation of candida and antifungal susceptibility testing from clinical specimens in a tertiary care hospital, Bangalore
... various clinical specimens which has a direct impact on choice A total of 100 Candida isolates from various clinical specimens were processed for speciation using standard mycology ...
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Improved transport system for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in clinical specimens
... In this study, we compared the efficiency of three different transport media for preserving gonococci in clinical specimens, as follows: i Amies charcoal transport medium; ii Jembec cham[r] ...
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Molecular epidemiology and clinical significance of <em>Corynebacterium striatum</em> isolated from clinical specimens
... Results: Sixty-seven C. striatum isolates recovered from non-duplicated patients were charac- terized. Patients were classified into three groups according to the infection type: nosocomial infection (71.6%), health ...
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Detection of Coccidioides Species in Clinical Specimens by Real Time PCR
... clinical specimens. The implementation of this method into the clinical laboratory will allow for the identification of Coccidioides ...respiratory specimens in less than 4 ...these ...
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Identities of Microbacterium spp Encountered in Human Clinical Specimens
... human clinical specimens recognized (7, 8, ...relevant clinical microbiology literature (1, 2, 9, ...human clinical specimens by applying pheno- typic and molecular genetic ...
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Pyrosequencing for Rapid Detection of Extensively Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Clinical Isolates and Clinical Specimens
... test clinical specimens, which significantly shortens the turn- around time for obtaining molecular DST ...testing clinical specimens, when the presence of MTBC is ...for clinical or ...
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Characterization of Aerococcus viridans Isolates from Swine Clinical Specimens
... The clinical significance of these species has been clearly established for ...different clinical specimens of ...their clinical significance and therefore likely to be associated with ...
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Molecular Identification and Typing of Enteroviruses Isolated from Clinical Specimens
... More recent, molecular approaches (1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 21, 23, 24) have been developed and successfully used to detect most of the EVs, including nontypeable isolates and EVs which cannot readily be propagated in cell ...
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Reverse Transcription PCR Detection ofMycobacterium leprae in Clinical Specimens
... to clinical specimens, ...biopsy specimens obtained from untreated leprosy patients, while skin biopsy specimens from healthy volunteers and patients with other dermatological disorders were ...
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Frequency of Acyclovir Resistant Herpes Simplex Virus in Clinical Specimens and Laboratory Isolates
... Defining an assay to determine prevalence of ACV-resistant mutants. ACV-resistant mutants were detected by a modifica- tion of the procedure of Hall et al. (10). All HSV isolates or pools of HSV isolates from ...
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Detection of Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum from Culture Isolates and Clinical Specimens by Use of Real Time PCR
... Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum are dimorphic fungi that often cause self-limited respi- ratory infections. However, they may also cause severe disseminated disease, depending on the level of the ...
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Comparison of FilmArray and Quantitative Real Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR for Detection of Zaire Ebolavirus from Contrived and Clinical Specimens
... time, the assays available for the detection of ZEBOV were the research-use-only FilmArray BioThreat (BT) panel (BioFire De- fense, Salt Lake City, UT) and the ZEBOV nucleoprotein 2 (NP2) and matrix protein (VP40) gene ...
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Isolation and characterization of Non tuberculous Mycobacteria from clinical specimens
... Mycobacterium abscessus is seen to multiply in the respiratory tract and produce certain pulmonary conditions in high risk groups like prior pulmonary mycobacterial infection, particularly tuberculosis and in white ...
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Pasteurella caballi, a new species from equine clinical specimens
... Subsequent biochemical and genetic studies on these 13 strains, as well as 16 additional strains, showed that the aerogenic equine strains were genetically similar to each other but dist[r] ...
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Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens by DNA amplification
... A polymerase chain reaction assay was developed for the amplification of a 336-bp repetitive fragment in the chromosome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.. The assay is specific for M.[r] ...
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Serotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in clinical specimens in relation to antibiotic susceptibility
... In respect to serotypes, i there was no apparent correlation with hospital of origin, ii most strains of serotypes 06 and 011 were sensitive to gentamicin and carbenicillin iii most stra[r] ...
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Candida ciferrii and Candida chiropterorum isolated from clinical specimens
... In 1981-1982, among the clinical isolates of yeasts submitted to the Division of Mycotic Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control CDC, Atlanta, Ga., there we[r] ...
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Development of a multiplex PCR to detect and discriminate porcine circoviruses in clinical specimens
... in clinical samples of dis- eased pigs in Hubei province ...the clinical manifestations associated with PCV3 and PCV2, it is necessary to develop a convenient, sensi- tive, and specific diagnostic approach ...
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