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  Detection and partial characterization of circulating immune complexes in hydatid disease.

  R D'Amelio, O Pontesilli, L Palmisano, M Pezzella, V Vullo, S Delia, F De Rose, F Sorice, F Aiuti
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  Clinical laboratory comparison of lysis-centrifugation and BACTEC radiometric blood culture techniques.

  J C McLaughlin, P Hamilton, J V Scholes, R C Bartlett
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  Development of a test system for rapid differentiation of Neisseria and Haemophilus spp.

  L A Eriquez, N E Hodinka
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  Serogrouping and subtyping of Legionella pneumophila with monoclonal antibodies.

  J R Joly, Y Y Chen, D Ramsay
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  Inactivation of the polyanionic detergent sodium polyanetholsulfonate by hemoglobin.

  S C Edberg, M K Edberg
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  Quality control parameters for susceptibility tests with 30-micrograms netilmicin disks.

  A L Barry, T L Gavan, R N Jones
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  Serum antibodies to enterotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus with special reference to enterotoxin F and toxic shock syndrome.

  S Notermans, W J van Leeuwen, J Dufrenne, P D Tips
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  Colonization of bacteria on polyvinyl chloride and Teflon intravascular catheters in hospitalized patients.

  N K Sheth, T R Franson, H D Rose, F L Buckmire, J A Cooper, P G Sohnle
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  Correlation of an expanded direct fluorescent-antibody system with an established passive hemagglutination system for serogrouping strains of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli.

  G A Hébert, J L Penner, J N Hennessy, R M McKinney
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  Comparison of polyvinyl alcohol- and formalin-preserved fecal specimens in the formalin-ether sedimentation technique for parasitological examination.

  M J Carroll, J Cook, J A Turner
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  Cellular fatty acid composition of Pseudomonas marginata and closely associated bacteria.

  S B Dees, D G Hollis, R E Weaver, C W Moss
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  O serotyping scheme for Enterobacter cloacae.

  M A Gaston, C Bucher, T L Pitt
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  Successful use of broth microdilution in susceptibility tests for methicillin-resistant (heteroresistant) staphylococci.

  C Thornsberry, L K McDougal
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  Lack of efficacy of alkali treatment for isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica from feces.

  S Ratnam, C L Looi, T R Patel
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  Differentiation of staphylococci on the basis of nuclease properties.

  R Gudding
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  Epidemiological studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae in infants: development of antibody to phosphocholine.

  B M Gray, H C Dillon, D E Briles
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  Oropharyngeal colonization with Legionella pneumophila.

  J A Bridge, P H Edelstein
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  Comparison of slide agglutination test and direct immunofluorescence assay for identification of Legionella isolates.

  W L Thacker, H W Wilkinson, R F Benson
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  Detection of bacterial antigens in body fluids with the Wellcogen Haemophilus influenzae b, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Neisseria meningitidis (ACYW135) latex agglutination tests.

  D L Ingram, A W Pearson, A R Occhiuti
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  Reliability of in vitro susceptibility tests for detecting coagulase-negative staphylococcal resistance to penicillinase-resistant semisynthetic penicillins.

  F D Lowy, D S Chang, V Aning, S Williams, G Szilagyi
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  Comparison of three commercial cryptococcal latex kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen.

  T C Wu, S Y Koo
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  Rubella antibodies detected by several commercial immunoassays in hemagglutination inhibition-negative sera.

  K T Kleeman, D J Kiefer, S P Halbert
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  Use of the Rapid STREP system for identification of viridans streptococcal species.

  K L Ruoff, L J Kunz
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  Toluidine red unheated serum test, a nontreponemal test for syphilis.

  D E Pettit, S A Larsen, P S Harbec, J C Feeley, C E Parham, D D Cruce, E A Hambie, M W Perryman
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  Serum immunoglobulin A antibody to varicella-zoster virus in subjects with primary varicella and herpes zoster infections and in immune subjects.

  A E Wittek, A M Arvin, C M Koropchak
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  Five years of experience with a national external quality control program for the culture and identification of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  C W Griffin, M A Mehaffey, E C Cook
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  Evaluation of solubilized herpes simplex virus membrane antigen by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

  S Jeansson, M Forsgren, B Svennerholm
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  Utility of egg yolk medium for cultivation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

  T Sasaki, M Shintani, K Kihara
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  Emended description of Kingella denitrificans (Snell and Lapage 1976): correction of the maltose reaction.

  D G Hollis, R E Weaver, P S Riley
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  Evidence for thiocyanate-sensitive peroxidase activity in human saliva.

  R A Cowman, S S Baron, S D Obenauf, J J Byrnes
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  Monoclonal antibodies specific for O-antigenic polysaccharides of Shigella flexneri: clones binding to II, II:3,4, and 7,8 epitopes.

  N I Carlin, A A Lindberg
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  Immunoassay diagnosis of adenovirus infections in children.

  O Meurman, O Ruuskanen, H Sarkkinen
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  Correlation of enterotoxicity with biotype in Aeromonas spp.

  V Burke, J Robinson, J Beaman, M Gracey, M Lesmana, R Rockhill, P Echeverria, J M Janda
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  Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of capsular antibodies against Haemophilus influenzae type b: comparison with radioimmunoassay.

  S L Kaplan, E O Mason, G Johnson, R A Broughton, D Hurley, J C Parke
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  Detection of oxacillin-resistant staphylococci by the AutoMicrobic system.

  R W Stotler, M C Meyer
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  Identification of Staphylococcus species of bovine origin with the API Staph-Ident system.

  B E Langlois, R J Harmon, K Akers
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  Evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of ectromelia (mousepox) antibody.

  R M Buller, P N Bhatt, G D Wallace
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  Interlaboratory variation of antibiograms of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains with conventional and commercial testing systems.

  K E Aldridge, A Janney, C V Sanders, R L Marier
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  Monoclonal antibodies against hepatitis A virus.

  A MacGregor, M Kornitschuk, J G Hurrell, N I Lehmann, A G Coulepis, S A Locarnini, I D Gust
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  Comparison of solid-phase immune electron microscopy by use of protein A with direct electron microscopy and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of rotavirus in stool.

  L Svensson, M Grandien, C A Pettersson
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  Use of avidin-biotinylated horseradish peroxidase complex for visualization of spirochetes.

  B R Jennings, H Mincer, J Turner, V Baselski, R T Kelly
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  Candida ciferrii and Candida chiropterorum isolated from clinical specimens.

  R M Furman, D G Ahearn
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  Use of leukocyte esterase-nitrate activity as predictive assays of significant bacteriuria.

  D L Smalley, A N Dittmann
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  Ammonium bicarbonate as a replacement for carbon dioxide in Transgrow bottles for primary isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  L D Potter, J S Lewis, B B Wentworth, E H Larsen
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  EF-4 bacteremia in a patient with hepatic carcinoid.

  M J Dul, D M Shlaes, P I Lerner
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  Isolation of Branhamella catarrhalis from sputum and tracheal aspirate.

  J M Aitken, P E Thornley
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  Gono Gen coagglutination test for confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  W D Lawton, G J Battaglioli
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  Serum neutralizing antibody and lymphocyte transformation responses after influenza B virus infections.

  J M Zahradnik, A L Frank, L H Taber
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  Evaluation of Mueller-Hinton agar for disk diffusion susceptibility tests.

  P R Murray, J R Zeitinger
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  Abbreviated scheme for presumptive identification of Staphylococcus saprophyticus from urine cultures.

  J W Morgan
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  Rapid identification of enterococci.

  G S Bosley, R R Facklam, D Grossman
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  Probable Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus gastroenteritis.

  S M Harvey, J R Greenwood
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  Evaluation of API microtube GT system for detection of germ tube production by clinically significant yeasts.

  A Philip, A Tsui, J E O'Brien
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  Vancomycin as a selective agent for isolation of Bacteroides species.

  A J van Winkelhoff, J de Graaff