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Comparison of PCR ribotyping and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for improved detection of Clostridium difficileHsiao L Wei
The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 11:217. 2011..In addition, various MLVA panels using different numbers of variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) loci were evaluated for their power to discriminate C. difficile clinical isolates...
Characterization of 13 multi-drug resistant Salmonella serovars from different broiler chickens associated with those of human isolatesLan Ho Chiu
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Chiayi University, No 300, University Rd, Chiayi, 60004, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 10:86. 2010..To understand the possible serovar and H antigens for transmission between chicken and human, serovars and their H antigens of 164 chicken and 5314 human isolates were compared...
Utility of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis as a molecular tool for phylogenetic analysis of Shigella sonneiChien Shun Chiou
Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 47:1149-54. 2009....
Clonal dissemination of the multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Braenderup, but not the serovar Bareilly, of prevalent serogroup C1 Salmonella from TaiwanChien Shun Chiou
The Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, No 30, Wenxin S 3rd Rd, Nantun Dist, Taichung, 40856, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 9:264. 2009..Bareilly) and Braenderup (S. Braenderup) were compared, and multi-drug resistance (MDR) plasmids were characterized...
Usefulness of inter-IS1 spacer polymorphisms for subtyping of Shigella sonnei isolatesChien Shun Chiou
The Central Region Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control, 5F 20 Wen Sin South 3rd Road, Taichung City 408, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 44:3928-33. 2006..sonnei strains circulating over a longer time span and also for discriminating certain strains which are indistinguishable by PFGE...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar O3:K6 as cause of unusually high incidence of food-borne disease outbreaks in Taiwan from 1996 to 1999C S Chiou
The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung City 403, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 38:4621-5. 2000..3% of all V. parahaemolyticus infections. Due to its extraordinarily high infection frequency and its capability to spread globally, this organism needs to be intensively monitored internationally...
Development and evaluation of multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis for fine typing and phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar TyphimuriumChien Shun Chiou
The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan
Int J Food Microbiol 142:67-73. 2010..Typhimurium infections, and MLVA data based on 16 VNTRs can be useful in establishing clonal structures among isolates...
Association of the shuffling of Streptococcus pyogenes clones and the fluctuation of scarlet fever cases between 2000 and 2006 in central TaiwanChien Shun Chiou
The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 9:115. 2009..National weekly report data were collected for investigating epidemiological trends...
Molecular epidemiology and emergence of worldwide epidemic clones of Neisseria meningitidis in TaiwanChien Shun Chiou
The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung 408, Taiwan
BMC Infect Dis 6:25. 2006..The occurrence of a meningococcal disease outbreak and the emergence of new meningococcal strains are of public health concern...
A simple and low-cost paper-bridged method for Salmonella phase reversalChien Shun Chiou
The Central Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung City 408, Taiwan
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 54:315-7. 2006..More than 3500 isolates were tested in our laboratory, and the results indicated that this paper-bridged method is a useful alternative for phase reversal...
Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes recovered from scarlet fever patients in central Taiwan from 1996 to 1999Chien Shun Chiou
The Central Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, 5F 20 Wen Sin South 3rd Rd, Taichung City 408, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 42:3998-4006. 2004..The emm sequences, Vir, and PFGE pattern database will serve as a basis for information for the long-term evolutionary study of local S. pyogenes strains...
Epidemiology and evolution of genotype and antimicrobial resistance of an imported Shigella sonnei clone circulating in central TaiwanHsiao Lun Wei
The Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 58:469-75. 2007..0019 PFGE genotype, remained to be the predominant circulating strain in the period studied; however, new strains with certain PFGE genotypes and antibiograms could become major circulating strains for subsequent infections...
Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis for molecular typing and phylogenetic analysis of Shigella flexneriYou Wun Wang
The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 9:278. 2009..The isolates were also analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to compare the discriminatory power and to evaluate the usefulness of MLVA as a tool for phylogenetic analysis of S. flexneri...
Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for molecular typing of Shigella sonneiShiu Yun Liang
Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 45:3574-80. 2007..The present study suggests that MLVA has the potential to replace PFGE as a standard method of typing S. sonnei isolates for disease surveillance and outbreak investigation...
Use of a multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis method for molecular subtyping and phylogenetic analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolatesJui Cheng Liao
The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung 408, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 6:44. 2006..In this study, we developed and evaluated a MLVA method for molecular subtyping and phylogenetic analysis of N. meningitidis strains...
Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium abscessus infections in a subtropical chronic ventilatory settingWei Chang Huang
Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
J Med Microbiol 59:1203-11. 2010..abscessus infections may have been spread by the movement of patients between RCWs, a routine practice in Taiwan's integrated delivery system...
Identification of prophage gene z2389 in Escherichia coli EDL933 encoding a DNA cytosine methyltransferase for full protection of NotI sitesChien Shun Chiou
The Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
Int J Med Microbiol 300:296-303. 2010..Thus, z2389 encodes a DNA cytosine methyltransferase that confers full protection to NotI sites...
Evaluation of restriction enzymes for standardizing pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for rapid subtyping of Vibrio parahaemolyticusYou Wun Wang
The Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 61:251-5. 2008..Based on the results of this study, we suggest using NotI and SfiI as the 1st and the 2nd restriction enzyme for standardizing the PulseNet PFGE protocol for molecular subtyping and global surveillance of V. parahaemolyticus...
Foodborne disease outbreaks caused by sucrose-nonfermenting and beta-galactosidase-deficient variants of Vibrio choleraeShiao Wun Wei
The Central Region Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
Int J Food Microbiol 122:148-55. 2008..In our record from 1995 to date, this was the first time that V. cholerae variants were discovered as etiologic agents for foodborne disease outbreaks in Taiwan...
Combined rpoB duplex PCR and hsp65 PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism with capillary electrophoresis as an effective algorithm for identification of mycobacterial species from clinical isolatesChen Cheng Huang
Department of Internal Medicine, Executive Yuan Department of Health, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 12:137. 2012..Capillary electrophoresis can provide computer-aided band discrimination. The aim of this research was to develop an algorithm for identifying mycobacteria by combined rpoB duplex PRA (DPRA) and hsp65 PRA with capillary electrophoresis...
Conversion of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a to serotype Y in a shigellosis patient due to a single amino acid substitution in the protein product of the bacterial glucosyltransferase gtrII geneJiann Hwa Chen
Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
FEMS Microbiol Lett 224:277-83. 2003..The protein product of the gtrII gene was detected. This is the first report of serotype conversion of S. flexneri in humans, and successful detection of the protein product from a gtr gene...
The suitable restriction enzymes for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Bordetella pertussisMeng Shiunn Lee
The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung City 408, Taiwan
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 56:217-9. 2006..pertussis isolates. The results indicated that AflII, DraI, SpeI, and XbaI were useful enzymes, and AflII was the best one for PFGE analysis of B. pertussis isolates...
Consumption of groundwater as an independent risk factor of Salmonella choleraesuis infection: a case-control study in TaiwanTsung Hsien Li
Graduate Institute of Veterinary Public Health, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
J Environ Health 72:28-31. 2009..Choleraesuis in Taiwan. Therefore, appropriate health education needs to be conducted especially in areas where groundwater is used...
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Variants in Long-Term CarriersChien Shun Chiou
Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 51:669-72. 2013....
Rapid identification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by combining the ESAT-6/CFP-10 immunochromatographic assay and smear morphologyGwan Han Shen
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
J Clin Microbiol 49:902-7. 2011..The ESAT-6/CFP-10 assay may be an alternative of the Capilia assay (MPB64-ICA) as a convenient and cost-effective method for identification of MTC in culture...
Suitable restriction enzymes for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Candida tropicalisHsiao Hui Chou
Mycotic Diseases Laboratory, Center of Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei 11561, Taiwan
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 57:451-4. 2007..Twelve restriction enzymes were tested on C. tropicalis strains. Our results indicate that BssHII, NaeI, and RsrII were useful enzymes for PFGE analysis, and NaeI was the best for PFGE analysis of C. tropicalis isolates...
Assessment of hypermucoviscosity as a virulence factor for experimental Klebsiella pneumoniae infections: comparative virulence analysis with hypermucoviscosity-negative strainYi Chun Lin
Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
BMC Microbiol 11:50. 2011..Nevertheless, the emergence of tissue-abscesses-associated HV-negative isolates motivated us to re-evaluate the role of HV-phenotype...
Multilocus sequence typing for analyses of clonality of Candida albicans strains in TaiwanKuo-Wei Chen
Laboratory for Mycology, Division of Research and Diagnostics, Center for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan
J Clin Microbiol 44:2172-8. 2006....
Microbiological quality of 18 degrees C ready-to-eat food products sold in TaiwanTony J Fang
Department of Food Science, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuokuang Road, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, ROC
Int J Food Microbiol 80:241-50. 2003..For coliforms, E. coli, B. cereus and S. aureus, the percentage of 18 degrees C RTE food products exceeding the microbiological standards for RTE food accepted by Republic of China was 75.0%, 7.9%, 49.8% and 17.9%, respectively...
