Chien Shun Chiou

Summary

Affiliation: Center for Disease Control
Country: Taiwan

Publications

  1. ncbi Comparison of PCR ribotyping and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for improved detection of Clostridium difficile
    Hsiao L Wei
    The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
    BMC Microbiol 11:217. 2011
  2. ncbi Characterization of 13 multi-drug resistant Salmonella serovars from different broiler chickens associated with those of human isolates
    Lan Ho Chiu
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Chiayi University, No 300, University Rd, Chiayi, 60004, Taiwan
    BMC Microbiol 10:86. 2010
  3. ncbi Utility of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis as a molecular tool for phylogenetic analysis of Shigella sonnei
    Chien Shun Chiou
    Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City, Taiwan
    J Clin Microbiol 47:1149-54. 2009
  4. ncbi Clonal dissemination of the multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Braenderup, but not the serovar Bareilly, of prevalent serogroup C1 Salmonella from Taiwan
    Chien 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
  5. ncbi Usefulness of inter-IS1 spacer polymorphisms for subtyping of Shigella sonnei isolates
    Chien 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
  6. ncbi Vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar O3:K6 as cause of unusually high incidence of food-borne disease outbreaks in Taiwan from 1996 to 1999
    C S Chiou
    The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung City 403, Taiwan
    J Clin Microbiol 38:4621-5. 2000
  7. ncbi Development and evaluation of multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis for fine typing and phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
    Chien Shun Chiou
    The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan
    Int J Food Microbiol 142:67-73. 2010
  8. ncbi Association of the shuffling of Streptococcus pyogenes clones and the fluctuation of scarlet fever cases between 2000 and 2006 in central Taiwan
    Chien Shun Chiou
    The Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City 40855, Taiwan
    BMC Microbiol 9:115. 2009
  9. ncbi Molecular epidemiology and emergence of worldwide epidemic clones of Neisseria meningitidis in Taiwan
    Chien Shun Chiou
    The Third Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung 408, Taiwan
    BMC Infect Dis 6:25. 2006
  10. ncbi A simple and low-cost paper-bridged method for Salmonella phase reversal
    Chien Shun Chiou
    The Central Branch Office, Center for Disease Control, Taichung City 408, Taiwan
    Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 54:315-7. 2006

Collaborators

  • You Wun Wang
  • Jui Cheng Liao
  • Jiann Hwa Chen
  • Haruo Watanabe
  • Cheng Hsun Chiu
  • Jeng Yuan Hsu
  • Jang Jih Lu
  • Hui Ling Tang
  • Chuan Mu Chen
  • Yung Fu Chang
  • Chishih Chu
  • Frank Odds
  • Gwan Han Shen
  • Wei Chang Huang
  • Kuo-Wei Chen
  • Chen Cheng Huang
  • Shiau Ting Hu
  • Yi Chun Lin
  • Hsiao L Wei
  • Lan Ho Chiu
  • Chao Chin Chang
  • Tsung Hsien Li
  • Shiao Wun Wei
  • Shiu Yun Liang
  • Chun-Chin Li
  • Hsiao Lun Wei
  • Hsiao Hui Chou
  • Chun Chin Li
  • Sheng Kai Tung
  • Shu-Ying Li
  • Meng Shiunn Lee
  • Tzu-Hui Wang
  • Tony J Fang
  • Ming Ko Chiang
  • Jason T C Tzen
  • Sung H Wei
  • Chun Wei Kao
  • Min Chi Lu
  • Kun Ming Wu
  • Chingju Lin
  • Yi Chyi Lai
  • Keh Sen Liu
  • Hsu Chung Liu
  • Chia Ming Yeh
  • Chang You Yu
  • Chean Ping Wu
  • Yan Ming Horn
  • Chien Yu Lee
  • Wan Ching Chen
  • Yuan Man Hsu
  • Shyan Song Chiou
  • Lih-Ling Chern
  • Yen-Chi Wu
  • Shiao-Wun Wei
  • Chia-Min Lin
  • Chia Min Lin
  • Yen Chi Wu
  • Lih Ling Chern
  • Hsiao-Lun Wei
  • Kuo Wei Chen
  • Hsiao-Hui Chou
  • Jun Terajima
  • Shu Ying Li
  • Shiu-Yun Liang
  • Chi-Yang Lin
  • Meng-Shiunn Lee
  • Hsiu-Jung Lo
  • Yeong-Sheng Lee
  • Yee-Chun Chen
  • Yeong Sheng Lee
  • Que-King Wei
  • Chia-Wei Liao
  • Tzu Hui Wang
  • Min Ju Hung
  • Chia Wei Liao
  • Min-Ju Hung
  • Que King Wei

Detail Information

Publications29

  1. ncbi Comparison of PCR ribotyping and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) for improved detection of Clostridium difficile
    Hsiao 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...
  2. ncbi Characterization of 13 multi-drug resistant Salmonella serovars from different broiler chickens associated with those of human isolates
    Lan 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...
  3. ncbi Utility of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis as a molecular tool for phylogenetic analysis of Shigella sonnei
    Chien Shun Chiou
    Central Region Laboratory, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Taichung City, Taiwan
    J Clin Microbiol 47:1149-54. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Clonal dissemination of the multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Braenderup, but not the serovar Bareilly, of prevalent serogroup C1 Salmonella from Taiwan
    Chien 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...
  5. ncbi Usefulness of inter-IS1 spacer polymorphisms for subtyping of Shigella sonnei isolates
    Chien 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...
  6. ncbi Vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar O3:K6 as cause of unusually high incidence of food-borne disease outbreaks in Taiwan from 1996 to 1999
    C 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...
  7. ncbi Development and evaluation of multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis for fine typing and phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
    Chien 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...
  8. ncbi Association of the shuffling of Streptococcus pyogenes clones and the fluctuation of scarlet fever cases between 2000 and 2006 in central Taiwan
    Chien 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...
  9. ncbi Molecular epidemiology and emergence of worldwide epidemic clones of Neisseria meningitidis in Taiwan
    Chien 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...
  10. ncbi A simple and low-cost paper-bridged method for Salmonella phase reversal
    Chien 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...
  11. ncbi Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes recovered from scarlet fever patients in central Taiwan from 1996 to 1999
    Chien 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...
  12. ncbi Epidemiology and evolution of genotype and antimicrobial resistance of an imported Shigella sonnei clone circulating in central Taiwan
    Hsiao 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...
  13. ncbi Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis for molecular typing and phylogenetic analysis of Shigella flexneri
    You 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...
  14. ncbi Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for molecular typing of Shigella sonnei
    Shiu 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...
  15. ncbi Use of a multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis method for molecular subtyping and phylogenetic analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolates
    Jui 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...
  16. ncbi Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium abscessus infections in a subtropical chronic ventilatory setting
    Wei 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...
  17. ncbi Identification of prophage gene z2389 in Escherichia coli EDL933 encoding a DNA cytosine methyltransferase for full protection of NotI sites
    Chien 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...
  18. ncbi Evaluation of restriction enzymes for standardizing pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for rapid subtyping of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
    You 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...
  19. ncbi Foodborne disease outbreaks caused by sucrose-nonfermenting and beta-galactosidase-deficient variants of Vibrio cholerae
    Shiao 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...
  20. ncbi 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 isolates
    Chen 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...
  21. ncbi 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 gene
    Jiann 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...
  22. ncbi The suitable restriction enzymes for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Bordetella pertussis
    Meng 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...
  23. ncbi Consumption of groundwater as an independent risk factor of Salmonella choleraesuis infection: a case-control study in Taiwan
    Tsung 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...
  24. ncbi Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Variants in Long-Term Carriers
    Chien Shun Chiou
    Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Clin Microbiol 51:669-72. 2013
    ....
  25. ncbi Rapid identification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by combining the ESAT-6/CFP-10 immunochromatographic assay and smear morphology
    Gwan 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...
  26. ncbi Suitable restriction enzymes for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Candida tropicalis
    Hsiao 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...
  27. ncbi Assessment of hypermucoviscosity as a virulence factor for experimental Klebsiella pneumoniae infections: comparative virulence analysis with hypermucoviscosity-negative strain
    Yi 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...
  28. ncbi Multilocus sequence typing for analyses of clonality of Candida albicans strains in Taiwan
    Kuo-Wei Chen
    Laboratory for Mycology, Division of Research and Diagnostics, Center for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan
    J Clin Microbiol 44:2172-8. 2006
    ....
  29. ncbi Microbiological quality of 18 degrees C ready-to-eat food products sold in Taiwan
    Tony 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...