Nonculture laboratory methods for the diagnosis of infectious endocarditis

16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study

1991 • 11,010 citations

New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings

1994 • 2,498 citations

Identification of the Uncultured Bacillus of Whipple’s Disease

1992 • 1,143 citations

The Agent of Bacillary Angiomatosis

1990 • 896 citations

Infective Endocarditis: An Analysis Based on Strict Case Definitions

1981 • 789 citations

Staining Rickettsiae in Yolk-Sac Cultures

1964 • 654 citations

Diagnosis of Q Fever

1998 • 591 citations

Molecular diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis by broad-range PCR amplification and direct sequencing

1997 • 389 citations

Diagnosis of 22 New Cases of Bartonella Endocarditis

1996 • 373 citations

Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintanaEndocarditis in Three Homeless Men

1995 • 356 citations

Epidemiologic Aspects of Infective Endocarditis in an Urban Population: A 5-Year Prospective Study

1995 • 338 citations

Q fever serology: cutoff determination for microimmunofluorescence

1994 • 337 citations

Detection of Rochalimaea henselae DNA in specimens from cat scratch disease patients by PCR

1994 • 297 citations

Infective Endocarditis: Review of 135 Cases over 9 Years

1996 • 266 citations

Infective Endocarditis Due to Unusual or Fastidious Microorganisms

1997 • 244 citations

Serological evaluation of O fever in humans: enhanced phase I titers of immunoglobulins G and A are diagnostic for Q fever endocarditis

1983 • 237 citations

Diagnosis and Monitoring of Whipple Disease by Polymerase Chain Reaction

1997 • 225 citations

Infective Endocarditis in Patients with Negative Blood Cultures: Analysis of 88 Cases from a One-Year Nationwide Survey in France

1995 • 223 citations

Modification of the diagnostic criteria proposed by the duke endocarditis service to permit improved diagnosis of q fever endocarditis

1996 • 211 citations

Serological cross-reactions between Bartonella and Chlamydia species: implications for diagnosis

1997 • 211 citations

New serotype of Bartonella heriselae in endocarditis and cat-scratch disease

1996 • 198 citations

Infective Endocarditis: 35 Years of Experience at a Children's Hospital

1997 • 184 citations

Detection of Coxiella burnetti by DNA amplification using polymerase chain reaction

1992 • 173 citations

Comparison of PCR, Culture, and Serological Tests for Diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Respiratory Tract Infection in Children

1999 • 170 citations

A Coxiella burnetti repeated DNA element resembling a bacterial insertion sequence

1992 • 159 citations

Body Lice as Tools for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Reemerging Diseases

1999 • 149 citations

Inter- and intraspecies identification of Bartonella (Rochalimaea) species

1995 • 142 citations

Detection of infection or infectious agents by use of cytologic and histologic stains

1996 • 140 citations

Strategy for Optimizing DNA Amplification in a Peripheral Blood PCR Assay Used for Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis

1998 • 138 citations

Detection of Coxiella burnetii in Cow's Milk using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

1994 • 136 citations

A simple method for amplification of DNA from paraffin-embedded tissues

1992 • 121 citations

Infective endocarditis, 1984 through 1993: a clinical and microbiological survey

1997 • 116 citations

Culture-negative Endocarditis

1977 • 114 citations

Polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of a fragment of the ribosomal operon from Rochalimaea species for subtyping

1993 • 105 citations

Immunohistologic demonstration of coxiella burnetii in the valves of patients with Q fever endocarditis

1994 • 99 citations

ACUTE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

1996 • 71 citations

The 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region of Bartonella (Rochalimaea) species is longer than usually described in other bacteria

1995 • 58 citations

Culture negative endocarditis

1997 • 56 citations

Species identification of Chlamydia isolates by analyzing restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 16S-23S rRNA spacer region

1997 • 45 citations

Monoclonal Antibodies toCoxiella burnetiifor Antigenic Detection in Cell Cultures and in Paraffin-embedded Tissues

1994 • 42 citations

Chlamydial endocarditis: a report on ten cases

1992 • 39 citations

Diagnostic value of the indirect immunofluorescence assay in cat scratch disease with Bartonella henselae and Afipia felis antigens

1996 • 36 citations

Isolation of Coxiella burnetii from heart valves of patients treated for Q fever endocarditis

1995 • 36 citations

Invasion and destruction of mucosal plasma cells by Tropheryma whippelii

1997 • 35 citations

Monoclonal antibody based capture ELISA/ELIFA for detection of Coxiella burnetii in clinical specimens

1992 • 34 citations

Microbiological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: A Comparison of Old and New Methods

1998 • 28 citations

Comparison of Sample Preparation Methods for Detection of Legionella pneumophila in Culture-Positive Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluids by PCR

1998 • 28 citations

Quantification ofCoxiella burnetii by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and a colorimetric microtiter plate hybridization assay (CMHA)

1995 • 17 citations

Localization of DNA in Coxiella burnetii by Post‐embedding Immunoelectron Microscopy

1990 • 15 citations