Viral meningitis in child care center staff and parents: an outbreak of echovirus 30 infections.

Objective: A report of five cases of viral meningitis among adults with children enrolled in a child care center prompted an investigation of risk factors for viral transmission from children to adult household members.

Methods: To determine recent echovirus 30 (E30) infections, the authors conducted a serologic survey. To determine risk factors for infection among adult household members, they conducted a retrospective cohort study using written questionnaires.

Reproducibility problems with the AMPLICOR PCR Chlamydia trachomatis test.

In an attempt to use an expanded "gold standard" in an evaluation of an antigen detection test for Chlamydia trachomatis, the AMPLICOR (Roche Diagnostics Systems, Inc., Branchburg, N.J.

Comparison of the ProSpecT and Color Vue enzyme-linked immunoassays for the detection of Cryptosporidium in stool specimens.

Two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, the ProSpecT (Al-exon, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) and the Color Vue (Seradyn, Indianapolis, IN, USA) were compared for their ability to detect Cryptosporidium in 236 formalin-fixed stool specimens using the Merifluor C/G (Meridian, Cincinnati, OH, USA) stain as the reference method. The initial sensitivities of the ProSpecT and the Color Vue were 96.0% and 76.

Comparison of the Clearview Chlamydia, the PACE 2 assay, and culture for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis from cervical specimens in a low-prevalence population.

The Clearview Chlamydia assay (Wampole Laboratories, Cranbury, N.J.), the PACE 2 DNA probe assay (GenProbe, San Diego, Calif.