Proposal of Sphingomonas suberifaciens (van Bruggen, Jochimsen and Brown 1990) comb. nov., sphingomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) comb. nov., Sphingomonas ursincola (Yurkov et al. 1997) comb. nov., and emendation of the genus Sphingomonas.

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells play critical roles in protection against the blood stage of malarial infection; however, their uncontrolled activation can be harmful to the host. In this study, in which rodent models of Plasmodium parasites were used, the expression of inhibitory receptors on activated CD4(+) T cells and their cytoki...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Doe HT,Kimura D,Miyakoda M,Kimura K,Akbari M,Yui K

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring the amount of HIV-1 DNA in infected cells is important to estimate the size of the viral reservoir in patients. However, the clinical impact of the intracellular viral DNA level remains unclear. The present study examines the clinical significance of the HIV-1 DNA level in peripheral CD4+ T lymphocytes from ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wada K,Nagai H,Hagiwara T,Ibe S,Utsumi M,Kaneda T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 55 strains of Clostridium sordellii, 21 lethal toxin-positive and 34 lethal toxin-negative, were tested for cytotoxin production in brain heart infusion medium supplemented with 0.2% Na2HPO4 (m-BHI) and cooked-meat-glucose (CMG) medium using baby hamster kidney (BHK-21/WI-2) cells as indicator cells. The m-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura S,Tanabe N,Yamakawa K,Nishida S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a heterodimer molecule, Z-1, on guinea pig peritoneal macrophages (M phi s) by the newly prepared monoclonal antibody, anti-Z-1, and Z-1 has been assumed to be the complement receptor type three (CR3) in this species. To clarify this assumption, the cell type distribution of the antigen i...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tamoto K,Nochi H,Tada M,Kakinuma T,Mori Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal, thioglycollate-stimulated and BCG-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages were cultivated in vitro with the conditioned medium of mouse L-929 cells. The thioglycollate- and BCG-macrophages rapidly proliferated, whereas normal macrophages grew more slowly. A clear morphological difference between the three types...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nozawa RT,Yanaki N,Yokota T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of infection by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, one of the important pathogens in human periodontal diseases, has been reported to be associated with racial background and genetic factors. We attempted to determine the genetic regulation of immune responses to A. actinomycetemcomitans fimbriae, an ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Honma K,Ishii N,Kato T,Ishihara K,Okuda K,Okuda K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periapical lesions are induced by bacterial infection of the dental pulp and result in destruction of the surrounding alveolar bone. Although various immunological studies concerning periapical bone resorption have been reported, the role of cytokines in the formation of periapical lesions remains unclear. In this stu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Oseko F,Yamamoto T,Akamatsu Y,Kanamura N,Iwakura Y,Imanishi J,Kita M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the molecular characteristics of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in Okinawa, 23 strains of JE virus isolated in a 25-year span were sequenced for the 240 nucleotides of the C-preM junction region and 111 nucleotides of the E gene region and compared with those of reference strains isolated in ma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma SP,Arakaki S,Makino Y,Fukunaga T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses in Indonesia, epidemiology information on seasonal human influenza is lacking. The present authors, therefore, conducted virologic surveillance in Surabaya, East Java from October 2008 to March 2010. Influenza viruses, including pandemic (H1N1) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamaoka M,Palilingan JF,Wibisono J,Yudhawati R,Nidom RV,Alamudi MY,Ginting TE,Makino A,Nidom CA,Shinya K,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemotaxonomic study was carried out on 31 strains of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae bio-serogroup Hakata, isolated in Japan, which possesses the Inaba antigen C of O1 V. cholerae. On the basis of the compositional sugar pattern of the polysaccharide portion of their lipopolysaccharides, the 23 strains isolated from the env...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kondo S,Iguchi T,Haishima Y,Isshiki Y,Hisatsune K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp. is a major cause of diarrhea in developing countries, mainly affecting people with compromised immune systems in general and HIV-infected individuals with low CD4 + T-cell counts in particular. This infection is self-limiting in healthy persons; however, it can be severe, progressive and persisten...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Izadi M,Jonaidi-Jafari N,Saburi A,Eyni H,Rezaiemanesh MR,Ranjbar R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene upstream from fimA, the gene encoding fimbrilin, on the chromosome of Porphyromonas gingivalis was sequenced and shown to be the gene encoding an outer membrane protein in this organism based on homology and biochemical analyses. Therefore, the gene (formerly ORF5) was designated pgmA, the P. gingivalis outer m...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hongo H,Osano E,Ozeki M,Onoe T,Watanabe K,Honda O,Tani H,Nakamura H,Yoshimura F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corilagin and tellimagrandin I are polyphenols isolated from the extract of Arctostaphylos uvaursi and Rosa canina L. (rose red), respectively. We have reported that corilagin and tellimagrandin I remarkably reduced the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of beta-lactams in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shiota S,Shimizu M,Sugiyama J,Morita Y,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is the most predominant and important pathogen in clinical microbiology. A DNA amplification assay using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was designed to identify S. aureus through a single-base-pair mismatch in the sequences of staphylococcal 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. It was able to...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saruta K,Hoshina S,Machida K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+-availability in Staphylococcus aureus cells decreased significantly with increasing NaCl concentration in growth media. Cells grew in a NaCl-free, Chelex resin-treated complex medium only if the medium was supplemented with 50 microM MgCl2, while, growth was limited when the medium was further supplemented with 1...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ochiai T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of 136 turkeys (24 manifesting infra-orbital sinusitis, 112 apparently healthy) resulted in isolation of 79 strains of Mycoplasma and 4 of Acholeplasma. By the disc growth inhibition test with 16 reference antisera of avian serogroups, 55 strains were identified serologically and 28 remained unidentified...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： El Sayed SA,Chandiramani NK,Garg DN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective and differential media were designed for each species of Pityrosporum; P. pachydermatis, P. ovale, and P. orbiculare in order to make feasible a quantitative cultivation. Medium for P. pachydermatis (medium A) was composed of 1% trypticase peptone (BBL), 0.5% yeast extract (BBL), 0.3% glucose, 0.2% NaCl, 1.2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ushijima T,Takahashi M,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interferon-gammas (rHuIFN-gamma s) were obtained from two different mammalian cells (mouse C127 cells and Chinese hamster ovary, CHO, cells) cultured in a microcarrier culture system. Both rHuIFN-gamma s were purified using sequential chromatographies for their comparison of structural properties. Th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sano E,Kamata K,Okano K,Yamazaki S,Iizuka M,Kobayashi S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis, which causes tularemia, is widely distributed in the Northern hemisphere. F. tularensis strains isolated in Japan are genetically unique from non-Japanese strains; however, their phenotypic properties have not been well studied. Thus, mice were infected with representative Japanese strains of F...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotta A,Fujita O,Uda A,Yamamoto Y,Sharma N,Tanabayashi K,Yamada A,Morikawa S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) was performed on immunoprecipitates formed between anti-human T-cell xeno-antiserum (ATS) and cell-surface glycoproteins of human lymphocytes, that had been radioiodinated by lactoperoxidase and purified on a Lentil lectin-coupled Sepharose 4B column. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujimoto J,Ishii Y,Kon S,Matsuura A,Kikuchi K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with renal diseases are typically treated with immunosuppressive drugs, which place them at high risk of reactivation of the BK virus (BKV). Currently, little is known about the impact of immunosuppressive drugs on the kinetics of urinary shedding of BKV and viral reactivation in pediatric patients with renal...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Morooka M,Ihira M,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four N-acetylchito-oligosaccharides, from tetra-N-acetylchitotetraose (NACOS-4) to hepta-N-acetylchitoheptaose (NACOS-7), were found to increase the number of peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) in male BALB/c mice after 3 hr intraperitoneal administration of 50 mg/kg of each oligosaccharide. The number of attracted cells,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Tokoro A,Okawa Y,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis autolyzes in the culture media. To examine in more detail the molecular components of the autolysate, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis was performed. Many protein spots varied both in number and volume. One of these spots included Arg-gingipain (Rgp) as determined by N-terminal amino acid s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kamaguchi A,Nakano M,Shoji M,Nakamura R,Sagane Y,Okamoto M,Watanabe T,Ohyama T,Ohta M,Nakayama K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a filamentous bacteriophage, VfO4K68, from the pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain belonging to 04:K68 serovar. The VfO4K68 DNA lacked a 1,893-bp fragment present in that of the distinctive region of f237, a filamentous phage isolated from a pandemic 03:K6 strain (Nasu, H. et al., J. Clin. Microbiol., ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chan B,Miyamoto H,Taniguchi H,Yoshida S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence of hantavirus strain of SR-11 Seoul virus and Hantaan 76-118 (HTN) of Hantaan virus were compared. Infections of both strains were lethal in newborn mice. However, inoculum required to cause lethal infection was about 4,000 times higher for strain HTN (1.65 x 10(3) PFU/mouse/LD50) than for strain SR-11 (0.36...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoo YC,Yoshimatsu K,Yoshida R,Tamura M,Azuma I,Arikawa J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we have emphasized: 1) bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) involvement in IgA responses to orally administered thymic-dependent (TD) antigens; 2) characterization of Peyer's patch (PP) lymphoreticular cells; and 3) gastrointestinal immunization with gram negative pathogens and anti-LPS immunity to infec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： McGhee JR,Michalek SM,Kiyono H,Eldridge JH,Colwell DE,Williamson SI,Wannemuehler MJ,Jirillo E,Mosteller LM,Spalding DM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-eight sera from the acute, recurrent, and provoked types of female genital herpes were compared for the seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 by immunodot assay using HSV glycoprotein G. In the HSV-1-isolated patients, no HSV-2 antibodies were detected, whereas in the HSV-2-isolated patients...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hashido M,Lee FK,Nahmias AJ,Kawana T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain with affinity to Candida albicans was successfully obtained from a natural environment. An uncovered Petri dish containing a suspension of heat-killed C. albicans cells was allowed to stand in a laboratory for several days. Some bacteria which had adhered to the candidal cells were tested for their ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seki K,Kobayashi K,Tomiya Y,Sakurada J,Murai M,Usui A,Masuda S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmids R401 and Rtsl belong to the same incompatibility group, IncT. The nucleotide sequence of the basic replicon of R401 consisting of 1,857 base pairs was determined and compared with that of mini-Rtsl previously reported. The mini-R401 was found to be composed of two clusters of direct repeated sequences fla...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabuchi A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00