Characterization of mechanisms of fluconazole resistance in a Candida albicans isolate from a Japanese patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis.

abstract：:Methylcellulose-elicited peritoneal macrophages from BALB/c mice were cultivated in vitro and inoculated with dengue virus (DV). At intervals thereafter portions of the culture fluids were taken and titrated for viral infectivity. Extracts from Ascaris suum and Parascaris equorum, either crude or Sephadex G-100 fracti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wiharta AS,Hotta H,Hotta S,Matsumura T,Sujudi,Tsuji M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with typhoid fever presenting to the Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital during the period 1975-1998 were retrospectively investigated. All cases were diagnosed by a positive culture for Salmonella typhi in either of their clinical specimens. Of the total number of 130 patients, 57% contracted the disease ab...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoshino Y,Masuda G,Negishi M,Ajisawa A,Imamura A,Hachimori K,Takayama N,Yamaguchi T,Kimura M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to detect Coxiella burnetii in dust samples collected from a barn housing dairy cattle by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. Ten dust samples (five from ventilation fans and five from crossbeams) were collected from two areas in a barn on a farm near Sapporo, Hokkaido. C. burnetii was detected in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yanase T,Muramatsu Y,Inouye I,Okabayashi T,Ueno H,Morita C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pea cyv1 gene is a yet-to-be-identified recessive resistance gene that inhibits the infection of clover yellow vein virus (ClYVV). Previous studies confirmed that the cell-to-cell movement of ClYVV is inhibited in cyv1-carrying pea plants; however, the effect of cyv1 on viral replication remains unknown. In this s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Taninaka Y,Nakahara KS,Hagiwara-Komoda Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is necessary for the conversion of Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (VCH) monomers into oligomers in liposome membranes. Using different sterols, we determined the stereochemical structures of the VCH-binding active groups present in cholesterol. The VCH monomers are bound to cholesterol, diosgenin, campesterol, ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ikigai H,Otsuru H,Yamamoto K,Shimamura T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen temperature-sensitive mutants of Sendai virus were isolated from mutagenized stocks (10 mutants, designated numerically) and persistently infected cultures (6 mutants, designated alphabetically). Based on complementation tests, virion-associated activities, thermal inactivation, and viral RNA and hemadsorbing ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Adachi A,Kanda T,Shibuta H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses cause acute gastroenteritis. Since multiple genotypes of norovirus co-circulate in humans, changing the genotype composition and eluding host immunity, development of a polyvalent vaccine against norovirus in which the genotypes of vaccine strains match the major strains in circulation in the target season...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki Y,Doan YH,Kimura H,Shinomiya H,Shirabe K,Katayama K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the humoral immunity in herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection, HSV-specific IgM, IgA and IgG subclass antibody responses were studied in patients with genital herpes: 17 primary, 13 recurrent and 6 nonprimary first episode. A total of 181 serum samples serially collected from the patients, 5 per patient unti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hashido M,Kawana T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that mice infected recurrently with live Fusobacterim nucleatum (Fn) synthesize a significant amount of NO between 12 hr and 24 hr after the Fn injection. We now investigated whether the NO has the capability of killing Fn, a gram-negative rod periodontal pathogen. The mice were divided into thr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kato C,Mikami M,Suzuki A,Saito K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of Mycoplasma pulmonis m53 organisms to mouse and rat synovial cells was examined by using the organisms and the synovial cells treated in various ways. M. pulmonis treated with trypsin attached to the synovial cells, but the organisms treated with pronase, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, or heat did not....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Araake M,Yayoshi M,Yoshioka M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) and human T-cell leukemia virus type-I (HTLV-I) have a similar tropism for target cell types, especially for CD4+ T cells. In this study, we provide evidence that receptors of these two viruses exist independently on the target cell. We established an HTLV-I-producing CD8+ T...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kannagi M,Kuroda MJ,Maeda Y,Harada S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct stimulations of murine B lymphocytes with synthetic lipid A analogs and synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) derivatives were studied using a limiting dilution assay system. Synthetic lipid A analogs, GLA-27 and GLA-40, when conjugated with bovine serum albumin (BSA) had the ability to induce B cell clonal expansi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito-Taki T,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The function of MHC class II HLA-DR molecules expressed on a human B lymphoid progenitor cell line FL8.2.4.4 (abbreviated as FL4.4) was examined. FL4.4 cells expressed HLA-DR molecules and stimulation of the DR molecules by anti-DR mAb or by superantigen TSST-1 induced strong augmentation of homocytic aggregation and ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Naitoh K,Ichigi Y,Miyake K,Muraguchi A,Kimoto M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae chrysovirus 1 strain A (MoCV1-A) is the causal agent of growth repression and attenuated virulence (hypovirulence) of the rice blast fungus, M. oryzae. We have previously reported that heterologous expression of MoCV1-A ORF4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in growth defects, a large central vacu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Urayama S,Fukuhara T,Moriyama H,Toh-E A,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed the antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems for quantification of Borna disease virus (BDV) major antigens, p40 and p24. Using these ELISAs, we quantified the two proteins in various BDV-infected materials, including the cell lysates and culture supernatants as well as the homoge...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe M,Zhong Q,Kobayashi T,Kamitani W,Tomonaga K,Ikuta K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged C57BL/6 (B6) mice could reject allogeneic BALB/c RL male 1 tumor as efficiently as young B6 mice. However, in vitro analysis showed impaired generation of cytotoxic T cell response in aged B6 mice against allogeneic tumor. The reaction could be augmented by the addition of recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2). Enzym...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Win S,Uenaka A,Nakayama E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of MHC-restricted T and B cell interactions in antibody response was studied with IgM-inducible B hybridomas and antigen-specific helper T cell clones. B hybridomas were prepared by fusion between splenic B cells from (CBA/N (H-2k) X BALB/c (H-2d)) F1 (NBF1) male mice and a B lymphoma cell line, M12.4.5....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshikubo T,Kimoto M,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid requirements for the growth of Aedes albopictus, clone C6/36, cells and for the production of dengue (DEN) and Chikungunya (CHIK) viruses were examined by growing the cells or the viruses in media which were deprived of one of the 20 amino acids. Cell growth was markedly inhibited when cystine was omitted f...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sasao F,Igarashi A,Fukai K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis spp. are opportunistic fungal pathogens that are closely associated with severe pneumonia and pulmonary complications in patients with impaired immunity. In this study, the antigenic epitopes of the gene encoding the 55 kDa antigen fragment of Pneumocystis (p55), which may play an important role in Pneumo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan H,Guo JY,Ma SL,Zhang N,An CL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the two-year milk-feeding on the gastrointestinal (GI) microflora of a cynomolgus monkey was determined. Bifidobacterium spp. in the animal fed with cow's milk alone were distributed in higher number in the stomach, duodenum, cecum, and rectum. The increasingly higher numbers of Lactobacillus spp. and Ca...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Benno Y,Honjo S,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific tumor microenvironment signaling might prevent the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs) with tolerogenic and immunosuppressive potential accounting for antigen-specific unresponsiveness in the lymphoid organs and in the periphery. In the present study, dendritic cells treated with LLC lung cancer cell or 4T1 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma C,Su M,Shen K,Chen J,Ning Y,Qi C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the gene encoding the major neutralization glycoprotein (VP7) was performed on sixteen human isolates of serotype 2 of rotavirus in Japan, China, and Pakistan and their genetic variations were examined. Comparative studies of their nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences between the sixteen is...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wen L,Ushijima H,Kakizawa J,Fang ZY,Nishio O,Morikawa S,Motohiro T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains TKU9, TKU49 and TKU50(T) , were isolated from the oral cavities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The isolates were all gram-positive, facultative anaerobic cocci that lacked catalase activity. Analysis of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the most closely related species was Streptococcus infa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Okamoto M,Imai S,Miyanohara M,Saito W,Momoi Y,Nomura Y,Ikawa T,Ogawa T,Miyabe-Nishiwaki T,Kaneko A,Watanabe A,Watanabe S,Hayashi M,Tomonaga M,Hanada N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was performed for rapid and sensitive detection of pathogenic Vibrio trachuri isolated from cultured Japanese horse mackerel. A set of primers was selected from the base sequence of the Pst I fragment of T9210 chromosomal DNA and used for PCR detection of T9210. This PCR specif...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iwamoto Y,Suzuki Y,Kurita A,Watanabe Y,Shimizu T,Ohgami H,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few yeast mannans free from protein and phosphorus showed pyrogenic activity in rabbits although the extent of this activity was considerably lower than that of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The pyrogenic activity was not abolished by treatment with sodium deoxycholate. This result showed that the mannans...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagase T,Mikami T,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 3,158 individuals living in northern Egypt were tested for the presence of antibodies against human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) by the newly developed particle agglutination (PA) test. Ten sera gave a positive reaction in the PA test. Eight of these sera were examined further by Western blotting and...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： el-Farrash MA,Badr MF,Hawas SA,el-Nashar NM,Imai J,Komoda H,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method to determine the allelic variants of the sheep PrP gene was developed. DNA samples from 128 Suffolk sheep (39 rams and 89 ewes) were screened by using polymerase chain reactions and dot-blot hybridization with 32P-labeled nine allele-specific oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the polymorphic PrP c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishiguro N,Shinagawa M,Onoe S,Yamanouchi K,Saito T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel combination of antimicrobial agents (sulfamethoxazole, 40 μg/mL; trimethoprim, 20 μg/mL; amphotericin B, 5 μg/mL; fosfomycin, 400 μg/mL; and 5-fluorouracil, 100 μg/mL) was developed for selective isolation of leptospires from contaminated samples. The growth of 16 microorganisms considered as possible contamin...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chakraborty A,Miyahara S,Villanueva SY,Saito M,Gloriani NG,Yoshida S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen effect on migration of eosinophils and monocytes was studied in embryonic chickens. On the 13th embryonic day, chickens were injected with mitogens, such as concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin-P (PHA-P), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), into the allantoic cavity, and the mitogenic effect was estimated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Moriya O,Ichikawa Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00