Molecular subtyping for Escherichia coli O157: H7 isolated in Taiwan.

abstract：:This study investigated the mechanisms of resistance of 36 quinolone-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium strains isolated from outpatients with infectious diarrhea in Beijing Tian Tan Hospital between 2013 and 2015. The resistance spectrum of the 36 strains was measured using a broth dilution method. Class 1 integrons ha...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yuan J,Guo W

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenoviruses (HAdVs) are an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in children. However, few studies on the epidemiology or types of HAdVs associated with acute gastroenteritis have been conducted in Korea. Therefore, in the present study, the incidence of HAdV in 2064 stool samples from Korean children hospit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee JI,Lee GC,Chung JY,Han TH,Lee YK,Kim MS,Lee CH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and its association with cardiac and hepatic damage. Between March 2013 and March 2014, 59 children with MP pneumonia (MPP) and 30 healthy children were enrolled. Serum titers of TLR4, T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-doma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan Q,Meng J,Li P,Liu Z,Sun Y,Yan P

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Susceptibility of eight strains of influenza A and B viruses to interferon and to poly(I) . poly(C) were determined by the plaque reduction method. All strains tested were slightly less susceptible than vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in an established line of canine kidney (MDCK) cells. The 50% plaque depression dos...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Machida H,Kuninaka A,Yoshino H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmethylated CpG-ODN are known to enhance Th1-type immune response. However, optimal sequences of CpG-ODN for activating Th1-type immune cells vary among species. It is necessary to identify the effective CpG-ODN sequences in each species. In the present study, in order to identify the sequences of CpG-ODN that produc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Satoh R,Kotake M,Takano T,Motokawa K,Gemma T,Watanabe R,Arai S,Hohdatsu T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for protein Arp4, an IgA receptor protein derived from Streptococcus pyogenes AP4, was expressed in Escherichia coli. The product was demonstrated to be accumulated in a periplasmic space as a polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 40 kDa with the deleted C-terminal membrane anchor portion of protein ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakatani T,Higuchi A,Noguchi H

更新日期：1992-01-01 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 cell wall of Clostridium difficile GAI 4131 was revealed by electron microscopy to have an outer layer composed of a nearly square array and contained the two major proteins with molecular weights of 38 kDa and 42 kDa. The properties and reassembly of the two major proteins into the regular array were investigated...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Itoh M,Kawata T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to IgE and beta2-adrenergic receptor have been reported in patients with allergic rhinitis. To investigate whether autoimmunity in allergic rhinitis is directed to such limited molecules or directed to a wide range of self proteins, we here attempted to survey autoantigens/autoantibodies comprehensively...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura M,Tsutsumi K,Ooka S,Sekine T,Koizuka I,Nishioka K,Kato T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and serovar Paratyphi A with reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones (MICs of ciprofloxacin, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml) have a mutation at codon either Ser-83 or Asp-87 of gyrA gene. A screening method by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was designed to screen the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirose K,Tamura K,Watanabe H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human T cell hybridoma clone, F5, producing high levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) was established by the emetine-actinomycin D selection method. This clone produced two species of MIF which were separated on a Phenyl Sepharose column. We purified MIF-2 (the more hydrophobic species of the two) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirose S,Ooki S,Higuchi M,Osawa T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important toxin-antitoxin (TA) system hok/sok, encoded by R1 plasmid of Escherichia coli, is involved in the post segregation killing of cells that have lost the plasmid. The lethal properties of hok protein have been utilized for the environmental containment of microbes and the development of potential vaccine ca...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kaur A,Muthukumarappa T,Kanta P,Banday AZ,Chidananda MK

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:None of the 58 Moraxella catarrhalis strains grew on nutrient agar without sodium chloride supplementation, whereas 49 of 51 commensal Neisseria spp. strains tested did. Growth on nutrient agar without sodium chloride supplementation could be used for screening between M. catarrhalis and commensal Neisseria spp. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chida T,Sawabe E,Ono E,Nishiyama H,Ebina K,Sato K,Watanabe Y,Kuroki T,Okamura N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of B-1 cells in protection against Toxoplasma gondii infection using B cell-deficient mice (muMT mice). We found that primed but not naïve B-1 cells from wild-type C57BL/6 mice protected B cell-deficient recipients from challenge infection. All muMT mice transferred with primed B-1 cells survived ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chen M,Mun HS,Piao LX,Aosai F,Norose K,Mohamed RM,Belal US,Fang H,Ahmed AK,Kang HK,Matsuzaki G,Kitamura D,Yano A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) have a major role in regulating immune responses, including tumor immunity and peripheral tolerance. In the present study, we identified novel functions of herbal medicines in DCs by screening 99 herbal medicines, most of which are among the 210 Chinese medicines approved by the Ministry of Healt...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukui H,Mitsui S,Harima N,Nose M,Tsujimura K,Mizukami H,Morita A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of continuous free-flow electrophoresis for the purification of extracted lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs ) was investigated. Commercial (nucleic acid contaminated) LPS preparations, isolated by the hot phenol-water method of Westphal from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli 0111: B4, were analyzed. Continu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuwae T,Kurata M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the infection source of a sporadic Legionella pneumonia case associated with a hot spring bath, we used five molecular methods, including repetitive element polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR), arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), ribotyping, restriction endonuclease analysis (REA), and macrorestriction endon...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyamoto H,Jitsurong S,Shiota R,Maruta K,Yoshida S,Yabuuchi E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4KB) has emerged as a conserved target of anti-picornavirus compounds. In the present study, PI4KB was identified as the direct target of the plant-derived anti-picornavirus compounds, oxoglaucine and pachypodol (also known as Ro 09-0179). PI4KB was also ident...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Arita M,Philipov S,Galabov AS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial images can be obtained rather easily with an atomic-force microscope (AFM) in the magnification range of 5,000 to 30,000 times without any pretreatment of the specimens for such observations as chemical fixation, dehydration or staining. The bacterial shapes or the presence of flagella can be clearly recogni...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Umeda A,Saito M,Amako K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the antifungal activity of Rubus chingii extract in combination with fluconazole (FLC) against FLC-resistant Candida albicans 100 in vitro. A R. chingii extract and FLC-resistant C. albicans fungus suspension were prepared. The minimum inhibitory concentration and fractional inhibitory ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Han B,Chen J,Yu YQ,Cao YB,Jiang YY

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to clarify the taxonomic relationship between all the serovars and species of the genus Erysipelothrix by performing DNA-DNA hybridization experiments, the customary criterion for separation of bacterial genospecies. A total of 93 strains were isolated from a wide variety of sources, incl...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takahashi T,Fujisawa T,Umeno A,Kozasa T,Yamamoto K,Sawada T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four T antigen-positive phenotypic revertants were isolated by negative selection with BUdR from SV40-transformed rat and mouse cells which contain six and two viral genome equivalents per cell, respectively. Karyological analysis indicated that one rat and one mouse revertant had a hyperploid number of chromosomes, w...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maruyama K,Furuta T,Ueda K,Oda K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an effective system to eliminate poliovirus from modified tap water using a positively-charged carbon felt electrode. The zeta potential of polioviruses was measured using laser microscopic electrophoresis. Poliovirus adsorption to the electrode was examined by indirect immunofluorescence. The tissue cult...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kondo Y,Morita Y,Yamada A,Kimura H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-seated trichosporonosis caused by Trichosporon asahii has a high mortality rate and a very poor prognosis. New species-specific oligonucleotide primers for T. asahii were developed from a sequence analysis of rRNA genes that included the internal transcribed spacer regions. A nested PCR assay with specific primer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita T,Nakajima M,Ikeda R,Niki Y,Matsushima T,Shinoda T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine B cell mitogens such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), butanol-extracted water soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA), dextran sulfate (DS), synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP), and its analog MDP-Lys (L18) do not show any mitogenic ability in vitro on human peripheral blood lymphocytes or mixed cell populations of purif...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Konno-Ejiri H,Okumura S,Ozawa A,Nakano M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of adenovirus strain K87 to BALB/c nude mice resulted in viral proliferation in the intestinal tract up to around week 6 at which point replication was suppressed. In other words, the host acquired resistance. However, this resistance was temporary and the viral infection persisted over a long peri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Umehara K,Hirakawa M,Hashimoto K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation treatment enhanced resistance of C57BL/6, but not BALB/c against Toxoplasma gondii infection. Six Gy-irradiated (IR) C57BL/6 recipients of B-2 cells from T. gondii-infected C57BL/6 died after infection. B-2 suppressor cells from infected C57BL/6 enhanced production of IL-4 and IL-10 in peritoneal exudate c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mun HS,Aosai F,Fang H,Piao LX,Winn T,Norose K,Yano A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cholera-like enterotoxin was purified from Vibrio cholerae O139 strain AI-1841 isolated from a diarrheal patient in Bangladesh. Its characteristics were compared with that of cholera toxins (CTs) of classical strain 569B and El Tor strain KT25. Al-1841 produced as much toxin as O1 strains. The toxins were indistingu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakashima K,Eguchi Y,Nakasone N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) in a collection of S. pseudintermedius strains isolated from dogs and cats with dermatitis in Japan and to compare their genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. Clonal relationships were determined by pu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bardiau M,Yamazaki K,Ote I,Misawa N,Mainil JG

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00