Serological evidence of leptospiral infection in pig populations in different districts in Japan.

abstract：:Because cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) play an important role in the specific immunotherapy of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a series of CTL epitopes has been defined from HCV genotype 1a or 1b protein. Here, we attempted to identify HCV2a-derived epitopes that are capable of inducing HLA-A2-restricted and peptid...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wang Y,Takao Y,Harada M,Yutani S,Ide T,Sata M,Itoh K,Yamada A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have determined the contribution of Th1 and Th2 responses to the protective immunity and pathology of Mycobacterium bovis infection. However, much of that information is derived from experimentally infecting cattle with M. bovis and few data from naturally infected animals are available. The aim of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Blanco FC,Schierloh P,Bianco MV,Caimi K,Meikle V,Alito AE,Cataldi AA,Sasiain Mdel C,Bigi F

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 is an important pathogen these days. Outbreaks of its infection have been reported all over the world, in Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, south Africa, and various countries in Europe. In the summer of 2001, the first clinical infection by E. coli O157: H7 was ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsai TY,Luo WC,Wu FT,Pan TM

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:Neonatal toxic shock syndrome-like exanthematous disease (NTED) is a new entity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Most of NTED cases reported previously in the literature were sporadic ones. In the present report, we describe an outbreak of NTED that occurred in a neonatal intensive care...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakano M,Miyazawa H,Kawano Y,Kawagishi M,Torii K,Hasegawa T,Iinuma Y,Ohta M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard products of V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes are two kinds of DNA junction, a coding joint and a signal joint. TCR delta V-D and D-D signal joints in adult mouse thymocytes were sequenced following PCR amplification. We observed differential nucleotide insertions at the V de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanari Y,Muto M,Yamagishi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of hemagglutinin (HA) activity in a membrane fraction of Bacteroides gingivalis was examined using various compounds. Leupeptin and anti-pain inhibited the HA activity at nM order. This potency was lost when the aldehyde group of leupeptin was converted to an alcohol moiety. Irreversible protease inhibitors...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikata M,Yoshimura F,Nodasaka Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of TSS diagnosis were evaluated: comparison of symptoms with clinical criteria and monitoring for evidence of selective activation of Vbeta2(+) T cells by the causative toxin, TSS toxin-1 (TSST-1). Ten patients with acute and systemic febrile infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus were monitored for in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuda Y,Kato H,Ono E,Kikuchi K,Muraoka M,Takagi K,Imanishi K,Itoh S,Itoh T,Ogawa T,Nitta K,Inokuchi S,Hibi T,Ohta H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1985 to 1990, serum samples were obtained from 229 healthy dogs. The dogs lived in Hokkaido, known to be infested with ticks. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect IgG and IgM antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi HO14 and HP3, which were isolated from Ixodes ovatus and I. persulcatu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isogai E,Isogai H,Sato N,Yuzawa M,Kawakami M

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:A serological typing scheme of Bacillus cereus has been developed by immunochemical analyses of flagellar antigen using an agglutination method. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the classification of flagellar serotype of Bacillus cereus had greater sensitivity. 10-500 times, than that of agglutination me...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami T,Hiraoka K,Mikami T,Matsumoto T,Katagiri S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira was isolated from environmental water in central Japan using selective medium comprising five antibiotics, namely sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, amphotericin B, fosfomycin, and 5-fluorouracil. Of 100 water samples 57 (57%) were culture-positive and 50 pure cultures were isolated. Of the 50 cultures isolate...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuzawa T,Uno R,Matsuhashi N,Yamaguchi M,Xu J,Nakamura S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNase B is a major nuclease and a possible virulence factor in Streptococcus pyogenes. The allelic diversity of streptococcal DNase B (sdaB) gene was investigated in 83 strains with 14 emm genotypes. Of the 15 alleles identified, 11 alleles carried only synonymous nucleotide substitutions. On the other hand, 4 alleles...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsumoto M,Sakae K,Hashikawa S,Torii K,Hasegawa T,Horii T,Endo M,Okuno R,Murayama S,Hirasawa K,Suzuki R,Isobe J,Tanaka D,Katsukawa C,Tamaru A,Tomita M,Ogata K,Ikebe T,Watanabe H,Ohta M,Working Group for Group A S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombinase is widely applied for the regulation of gene expression because its regulatory action is strict and efficient. However, each system can mediate regulation of only one gene at a time. Here, we demonstrate efficient "sequential" gene regulation using Cre-and FLP-expressing recombinant adenoviru...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kondo S,Takahashi Y,Shiozawa S,Ichise H,Yoshida N,Kanegae Y,Saito I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extract from ECMS was investigated for its effect on the humoral immune responses to foot-and-mouth disease vaccination. Fifty-six mice were randomly divided into seven groups with eight animals in each. Mice in groups 5 to 7 were subcutaneously (s.c.) injected with 0.5 mg DEX daily for 4 days to induce immunosupp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakwiwatkul K,Li RL,Song XM,Hu SH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cattle enterotoxemia caused by Clostridium perfringens toxins is a noncontagious, sporadic, and fatal disease characterized by sudden death. Strategies for controlling and preventing cattle enterotoxemia are based on systematic vaccination of herds with toxoids. Because the process of producing conventional clostridia...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Jiang Z,De Y,Chang J,Wang F,Yu L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The killing activity of cord blood mononuclear cells (cMNC) against cytomegalovirus (CMV)-uninfected and -infected fibroblasts was comparable to that of adult peripheral blood mononuclear cells (aPBMC). The killing activity of cMNC against K562 cells was significantly lower compared with that of aPBMC. Treatment of cM...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoshina T,Kida K,Ito M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of a water-soluble peptidoglycan fragment derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis (SEPS) were examined as to their role in proliferation of spleen mononuclear cells (SMNC) from various strains of mice, the production of cytokines in vitro, and the induction of an inflammatory reaction in vivo. The proli...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Onta T,Sashida M,Fujii N,Sugawara S,Rikiishi H,Kumagai K

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are opportunistic pathogens implicated with nosocomial infections, and high rates of morbidity and mortality, especially in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). B. cepacia are naturally resistant to different classes of antibiotics, and can subvert the host innate immune responses ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ganesh PS,Vishnupriya S,Vadivelu J,Mariappan V,Vellasamy KM,Shankar EM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) was reactivated more rapidly in cells of latently infected mouse trigeminal ganglia which were cultured in serum-free medium (after 3.7 days of cultivation) than in those cultured in serum-containing Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (after 8.5 days of cultivation). The concentrati...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H5N1 and H9N2 are the most important causes of avian influenza in China. Chemokines and cytokines play important roles in inflammatory response that clearly differ between H5N1 and H9N2 infection. To investigate whether chemokines and cytokines are differentially regulated following H5N1 and H9N2 AIVs infection, dynam...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Luo C,Liu J,Qi W,Ren X,Lu R,Liao M,Ning Z

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared polyclonal antibody specific to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Using this antibody, we developed a latex agglutination test (LAT) for detecting the organism in respiratory exudates as rapid diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection. Further, LAT was compared with DNA-probe test (DP) which was the only commercially avai...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masayoshi T,Hirai Y,Kanemasa Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a pathogen associated with adult periodontitis, which is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by breakdown of the periodontal tissue. Dipeptidyl aminopeptidase IV (DPPIV) produced by P. gingivalis has been considered to be a potential virulence factor based on the finding that the v...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kumagai Y,Yajima A,Konishi K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and twenty-five breast milk samples were examined for the occurrence of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) by cell culture method. Virus was isolated from the milk in 1 of 177 samples collected within 6 days after delivery, 2 of 115 samples collected during the period of 7 days to 1 month after delivery, 10 of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotsubo T,Nagata N,Shimada M,Yoshida K,Fujinaga K,Chiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of viral genomes is essential for studying viral gene function and utilizing viruses for therapy. Several techniques for viral genome engineering have been developed. Homologous recombination in virus-infected cells has traditionally been used to edit viral genomes; however, the frequency of the expected ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suenaga T,Kohyama M,Hirayasu K,Arase H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ELISA was used to measure the amount and avidity of IgG antibodies to exotoxin A (ExA) and 7 Fisher's immunotypes of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the sera of 13 patients with mild or moderate Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. Changes in the specificity of tested sera during the course of infection were demonstrated. A...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Trafny EA,Grzybowski J,Patzer J,Popiel D,Wrembel-Wargocka J,Dzierzanowska D,Zawistowska-Marciniak I,Kobus K

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:The effects of LV in two different species, CD-1 mice, without a genetic disposition for diabetes, and BB rats prone to T1D were examined. Male CD-1 mice that had been exposed to LV in utero developed a type 2-like diabetes with increased blood glucose, insulin levels and epididymal fat at the age of 10-15 weeks. Comb...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Holmberg R,Klitz W,Blixt M,Berggren PO,Juntti-Berggren L,Niklasson B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00