Comparative characterization of inducible and virulent Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophages having unique head projections.

abstract：:Serum samples were collected from 938 pigs of 24 farms in Hokkaido, Kagoshima, and Okinawa prefectures in Japan in 2001-2005. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used for the detection of antibodies to LipL32 antigen which is common to Leptospira interrogans. Samples positive in ELISA were then investigated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Naito M,Sakoda Y,Kamikawa T,Nitta Y,Hirose K,Sakashita M,Kurokawa S,Kida H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia have been isolated with increasing frequency from the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, usually following P. aeruginosa infections, but their adherence to human epithelial respiratory cells has never been investigated. In this study, various S. maltophilia strains were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： De Vidipó LA,De Marques EA,Puchelle E,Plotkowski MC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma concentration of soluble P-selectin (GMP-140/CD62P/PADGEM), a selectin produced by activated platelets and endothelial cells, was quantitated in a group of adults and East African negro children presenting with either non-severe or severe (cerebral) malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Sixty percent of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Facer CA,Theodoridou A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In innate immunity, cationic antimicrobial peptides including cathelin-related antimicrobial peptide (CRAMP) are known to play critical roles in protecting the host from infection by invasive microbes, including Gram-positive and -negative bacteria. However, little is known about the interactions between CRAMP and myc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tani K,Shimizu T,Kida Y,Kuwano K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy cattle and swine bred in a district of Japan were examined for the presence of Clostridium botulinum in their liver. Liver specimens were cultivated in chopped meat-glucose medium and the cultures were examined for botulinum toxin. In cattle, none of the cultures of 100 liver specimens yielded the toxin. In sw...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamakawa K,Kamiya S,Yoshimura K,Nakamura S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is an efficacious chemoattractant for lymphocytes, monocytes and hematopoietic progenitor cells. In the present study, we examined whether SDF-1 has growth promoting activity on human peripheral T cells and analyzed the possible underlying signal transduction pathways. SDF-1 augme...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yonezawa A,Hori T,Sakaida H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of immuno-cell therapy called BRM-activated killer (BAK) therapy using non-MHC-restricted lymphocytes, CD56-positive cells, was devised. Peripheral blood lymphocytes were selected by immobilization with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody and cultured for 2 weeks in the presence of IL-2. Thereafter, they were reac...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ebina T,Ogama N,Shimanuki H,Kubota T,Isono N

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clostridium perfringens strain 13 genome contains two genes (fbpA, fbpB) that encode putative Fbp. Both rFbpA and rFbpB were purified and their reactivity with human serum Fn was analyzed. To determine the region of the Fn molecule recognized by rFbp, a plate binding assay using N-terminal 70-kDa peptide, III1-C p...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamasaki T,Hitsumoto Y,Katayama S,Nogami Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major structural proteins of Newcastle disease virus and Sendai virus were localized in infected BHK-21 and MDBK cells by ultrastructural immunoperoxidase cytochemistry using antibodies against the individual viral protein antigens. The intracellular glycoproteins were strictly membrane bound, being localized in t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagai Y,Yoshida T,Hamaguchi M,Nagura H,Hasegawa H,Yoshimura S,Watanabe K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many examples of probiotic effects of various lactic bacteria on enteropathogens. In this study, Lactobacillus strains (L. rhamnosus, L. gasseri, L. casei and L. plantarum) were tested in an in vitro model of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection of a human colon epithelial cell line, C2BBe1. W...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirano J,Yoshida T,Sugiyama T,Koide N,Mori I,Yokochi T

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Development of accurate methods for predicting progression of tuberculosis (TB) from the latent state is recognized as vitally important in controlling TB, because a majority of cases develop from latent infections. Past TB that has never been treated has a higher risk of progressing than does latent Mycobacterium tub...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Osada-Oka M,Tateishi Y,Hirayama Y,Ozeki Y,Niki M,Kitada S,Maekura R,Tsujimura K,Koide Y,Ohara N,Yamamoto T,Kobayashi K,Matsumoto S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Enhydrobacter, first reported as a member of the family Vibrionaceae, has been placed in the family Moraxellaceae, but as a genus incertae sedis in Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd edition. During our taxonomic investigation of Enhydrobacter-like organisms, we observed that the 16S rRNA sequenc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura Y,Fujiwara N,Naka T,Mitani A,Kubota H,Tomida J,Morita Y,Hitomi J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease was purified from a strain of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from the blood of a septicemic human. The vibrio was cultured in bacto peptone-yeast extract medium, and the protease was purified by a purification procedure including ultrafiltration of the culture supernatant with an Amicon YM 5 membrane, diethylam...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyoshi N,Shimizu C,Miyoshi S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Pathogens of the Aspergillus species are frequently seen in deep-seated mycoses. We previously demonstrated that the culture filtrate of Aspergillus fumigatus (CF) has immunosuppressive effects on polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), which act as the main phagocytes to hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus (A. fumigatus). B...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Higurashi H,Arai M,Watanabe A,Igari H,Seki N,Kamei K,Kuriyama T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common EDTA-soluble antigens of Clostridium chauvoei and C. septicum were examined by indirect-immunofluorescence (IFA) and immunoblot analysis. The monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for the 35 kDa antigen of C. chauvoei strain ATCC 10092 were used. These mAbs reacted with all 11 strains, 6 of C. chauvoei and 5 of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamaoka T,Terakado N,Nakamura S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of 33 compounds of L-alanine analogues over a wide range of concentrations to initiate germination of Bacillus subtilis spores was determined, and the inhibitory activity against L-alanine-initiated germination was determined for the above compounds and 22 of their D- and DL-isomers. Nineteen L-isomers wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenitally athymic BALB/cA nu/nu mice were employed to elucidate the role of the thymus in experimental Mycoplasma pulmonis strain m53 infection, and nu/+ mice were used for comparison. Chronic polyarthritis was frequently produced in both of nu/nu and nu/+ mice by intravenous injection of the organisms. Macroscopic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka H

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Using anti-human B cell monoclonal antibodies prepared against B1 (CD20), B2 (CD21), B4 (CD19), and BB-1 (B lymphoblast antigen-1), we compared the expression of B cell differentiation antigens on a Jijoye-P3HR-1 cell line family of Burkitt's lymphomas. The expression of BB-1 and B2 antigens was faint on P3HR-1 K cell...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokochi T,Inoue Y,Iwata H,Miyadai T,Kimura Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During Helicobacter pylori infection, T cell response is critical in the development of active gastritis and in protective immunity against infection. We studied gastric inflammation and T cell response in H. pylori-challenged mice following an intraperitoneal immunization, using whole H. pylori lysate (HpAg) in the a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe K,Murakami K,Maeda K,Fujioka T,Nasu M,Nishizono A

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:To study the role of Moraxella (subgenus Branhamella) catarrhalis (B. catarrhalis) adherence to airway cells in lower respiratory tract infections, the in vitro attachments of B. catarrhalis to upper airway (oropharyngeal) and lower airway (bronchial) epithelial cells were compared. The adherence of 4 strains (1 nonfi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rikitomi N,Ahmed K,Nagatake T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium vanadate enhanced Newcastle disease virus (NDV)-induced cell fusion in L cells, and there was a direct correlation between the degree of cell fusion and the dose of vanadate added. When anti-F protein of NDV monospecific antiserum was added to the culture fluid of L cells infected with NDV, the enhancement of c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto F,Fujioka H,Iinuma M,Takano M,Maeno K,Nagai Y,Ito Y

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine γδ T cells develop as the first T-cell lineage within the fetal thymus and disproportionately localize in mucosal tissues such as lung, skin, uterus, and intestine of adult mice. These unique developmental features and distribution patterns of γδ T cells enable rapid functioning against various insults from pat...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shibata K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is known to be the syndrome that begins with an acute flu-like illness that may be due to the exposure to an infectious agent, there has been no convincing evidence on the causative agents. Recently, human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II)-like virus has been reported to be...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Honda M,Kitamura K,Nakasone T,Fukushima Y,Matsuda S,Nishioka K,Matsuda J,Hashimoto N,Yamazaki S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been considered a feasible alternative for antimicrobial therapy of multidrug-resistant pathogens. However, bacterial response mechanisms against PDT-generated photo-oxidative stress remain largely unknown. Herein, it is shown that the accessory gene regulator Agr is involved in Staphylo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Park HJ,Moon YH,Yoon HE,Park YM,Yoon JH,Bang IS

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a plasmid containing bovine leukemia virus (BLV)-tax gene driven by SR alpha promoter, designated as pME-BLVtax, to activate the promoter of the long terminal repeat (LTR) of BLV in various tumor cells. Activation of the promoter of BLV-LTR by pME-BLVtax was confirmed by luciferase assay. When the cells...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tana,Watarai S,Aida Y,Tajima S,Kakidani H,Onuma M,Kodama H

更新日期：2001-01-01 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