The presence of antibodies against the AD2 epitope of cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B is associated with acute rejection after renal transplantation.

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced two new Verotoxin 2 (VT2) variant genes: one from an Escherichia coli strain from a case of bovine diarrhea and the other from an E. coli strain from a patient with diarrhea. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of these two genes were highly homologous with, but distinct from those of the V...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lin Z,Yamasaki S,Kurazono H,Ohmura M,Karasawa T,Inoue T,Sakamoto S,Suganami T,Takeoka T,Taniguchi Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 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

abstract：:One strain each of granular and downy varieties of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and two strains each of granular and floccose colonial types Trichophyton rubrum were used for preparation of antigens. The antigens were analyzed by double diffusion against homologous and heterologous antisera raised in rabbits. A total o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shukla NP,Agarwal GP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) is a widely used probiotic strain with health benefits. In this study, the survival of LcS in the intestines of healthy Chinese adults was assessed and the effects of LcS on stool consistency, stool SCFAs and intestinal microbiota evaluated. Subjects consumed 100 mL per day of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wang R,Chen S,Jin J,Ren F,Li Y,Qiao Z,Wang Y,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:In Streptococcus pneumoniae, heat shock induces the synthesis of 65-, 73-, and 84-kDa proteins, and ethanol shock induces a 104-kDa protein. In this study, the 65-, 84-, and 104-kDa proteins were identified as members of the GroEL, ClpL and alcohol dehydrogenase families, respectively, and the general properties of th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Choi IH,Shim JH,Kim SW,Kim SN,Pyo SN,Rhee DK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis causes whooping cough, a severe and prolonged respiratory disease that results inhas high morbidity and mortality rates, particularly in developing countries. The number incidence of whooping cough cases is increasing in many countries despite high vaccine coverage. Causes for the re-emergence of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Shinzawa N,Ishigaki K,Nakamura K,Abe H,Fukui-Miyazaki A,Ikuta K,Horiguchi Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from wild ducks in Japan were placed into 4 distinct antigenic groups on the basis of their reactivities to 8 monoclonal antibodies against the HN molecule of NDV in hemagglutination inhibition tests. The NDV strains of duck origin were antigenically distinct ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura M,Nagata-Matsubara K,Nerome K,Yamane N,Kida H,Kodama H,Izawa H,Mikami T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activity of cefpodoxime against Branhamella catarrhalis was studied. All of the 65 clinical isolates tested were inhibited at and below 1.56 micrograms/ml, both at 10(7) and at 10(5) CFUs. The following was further studied on B. catarrhalis N-5 which showed average susceptibility to each drug examine...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takenouchi T,Nishino T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus mutants lacking three Na+/H+ antiporters (NhaA, NhaB, NhaD) were constructed. The DeltanhaA strains showed significantly higher sensitivity to LiCl regarding their growth compared to the parental strain. The DeltanhaA and DeltanhaB strains exhibited higher sensitivities to LiCl. The mutant XACa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuroda T,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-linking of surface receptors in hematopoietic cells results in the enrichment of these receptors in the rafts along with other downstream signaling molecules. A possible explanation how signal is transduced through the plasma membrane has arisen from the concept of raft. From the study of cellular responses in t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Katagiri YU,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that a sub-lethal concentration of hydrogen peroxide (HPOx) enhanced the growth of Helicobacter pylori in Brucella broth supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (BB/FBS). The enhancement was evident at 0.1 mM HPOx and reached a maximun at 3.5 mM. The growth stimulation was dependent on the basal media used; ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murano A,Miyake M,Kato J,Tanzawa H,Takeo K,Noda M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:To evaluate a modified rapid ELISA method for detecting CAg during Toxoplasma gondii infection, we analyzed the specificity and sensitivity of the ELISA method by using experimental Toxoplasma infection in rabbits and also tested this method in human samples including 5428 serum, 548 cerebrospinal fluid and two breast...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chen R,Lu S,Lou D,Lin A,Zeng X,Ding Z,Wen L,Ohta N,Wang J,Fu C

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Tetracycline (pp-tet), and kanamycin (pp-kan) resistance genes were cloned from a transferable R plasmid of fish pathogen Pasteurella piscicida, and complete nucleotide sequences were determined. The pp-tet was a class D Tet determinant constructed with the tetA resistance gene of 1,182 bp encoding a protein with a de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kim EH,Aoki T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a method for serotyping human rotavirus (HRV) by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with HRV serotype-specific neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (ELISA serotyping). In the present study this method was compared with the fluorescent focus neutralization test with serotype-specific rabbit antise...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Urasawa S,Urasawa T,Taniguchi K,Morita Y,Sakurada N,Saeki Y,Morita O,Hasegawa S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In malignant B lymphoma cells interleukin-10 (IL-10) expression is frequently upregulated. This effect is thought to support to the malignant transformation of these cells and to be a potential target for pharmacotherapy. To define better the mechanism for upregulation of the IL-10 gene, we tested the association betw...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Horie K,Ohashi M,Satoh Y,Sairenji T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butanol-extracted water-soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA) obtained from Bacterionema matruchotii was cultured with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) in the presence of sub- and/or supra-optimal mitogenic concentrations of concanavalin A (Con A). The addition of Bu-WSA resulted in increased tritiated thymidine incorpora...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Okumura S,Tsushi M,Nakano M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of interferon for a kind of dairy lactic acid bacteria, Lactobacillus acidophilus (L. acidophilus), was investigated in murine peritoneal macrophage (M phi) cultures. Lactobacillus acidophilus JCM 1034, 1132T, 1229 and 2125 induced IFN (12-34 I.U./ml) in M phi cultures in vitro. Strain 1132T- and 2125-induce...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitazawa H,Matsumura K,Itoh T,Yamaguchi T

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：: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：:A high molecular weight proteinaceous factor in the cell extract of sarcoma 180 (S-180) was found to inhibit phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-triggering of macrophage H2O2 release. This factor (S-180 factor) was stable at 56 C for 1 hr and resistant to ultraviolet-irradiation. The S-180 factor inhibited the specific bi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tomioka H,Saito H

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:The incidence of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in raw milk from farm bulk tanks and silage was investigated monthly at 20 dairy farms in Aomori prefecture, Japan, from January to July in 1989. Listeria sp. was isolated from one sample (5%) of raw milk collected in May, but L. monocytogenes was not isolated from...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takai S,Orii F,Yasuda K,Inoue S,Tsubaki S

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Influenza A virus (IAV) PA-X is a critical ribonuclease protein involved in host cell shutoff but its role in modulating the host immune response to IAV infection remains to be addressed. In this study, host cellular proteins that directly interact with PA-X were screened to investigate the biological function of PA-X...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Li M,Qi W,Chang Q,Chen R,Zhen D,Liao M,Wen J,Deng Y

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00