Virulence of representative Japanese Francisella tularensis and immunologic consequences of infection in mice.

abstract：:Filamentous phage, fs1, was obtained from Vibrio cholerae O139. The lysogenized strains produced a large amount of fs1 phage in the culture supernatant. This phage was previously reported as novel fimbriae of that organism. The genome of the phage was a 6.5 kb single-stranded DNA. The capsid of fsl consists of a small...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakasone N,Honma Y,Toma C,Yamashiro T,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:β-1,3-glucan is a major component of fungal cell walls with various biological activities, including effects on the production of inflammatory mediators in vivo and in vitro. However, few reports have examined its influence on the fungal cell itself. In this study, the influences of β-1,3-glucan on the growth and cell...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishibashi K,Kurone Y,Motoi M,Miura NN,Adachi Y,Shirasu Y,Ohno N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of B cell tolerance were studied in an attempt to learn whether B cells rendered tolerant are present in the immune system in a potentially responsive form. The author tested the in vitro anti-trinitrophenyl (TNP) antibody-forming cell (anti-TNP AFC) response to TNP-immunogens and polyclonal B cell acti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uchiyama T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frauch's micro-slide method was improved to facilitate the endpoint-determination of the Limulus test. Two precise observations, by inverted phase contrast microscopy and with a staining procedure, were newly performed as additions to the slide test. The staining procedure was proposed as an improved method for the Li...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Okuguchi S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a heterodimer molecule, Z-1, on guinea pig peritoneal macrophages (M phi s) by the newly prepared monoclonal antibody, anti-Z-1, and Z-1 has been assumed to be the complement receptor type three (CR3) in this species. To clarify this assumption, the cell type distribution of the antigen i...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tamoto K,Nochi H,Tada M,Kakinuma T,Mori Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA gene sequences were determined for type strains of 21 Bifidobacterium species. A phylogenetic tree was constructed using the determined sequences and sequences from DNA databases, which contain the sequences of 11 type strains of Bifidobacterium species and 11 strains of related genera. All species of the...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Watanabe K,Watanabe T,Oyaizu H

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The effects of the soluble forms of the endotoxin receptor molecules sMD-2 and sCD14 on bacterial growth were studied. When Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis were incubated at 37 degrees C for 18 hr with either sMD-2 or sCD14, growth of these bacteria was significantly inhibited as evaluated by viable cell counts...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohnishi T,Muroi M,Tanamoto K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slime-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis strain sensu strictu CNS23 was transformed by protoplast transformation with the plasmid pTV1 which carries transposon Tn 917. Using this transposon mutagenesis system we obtained the Tn917-inserted mutant CT512, which has lost the ability to produce slime. A single inser...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Grüter L,Feucht H,Mempel M,Laufs R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borna disease virus (BoDV), a prototype of mammalian bornavirus, is a non-segmented, negative strand RNA virus that often causes severe neurological disorders in infected animals, including horses and sheep. Unique among animal RNA viruses, BoDV transcribes and replicates non-cytopathically in the cell nucleus, leadin...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujino K,Yamamoto Y,Daito T,Makino A,Honda T,Tomonaga K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reversed passive latex agglutination (RPLA) assay for detecting Clostridium difficile toxin A is presented. Purified monoclonal antibody (mAb 37B5) was used for latex sensitization. The culture supernatants of 93 strains of C. difficile were tested by RPLA assay and the results compared with those of a commercially ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Toma C,Nakamura S,Kamiya S,Nakasone N,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes, a group A Streptococcus (GAS), has been recognized as the causative pathogen in patients with severe invasive streptococcal infection with or without necrotizing fasciitis. In recent epidemiological studies, Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) has been isolated from severe inva...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe S,Takemoto N,Ogura K,Miyoshi-Akiyama T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ofloxacin, a new pyridone-carboxylic acid, against 11 strains of Chlamydia trachomatis and six strains of Chlamydia psittaci was determined. All test strains of both species were inhibited by 0.39 micrograms of ofloxacin per ml. The antichlamydial activity of ofloxacin was comparable to that o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirai K,Une T

更新日期：1986-01-01 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

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 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：:An antiserum against a fraction enriched for scrapie-associated fibrils (SAF), was examined for its effects on scrapie incubation period by inoculating mice either intraperitoneally or intracerebrally with various dilutions of the serum mixed with scrapie-infected mouse brain homogenate. After intraperitoneal inoculat...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ito M,Shinagawa M,Doi S,Sasaki S,Isomura H,Takahashi K,Goto H,Sato G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A CpG-enriched recombinant plasmid (pUC18-CpG) as an adjuvant of FMD killed vaccine was tested for immunization and vaccination challenge in a porcine model. Our preliminary results had indicated that the recombinant plasmid could enhance the humoral immune response triggered by the traditional oil-adjuvant vaccine af...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Guo X,Jia H,Zhang Q,Yuan W,Zhu G,Xin T,Zhu H,Sánchez-Vizcaíno JM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colH gene encoding 116-kDa collagenase of Clostridium histolyticum (cColH) was cloned into an Escherichia coli-Bacillus subtilis shuttle vector to develop a method for purification of recombinant collagenase (rColH). When plasmid pJCM310 containing the colH gene was introduced into B. subtilis DB104 and the transf...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Jung CM,Matsushita O,Katayama S,Minami J,Ohhira I,Okabe A

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：:Importance of the overexpression of AcrAB efflux pumps in the low-level resistance of pathogens to antimicrobials requires a better understanding of the AcrAB regulation. The goal of the present research was to study the transcription of acrAB, as well as the genes that play a role in its regulation in Salmonella ente...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hartog E,Ben-Shalom L,Shachar D,Matthews KR,Yaron S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic study on serotyping of Enterococcus faecalis has been reported since 1964 when M.E. Sharpe conducted serotyping of group D streptococcus in U.K. So, we attempted to re-evaluate serotyping of E. faecalis. For this purpose, we received 42 Sharpe's strains and first examined for their biochemical characteri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maekawa S,Yoshioka M,Kumamoto Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is commonly associated with complicated UTI and expresses several virulence factors, including MR/P fimbriae. In the present study mice were immunised nasally with MrpA, the structural subunit of MR/P, with or without CT as a mucosal adjuvant. The animals were then challenged with P. mirabilis and in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Scavone P,Rial A,Umpierrez A,Chabalgoity A,Zunino P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genospecies Borrelia afzelii was isolated from a patient of Lyme disease in Hokkaido, Japan, for the first time, by culturing the minced erythema lesion in BSK II medium. Two analytical methods, rRNA gene restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the specific primer ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakao M,Miyamoto K,Fukunaga M,Hashimoto Y,Takahashi H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported a helper T-cell (Th) epitope (peptide i) which corresponded to the sequence ranging from positions 462 to 479 from the N-terminus of the Friend-murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) envelope protein (env462-479). Homologous sequences exist in both Moloney-murine leukemia (M-MuLV env452-469) and endogen...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uenishi H,Iwanami N,Yamagishi H,Nakatani T,Kawasaki T,Tamamura H,Fujii N,Kuribayashi K

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:We isolated a filamentous bacteriophage, VfO4K68, from the pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain belonging to 04:K68 serovar. The VfO4K68 DNA lacked a 1,893-bp fragment present in that of the distinctive region of f237, a filamentous phage isolated from a pandemic 03:K6 strain (Nasu, H. et al., J. Clin. Microbiol., ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chan B,Miyamoto H,Taniguchi H,Yoshida S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

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：:To determine the extent of genetic diversity of Salmonella choleraesuis subspecies choleraesuis serovar Infantis and whether environmental isolates were similar or identical to human isolates, a total of 110 isolates from humans, broiler samples, egg production facilities, riverwater, sewage, and chicken meat were ana...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami K,Horikawa K,Otsuki K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00