The fibronectin-binding protein homologue Fbp62 of Streptococcus anginosus is a potent virulence factor.

abstract：:Investigation of 136 turkeys (24 manifesting infra-orbital sinusitis, 112 apparently healthy) resulted in isolation of 79 strains of Mycoplasma and 4 of Acholeplasma. By the disc growth inhibition test with 16 reference antisera of avian serogroups, 55 strains were identified serologically and 28 remained unidentified...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： El Sayed SA,Chandiramani NK,Garg DN

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate host defense against a number of bacteria and fungal pathogens. Some of antimicrobial synthetic peptides were systemically administered in vivo; however, effective protection has so far not been obtained because the effective dose of peptides in vivo seems to be very high, o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamamoto K,Kida Y,Zhang Y,Shimizu T,Kuwano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The immune responses of individuals exposed to Leishmania major were evaluated and compared with those of non-exposed volunteers. Forty-one patients with active lesion(s), 43 healed individuals, 15 vaccinees 1 month or 1 year post vaccination, and 15 non-exposed volunteers were studied. Leishmanin skin test (LST) resp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Alimohammadian MH,Darabi H,Malekzadeh S,Mahmoodzadeh-Niknam H,Ajdary S,Khamesipour A,Bahonar A,Mofarrah A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 3,158 individuals living in northern Egypt were tested for the presence of antibodies against human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) by the newly developed particle agglutination (PA) test. Ten sera gave a positive reaction in the PA test. Eight of these sera were examined further by Western blotting and...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： el-Farrash MA,Badr MF,Hawas SA,el-Nashar NM,Imai J,Komoda H,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the epidemiology of viral acute respiratory infections (ARIs), 305 human parainfluenza virus types 1 (HPIV1), 154 HPIV2 and 574 HPIV3 strains were isolated from 16,962 nasopharyngeal swabs obtained between 2002 and 2011 at pediatric clinics in Yamagata, Japan. The total isolation frequency for HPIV1-3 was 6...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mizuta K,Abiko C,Aoki Y,Ikeda T,Itagaki T,Katsushima F,Katsushima Y,Matsuzaki Y,Noda M,Kimura H,Ahiko T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is the most predominant and important pathogen in clinical microbiology. A DNA amplification assay using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was designed to identify S. aureus through a single-base-pair mismatch in the sequences of staphylococcal 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. It was able to...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saruta K,Hoshina S,Machida K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of B subunit of cholera toxin (CTB) on delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response to influenza vaccine derived from influenza virus A/PR/8/34 (PR-8, HlNl) virus were investigated in B10 mice that were immunized intranasally with both influenza vaccine and CTB. The result showed that intranasal inoculatio...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kikuta K,Kurata H,Nagamine T,Aizawa C,Ueno Y,Kurata T,Tamura S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen temperature-sensitive mutants of Sendai virus were isolated from mutagenized stocks (10 mutants, designated numerically) and persistently infected cultures (6 mutants, designated alphabetically). Based on complementation tests, virion-associated activities, thermal inactivation, and viral RNA and hemadsorbing ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Adachi A,Kanda T,Shibuta H

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Tetrads-forming mutant MT cells of Micrococcus luteus, both treated with chemical reagents and non-treated, were observed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The agglutinability of the cells with antiserum containing anti-teichuronic acid antibody was examined. The binding of protein A-gold particles to the cel...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Monodane T,Tokunaga M,Torii M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae chrysovirus 1 strain A (MoCV1-A) is the causal agent of growth repression and attenuated virulence (hypovirulence) of the rice blast fungus, M. oryzae. We have previously reported that heterologous expression of MoCV1-A ORF4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in growth defects, a large central vacu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Urayama S,Fukuhara T,Moriyama H,Toh-E A,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lancefield group C Streptococcus dysgalactiae causes infections in farmed fish. Here, the genome of S. dysgalactiae strain kdys0611, isolated from farmed amberjack (Seriola dumerili) was sequenced. The complete genome sequence of kdys0611 consists of a single chromosome and five plasmids. The chromosome is 2,142,780 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishiki I,Yoshida T,Fujiwara A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several liposomes containing ovalbumin (OVA), a model antigen, with different lipid compositions were prepared in order to evaluate their ability to induce oral tolerance. Oral administration of these liposomal OVAs induced suppression of the proliferative responses of popliteal lymph node cells from the treated mice ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Horie K,Suzuki R,Yoshikawa T,Hirano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) open reading frame (ORF) VI product (P6) has been shown to be the major constituent of viral inclusion body, to function as a post-transcriptional transactivator, and to be essential for infectivity on whole plants. Although these findings suggest that P6 has an important role in viral ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kobayashi K,Tsuge S,Nakayashiki H,Mise K,Furusawa I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse monoclonal antibody, LP4D3, was raised against purified Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen leader protein (EBNA-LP) fused to glutathione-S-transferase. The antibody detected endogenous and exogenous EBNA-LP in immunoblotting, immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation assays, and the epitope of the antibody wa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shaku F,Matsuda G,Furuya R,Kamagata C,Igarashi M,Tanaka M,Kanamori M,Nishiyama Y,Yamamoto N,Kawaguchi Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomycosis, caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus Blastomyces dermatitides, which is endemic to eastern regions of the USA, is commonly misdiagnosed as a viral or bacterial infection and therefore treated improperly. Over the years, many immunodiagnostic assays to aid in the diagnosis of blastomycosis have been ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hatch WO,Scalarone GM

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection generally provokes antibody responses to the viral envelope glycoprotein. Two major regions of gp120, the third variable (V3) domain and the CD4-binding site, have been identified as neutralization targets. The precise mechanism of HIV-1 neutralization by antibodie...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Harada S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorption of a pooled human gamma globulin preparation with acetone-treated measles virus-infected cells removed all antibodies to measles virus antigens except a portion of the antibody to the fusion (F) protein. The residual anti-F antibody had hemolysis-inhibiting and virus-neutralizing activities, inhibited sprea...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sato TA,Kohama T,Sugiura A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RobA is a member of the XylS/AraC subfamily of DNA binding proteins, and when overexpressed, it induces multiple antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli. In this study, we introduced a multicopy robA plasmid (pMEP1) and its derivative into OmpF mutants and an AcrAB-deficient mutant. We found that a decrease in susce...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka T,Horii T,Shibayama K,Sato K,Ohsuka S,Arakawa Y,Yamaki K,Takagi K,Ohta M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, quantitative, short-time, and reproducible focus assay for Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus is described. After 2 or 3 days of incubation, the infected cells were treated with anti-JE virus serum and complement, and subsequently stained with trypan blue; then clear foci were produced. This method made it ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura-Kuroda J,Yasui K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of MHC class II HLA-DR molecules expressed on a human B lymphoid progenitor cell line FL8.2.4.4 (abbreviated as FL4.4) was examined. FL4.4 cells expressed HLA-DR molecules and stimulation of the DR molecules by anti-DR mAb or by superantigen TSST-1 induced strong augmentation of homocytic aggregation and ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Naitoh K,Ichigi Y,Miyake K,Muraguchi A,Kimoto M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis infection induces formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in vitro; however, the contribution of NETs-mediated killing to the pathogenesis of S. suis in vivo is yet to be elicited. The findings of the present study indicated that extracellular DNA fiber can be induced in a murine model in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhao J,Lin L,Fu L,Han L,Zhang A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin and chitosan were found to exhibit a protective effect on mice administered these polysaccharides intraperitoneally against infection of the viable cells of Candida albicans NIH A-207 strain. A significant difference was observed between the protective effects of chitin and chitosan, i.e., chitin was much more ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Okawa Y,Hashimoto K,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-01-01 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