Antigenic relationship between downy and granular forms of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum.

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 current vaccination strategy against influenza is to induce production of antibodies directed against the surface antigens of these viruses. However, frequent changes in the surface antigens of influenza viruses allow them to avoid antibody-mediated immunity. On the other hand, it is known that cytotoxic T-lymphoc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uchida T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical isolate of herpes simplex virus 1 (TN-1) from a stromal keratitis patient was found to be defective in the glycoprotein C (gC) gene (UL44), thus resulting in the production of truncated gC upon infection. To study the pathogenetic role of truncated gC, we prepared a recombinant LTN-8 derived from TN-1 with ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Minagawa H,Liu Y,Yoshida T,Hidaka Y,Toh Y,Mori R

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was applied for the etiological diagnosis of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiosis in Japan. Nucleotide primers derived from the 17-kDa antigen gene of Rickettsia rickettsii primed a rickettsia-specific 246-base-pair product for all of the Katayama, Abe, Misaka and Kojima strains,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tange Y,Matsumoto M,Okada T,Hasegawa H,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Shigella sonnei, which has generally been associated with dysentery in developed countries, has recently been emerging in developing countries. Specifically, in Brazil few published studies have that molecularly characterized this species. The aims of this study were to analyze the efficacy of typing using multiple-lo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seribelli AA,Frazão MR,Medeiros MIC,Stehling EG,Falcão JP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish an in vitro method of predicting in vivo efficacy of antifungal drugs against Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus, the antifungal activities of fluconazole, itraconazole, and amphotericin B were determined in mouse serum. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of each drug was measured using mo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maki K,Watabe E,Iguchi Y,Nakamura H,Tomishima M,Ohki H,Yamada A,Matsumoto S,Ikeda F,Tawara S,Mutoh S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat resistance at 95 C, heat activation at 75 C, and germination response were determined for spores of 10 serotype strains of Clostridium perfringens type A, including five heat-resistant and five heat-sensitive strains. The D95-values ranged from 17.6 to 63.0 and from 1.3 to 2.8 for the heat-resistant and the heat-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ando Y,Tsuzuki T,Sunagawa H,Oka S

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, in immunocompromised patients. Because no drugs have been approved for treating PML, many antiviral agents are currently being investigated for this purpose. The inhibitory effe...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nukuzuma S,Nakamichi K,Kameoka M,Sugiura S,Nukuzuma C,Tasaki T,Takegami T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the heat resistance and the range of growth temperature o gram-negative rods to find one of the bacterial factors governing their infectivity in exogenous and endogenous infections in predisposed patients. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacte...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuji A,Kaneko Y,Takahashi K,Ogawa M,Goto S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) core protein is detected not only in the cytoplasm but also in the nucleoli of infected cells. We previously showed that a mutant JEV lacking the nucleolar localization of the core protein impaired viral replication in mammalian cells. In this study, we identified a nucleolar phosphop...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuda Y,Mori Y,Abe T,Yamashita T,Okamoto T,Ichimura T,Moriishi K,Matsuura Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HMV-II cells infected with influenza C virus were labeled with inorganic [32P]phosphate to identify phosphorylated proteins. Analysis by radioimmunoprecipitation with antiviral serum or monoclonal antibodies revealed that three major structural proteins of the virus, hemagglutinin-esterase (HE), nucleoprotein (NP)...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishimura H,Sugawara K,Gao P,Muraki Y,Hongo S,Kitame F,Nakamura K

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:For the simple and rapid detection/identification of major pathogenic fungal species such as Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata and Aspergillus fumigatus, common primers for these species and specific primers for each species, designed on the basis on the genomic nucleotide sequences of the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanbe T,Arishima T,Horii T,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：:The present study was done to determine the molecular epidemiology of rabies virus (RV) in Vietnam. The nucleoprotein (N) and glycoprotein (G) genes of RVs were amplified from the brains of ten rabid dogs of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The nucleotide sequences of these genes were compared with those of other Asian stra...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamagata J,Ahmed K,Khawplod P,Mannen K,Xuyen DK,Loi HH,Dung NV,Nishizono A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies specific to Salmonella enteritidis (S.E.) were obtained from immunized egg yolk, and their protective effects against S.E. were studied by using monolayer-cultured human intestinal epithelial cells, Caco-2 and T84. The Salmonella adherence and entry to the cells were partially inhibited by the antibodies. T...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita-Konishi Y,Ogawa M,Arai S,Kumagai S,Igimi S,Shimizu M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two types of carboxypeptidases present in human blood, carboxypeptidase N (CPN) and arginine carboxypeptidase (CPR). CPR is generated during coagulation from a precursor (proCPR) which can be converted to the active form by trypsin in vitro. Since it is difficult to distinguish the two types of carboxypeptid...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Guo X,Morioka A,Kaneko Y,Okada N,Obata K,Nomura T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wilms' tumor gene WT1 is overexpressed in various types of solid tumors, including lung and breast cancer and WT1 protein is a tumor antigen for these malignancies. In phase I clinical trials of WT1 peptide-based cancer immunotherapy, two patients with advanced lung cancer were intradermally injected with 0.3 mg o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuboi A,Oka Y,Osaki T,Kumagai T,Tachibana I,Hayashi S,Murakami M,Nakajima H,Elisseeva OA,Fei W,Masuda T,Yasukawa M,Oji Y,Kawakami M,Hosen N,Ikegame K,Yoshihara S,Udaka K,Nakatsuka S,Aozasa K,Kawase I,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recipient cells migrating into the transplantation site of an allograft recognize histocompatibility antigens on the grafts and are cytotoxic against the grafts. Although the alloreactive immune response is predominantly directed at the major histocompatibility complex (major histocompatibility complex [MHC]; H-2 in m...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Inoue Y,Tashiro-Yamaji J,Hayashi M,Kiyonari H,Shimizu T,Ibata M,Yamana H,Kubota T,Tanigawa N,Yoshida R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leukocidin was isolated and purified from autolysates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain 158 by a combination of procedures such as column chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, and zone electrophoresis on pevikon. The purified preparation showed a single band in each experiment using ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirayama T,Kato I,Matsuda F,Noda M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of recombinant human interleukin-2 (rIL-2) administered prophylactically on the death of CBA/J mice challenged with Klebsiella pneumoniae 27 intraperitoneally were examined. rIL-2 administered subcutaneously at 20 micrograms per mouse for 7 days enhanced survival after a lethal challenge. The injection of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iizawa Y,Nakao M,Kondo M,Yamazaki T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) was performed on immunoprecipitates formed between anti-human T-cell xeno-antiserum (ATS) and cell-surface glycoproteins of human lymphocytes, that had been radioiodinated by lactoperoxidase and purified on a Lentil lectin-coupled Sepharose 4B column. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujimoto J,Ishii Y,Kon S,Matsuura A,Kikuchi K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) are significant pathogens, particularly in medical device related infections and in immunocompromised patients. Five CNS strains were isolated from 5 NOS2 knockout mice with dermatitis. Histologically, granulomatous dermatitis was found in the skin around the ear with epidermal u...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Won YS,Kwon HJ,Oh GT,Kim BH,Lee CH,Park YH,Hyun BH,Choi YK

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to myeloperoxidase (MPO) are a subset of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA, MPO-ANCA) detected in the sera of some patients with primary systemic vasculitis. The titer of MPO-ANCA does not always reflect disease activity and this inconsistency may be attributable to differences in epitopic spec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Kobayashi S,Yamazaki K,Gondo M,Tomizawa K,Arimura Y,Nakabayashi K,Ozaki S,Yoshida M,Yoshida T,Tsusaka N,Muso E,Okazaki T,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2007-01-01 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