Effects of Bordetella pertussis components on IgE and IgG1 responses.

abstract：:This study revealed the presence of various rickettsial agents in mites from wild rodents collected in Southern Jeolla Province, Korea, by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequence analysis of a partial citrate synthase and rickettsia outer membrane protein B genes. Rickettsial agents closely related to the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Choi YJ,Lee EM,Park JM,Lee KM,Han SH,Kim JK,Lee SH,Song HJ,Choi MS,Kim IS,Park KH,Jang WJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1985 to 1990, serum samples were obtained from 229 healthy dogs. The dogs lived in Hokkaido, known to be infested with ticks. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect IgG and IgM antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi HO14 and HP3, which were isolated from Ixodes ovatus and I. persulcatu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isogai E,Isogai H,Sato N,Yuzawa M,Kawakami M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymyxin B (PXB)-resistant mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae O3 was isolated. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted from the PXB-resistant isolate bound little PXB, although LPS from the parental strain did. The 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of PXB-resistant type LPS showed that it contained much less of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokochi T,Inoue Y,Jiang GZ,Kato Y,Sugiyama T,Kawai M,Fukada M,Takahashi K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of hemagglutinin (HA) activity in a membrane fraction of Bacteroides gingivalis was examined using various compounds. Leupeptin and anti-pain inhibited the HA activity at nM order. This potency was lost when the aldehyde group of leupeptin was converted to an alcohol moiety. Irreversible protease inhibitors...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikata M,Yoshimura F,Nodasaka Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) was reactivated more rapidly in cells of latently infected mouse trigeminal ganglia which were cultured in serum-free medium (after 3.7 days of cultivation) than in those cultured in serum-containing Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (after 8.5 days of cultivation). The concentrati...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that immunization of mice with plasmid pMEa synthesizing Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) envelope protein induced anti-JEV humoral and cellular immune responses. We now show that intra-muscular co-administration of mice with pMEa and pGM-CSF, encoding murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-sti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bharati K,Appaiahgari MB,Vrati S

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:gp96 plays a central role in innate as well as acquired immunity, maturation and chemotaxis of dendritic cells, Ab production, and cross-priming, and is a peptide acceptor in endoplasmic reticulum and an accessory to peptide loading of MHC class I molecules. The remarkable conservation of essential immunological prope...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Cho NH,Choi CY,Seong SY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S toxin was purified from a Clostridium botulinum type D strain 1873 (D-1873). Furthermore, the entire nucleotide sequences of the genes coding for the 16S toxin were determined. It became clear that the purified D-1873 16S toxin consists of neurotoxin, nontoxic nonhemagglutinin (NTNH), and hemagglutinin (HA), a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakajima H,Inoue K,Ikeda T,Fujinaga Y,Sunagawa H,Takeshi K,Ohyama T,Watanabe T,Inoue K,Oguma K

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:The in vitro effect of the heat-labile toxin (HLT) of Bordetella parapertussis on HeLa, baby hamster kidney (BHK), chinese hamster ovary (CHO), myeloma (Pa-NS-1), human embryonic lung (HEL-R66) cells, erythrocytes, adipocytes and lymphocytes from guinea pigs, mice or rats, or aortic smooth muscle cells from pigs or gu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Endoh M,Nagai M,Ueda T,Yoshida Y,Nakase Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation can cause refractory urinary tract infections (UTIs) in dogs; however, minimum biofilm eradication concentrations (MBECs) of veterinary drugs against canine uropathogens remain to be investigated. In this study, the MBECs of orbifloxacin (OBFX), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMS) and amoxicillin/cla...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Harada K

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A chemotaxonomic study was carried out with a new serotyping scheme comprising 35 O-antigen groups of Vibrio fluvialis on the basis of the sugar composition of the polysaccharide portion of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS). A previously developed rapid method of preparing samples for compositional sugar analysis was emp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iguchi T,Kondo S,Hisatsune K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM), or cord factor, is a crucial stimulus of immune responses during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Although TDM has immuno-stimulatory properties, including adjuvant activity and the ability to induce granuloma formation, the mechanisms underlying these remain unknown. We hypothesi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee WB,Yan JJ,Kang JS,Chung S,Kim LK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viable but nonculturable (VBNC) Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139, V. parahaemolyticus, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, enterotoxigenic E. coli, enteropathogenic E. coli, Shigella flexneri, and Salmonella enterica were converted to the culturable state by co-culture with selected eukaryotic cells, e.g., HT-29, Caco-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Senoh M,Ghosh-Banerjee J,Ramamurthy T,Colwell RR,Miyoshi S,Nair GB,Takeda Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+-availability in Staphylococcus aureus cells decreased significantly with increasing NaCl concentration in growth media. Cells grew in a NaCl-free, Chelex resin-treated complex medium only if the medium was supplemented with 50 microM MgCl2, while, growth was limited when the medium was further supplemented with 1...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ochiai T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) have a major role in regulating immune responses, including tumor immunity and peripheral tolerance. In the present study, we identified novel functions of herbal medicines in DCs by screening 99 herbal medicines, most of which are among the 210 Chinese medicines approved by the Ministry of Healt...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukui H,Mitsui S,Harima N,Nose M,Tsujimura K,Mizukami H,Morita A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythematous delayed reactions without induration, presumably assigned to Jones-Mote type, were characterized by the resistance to treatment with cyclophosphamide (CY) before elicitation or immunization in guinea pigs immunized with BGG in IFA or CFA. CY-treatment before elicitation converted delayed erythematous reac...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Himeno K,Nomoto K,Takeya K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the linkage of 16S, 23S, and 5S rRNA genes in several strains of Leptospira and Leptonema by DNA-DNA hybridization. Almost all the hybridizations in all leptospires used in these experiments gave two radioactive bands and the results strongly suggest that the number of the 16S and the 23S rRNA genes in t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukunaga M,Masuzawa T,Okuzako N,Mifuchi I,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：:The cell wall of Clostridium difficile GAI 4131 was revealed by electron microscopy to have an outer layer composed of a nearly square array and contained the two major proteins with molecular weights of 38 kDa and 42 kDa. The properties and reassembly of the two major proteins into the regular array were investigated...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Itoh M,Kawata T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is an important phenotype associated with chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. In the present study, a total of 48 P. aeruginosa strains isolated from clinical specimens were examined for their biofilm-forming ability using a microtiter plate method. The different biofilm-forming abilities were...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yang W,Shi L,Jia WX,Yin X,Su JY,Kou Y,Yi X,Shinoda S,Miyoshi S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular heterogeneity of the extracellular deoxyribonuclease (DNase) in group A streptococci was demonstrated in 42 clinical isolates. Although polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic patterns of the extracellular DNase of all the isolates were heterogeneous, they could be divided into five main patterns with respect to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyakawa Y,Yamada T,Shitara M,Fukazawa Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from bovine intramammary infection (mastitis) were tested for adhesion to bovine mammary epithelial cells after growth in milk whey or TSB. Bacteria grown in milk whey adhered more efficiently to mammary gland epithelial cells in vitro than the corresponding homologous bacteria g...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mamo W,Fröman G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged C57BL/6 (B6) mice could reject allogeneic BALB/c RL male 1 tumor as efficiently as young B6 mice. However, in vitro analysis showed impaired generation of cytotoxic T cell response in aged B6 mice against allogeneic tumor. The reaction could be augmented by the addition of recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2). Enzym...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Win S,Uenaka A,Nakayama E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature dependence of transfer was examined with ten R plasmids originating from clinical isolates of Salmonella. Six of the plasmids were thermosensitive upon transfer, five of which were originally harbored in S. typhimurium and the remaining one in S. derby. One of these plasmids, pNR502, which conferred resist...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida Y,Terawaki Y,Nakaya R

更新日期：1978-01-01 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