Properties of Hg- and Cd-spores of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551.

abstract：:Selective and differential media were designed for each species of Pityrosporum; P. pachydermatis, P. ovale, and P. orbiculare in order to make feasible a quantitative cultivation. Medium for P. pachydermatis (medium A) was composed of 1% trypticase peptone (BBL), 0.5% yeast extract (BBL), 0.3% glucose, 0.2% NaCl, 1.2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ushijima T,Takahashi M,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opaque (Op) and translucent (Tr) colonial variants were isolated from Vibrio vulnificus strains. Op-type variants were more resistant than the isogenic Tr-type variants, but the survival rate of the Op-type variants varied with the strains. Antisera were prepared by immunizing rabbit with whole cells of Op and Tr vari...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shinoda S,Kobayashi M,Yamada H,Yoshida S,Ogawa M,Mizuguchi Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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：:Periapical lesions are induced by bacterial infection of the dental pulp and result in destruction of the surrounding alveolar bone. Although various immunological studies concerning periapical bone resorption have been reported, the role of cytokines in the formation of periapical lesions remains unclear. In this stu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Oseko F,Yamamoto T,Akamatsu Y,Kanamura N,Iwakura Y,Imanishi J,Kita M

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Antibodies to influenza A virus were detected using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the sera from two of seven Baikal seals (Phoca sibrica) and from five of six ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in Russia. In a hemagglutination-inhibition test using H1-H15 reference influenza A viruses, ELISA-positive sera fro...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohishi K,Kishida N,Ninomiya A,Kida H,Takada Y,Miyazaki N,Boltunov AN,Maruyama T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year (1996-2000) survey of rotavirus infection involving 2,218 diarrheal fecal specimens of children collected from five regions of Japan was conducted. A total of 642 (28.9%) specimens were found to be rotavirus positive. A changed prevalence pattern of rotavirus G serotype was found with an increase of G9 and G2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhou Y,Li L,Okitsu S,Maneekarn N,Ushijima H

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：:Antibodies to fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) of Staphylococcus aureus, including binding domain of FnBPA, the D region, or the A-C regions of FnBPB were produced in rabbits and mice. These antibodies were used to characterize cell-associated FnBPs of S. aureus strain Cowan I, S. aureus strain U320 and a coagulas...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakata N,Rozalska B,Wadström T

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for simple detection of Bordetella holmesii was developed. This assay discriminates between B. holmesii and other Bordetella species and successfully detect B. holmesii DNA in nasopharyngeal swab samples from subjects with suspected pertussis. The LAMP assay result...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Otsuka N,Yoshino S,Kawano K,Toyoizumi-Ajisaka H,Shibayama K,Kamachi K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the RC-HL strain of rabies virus is avirulent in adult mice, the amino acid at position 333 of its G protein is arginine, which is thought to be necessary for virulence in adult mice upon intracerebral inoculation of the virus. This result suggests that besides arginine at position 333, some other positions o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ito H,Minamoto N,Watanabe T,Goto H,Rong LT,Sugiyama M,Kinjo T,Mannen K,Mifune K,Konobe T

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:SCG is a major 6-branched 1,3-beta-D-glucan in Sparassis crispa Fr. SCG shows antitumor activity and also enhances the hematopoietic response in cyclophosphamide (CY)-treated mice. In the present study, the molecular mechanism of the enhancement of the hematopoietic response was investigated. The levels of interferon-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Harada T,Kawaminami H,Miura NN,Adachi Y,Nakajima M,Yadomae T,Ohno N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific tumor microenvironment signaling might prevent the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs) with tolerogenic and immunosuppressive potential accounting for antigen-specific unresponsiveness in the lymphoid organs and in the periphery. In the present study, dendritic cells treated with LLC lung cancer cell or 4T1 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma C,Su M,Shen K,Chen J,Ning Y,Qi C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were developed to detect immunoglobulin G and M antibodies to group A streptococcal (GAS) antigens, streptolysin O, streptokinase, and group A carbohydrate. The sensitivities and the specificities of the IgM capture ELISAs to each GAS antigen were high enough to dist...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hayashi S,Yokota K,Takizawa Y,Tomizawa I,Nejime T,Oguma K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the predominant pathogen for severe hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) in children younger than 5 years, and currently no effective drugs are available for EV71. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop new drugs for the control of EV71 infection. In this study, LJ04 was extracted from Lamin...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Li Z,Cui B,Liu X,Wang L,Xian Q,Lu Z,Liu S,Cao Y,Zhao Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on an O-antigenic polysaccharide moiety derived from Porphyromonas circumdentaria NCTC 12469, a reference strain of Porphyromonas species. The polysaccharide chain was composed of D-glucose, D-galactose, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine in a molar ratio of 1:2:1:...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuo K,Isogai E,Araki Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 is an important pathogen these days. Outbreaks of its infection have been reported all over the world, in Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States, south Africa, and various countries in Europe. In the summer of 2001, the first clinical infection by E. coli O157: H7 was ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsai TY,Luo WC,Wu FT,Pan TM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of accurate methods for predicting progression of tuberculosis (TB) from the latent state is recognized as vitally important in controlling TB, because a majority of cases develop from latent infections. Past TB that has never been treated has a higher risk of progressing than does latent Mycobacterium tub...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Osada-Oka M,Tateishi Y,Hirayama Y,Ozeki Y,Niki M,Kitada S,Maekura R,Tsujimura K,Koide Y,Ohara N,Yamamoto T,Kobayashi K,Matsumoto S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Bacteria of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia have been isolated with increasing frequency from the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, usually following P. aeruginosa infections, but their adherence to human epithelial respiratory cells has never been investigated. In this study, various S. maltophilia strains were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： De Vidipó LA,De Marques EA,Puchelle E,Plotkowski MC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring the amount of HIV-1 DNA in infected cells is important to estimate the size of the viral reservoir in patients. However, the clinical impact of the intracellular viral DNA level remains unclear. The present study examines the clinical significance of the HIV-1 DNA level in peripheral CD4+ T lymphocytes from ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wada K,Nagai H,Hagiwara T,Ibe S,Utsumi M,Kaneda T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible role of intracellular Ca2+ and participation of calmodulin in cellular metabolism in endotoxin-poisoned mice were investigated. The levels of calcium in liver cytosol and liver mitochondria fractions in poisoned mice were markedly higher 18-48 hr after endotoxin injection than in the control mice. On the ot...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Abe H,Sakaguchi O

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phospholipase C (alpha-toxin) gene (plc) of Clostridium perfringens was cloned into pUC19 and the effects of the upstream regions on expression of the plc gene were examined in Escherichia coli JM109. When the 0.7-kb region just upstream of the putative -35 site of the gene was deleted, production of phospholipase...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Toyonaga T,Matsushita O,Katayama S,Minami J,Okabe A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the distribution of epithelioid cells, myofibroblasts, and TGF-beta1 in the formation of granuloma caused by Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex (MAC) lung infection. A retrospective study was performed for 9 cases of positive MAC culture in which lung resections were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujita J,Ohtsuki Y,Suemitsu I,Yamadori I,Shigeto E,Shiode M,Nishimura K,Hirayama T,Matsushima T,Ishida T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-seated trichosporonosis caused by Trichosporon asahii has a high mortality rate and a very poor prognosis. New species-specific oligonucleotide primers for T. asahii were developed from a sequence analysis of rRNA genes that included the internal transcribed spacer regions. A nested PCR assay with specific primer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita T,Nakajima M,Ikeda R,Niki Y,Matsushima T,Shinoda T

更新日期：2001-01-01 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