Selective and differential media for isolation and tentative identification of each species of Pityrosporum residing on normal or diseased human skin.

abstract：:The use of continuous free-flow electrophoresis for the purification of extracted lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs ) was investigated. Commercial (nucleic acid contaminated) LPS preparations, isolated by the hot phenol-water method of Westphal from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli 0111: B4, were analyzed. Continu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuwae T,Kurata M

更新日期：1984-01-01 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 aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and its association with cardiac and hepatic damage. Between March 2013 and March 2014, 59 children with MP pneumonia (MPP) and 30 healthy children were enrolled. Serum titers of TLR4, T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-doma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan Q,Meng J,Li P,Liu Z,Sun Y,Yan P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl with meningococcal meningitis lacked serum complement activity. The seventh component of complement (C7) could not be detected in her serum by either functional or immunochemical analysis. The levels of the other components were within the normal range. Her serum complement activity was restored by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Ohta K,Kawamori J,Hirao T,Akagaki Y,Inai S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extract from ECMS was investigated for its effect on the humoral immune responses to foot-and-mouth disease vaccination. Fifty-six mice were randomly divided into seven groups with eight animals in each. Mice in groups 5 to 7 were subcutaneously (s.c.) injected with 0.5 mg DEX daily for 4 days to induce immunosupp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakwiwatkul K,Li RL,Song XM,Hu SH

更新日期：2010-01-01 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

abstract：:The inflammasome is a multiprotein complex that mediates caspase-1 activation with subsequent maturation of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. The NLRP3 inflammasome is known to be activated by Staphylococcus aureus, one of the leading causes of bacteremia worldwide. Inflammasome activation and regulation ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rasmussen G,Idosa BA,Bäckman A,Monecke S,Strålin K,Särndahl E,Söderquist B

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) class-specific antibody responses after primary genital herpes infection were evaluated with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 16 patients treated with acyclovir (ACV), given orally, and 17 patients treated with adenine arabinoside (Ara-A), given topically. ACV significantly su...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawana T,Hashido M,Koizumi Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody recognizing (1-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl laminaritriose (G4) was prepared by immunizing BALB/c mice with G4-bovine serum albumin conjugate and fusing the splenocytes with mouse myeloma cells. The monoclonal antibody (IgM) provoked by the cloned cells showed low reactivity with schizophyll...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirata A,Komoda M,Itoh W,Tabata K,Sugawara I

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Methylcellulose-elicited peritoneal macrophages from BALB/c mice were cultivated in vitro and inoculated with dengue virus (DV). At intervals thereafter portions of the culture fluids were taken and titrated for viral infectivity. Extracts from Ascaris suum and Parascaris equorum, either crude or Sephadex G-100 fracti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wiharta AS,Hotta H,Hotta S,Matsumura T,Sujudi,Tsuji M

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The gH of CMV is a major target for strain-specific neutralizing antibodies. To verify whether there is a correlation between HLA-DR type and strain-specific antibodies, antibodies against CMV gH in potential donors and recipients for renal transplantation were investigated. Among 471 subjects, 404 (86%) showed reacti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishibashi K,Tokumoto T,Shirakawa H,Hashimoto K,Kushida N,Yanagida T,Shishido K,Aikawa K,Yamaguchi O,Toma H,Tanabe K,Suzutani T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immune response to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and its purified envelope (E) protein was measured in 45 laboratory confirmed JE patients using a proliferation assay of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). In parallel, JEV-specific IgM antibodies were measured by ELISA. No correlation was obse...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Desai A,Ravi V,Chandramuki A,Gourie-Devi M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of a suitable animal model is a major obstacle to developing anti-HIV-1 vaccines. We successfully generated an SIVmac/HIV-1 chimeric virus (SHIV) (designated as NM-3rN) that contains the HIV-1 env gene and is infectious to macaque monkeys. Challenging the vaccinated macaque monkeys with NM-3rN, we developed a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Haga T,Kuwata T,Ui M,Igarashi T,Miyazaki Y,Hayami M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we have emphasized: 1) bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) involvement in IgA responses to orally administered thymic-dependent (TD) antigens; 2) characterization of Peyer's patch (PP) lymphoreticular cells; and 3) gastrointestinal immunization with gram negative pathogens and anti-LPS immunity to infec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： McGhee JR,Michalek SM,Kiyono H,Eldridge JH,Colwell DE,Williamson SI,Wannemuehler MJ,Jirillo E,Mosteller LM,Spalding DM

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) and human T-cell leukemia virus type-I (HTLV-I) have a similar tropism for target cell types, especially for CD4+ T cells. In this study, we provide evidence that receptors of these two viruses exist independently on the target cell. We established an HTLV-I-producing CD8+ T...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kannagi M,Kuroda MJ,Maeda Y,Harada S

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The ompA gene, 981 bp in size and identified in the Mycobacterium bovis genome, was cloned and sequenced. Predicted amino acid sequences showed a protein of molecular weight 33.5 kDa with an isoelectric point of 7.28 and an OmpA conserved domain at the carboxy terminal with signal sequence at the N-terminal. Homology ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Singh JP,Verma R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) is related to LPS-susceptibility of either mother or fetus and how LPS or LPS-induced TNF causes IUFD. LPS-susceptible C3H/HeN or -hypo-susceptible C3H/HeJ pregnant mice and the mice mated reciprocally with these mic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohmura Y,Kirikae T,Kirikae F,Nakano M,Sato I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis spp. are opportunistic fungal pathogens that are closely associated with severe pneumonia and pulmonary complications in patients with impaired immunity. In this study, the antigenic epitopes of the gene encoding the 55 kDa antigen fragment of Pneumocystis (p55), which may play an important role in Pneumo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan H,Guo JY,Ma SL,Zhang N,An CL

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Antisense amino acids are amino acids which can be translated from the corresponding anti-codons of a sense amino acid. Antisense peptides encoded by the noncoding DNA strand have a tendency to interact with each other. We have demonstrated that antisense peptide sequences are present intramolecularly, and these may c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imai M,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activities of lipopolysaccharide-like substance (LLS) extracted from Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola strain Moulton by the hot phenol-water method were studied in mice. The addition of 12.5 micrograms/ml or more of LLS fraction increased the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into in vitro cultured ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Matsusaka E,Takayanagi K,Masuzawa T,Iwamoto Y,Morita T,Mifuchi I,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high molecular weight proteinaceous factor in the cell extract of sarcoma 180 (S-180) was found to inhibit phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-triggering of macrophage H2O2 release. This factor (S-180 factor) was stable at 56 C for 1 hr and resistant to ultraviolet-irradiation. The S-180 factor inhibited the specific bi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tomioka H,Saito H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interferon-gammas (rHuIFN-gamma s) were obtained from two different mammalian cells (mouse C127 cells and Chinese hamster ovary, CHO, cells) cultured in a microcarrier culture system. Both rHuIFN-gamma s were purified using sequential chromatographies for their comparison of structural properties. Th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sano E,Kamata K,Okano K,Yamazaki S,Iizuka M,Kobayashi S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00