Evaluation of enzyme-labeled oligonucleotide probes to identify enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli.

abstract：:We examined the mechanisms of fluconazole resistance in a fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans isolate from a Japanese patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. It was demonstrated that the highly resistant phenotype of this strain was associated with combined mechanisms of the energy-dependent reduced intrace...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kamai Y,Maebashi K,Kudoh M,Makimura K,Naka W,Uchida K,Yamaguchi H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum against a fraction enriched for scrapie-associated fibrils (SAF), was examined for its effects on scrapie incubation period by inoculating mice either intraperitoneally or intracerebrally with various dilutions of the serum mixed with scrapie-infected mouse brain homogenate. After intraperitoneal inoculat...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ito M,Shinagawa M,Doi S,Sasaki S,Isomura H,Takahashi K,Goto H,Sato G

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:The effects of brown rice, containing fourfold as much dietary fiber as polished rice, on the human fecal microflora were determined. Significantly increased numbers of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Enterococcus faecalis were observed during the brown rice intake, whereas the total counts and the numbers of bactero...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Benno Y,Endo K,Miyoshi H,Okuda T,Koishi H,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to determine the possible role of intracellular Ca2+ in lipid peroxide formation in endotoxin-poisoned mice. Leakages of LDH isozyme and acid phosphatase in serum of mice fed a Ca2+-deficient diet were remarkably increased after administration of 200 micrograms of endotoxin compared to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Ibata H,Yokota K

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：:Numerical analysis of 211 strains of rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria was carried out by using 116 characters. New species reported after 1981 and not yet compared with known species by numerical classification were included. At the level of 90% of the matching coefficient, the following species could...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsukamura M,Ichiyama S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the causative agent of botulism in humans and animals. Only BoNT serotype A subtype 1 (BoNT/A1) is used clinically because of its high potency and long duration of action. BoNT/A1 and BoNT/A subtype 2 (BoNT/A2) have a high degree of amino acid sequence similarity in the light chain (LC) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohda T,Tsukamoto K,Torii Y,Kozaki S,Mukamoto M

更新日期：2020-07-01 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

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：:A VeraCode-allele-specific primer extension (ASPE) method was applied to the detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus (HPV)-DNA. Oligonucleotide primers containing HPV-type-specific L1 sequences were annealed to HPV-DNA amplified by PGMY-PCR, followed by ASPE to label the DNA with biotinylated nucleotides. The...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitamura-Muramatsu Y,Kusumoto-Matsuo R,Kondo K,Mori S,Saito S,Tsukahara Y,Kukimoto I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNase B is a major nuclease and a possible virulence factor in Streptococcus pyogenes. The allelic diversity of streptococcal DNase B (sdaB) gene was investigated in 83 strains with 14 emm genotypes. Of the 15 alleles identified, 11 alleles carried only synonymous nucleotide substitutions. On the other hand, 4 alleles...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsumoto M,Sakae K,Hashikawa S,Torii K,Hasegawa T,Horii T,Endo M,Okuno R,Murayama S,Hirasawa K,Suzuki R,Isobe J,Tanaka D,Katsukawa C,Tamaru A,Tomita M,Ogata K,Ikebe T,Watanabe H,Ohta M,Working Group for Group A S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There was a significant amount of non-specific, but not of allergen (e.g., papain, mite feces and four kinds of pollen)-specific, IgE antibodies (Abs) in the sera of normal mice. An i.n. injection of each allergen without adjuvant into mice caused an increase in total IgE Ab titers with a similar time course in the se...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hannya N,Ogita-Nakanishi H,Kato R,Ijiri Y,Hayashi T,Tanaka K,Kawata R,Takenaka H,Kubota T,Yoshida R

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:In recent years, phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4KB) has emerged as a conserved target of anti-picornavirus compounds. In the present study, PI4KB was identified as the direct target of the plant-derived anti-picornavirus compounds, oxoglaucine and pachypodol (also known as Ro 09-0179). PI4KB was also ident...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Arita M,Philipov S,Galabov AS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One strain each of granular and downy varieties of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and two strains each of granular and floccose colonial types Trichophyton rubrum were used for preparation of antigens. The antigens were analyzed by double diffusion against homologous and heterologous antisera raised in rabbits. A total o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shukla NP,Agarwal GP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus infection has attracted special interest because of its high mortality. A strong clinical association exists between hepatic dysfunction and increased morbidity and mortality from V. vulnificus infection. In this study, the effect of C-reactive protein (CRP), a typical hepatogenic acute phase protein...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chae MR,Park BH,Kim JS,Rho HW,Park JW,Kim HR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were immunized intraperitoneally with the food antigen ovalbumin (OVA) while they were fed with Lactobacillus GG heated killed cell preparation. The oral administration of Lactobacillus GG did not appear to modify the antigen-augmented serum IgE in the tested mice but significantly augmented serum OVA spec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： He F,Morita H,Kubota A,Ouwehand AC,Hosoda M,Hiramatsu M,Kurisaki J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil specimens obtained from several areas of Japan, which are closely located to or facing the Continental land of China, were examined for the distribution of Clostridium botulinum, especially pertaining to types A and B. A total of 266 specimens of Japan, when cultured, showed no type A or B toxicity, although 30 (...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamakawa K,Kamiya S,Nishida S,Yoshimura K,Yu H,Lu DY,Nakamura S

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:The genospecies Borrelia afzelii was isolated from a patient of Lyme disease in Hokkaido, Japan, for the first time, by culturing the minced erythema lesion in BSK II medium. Two analytical methods, rRNA gene restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the specific primer ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakao M,Miyamoto K,Fukunaga M,Hashimoto Y,Takahashi H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing process and the fine structure of the cross wall of Staphylococcus were investigated by electron microscopy. Examination of the tangentially sectioned cross wall revealed that it was initially synthesized as a thin cell wall layer by an invaginated cytoplasmic membrane. The wall thickness soon increased by...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Amako K,Umeda A

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve hybridoma cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies to the human interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor (IL-2R) molecule were prepared. These antibodies were characterized by competitive antibody-binding assay and sequential immunoprecipitation assay with four known monoclonal antibodies to the human IL-2R molecule. Th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka Y,Inoi T,Tozawa H,Sugamura K,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the role of the route of immunization on the immunogenicity of killed Salmonella vaccine, mice were immunized with killed S. enteritidis by intraperitoneal (i.p.) and intradermal (i.d.) routes. Whereas the former was non-immunogenic, the i.d. immunization generated an excellent delayed-type hypersen...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： George A,Shroff KE,Rath S,Ghosh SN,Sengupta SR,Kamat RS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis causes whooping cough, a severe and prolonged respiratory disease that results inhas high morbidity and mortality rates, particularly in developing countries. The number incidence of whooping cough cases is increasing in many countries despite high vaccine coverage. Causes for the re-emergence of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Shinzawa N,Ishigaki K,Nakamura K,Abe H,Fukui-Miyazaki A,Ikuta K,Horiguchi Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MoAb) to human neutrophils, designated 3H9, was established by screening for the inhibition of neutrophil adherence to plastic plates containing a medium supplemented with fetal calf serum (FCS medium). The antigen recognized by 3H9 was shown to be present on human leukocytes and found at the hi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohtake K,Takei H,Watanabe T,Sato Y,Yamashita T,Sudo K,Kuroki M,Chihara J,Sendo F

更新日期：1997-01-01 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