Developmental and Comparative Immunology 26(5) 461-469 2002年 [査読有り]
This study demonstrated that a galactose-binding protein (GBP) produced by a fish pathogenic water mold, Aphanomyces piscicida, activates carp leukocytes. Leukocytes were separated from the head kidney and peripheral blood using Percoll density ce...
This study demonstrates that the fish pathogenic Aphanomyces piscicida (= A. invadans) possesses hemagglutinating and hemolytic activities. These activities were observed against goldfish erythrocytes using supernatant of the homogenized hyphae of...
Fish and Shellfish Immunology 7(8) 585-593 1997年11月 [査読有り]
This study observed the adaptability of carp neutrophilic granulocytes possessing spontaneous cytotoxic activity to different environmental temperatures. To study the adaptability of neutrophilic granulocytes, two different temperatures (25° C and...
Mycobacterium marinum is a slow-growing, photochromogenic nontuberculous mycobacterium, which can cause mycobacteriosis in various animals, including humans. Several cases of fish mycobacteriosis have been reported to date. Mycobacterium marinum h...
Mycobacterium chelonae is a nontuberculous mycobacterium that causes infections in various animals, including humans. In this study, we report the draft genome sequence of M. chelonae subsp. bovis strain NJB1701, which was isolated from a Baikal s...
Frontiers in veterinary science 10 1248288-1248288 2023年
INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium montefiorense is one of the causes of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in moray eels and salamanders. Although M. montefiorense infection could be a threat to salamanders, little information is available regardi...
Mycobacterium marinum is a prevalent nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM)-infecting teleosts. Conversely, little is known about mycobacteriosis in elasmobranchs, and M. marinum infection has never been reported from the subclass. This study investig...
Takeshi Komine   Hyogo Ihara   Kentaro Ono   Mitsumi Yoshida   Yuma Sugimoto   Mari Inohana   Hanako Fukano   Osamu Kurata   Shinpei Wada   
The Journal of veterinary medical science 84(12) 1617-1620 2022年11月
In 2019, several aquarium-reared fish died at a sea life park in Japan. Necropsy revealed micronodules on the spleen in the dotted gizzard shad (Konosirus punctatus). Seven of 16 fish exhibited microscopic multifocal granulomas associated with aci...