Herpes B virus infection is almost asymptomatic in macaques (Macaca spp.), which are the natural hosts of this pathogen, but is the cause of high mortality in humans. Reactivation of the latent virus in the trigeminal ganglia (TG) results in the s...
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 69(10) 1077-1079 2007年10月 [査読有り]
We attempted to isolate Listeria monocytogenes from skin, contents of large intestines and carcasses of cattle introduced to a slaughterhouse in order to identify source of contamination for this pathogen. Sixty skin samples, 60 samples of the con...
A. Desiree LaBeaud   Yoshitsugu Ochiai   C. J. Peters   Eric M. Muchiri   Charles H. King   
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 76(5) 795-800 2007年5月 [査読有り]
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is an emerging pathogen that maintains high biodefense priority based on its threat to livestock, its ability to cause human hemorrhagic fever, and its potential for aerosol spread. To define the range of human trans...
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS 66(1) 96-103 2006年7月 [査読有り]
The invasion ability of Listeria monocytogenes into cultured cells has been used to evaluate its pathogenicity. In this study, invasive ability was investigated using Vero and Caco-2 cell lines. The form of invasion showed no morphological differe...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY 105(3) 455-462 2005年12月 [査読有り]
Discrimination was attempted on 14 Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from commercially available Japanese pork and chicken. Examination of the isolates was performed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the chromoso...