Leptospirosis is a zoonosis that affects humans and animals worldwide. Raccoons (Procyon lotor), adopted in urban environments, may act as potential reservoirs of Leptospira. We investigated the prevalence of pathogenic Leptospira in the kidney an...
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 84(7) 1023-1028 2022年7月 [査読有り]
The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy for bovine acute Klebsiella pneumoniae mastitis. We evaluated data from cattle in Ehime, Japan, with naturally occurring acute mastitis due to K. pneumonia...
Bioscience of microbiota, food and health 40(2) 98-104 2021年 [査読有り]
In human medicine, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. It has also been tested as a treatment for multiple gastrointestinal diseases, including inflammatory bowel disea...
Cefapirin (CEP) and cefalonium (CNM) are first-generation cephalosporins widely used to treat bovine mastitis caused by Gram-positive bacteria including staphylococci. However, disks for susceptibility testing of those drugs in causative bacteria ...
Akihiro Mori Ai Goto Ryoko Kibe Hitomi Oda Yasushi Kataoka Toshinori Sako
The Journal of veterinary medical science 81(12) 1783-1790 2019年12月 [査読有り]
The effects of prescription diets on canine intestinal microbiota are unknown. In this study, we used next generation sequencing to investigate the impact of four commercially available prescription diet regimens on the fecal microbiome in six hea...
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 60(1) 129-131 1998年
A total of 170 β-hemolytic streptococci isolated from lesions in slaughtered pigs during 1988 to 1995 were identified by biochemical and serological examinations. Of these, 132 strains (77.6%) were Streptococcus (S.) dysgalactiae<...
The journal of veterinary medical science 58(4) 369-372 1996年4月
豚血清中のS. suis type 2抗体を検出するためのELISA法を開発し, 併せて野外調査を行った. ELISA抗原は, 精製莢膜抗原の反応性が最も優れ, S. suisの他の血清型や他の病原細菌に対する抗血清との交差反応は認められなかった. と畜場出荷豚の血清中S. suis type 2抗体の保有率を調べた結果, 汚染農場の抗体陽性率は17.O%, 汚染地域農場は9.8%, 清浄農場では3.4%であり, 汚染農場と清浄農場との間に有意差が認められた.
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