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...
S. suis type 2のType Strain, 病豚由来株2株, 健康豚由来株2株を用いて, 5系統のマウスの感受性を調べた. その結果, C57BL/6, ICRおよびddYマウスはBALB/c およびSSマウスよりも S. suis type 2に対し低感受性であった. S. suis type 2の Type Strainと病豚由来株の2株は, 10^8 CFUの菌量を接種したときに, 接種マウスに敗血症, 髄膜炎を引き起こし60〜100%のマウスが死亡した. 一方, 健康豚...