| contamination of meat with campylobacter jejuni in saitama, japan. | to determine the source of food contamination with campylobacter jejuni, we investigated retail meat, a chicken processing plant and a broiler farm. c. jejuni was found in domestic retailed poultry (45.8%) and imported poultry (3.7%), but not in beef or pork. in the poultry processing plant, there is significant contamination with c. jejuni in chicken carcasses, equipment and workers' hands. this contamination increases during the defeathering and evisceration processes. rapd analysis shows that ... | 1999 | 10359491 |
| [incidence and serotypes of salmonella in apparently healthy swine at slaughterhouses in japan: 1975-1989]. | to find healthy salmonella carriers among swine, isolation of salmonella from fresh cecum samples was attempted at slaughterhouses in tokyo, saitama, and tochigi during a period of 11 years. of a total 3,058 samples, 1,341 were collected between 1975 and 1979, and the other 1,717 between 1984 and 1989. the overall isolation rate of salmonella was 13.3% (408 pigs). the rate was 23.1% between 1975 and 1979 and 5.7% between 1984 and 1989. a total of 1,037 isolates were identified as salmonella and ... | 1995 | 7623420 |
| trichophyton mentagrophytes skin infections in laboratory animals as a cause of zoonosis. | recent sporadic distribution in japan of trichophyton mentagrophytes skin infections among laboratory rats or guinea pigs is reported. six cases of laboratory infection by the fungus in humans who came in direct contact with the affected animals are also presented. mating experiments with the causative fungi isolated from the animal and human skin lesions revealed that all but one sexually reactive strains belonged to the "+" mating type of arthroderma vanbreuseghemii. a retrospective epidemiolo ... | 1981 | 7219511 |
| [number of animals used in experiments in 1990--results of a survey--jalas working group for laboratory animal data bank, tokyo and life science research information section, the institute of physical and chemical research, saitama]. | a survey on the number of animals used in experiments including bioassay, diagnosis, education and preparation of biological agents such as vaccine between april 1990 and march 1991 was conducted. out of 849 universities, institutes, testing laboratories and companies, 607 replies were received. the distribution of the number of animals is shown in the following tables. [tables; see text] | 1992 | 1740161 |
| sarcocystis suihominis detected for the first time from pigs in japan. | sarcoystis suihominis was detected for the first time in japan from the heart and diaphragm of 5 out 600 older culled breeding pigs slaughtered in saitama prefecture, japan. fresh cysts were 1,080-2,040 x 106-170 microns in size. bradysoites measured 15 x 4 microns on average. the cyst wall was usually observed thick, 4-6 microns, and striated, but occasionally thin and smooth according to the difference in sectioning angle and in portion of cysts. scanning electron microscopy showed that many p ... | 1998 | 9560777 |