| genetic and antigenic characterization of newly isolated bovine toroviruses from japanese cattle. | torovirus, a member of the coronaviridae family, is a gastrointestinal infectious agent that has been identified in humans, cattle, pigs, and equines. toroviruses, except equine torovirus, are difficult to propagate in cell culture; indeed, to date, only the aichi/2004 strain of bovine torovirus (btov) has been isolated among the human, bovine, and porcine toroviruses. in the present study, four cytopathogenic btovs were isolated from diarrheal feces of the cattle using the hrt-18 cell line, and ... | 2010 | 20220164 |
| comparison of ehrlichia muris strains isolated from wild mice and ticks and serologic survey of humans and animals with e. muris as antigen. | in metropolitan tokyo, the ehrlichia muris seropositivity rate of 24 wild mice was 63% in hinohara village, but in the surrounding areas, it was 0 to 5%. this finding suggests that the reservoir of e. muris is focal. among the 15 seropositive mice, ehrlichiae were isolated from 9 apodemus speciosus mice and 1 a. argenteus mouse, respectively. five ehrlichial isolates were obtained from 10 ticks (haemaphysalis flava) collected in asuke town, aichi prefecture, where the e. muris type strain had be ... | 1999 | 10074536 |
| venison, another source of paragonimus westermani infection. | paragonimiasis is a typical food-borne parasitic disease, endemic in most parts of asia, with sporadic case reports from american and african countries. the major source of infection is undercooked freshwater crab or crayfish, though consumption of wild boar meat is also responsible for the infection in japan, because wild boar is a paratenic host for paragonimus westermani. recently, living juveniles of p. westermani were isolated from muscle of a sika deer, cervus nippon, in japan, raising the ... | 2016 | 27644890 |