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| Zhang, Houshuang; Lee, Eung-goo; Liao, Min; Compaore, Muller K.A.; Zhang, Guohong; Kawase, Osamu; Fujisaki, Kozo; Sugimoto, Chihiro; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| The characterization of the cross-reactive antigens of two closely related apicomplexan parasites, Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii, is important to elucidate the common mechanisms of parasite–host interactions. In this context, a gene encoding N. caninum ribosomal phosphoprotein P0 (NcP0) was identified by immunoscreening of a N. caninum tachyzoite cDNA expression library with antisera from mice immunized with T. gondii tachyzoites. The NcP0 was encoded by a gene with open reading frame of 936 bp, which encoded a protein of 311 amino acids. The NcP0 gene existed as a single copy in the genome and was interrupted by a 432 bp intron. The NcP0 showed 94.5% amino acid identity to T. gondii P0 (TgP0). Anti-recombinant NcP0 (rNcP0) sera recognized a... |
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Palavras-chave: Neospora caninum; Toxoplasma gondii; Ribosomal phosphoprotein P0; Cross-reactive. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/1035 |
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| Vudriko, Patric; Okwee-Acai, James; Tayebwa, Dickson Stuart; Byaruhanga, Joseph; Kakooza, Steven; Wampande, Edward; Omara, Robert; Muhindo, Jeanne Bukeka; Tweyongyere, Robert; Owiny, David Okello; Hatta, Takeshi; Tsuji, Naotoshi; Umemiya-Shirafuji, Rika; Xuan, Xuenan; Kanameda, Masaharu; Fujisaki, Kozo; Suzuki, Hiroshi. |
| Background: Acaricide failure has been on the rise in the western and central cattle corridor of Uganda. In this study, we identified the tick species associated with acaricide failure and determined their susceptibility to various acaricide molecules used for tick control in Uganda. Methods: In this cross sectional study, tick samples were collected and identified to species level from 54 purposively selected farms (from 17 districts) that mostly had a history of acaricide failure. Larval packet test was used to screen 31 tick populations from 30 farms for susceptibility at discriminating dose (DD) and 2 x DD of five panels of commercial acaricide molecules belonging to the following classes; amidine, synthetic pyrethroid (SP), organophosphate (OP) and... |
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Palavras-chave: Ticks; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) decoloratus; Acaricide; Resistance; Amitraz; Synthetic pyrethroids; Organophosphates. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4437 |
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| Xuan, Xuenan; Zhang, Sofa; Kamio, Tsugihiko; Tsushima, Y.; Kamada, Takenori; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Otsuka, Haruki; Karanis, Panagiotis; Igarashi, Ikuo; Nagasawa, Hideyuki; Fujisaki, Kozo; Mikami, Takeshi; 玄, 学南; 西川, 義文; 五十嵐, 郁男. |
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Palavras-chave: C. parvum; P15; Vaccinia virus; Subunit vaccine. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/314 |
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| Jia, Honglin; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Luo, Yuzi; Yamagishi, Junya; Sugimoto, Chihiro; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| The M17 family leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) hydrolyze amino acids from the N-terminus of peptides. Many LAPs from parasitic protozoa including Plasmmodium, Trypanosoma and Leishmania, have been intensely investigated because of their crucial roles in parasite biology. In this study, a functional recombinant Toxoplasma gondii LAP (rTgLAP) was expressed in Escherichia coli and its enzymatic activity against synthetic substrates for aminopeptidase, as well as the cellular localization was determined. Our results indicated that TgLAP is a functional aminopeptidase in the cytoplasma of T. gondii. |
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Palavras-chave: Toxoplasma gondii; Leucine aminopeptidase; Enzymatic activity. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/2822 |
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| Bannai, Hiroshi; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Seo, Jin-yong; Nakamura, Chinatsu; Zhang, Sofa; Kimata, Isao; Takashima, Yasuhiro; Li, Junyou; Igarashi, Ikuo; Xuan, Xuenan; 西川, 義文; 五十嵐, 郁男; 玄, 学南. |
| An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on the recombinant p23 of Cryptosporidium parvum was established for the detection of antibodies against C. parvum in cattle. The sensitivity and specificity of the ELISA were evaluated with the standard indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) using sporozoites as antigens. Of 77 bovine sera collected from China, 20 (26.0%) were identified as positive by the IFAT. The same samples were tested with the ELISA. The optical densities at 415 nm were compared to the IFAT results and statistically analyzed to designate a provisional cut-off point. As a result, the cut-off point was concluded to be 0.08, which was considered to be the best condition in the light of its sensitivity (80%) and specificity (73.7%).... |
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Palavras-chave: Cryptosporidium parvum; P23; ELISA; IFAT. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/142 |
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| Dautu, George; Munyaka, Biscah; Carmen, Gabriella; Zhang, Guohong; Omata, Yoshitaka; Xuan, Xuenan; Igarashi, Makoto. |
| A combination of antigenic regions of microneme proteins have been previously reported as being protective against chronic toxoplasmosis. In this work, we evaluated immune responses induced by immunizing BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice intradermally with plasmid DNA encoding the protein sequences of Toxoplasma gondii AMA1, MIC2, M2AP and BAG1. Mice immunized with the AMA1 gene developed high levels of serum IgG2a and c antibodies as well as cellular immune responses associated with IFN-γ synthesis suggesting a modulated Th1 type of response. Immunization with the AMA1 gene resulted in a partial but significant protection against the acute phase of toxoplasmosis compared to MIC2, M2AP and BAG1 genes. Therefore, the AMA1 gene appears to generate a strong specific... |
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Palavras-chave: Toxoplasma gondii; DNA; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA immunization; MIC2; Microneme protein-2; M2AP; MIC2 associated protein; AMA1; Apical membrane antigen-1; BAG1; Bradyzoite antigen-1; IgG; Immunoglobulin G. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/1031 |
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| Zhang, Houshuang; Compaore, Muller K.A.; Lee, Eung-goo; Liao, Min; Zhang, Guohong; Sugimoto, Chihiro; Fujisaki, Kozo; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| The cross-reactive antigens of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii are important in the exploration to determine the common mechanisms of parasite-host interaction. In this study, a gene encoding N. caninum apical membrane antigen 1 (NcAMA1) was identified by immunoscreening of a N. caninum tachyzoite cDNA expression library with antisera. from mice immunized with recombinant T gondii apical membrane antigen 1 (TgAMA 1). NcAMA1 was encoded by an open reading frame of 1695 bp, which encoded a protein of 564 amino acids. The single-copy NcAMA1 gene was interrupted by seven introns. NcAMA1 showed 73.6% amino acid identity to TgAMA1. Mouse polyclonal antibodies raised against the recombinant NcAMA1 (rNcAMA1) recognized a 69-kDa native parasite protein by... |
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Palavras-chave: Neospora caninum; Toxoplasma gondii; Apical membrane antigen 1; Cross-reactive; Invasion. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/1034 |
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| Musinguzi, Simon Peter; Suganuma, Keisuke; Asada, Masahito; Laohasinnarong, Dusit; Sivakumar, Thillaiampalam; Yokoyama, Naoaki; Namangala, Boniface; Sugimoto, Chihiro; Suzuki, Yasuhiko; Xuan, Xuenan; Inoue, Noboru. |
| We screened cattle and goats from the districts of Chama, Monze and Mumbwa in Zambia for animal African trypanosomes, Babesia bigemina and Theileria parva using PCRs; 38.1% of the samples tested positive for at least one of the parasite species. The most common parasite was Trypanosoma vivax (19.8%). Its incidence was significantly higher in goats than in cattle, (P<0.05). B. bigemina was found in samples from all the three areas, making it the most widespread of the parasites in Zambia. Among the tested samples, 12.0% of the positive samples were mixed infections. There were significant differences in the infection rates of T. vivax (Mumbwa had a significantly higher infection rate [39.6%, P<0.0001]), Th. parva (Monze had the only cases... |
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Palavras-chave: Animal African trypanosomosis; Cattle; Goat; Piroplasmosis; Zambia. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4389 |
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| Zheng, Weiqing; Liu, Mingming; Moumouni, Paul Franck Adjou; Liu, Xiaoqing; Efstratiou, Artemis; Liu, Zhanbin; Liu, Yangqing; Tao, Huiying; Guo, Huanping; Wang, Guanbo; Gao, Yang; Li, Zifen; Ringo, Aaron Edmund; Jirapattharasate, Charoonluk; Chen, Haiying; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| In this study, blood samples obtained from 162 dogs in Jiangxi, China, were employed in molecular screening of canine tick-borne pathogens by PCR and sequencing. Babesia spp. gene fragment was detected in 12 (7.41%) dogs. All samples were negative for Hepatozoon spp., Ehrlichia canis, Coxiella spp., Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp. and Anaplasma platys. Species-specific PCR analysis further confirmed that 8 (4.94%) and 4 (2.47%) dogs were infected by Babesia canis vogeli and Babesia gibsoni, respectively. Based on our analyses, Babesia spp. infection in Jiangxi appeared not related to age, gender, breed, usage, activity and health status or tick infestation history of the dogs. This is the first molecular report of Babesia canis vogeli and Babesia gibsoni in... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia spp.; Dog; Jiangxi; Tick-borne pathogen. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4423 |
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| Fukumoto, Shinya; Tamaki, Yoh; Okamura, Masashi; Bannai, Hiroshi; Yokoyama, Natsuko; Suzuki, Tomoko; Igarashi, Ikuo; Suzuki, Hiroshi; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| A heterologous prime-boost immunization regime with priming DNA followed by recombinant vaccinia virus expressing relevant antigens has been shown to induce effective immune responses against several infectious pathogens. In this study, we constructed a recombinant plasmid and vaccinia virus, both of which expressed P50 of Babesia gibsoni, to investigate the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a heterologous prime-boost immunization against canine babesiosis. The dogs immunized with the prime-boost regime developed a significantly high level of specific antibody against P50 when compared with the control groups, and the antibody level was strongly increased after a booster immunization with a recombinant vaccinia virus. The prime-boost immunization... |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/812 |
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| Terkawi, M. A.; Aboge, G.; Jia, H.; Goo, Y-K.; Ooka, H.; Yamagishi, Junya; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Kawazu, Shin-ichiro; Fujisaki, K.; Xuan, Xuenan; 山岸, 潤也; 西川, 義文; 河津, 信一郎; 玄, 学南. |
| A novel gene encoding 27-kDa protein was identified by the screening of Babesia gibsoni cDNA library with acutely infected dog serum. The BgP27 is a single copy gene with a predicted open reading frame of 762 bp and 254 amino acids. The phylogenic analysis of the deduced amino acid of BgP27 demonstrated considerable identities with members of Plasmodium berghei circumsporozoite protein family that ranged between 18.4% and 22.8%. The BgP27 was expressed as a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein in Escherichia coli. The serum raised in mice against the recombinant protein specifically reacted with a 27-kDa protein in the extracts of B. gibsoni parasites. Confocal laser scanning microscopic observation showed high fluorescent reactivity with both... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia gibsoni; Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Deiagnostic performance. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/2232 |
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| Jia, Honglin; Zhou, Jinlin; Ikadai, Hiromi; Matsuu, Aya; Suzuki, Hiroshi; Fujisaki, Kozo; Xuan, Xuenan; 鈴木, 宏志; 五十嵐, 郁男; 玄, 学南. |
| Serum from a dog immunized with blood plasma from a B. gibsoni-infected dog, putatively containing secreted antigens, was used to screen a cDNA expression library. A novel gene encoding BgSA1 was identified from the isolated clones. The serum raised in mice immunized with the recombinant BgSA1 expressed in Escherichia coli could recognize a native parasite protein with a molecular mass of 59 kDa. Comparing with the previously established ELISA with recombinant P50 as antigen, the ELISA with recombinant BgSA1 as the antigen was more sensitive when they were used to detect field samples. Moreover, a sandwich ELISA with anti-BgSA1 antibodies could detect the circulating BgSA1 in a serial blood plasma from a dog experimentally infected with B. gibsoni. These... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia gibsoni; Secreted Antigen 1; Identification; Serodiagnosis. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/1655 |
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| Zhou, Mo; Cao, Shinuo; Sevinc, Ferda; Sevinc, Mutlu; Ceylan, Onur; Liu, Mingming; Wang, Guanbo; Moumouni, Paul Franck Adjou; Jirapattharasate, Charoonluk; Suzuki, Hiroshi; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| Considering the scarce information on occurrences of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in domestic animals from Turkey, the aim of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence of these parasite infections in cattle, horses, sheep, goats and dogs in Turkey. The specific antibodies against T gondii and N. caninum were detected by iELISAs based on the recombinant TgSAG2 or NcSAG1 in a total of 2,039 serum samples from eleven provinces. The seroprevalence of T. gondii infections was 46.3%, 4.0%, 20.0%, 12.9% and 19.8%, that of N. caninum infections was 0.3%, 7.4%, 2.1%, 3.2% and 16.6% in the horses, cattle, sheep, goats and dogs, respectively. These results indicated that T gondii and N. caninum infections are prevalent in Turkish domestic animals. |
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Palavras-chave: ELISA; Neospora caninum; Toxoplasma gondii; Turkey. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4422 |
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| Takashima, Yasuhiro; Xuan, Xuenan; Nagasawa, Hideyuki; Matsumoto, Yasunobu; Igarashi, Ikuo; Fujisaki, Kozo; Mikami, Takeshi; Otsuka, Haruki; 玄, 学南; 五十嵐, 郁男. |
| To develop a vaccine against cryptosporidiosis in animals, we constructed recombinant pseudorabies virus (PrV), a member of the Herpesviridae Alphaherpesvirus subfamily, expressing an immunodominant surface protein p23 of Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites. Because of the wide host range of PrV, it has the possibility as the vector to delivery the foreign genes to several species of animals containing experiment animal. In the recombinant constructed in this study, the p23 gene under the control of CAG promoter was integrated into the thymidine kinase (TK) gene of PRV. Antibody against p23 recognized p23 expressed in CPK cells infected with the recombinant, as the approximate 23 kDa specific band in Western blotting analysis. This study showed the... |
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Palavras-chave: Cryptosporidium parvum; P23; Herpes; Pseudorabies virus; Subunit vaccine. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/129 |
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| Miyama, Takako; Inokuma, Hisashi; Itamoto, Kazuhito; Okuda, Masaru; Verdida, Rodolfo A.; Xuan, Xuenan; 猪熊, 壽; 玄, 学南. |
| The clinical usefulness of antibodies against Babesia gibsoni detected by ELISA with recombinant P50 was examined in dogs in an area where B. gibsoni infection was endemic. Only 8 among 14 dogs with acute type B. gibsoni infection without a previous history of infection were positive. This high percentage of false-negative results is thought to be a weak point of ELISA as a diagnostic tool. However, 14 other anemic dogs with a confirmed history of B. gibsoni infection were all positive, thus confirming the higher sensitivity of ELISA in detecting a history of infection. |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia gibsoni; Diagnosis; ELISA. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/925 |
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| Hara, Olgga A; Liao, Min; Baticados, Waren; Bannai, Hiroshi; Zhang, Guohong; Zhang, Sofa; Lee, Eung-goo; Nishikawa, Yoshifumi; Claveria, Florencia G.; Igarashi, Makoto; Nagasawa, Hideyuki; Xuan, Xuenan. |
| Neospora caninum infection is an important disease affecting bovine and canine populations worldwide. The dense granule antigen 7 of N. caninum (NcGRA7) is considered to be an immunodominant antigen. In the present study, the gene encoding truncated NcGRA7 (NcGRA7t) lacking an N-terminal signal peptide was expressed in Escherichia coli, and its diagnostic potential in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was evaluated. The ELISA could clearly discriminate between known N. caninum-positive and -negative sera from dogs. Serum samples randomly collected from dogs in Japan and China were examined for the diagnosis of neosporosis using the ELISA. Twenty-three of 135 samples (17.03%) and 9 of 95 (9.47%) samples from Japan and China, respectively, were... |
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Palavras-chave: Canine; ELISA; Neospora caninum; NcGRA7. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/995 |
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| Kuboki, Noritaka; Tiwananthagorn, Weerawan; Takagi, Hideaki; Nakayama, Tomoko; Xuan, Xuenan; Inoue, Noboru; Igarashi, Ikuo; Tsujimura, Kunio; Ikehara, Yuzuru; Kojima, Naoya; Yokoyama, Naoaki. |
| The oligomannose-coated liposome (OML) vaccine is known to induce cellular immunity specific for the encapsulated antigen in immunized mice. In the present study, we preliminarily evaluated the effect of the OML vaccine encapsulating the soluble protozoan lysate of Toxoplasma gondii, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, or Babesia rodhaini on the corresponding protozoan infections in mice. After the challenge of T. gondii, the OML vaccine group avoided the high mortality resulting from acute infection that was dominantly observed in other control groups. During the infectious course, the development of the T. gondii-specific antibody, which is an indicator of humoral immunity, was constantly controlled at a lower level in the surviving mice of the OML vaccine... |
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Palavras-chave: Oligomannose-coated liposome (OML); OML; Soluble protozoan antigen; Antibody responses. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/1050 |
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| Xuan, Xuenan; Igarashi, Ikuo; Avarzed, A.; Ikadai, Hiromi; Inoue, Noboru; Nagasawa, Hideyuki; Fujisaki, Kozo; Toyoda, Yutaka; Suzuki, Naoyoshi; Mikami, Takeshi; 玄, 学南; 五十嵐, 郁男; 井上, 昇. |
| A set of primers were designed according to the published sequence of the gene encoding a rhoptry protein of Babesia caballi, and used to amplify parasite DNA from the blood samples obtained from carrier horses by polymerase chain reaction（PCR）method．The PCR method was sensitive enough to detect parasite DNA from 2.5 μl blood sample with a parasitemia of 0.000001％. The PCR method was compared with fluorescent antibody test(IFAT) in order to evaluate the diagnosis effciency for B. caball infection in horses. Of 142 field samples from Mongolia, 28(20%) and 96(69%)samples were identified positively by PCR and IFAT, respectively. Although the sensitivity of PCR was lower than IFAT, it was noted that the 5 IFAT-negative samples were PCR-positive, suggesting... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesia caballi; PCR; IFAT. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/281 |
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