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A Fluorescent Recombinase Aided Amplification Assay for Detection of Babesia microti

  • Lin, Hong;Zhao, Song;Ye, Yuying;Shao, Lei;Jiang, Nizhen;Yang, Kun
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.60 no.3
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    • pp.201-205
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    • 2022
  • Babesia microti is one of the most common causative agents of babesiosis. A sensitive and rapid detection is necessary for screening potentially infected individuals. In this study, B. microti cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1) was selected as the target gene, multiple primers were designed, and optimized by a recombinase-aided amplification (RAA) assay. The optimal primers and probe were labeled with fluorescein. The sensitivity of fluorescent RAA (fRAA) was evaluated using gradient diluents of the cox1 recombinant plasmid and genomic DNA extracted from whole blood of B. microti infected mice. The specificity of fRAA was assessed by other transfusion transmitted parasites. The analytical sensitivity of the fRAA assay was 10 copies of recombinant plasmid per reaction and 10 fg/µl B. microti genomic DNA. No cross-reaction with any other blood-transmitted parasites was observed. Our results demonstrated that the fRAA assay would be rapid, sensitive, and specific for the detection of B. microti.

Detection of Human Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Antibody with Recombinant Fragmented Ribosomal P Protein

  • Kim, Yeong Hoon;Yang, Zhaoshou;Lee, Jihoo;Ahn, Hye-Jin;Chong, Chom-Kyu;Maricondi, Wagner;Dias, Ronaldo F.;Nam, Ho-Woo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.4
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    • pp.435-437
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    • 2019
  • Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and is endemic in many Latin American countries. Diagnosis is based on serologic testing and the WHO recommends two or more serological tests for confirmation. Acidic ribosomal P protein of T. cruzi showed strong reactivity against positive sera of patients, and we cloned the protein after fragmenting it to enhance its antigenicity and solubility. Twelve positive sera of Chagas disease patients were reacted with the fragmented ribosomal P protein using western blot. Detection rate and density for each fragment were determined. Fragments F1R1, F1R2, and F2R1 showed 100% rate of detection, and average density scoring of 2.00, 1.67, and 2.42 from a maximum of 3.0, respectively. Therefore, the F2R1 fragment of the ribosomal P protein of T. cruzi could be a promising antigen to use in the diagnosis of Chagas disease in endemic regions with high specificity and sensitivity.

Use of Serological-Based Assay for the Detection of Pepper yellow leaf curl Indonesia virus

  • Hidayat, Sri Hendrastuti;Haryadi, Dedek;Nurhayati, Endang
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.328-332
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    • 2009
  • Diseases caused by Pepper yellow leaf curl virus infection is considered to be emerging plant diseases in Indonesia in the last five years. One key factor for disease management is the availability of accurate detection of the virus in plants. Polyclonal antibody for Pepper yellow leaf curl Indonesia virus-Bogor (PYLCIV-Bgr) was produced for detection of the virus using I-ELISA and DIBA methods. The antibody was able to detect PYLCIV-Bgr from infected plants up to dilution 1/16,384 and cross reaction was not observed with Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), and Chilli veinal mottle virus (ChiVMV). Positive reaction was readily detected in membrane containing Begomovirus samples from Yogyakarta (Kaliurang and Kulonprogo) and West Java (Bogor and Segunung). Infection of PYLCIV-Bgr in chillipepper, tomato, and Ageratum conyzoides was also confirmed using polyclonal antibody for PYLCIV-Bgr in DIBA. Polyclonal antibody for PYLCIV-Bgr is suggested to be included in disease management approach due to its good detection level.

Dispersal of Citrus Bacterial Canker Caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri in Nursery Plots of Unshiu Orange

  • Myung, Inn-Shik;Nam, Ki-Woong;Kwon, Hyeog-Mo
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.205-209
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    • 2003
  • Dispersal of citrus bacterial canker caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri on Unshiu orange was investigated in naturally infested nursery plot at Seogwipo in Jeju island, Korea. Based on phage detection, over 2% of the bacterial pathogen over-wintered in canker lesions and started to multiply in late May. However, symptoms were first observed 1 month after the phage detection. The disease dispersed non-directionally to nearby plants possibly because of indirect dissemination of the bacterium by rain splashes. The disease increased from late June to late August and decreased thereafter. Population of phage increased constantly, however, disease occurrence somewhat fluctuated due to environmental factors. Disease incidence and severity were correlated with rainfall with wind that occurred 14-32 days earlier from late May to late August.

An Efficient Machine Learning Model for Clinical Support to Predict Heart Disease

  • Rao, B.Vara Prasada;Reddy, B.Satyanarayana;Padmaja, I. Naga;Kumar, K. Ashok
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.223-229
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    • 2022
  • Early detection can help prevent heart disease, which is one of the most common reasons for death. This paper provides a clinical support model for predicting cardiac disease. The model is built using two publicly available data sets. The admissibility and application of the the model are justified by a sequence of tests. Implementation of the model and testing are also discussed

Novel pan-lineage VP1 specific degenerate primers for precise genetic characterization of serotype O foot and mouth disease virus circulating in India

  • Sagar Ashok Khulape;Jitendra Kumar Biswal;Chandrakanta Jana;Saravanan Subramaniam;Rabindra Prasad Singh
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.40.1-40.6
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    • 2023
  • Analysis of the VP1 gene sequence of the foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) is critical to understanding viral evolution and disease epidemiology. A standard set of primers have been used for the detection and sequence analysis of the VP1 gene of FMDV directly from suspected clinical samples with limited success. The study validated VP1-specific degenerate primer-based reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for the qualitative detection and sequencing of serotype O FMDV lineages circulating in India. The novel degenerate primer-based RT-PCR amplifying the VP1 gene can circumvent the genetic heterogeneity observed in viruses after cell culture adaptation and facilitate precise viral gene sequence analysis from clinical samples.

Automatic Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease using Neural Network

  • Kouda, Takaharu;Kondo, Hiroshi
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2002
  • Automatic detection of interstitial lung disease using Neural Network is presented. The rounded opacities in the pneumoconiosis X-ray photo are picked up quickly by a back propagation (BP) neural network with several typical training patterns. The training patterns from 0.6 mm ${\O}$ to 4.0 mm ${\O}$ are made by simple circles. The total evaluation is done from the size and figure categorization. Mary simulation examples show that the proposed method gives much reliable result than traditional ones.

Novel Cell-based Protease Assay System for Molecular Cell Biology and Drug Discovery

  • Hwang, Hyun-Jin;Kim, Jeong-Hee;Park, Joon-Woo;Kim, Sung-Hee;Lee, Min-Jeon;Jeong, Han-Seung;Hwang, In-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.169.1-169.1
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    • 2003
  • Recently development of cell-based assay systems which are useful in molecular cell biology and drug discovery attracts significant attention. Here, we introduce a new technologies for monitoring enzyme activity and its inhibition inside living cells. Among various enzymes, proteases are important targets for studying various biological and disease-related processes such as viral infections, apoptosis and Alzheimer's disease. In this study, a sensitive cell-based protease detection system that enables direct fluorescence detection of a target protease and its inhibition inside living cells is introduced. (omitted)

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A Study of Shiitake Disease and Pest Image Analysis based on Deep Learning (딥러닝 기반 표고버섯 병해충 이미지 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, KyeongHo;Jung, SeHoon;Sim, ChunBo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2020
  • The work that detection and elimination to disease and pest have important in agricultural field because it is directly related to the production of the crops, early detection and treatment of the disease insects. Image classification technology based on traditional computer vision have not been applied in part such as disease and pest because that is falling a accuracy to extraction and classification of feature. In this paper, we proposed model that determine to disease and pest of shiitake based on deep-CNN which have high image recognition performance than exist study. For performance evaluation, we compare evaluation with Alexnet to a proposed deep learning evaluation model. We were compared a proposed model with test data and extend test data. The result, we were confirmed that the proposed model had high performance than Alexnet which approximately 48% and 72% such as test data, approximately 62% and 81% such as extend test data.