• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.93-119
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• 2004

Acanthamoeba and Naegleria are widely distributed in fresh water, soil and dust throughout the world, and cause meningoencephalitis or keratoconjunctivitis in humans and other mammals. Korean isolates, namely, Naegleria sp. YM-1 and Acanthamoeba sp. YM-2, YM-3, YM-4, YM-5, YM-6 and YM-7, were collected from sewage, water puddles, a storage reservoir, the gills of a fresh water fish, and by corneal washing. These isolates were categorized into three groups based on the mortalities of infected mice namely, highly virulent (YM-4), moderately virulent (YM-2, YM-5 and YM-7) and nonpathogenic (YM-3). In addition, a new species of Acanthamoeba was isolated from a freshwater fish in Korea and tentatively named Korean isolate YM-4. The morphologic characters of its cysts were similar to those of A. culbertsoni and A. royreba, which were previously designated as Acanthamoeba group III. Based on experimentally infected mouse mortality, Acanthamoeba YM-4 was highly virulent. The isoenzymes profile of Acanthamoeba YM-4 was similar to that of A. royreba. Moreover, an anti-Acanthamoeba YM-4 monoclonal anti-body reacted only with Acanthamoeba YM-4, and not with A. culbertsoni. Random amplified polymorphic DNA marker analysis and RFLP analysis of mitochondrial DNA and of a 188 small subunit ribosomal RNA, placed Acanthamoeba YM-4 in a separate cluster based on phylogenic distances. Thus Acanthamoeba YM-4 was identified as a new species, and assigned Acanthamoeba sohi. Up to the year 2002 in Korea, two clinical cases were found to be infected with Acanthamoeba spp. These patients died of meningoencephalitis. In addition, one case of Acanthamoeba pneumonia with an immunodeficient status was reported and Acanthamoeba was detected in several cases of chronic relapsing corneal ulcer, chronic conjunctivitis, and keratitis.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.183-193
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• 2023

Balamuthia mandrillaris amebic encephalitis (BAE) can cause a fatal condition if diagnosis is delayed or effective treatment is lacking. Patients with BAE have been previously reported in 12 provinces of China, with skin lesions being the primary symptom and encephalitis developing after several years. However, a significantly lower number of cases has been reported in Southwest China. Here we report an aggressive BAE case of a 64-year-old woman farmer with a history of skin lesions on her left hand. She was admitted to our hospital due to symptoms of dizziness, headache, cough, vomiting, and gait instability. She was initially diagnosed with syphilitic meningoencephalitis and received a variety of empirical treatment that failed to improve her symptoms. Finally, she was diagnosed with BAE combined with amebic pneumonia using next-generation sequencing (NGS), qRT-PCR, sequence analysis, and imaging studies. She died approximately 3 weeks after the onset. This case highlights that the rapid development of encephalitis can be a prominent clinical manifestation of Balamuthia mandrillaris infection.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.156-164
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• 1985

자유생활아에마중 병원성이 강한 것으로 알려진 Naegleria fowleri영양형 $5{\times}10^4$개를 생쥐의 비강내 로 감염시켜서 원발성 아메바성 뇌수막염을 받생시켰다. 그런 과정중 비장을 적출하여 그 영향에 대하여 생쥐의 체중과 수술후 회복기간별로 뇌수막염에 의한 사망율과 평균생존기간을 비교하였다. 또 생쥐의 혈청중 면역확산법으로 항체의 형성여부를 관찰하였으며, 각 실험군에서 채취한 혈청을 전기영동법을 실시하여 혈청단백질분획을 바교하였다. 본 실험결과 다음과 같은 성적을 얻었다. 1. 생후 3주째에 비장을 적출하고 1주일 후에 N. fowleri로 감염시킨 실험I에서 대조군, sham군, 비장적출군 사이의 사망율은 각각 100%, 85%, 95%이었으며, 평균생존기간은 7.3일, 7.5일, 7.8일이었다. 2. 생후 3주째에 비장을 적출하고 3주일 후에 N. fowleri를 감염시킨 실험 II에서 대조군, sham군, 비장적출군 사이의 사망율은 각각 95%, 95%, 95%이었으며, 평균생존기간은 12.1일, 11.5일, 11.5일이었다. 3. 생후 5주째에 비장을 적출하고 1주일 후에 N. fowleri를 감염시킨 실험 III에서 대조군, sham군, 비장적출군 사이의 사망율은 각각 95%, 90%, 95%이었으며, 평균생존기간은 8.1일, 8.3일, 8.6일 이었다. 4. 원발성 아에바성 뇌수막염이 발생된 생쥐의 혈청을 면역확산법을 실시한 결과, 항원-항체 복합체의 2중으로 된 침강대를 관찰하였다. 5. 혈청단백질분획의 비교는 다음과 같았다. 1) 비장을 적출한 후 N. fowleri를 감염 시키기 전에 채취한 혈청중, 대조군에서 분획 III, IV 이 sham군과 비장적출군에 비하여 다르게 나타났다. 2) 비장을 적출한 후 N. fowleri을 감염시켜서 뇌수막염을 발생시킨 생쥐의 혈청에서는 대조군과 sham군의 분획 II, III, V가 비장적출군과 달랐다. 3) 비장을 적출한 후 N. fowleri를 감염시키기 전에 채취한 혈청과 감염시킨 후 뇌수막염에 의하여 사망하기 직전에 채취한 혈청사이에서는 분획 I, III, N, V가 다르게 나타났다. 이상의 결과로 보아, 병원성이 강한 N. fowleri 영양형을 생쥐의 비강내로 떨어뜨려 원말성 아메바성 뇌수막염을 발생시킬 수 있었고, 비장을 적출하면 혈청 단백칠분획에는 차이를 나타낼지라도 생쥐의 사망율과 평균생존기간에는 아무런 영향을 주지 않았음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국임상수의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국임상수의학회 2008년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.173-173
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• 2008

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.401-403
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• 2017

Total 283 dogs were enrolled in this study (control group: 140, patient group: 143). In the patient group, 143 dogs with underlying diseases including immune medicated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) (7), lymphoma (30), hyperadrenocorticism (HAC) (16), trauma (10), pyometra (8), bone fracture (38), peritonitis (13), meningoencephalitis (12) and mitral regurgitation (9) were enrolled in this study. Compared with healthy group, lymphoma, trauma, HAC, and IMHA group showed significantly (P < 0.01) high values of D-dimer and the highest levels in the IMHA group. Additionally, we evaluated the D-dimer level after a week of enoxaparin treatment, and the results showed D-dimer levels of post treatment group were significantly decreased compared to the pre-treatment group in lymphoma, HAC, trauma and IMHA diseases. In the high level D-dimer group, post D-dimer values after enoxaparin treatment had significantly decreased (P < 0.01) compared to levels prior to treatment.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.713-717
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• 2015

A 23-year-old female residing in a village of Cao Bang Province, North Vietnam, visited the Hospital of Hanoi Medical University in July 2013. She felt dim eyes and a bulge-sticking pain in her left eye for some days before visiting the hospital. In the hospital, a clinical examination, an eye endoscopy, and an operation were carried out. A nematode specimen was collected from the eye of this patient. The body of this worm was thin and long and measured $22.0{\times}0.3mm$. It was morphologically suggested as an immature female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. By a molecular method using 18S rRNA gene, this nematode was confirmed as A. cantonensis. This is the first molecular study for identification of A. cantonensis in Vietnam.

• 한국수의병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수의병리학회 2003년도 추계학술대회초록집
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• pp.6-6
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• 2003

Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative bacterium that cause severe clinical disease including meningoencephalitis, septicaemia, and abortion in pregnant women, newborn infants, the debilitated elderly or immunocompromised people. In preliminary experiments on murine listeriosis we noticed suppurative gastritis in mice infected with L. monocytogenes by the intragastric route. The aims of the present study were ⅰ) to describe the histopathology of the experimentally listeria-induced gastroenteritis ⅱ) to investigate the influence of bacterial strain and laboratory mouse strain on infectivity and on the severity of the infection; [3] to examine possible effects of preliminary intragastric administration of sodium bicarbonate. (omitted)

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.875-877
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• 2005

Presence of Enterobacter sakazakii, occasional pathogen of powdered infant formula causing rare, but life-threatening diseases such as neonatal meningitis, bacteremia, necrotizing enterocolitis, and necrotizing meningoencephalitis after ingestion was examined in 45 powdered infant formula products manufactured in Korea using chromogenic Druggan-Forsythe-Iversen (DFI) medium, and isolates were identified with API 20E. Ent. sakazakii was isolated from three products. Ent. sakazakii isolates were genotyped by RAPD-PCR using two random primers, and their banding patterns were compared.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제60권3호
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• pp.183-186
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• 2020

This paper describes the development of neurological signs of two prematurely born calves four days after birth. The pathological examination results indicated fibrinopurulent polyserositis, including meningoencephalitis with suppurative bronchopneumonia. Bovine viral diarrhea virus subtype 2a was detected in most of the internal organs, and the bacterial colonies cultured from the samples were identified as Klebsiella (K.) pneumoniae. Molecular analysis via multilocus sequence typing identified a different K. pneumoniae isolate in each calf-type 14 in calf A and type 65 in calf B. This is the first report identifying K. pneumoniae sequence types 14 and 65 in cattle.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제83권1호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2020

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of intravenous isoniazid (H) and ethambutol (E) administered in patients with new sputum positive drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) with tuberculous meningoencephalitis (TM) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection in the intensive phase of treatment. Methods: Fifty-four patients with TB/TM and HIV co-infection were enrolled for this study. Group 1 comprised of 23 patients treated with E and H intravenously, while rifampicin and pyrazinamide were prescribed orally. Group 2 consisted of 31 patients treated with the first-line anti-TB drugs orally. The concentrations of H and E in blood serum were detected using a chromatographic method. Results: A significant improvement in the clinical symptoms and X-ray signs in patients treated intravenously with H and E was observed and compared to group 2. The sputum Mycobacterium tuberculosis positivity was observed during the second month of the treatment in 25.0% of patients from group 1 and 76.1% of the patients from the control group (p=0.003). In addition, nine patients (39.1%) died up to 6 months when H and E were prescribed intravenously compared with 22 (70.9%) in group 2 (p=0.023). Conclusion: In TB/TM with HIV, the intravenous H and E treatment was more effective than oral H and E treatment at 2 months of intensive treatment in sputum conversion as well as in clinical improvement, accompanied by significantly higher mean serum concentrations. In addition, the mortality rate was lower in intravenous H and E treatment compared to oral treatment.