• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2009

This study was to review the classification, detection and control of bacteriophage in fermented dairy products. Bacteriophage has lytic and/or lysogenic life cycles. Epidemiologically speaking, detected major phages are c2, 936 and p335. Among them p335 has been the largest concern in dairy industry. Traditionally, various analytical technologies, such as spot, starter activity, indicator test, ATP measurement and conductimetric analysis, have been used for the phage detection. In recent years, advanced methods such as flow cytometric method, petrifilm, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and multiflex PCR diagnostic kit have been deveoloped. The phage contamination has been controlled by using heat, high-pressure treatment, and the combinations of heat and pressure, and/or chemical. Also some starter cultures with phage-resistant character have been developed to minimize the concentration of phages in dairy product. Bacteriophage inhibition media such as calcium medium was also mentioned. To prevent the contamination of bacteriophage in dairy industry, further researches on the detection and control of phage, and phage resistant starters are necessary in the future.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.530-536
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• 2006

Bacteriophage P4, a satellite phage of coliphage P2, is a very useful experimental tool for the study of viral capsid assembly and cos-cleavage. For an in vitro cos-cleavage reaction study of the P2-P4 system, new shortened and selectable markers containing P4 derivative plasm ids were designed as a substrate molecules. They were constructed by swapping the non-essential segment of P4 DNA for either the kanamycin resistance (kmr) gene or the ampicillin resistance (apr) gene. The size of the genomes of the resulting markers were 82% (P4 ash8 delRI:: kmr) and 79% (P4 ash8 delRI:: apr) of the wild type P4 genome. To determine the lower limit of genome size that could be packaged into the small P4-size bead, these shortened P4 plasmids were converted to phage particles with infection of the helper phage P2. The conversion of plasmid P4 derivatives to bacteriophage particles was verified by the heat stability test and the burst size determination experiment. CsCl buoyant equilibrium density gradient experiments confirmed not only the genome size of the viable phage form of shortened P4 derivatives, but also their packaging into the small P4-size head. P4 ash8 delRI:: apr turned out to be the smallest P4 genome that can be packaged into P4-sized head.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.416-419
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• 1998

Identification of escherchia coli K1 polysaccharide antigen isolated from urine specimens of urinary tract infections in children were performed from of 1992 to 1993 in Kyoto, Japan. The serotypes of E. coli were categorized that O1:H7, O2:H6, O2:H7, O16:H6, O18:H7, O18:H￣, and O135:H44 among 14 strains isolated from urine specimens of urinary tract infections in children by the serological test. And, one strain (O18:H￣, isolation rate: 7.1%) of E. coli K1 polysaccharide antigen among 14 strains were isolated from urine specimens of urinary tract infections in children by the bacteriophage test.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2021

In virucidal efficacy testing, the chemical inactivation cannot be determined for all viruses due to the difficulties or the inability to culture sufficiently or the risk of exposure to the viruses. Therefore, disinfectants against these viruses could be evaluated by different methods and surrogate viruses are used as alternative. In this study we developed a method for efficacy testing of veterinary disinfectants using one of the candidate surrogate viruses, bacteriophage MS2, as part of the research on the selection of surrogate viruses for efficiency of efficacy testing of veterinary disinfectants. This method is based on the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA) guidelines for efficacy testing of veterinary disinfectants. Bacteriophage and disinfectant are reacted in suspension in accordance with the APQA guidelines and then a newly established double agar layer method is applied for the efficacy test. The double agar layer method is summarized as follows: 1) The bottom agar with 1.5% agar is boiled and cooled before poured into petri dishes at volume of 20 mL, and dried under biological safety cabinet. 2) The top agar with 0.7% agar is boiled and kept at 50℃ before E. coli culture was seeded. 3) The serially diluted bacteriophage MS2-disinfectant mixtures 0.05 mL and E. coli host 0.01 mL (OD₆₀₀ 0.2~0.3) are mixed with 5 mL of top agar and incubate them at 50℃ for 5 min for reaction. 4) The resulting mixture is poured over top of a bottom agar plate and rocked sufficiently to ensure that the top agar covers the entire surface of the bottom agar. 5) The double agar layer is then placed under biological safety cabinet to allow the agar layer to solidify and subsequently incubated at 37℃ for 24 hr. 6) Following incubation, the plates may be inspected for plaques and record results.

• 환경생물
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2002

The direct detection of intestinal pathogens and viruses often requires costly, tedious, and time-consuming procedures. These requirements developed a test to show that the water was contaminated with sewage-borne pathogens by assessing the hygienic quality of water based on indicator microorganisms whose presence indicates that pathogenic microorganisms may also be present. Various groups of microorganisms have been suggested and used as indicator microorganisms. Proposed and commonly used microbial indicators are total coliforms, fecal coliforms, fecal streptococci, Clostridium perfringens, heterotrophic plate count, bacteriophage, and so on. Unfortunately, most, if not all, of these indicators are not ideal because of the sensitivity and resistance to environment stresses and disinfection. However, the development of gene probes and PCR technology may give hope for the discovery of rapid and simple methods toy detecting small number of fecal pathogens in various environments.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.139-147
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• 2005

It is interesting to locate homogeneous segments within a DNA sequence. Suppose that the DNA sequence has segments within which the observations follow the same residue frequency distribution, and between which observations have different distributions. In this setting, change points correspond to the end points of these segments. This article explores the use of a binary segmentation procedure in detecting the change points in the DNA sequence. The change points are determined using a sequence of nested hypothesis tests of whether a change point exists. At each test, we compare no change-point model with a single change-point model by using the Bayesian information criterion. Thus, the method circumvents the computational complexity one would normally face in problems with an unknown number of change points. We illustrate the procedure by analyzing the genome of the bacteriophage lambda.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2013

박테리오파지 P2 sir 변이체는 그것의 위성파지인 박테리오 파지 P4를 위해 비효율적인 도움파지로 알려졌다. 이러한 현상을 "P2 sir-관련 도움파지 비효율성"이라고 부르고 있으며, P2와 P4의 cos 지역에서의 DNA 염기배열 순서 차이가 이러한 현상을 나타나게 한다고 생각되었다. 이를 검증하기 위해, 여러 단계의 in vitro DNA 조작을 거쳐 P2의 cos 지역을 함유하는 유도체 P4인 P4 sid71 cosP2를 조성하였다. 일단계 생장 실험을 통해 그것의 후손 방출량을 결정하였다. 그 결과는, P4 sid71 cosP2에서 P4의 cos 지역을 P2의 cos 지역으로 대체한 것이 "P2 sir-관련 도움파지 비효율성"을 극복한 것으로 나타났다. P2 야생형과 P2 sir 돌연변이형을 도움파지로 삼아 준비한 P4 sid71 cosP2 파지 농축액들을 CsCl 부양 균등밀도 편차실험으로 분석하였다. 그 결과, 양 경우 모두 3개의 P4 유전체를 가진 파지 입자가 우세한 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.135-145
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• 1999

임상가검물에서 생화학 검사와 항생제 감수성 검사를 통하여 45주의 Staphylococcu aureus를 분리하여 역학적 연구를 위한 형별 분류로써 항생제 감수성 검사, bacteriophage typing,효소중합 연쇄반응 등을 실시하였으며, methicillin 내성과 관련이 있는 mecA 유전자를 검출 및 역학적 변별력이 있는 가변지역의 중합효소증폭반응을 실시하여, 약제 내성과 관련된 구조 유전자의 발현 양상을 비교하여 특정 유전자 배열의 상동성을 밝히고자 하였다. 45주의 Staphylococcus aureus중에서 mecA 유전자 양성주는 30주였으며, 그 중에서 26주가 methicillin에 내성을 보였다. 약제 내성양상에 따라 9개의 antibiogram으로 분류되었으며, SA6을 제외한 균주에서 penicillin, oxacillin, gentamicin 및 chloramphenicol 에서는 높은 내성을 보였으며, SAl3, SAl4 및 SA27에서는 rifampin에 내성을 보였다. 27주에서 bacteriophage 형별 분류가 가능하였으며, Iytic group III가 12주로 가장 많았다. mecA 유전자와 mec관련 가변부위의 polymerase chain reaction을 실시한 결과 모든 methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus 에서는 533 bp의 증폭 band가 관찰되었으나, methicillin 감수성 균주에서는 증폭된 band가 관찰되지 않았다. mec관련 가변부위의 polymerase chain reaction에서는 200 bp에서 600 bp사이에 분포하여 4개의 유형으로 분류되었으며, 410bp인 C형이 10균주로 가장 많았다. C형 가변부위의 DNA sequence에서 40 bp가 반복되는 dru sequence를 관찰할 수 있었으며, 이러한 dru sequence는 4 unit가 직접적으로 중복됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.371-378
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• 1996

Three and 2 strains of E coli O157 were isolated from fecal materials of cattle (390) and pigs (420) in Korea, respectively. One strain of O157:H7 isolated from cattle and 2 strains of O157:H7 isolated from pigs were identified as verotoxin-1 (VT-1) produing strains and 2 strains (O157:H7 and O157:H-) isolated from cattle were identified as verotoxin-2 (VT-2) producing strains by neutralization test on HeLa and Vero cells. Culture supernatants of the isolates were cytotoxic to HeLa and Vero cells. The levels of cytotoxin produced by isolates were $10^2{\sim}10^4$ cytotoxic dose($CD_{50}$)/ml. Also, VT-2-converting bacteriophage was isolated from KSC109 strain which had been isolated from cattle. Molecular weight of the phage DNA was determined as approximately 45 Kb in 0.8% agarose gel electrophoresis, and morphology of the phage stained with phosphotungstic acid was observed by transmissible electron microscopy.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.426-431
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 마그네슘-철 층상이중수산화물(Mg-Fe LDH)을 이용하여 인공 지하수에서 바이러스를 제거하는 것이다. Mg-Fe LDH를 이용한 박테리오파지 T7의 제거를 관찰하기 위하여 다양한 실험조건에서 회분실험을 실시하였다. 실험 결과, Mg-Fe LDH에 의한 T7 제거는 빠른 반응으로써, 2~3시간 안에 평형에 도달하였다. Mg-Fe LDH의 T7 제거능은 $1.57{\times}10^8pfu/g$이었고, 제거율은 96%이었다. 또한, pH 6.2~9.1 범위에서 용액 pH가 T7 제거에 미치는 영향은 미미하였다. 음이온들($SO_4^{2-}$, $CO_3^{2-}$, $HPO_4^{2-}$)이 T7 제거에 미치는 영향은 중요하였는데, 이유는 이들 음이온들이 LDH상의 흡착지점에 T7과 경쟁하기 때문이다. 반면, 질산염($NO_3^-$)이 T7 제거에 미치는 영향은 미미하였다. 본 연구에 의하면, Mg-Fe LDH는 흡착제로써 수처리 과정에서 바이러스제거에 적용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.