• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 2007

Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative facultative anaerobic bacterium, is a causative animal pathogen in porcine atrophic rhinitis and avian fowl cholera. For the development of recombinant subunit vaccine against P. multocida, we cloned and analyzed the gene for outer membrane protein H (ompH) from a native strain of Pasteurella multocida in Korea. The OmpH had significant similarity in both primary and secondary structure with those of other serotypes. The full-length, and three short fragments of ompH were expressed in E. coli and the recombinant OmpH proteins were purified, respectively. The recombinant OmpH proteins were antigenic and detectable with antisera produced by either immunization of commercial vaccine for respiratory disease or formalin-killed cell. Antibodies raised against the full-length OmpH provided strong protection against P. multocida, however, three short fragments of recombinant OmpHs, respectively, showed slightly lower protection in mice challenge. The recombinant OmpH might be a useful vaccine candidate antigen for P. multocida.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.33 no.11 s.385
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• pp.101-105
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• 2001

가금콜레라(Fowl Cholera)는 야생조류와 닭$\cdot$오리에서 급성 패혈증을 일으키고, 부검시 복강내 실질장기(심장, 근위, 십이지장)에서의 출혈을 일으킨다. 특히, 이 질병은 간의 다발성 괴사반점을 보이고 때로는 신경증상을 나타내는 것을 특징으로 하는 세균성 질병으로 제 2종 법정 가축전염병에 속한다. 국내에서는 지난해인 2000년 10월 22일부터 충청남도 서산시 소재의 천수만 간척지에서 야생조류의 집단 폐사가 발생했다. 그래서 국립수의과학검역원 조류질병과에서 현지 역학조사와 실험실 정밀검사를 통해 처음으로 폐사 원인을 가금콜레라로 진단 내렸다. 그 당시 본 질병으로 폐사한 야생조류는 대부분 오리류(가창오리, 청둥오리 등)였으며 총 13,000여수가 폐사 되었던 것으로 공식 집계되었다. 현재까지 국내에는 검역원 및 일선 시도 가축방역기관들의 철저한 방역조치와 함께 가금 사육농가의 위생적인 사양관리 등으로 닭이나 집오리에서의 가금콜레라는 발생되지 않고 있다.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.274-280
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• 2005

Pasteurella multocida is known to cause widespread infections in husbandry. To induce homologous and heterologous immunity against the infections, outer membrane proteins (OMPs) in the envelope of P. multocida are thought to be attractive vaccine candidates. Outer membrane protein H is considered as the major component of OMPs. In this study, a gene for OmpH was isolated from pathogenic P. multocida serogroup A. The gene was composed of 1,047 nucleotides coding 348 amino acids with signal peptide of 20 amino acids. The amino acid composition showed about 80 to 98 per cent sequence homologies among other 10 strains of P. multocida serogroup A, reported so far. A recombinant ompH, from which signal peptide was truncated, was generated using pRSET A to name 'pRSET A/OmpH-F2'. The pRSET A/OmpH-F2 was well expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3). The truncated OmpH was purified using nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) affinity column chromatography. Its molecular weight was registered to be 40 kDa on SDS-PAGE gel. In order to generate immunesera against the OmpH, 50 ug of the protein was intraperitoneally injected into mice three times. The anti-OmpH immuneserum recognized about $5{\times}10^{-2}$ng quantity of the purified OmpH. It can be used for an effective vaccine production to prevent fowl cholera caused by pathogenic P. multocida (Serogroup A).

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2000

Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative coccobacillus, is part of the normal oral flora of many types of animals, including domestic dogs and cats. It is the etiologic agent of a variety of infectious diseases, such as hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle or fowl cholera in chicken. Although this is a primary pathogen in the animal world, infection due to Pasteurella multocida in man has been described with increasing frequency recently. The majority of individuals with Pasteurella multocida pulmonary infection possess some underlying pulmonary diseases, most commonly bronchiectasis or COPD. With a review of literature, We report a young man who developed the empyema caused by Pasteurella multocida.