• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.82.1-82.12
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• 2023

Background: The current conventional serotyping based on antigen-antisera agglutination could not provide a better understanding of the potential pathogenicity of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Brancaster. Surveillance data from Malaysian poultry farms indicated an increase in its presence over the years. Objective: This study aims to investigate the virulence determinants and antimicrobial resistance in S. Brancaster isolated from chickens in Malaysia. Methods: One hundred strains of archived S. Brancaster isolated from chicken cloacal swabs and raw chicken meat from 2017 to 2022 were studied. Two sets of multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were conducted to identify eight virulence genes associated with pathogenicity in Salmonella (invasion protein gene [invA], Salmonella invasion protein gene [sipB], Salmonella-induced filament gene [sifA], cytolethal-distending toxin B gene [cdtB], Salmonella iron transporter gene [sitC], Salmonella pathogenicity islands gene [spiA], Salmonella plasmid virulence gene [spvB], and inositol phosphate phosphatase gene [sopB]). Antimicrobial susceptibility assessment was conducted by disc diffusion method on nine selected antibiotics for the S. Brancaster isolates. S. Brancaster, with the phenotypic ACSSuT-resistance pattern (ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulphonamides, and tetracycline), was subjected to PCR to detect the corresponding resistance gene(s). Results: Virulence genes detected in S. Brancaster in this study were invA, sitC, spiA, sipB, sopB, sifA, cdtB, and spvB. A total of 36 antibiogram patterns of S. Brancaster with a high level of multidrug resistance were observed, with ampicillin exhibiting the highest resistance. Over a third of the isolates displayed ACSSuT-resistance, and seven resistance genes (β-lactamase temoneira [bla_TEM], florfenicol/chloramphenicol resistance gene [floR], streptomycin resistance gene [strA], aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase gene [ant(3")-Ia], sulfonamides resistance gene [sul-1, sul-2], and tetracycline resistance gene [tetA]) were detected. Conclusion: Multidrug-resistant S. Brancaster from chickens harbored an array of virulence-associated genes similar to other clinically significant and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars, placing it as another significant foodborne zoonosis.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1985

A total of 211 strains of Staphylococcus aureus which included 118 strains isolated from various clinical specimens of admitted patients of University Hospital with systemic or severe cases of infection and 93 strains from infected skin diseases of out-patients of dermatology clinic located in rural area, were tested for the antimicrobial susceptibility to the 12 drugs of common use and the phage typing. An these were subjected to the study of plasmid profile analysis for the molecular epidemiology of nosocomial infections. University Hospital(UH) isolates showed higher frequency of resistance than local clinic(LC) isolates against 10 drugs excluding tetracycline(Tc), and trimethoprim(Tp). The MIC of UH isolates were above than $128{\mu}g/ml$ against 9 drugs except Tc, gentamicin(Gm), and Tp, but LC isolates did not show such a high level of MIC. There was difference of MIC needed to inhibit 90% of strains(MIC90) against each drugs tested between two groups of UH and LC isolates. UH isolates showed 2 to 4 times higher value of MIC90 by two-fold serial dilution of drug concentration than LC isolates. Tp was considered as an effective drug in treatment of staphylococcal infections whereas ampicillin and Gm were appeared to be ineffective. Seventy-three strains(61.9%) of UH isolates and 70(69.9%) of LC were typable with phages from Colindale Reference Laboratory. The prevailing phage type of UH isolates belonged to lytic group II were 27 strains(22.9%) and those of LC isolates belonged to lytic group II were 23 strains(24.7%). Thirteen strains(11.0%) of UH isolates were multiply resistant to more than 5 drugs to 10 drugs but none of LC isolates. Through the lysis method of Kado and Liu followed by agarose gel electrophoresis, none of 211 strains showed plasmid profile. These results were confirmed by re-examination through the method of Birnboim and Doly.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.27-37
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• 1979

1978년(年)에 분리(分離)한 9주(株)의 Shigella, 70주(株)의 Salmonella paratyphi A 및 230주(株)의 S. typhi의 약제내성(藥劑耐性), 내성화방지(耐性化防止) 및 제거(除去)에 대(對)하여 실험(實驗)하여 다음과 같은 성적(成績)을 얻었다. Shigella는 79주(株)가 Sh. flexneri, 16주(株)가 Sh. sonnei였는데 1주(株)를 제외(除外)한 94주(株)가 chloramphenicol tetracycline, streptomycin, sulfisomidine에 다약제내성(多藥劑耐性)이었으며 그중(中) 70주(株)는 ampicillin과 carbenicillin에, 80주(株)는 trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole에, 22주(株)는 nalidixic acid에, 1주(株)는kanamycin에도 내성(耐性)이었다. Gentamicin, amikacin, cephaloridine, rifampin에 내성(耐性)인 균주(菌株)를 없었다. S. paratyphi A와 S. typhi는 공시약제(供試藥劑)에 감수성(感受性)이었으나 다만 rifampin, 또는 sulfisomidine에 약(弱)한 내성(耐性)을 가진 것이 있었다. 다약제내성(多藥劑耐性)인 shigella의 약(約) 80%가 전달성(傳達性) R plasmid를 가지고 있어서 그 내성(耐性)을 E. coli에 전달(傳達)시킬 수 있었다. 내성전달빈도(耐性傳達頻度)는 공시균주(供試菌株) 및 피전달균(被傳達菌)에 따라 차이(差異)가 있었다. 보존(保存)한 내성균주(耐性菌株)는 그 비율(比率)은 균주(菌株)에 따라 차이(差異)가 있으나 내성균(耐性菌)과 감수성균(感受性菌)으로 구성(構成)되어 있었으며 계대배양(繼代培養)에 의하여 내성(耐性)이 쉽게 탈락(脫落)되지는 안하였다. Acriflavine은 내성(耐性)을 탈락(脫落)시키는 효과(效果)는 있었으며 균주(菌株)에 따라 그 차이(差異)가 심(甚)하였고 atabrine은 효과(效果)가 없었다. 약제(藥劑)의 병용(倂用)은 Shigella에 대(對)한 작용(作用)을 증강(增强)시키는 경우(境遇)가 많으며 대체(大體)로 상승작용(相乘作用)을 나타냈고 상가작용(相加作用)을 나타내는 경우(境遇)가 있었으나 길항작용(拮抗作用)은 볼 수 없었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.430-435
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• 2013

Multidrug resistance, especially multidrug efflux mechanisms that extrude structurally unrelated cytotoxic compounds from the cell by multidrug transporters, is a serious problem and one of the main reasons for the failure of therapeutic treatment of infections by pathogenic microorganisms as well as of cancer cells. Streptococcus mutans is considered one of the primary causative agents of dental caries and periodontal disease, which comprise the most common oral diseases. A fragment of chromosomal DNA from S. mutans KCTC3065 was cloned using Escherichia coli KAM32 as host cells lacking major multidrug efflux pumps. Although E. coli KAM32 cells were very sensitive to many antimicrobial agents, the transformed cells harboring a recombinant plasmid became resistant to several structurally unrelated antimicrobial agents such as tetracycline, kanamycin, rhodamin 6G, ampicillin, acriflavine, ethidium bromide, and tetraphenylphosphonium chloride. This suggested that the cloned DNA fragment carries a gene encoding a multidrug efflux pump. Among 49 of the multidrug-resistant transformants, we report the functional gene cloning and characterization of the function of one multidrug efflux pump, namely MdeA from S. mutans, which was expressed in E. coli KAM32. Judging from the structural and biochemical properties, we concluded that MdeA is the first cloned and characterized multidrug efflux pump using the proton motive force as the energy for efflux drugs.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 1984

To investigate the factors influencing the artifical transformation in Escherichia coli, E. coli C600 was transformed by pBR322 DNA with tetracycline and ampicillin resistant gene purified by CsCl-Etbr equilibrium density gradient centrifugation from E.coli HB 101. The influencing factors in the transformation such as concentration of calcium chloride, time of ice incubation, temperature and time of heat shock, time of gene expression, effects of plasmid DNA concentration and adding time were examined in these experiments. The results obtained were as follows; 1. The highest transformation frequency was observed in the treatments of 100 mM $CaCl_2$ before heat shock and the treatment of $CaCl_2$ was essential step in the process of E. coli transformation. 2. The highest transformation frequency was observed in the treatment of heat shock at $42^{\circ}C$ for 4 min. or $37^{\circ}C$ for 6 min., but the prolonged heat shock resulted a decreased transformation frequency. 3. Treatments of ice incubation at $0^{\circ}C$ for 45 min. before heat stocks or at $0^{\circ}C$ for 30min. after heat shock resulted an increased transformation frequency. 4. There was a linear relationship between DNA concentration and transformation frequency at the concentration of $8{\times}10^3$ recipient cells. The highest transformation frequency reached in carte of 7 mcg of donor DNA, but above 1 mcg of DNA concentration, transformation frequency was not remarkably increased. Addition of donor DNA just after the treatment of $CaCl_2$ was the best. 5. The best condition of gene expression at $37^{\circ}C$ were 40min. for TC-resistant gene and 100min. for AP-resistant gene. TC-resistant gene was higher in the transformation frequency and faster in the gene expression time than AP-resistant gene. In these results, the best conditions for the transformation of E. coli C 600 with pBR322 DNA were: treatment with 100mM $CaCl_2$, ice incubation at $0^{\circ}C$ for 45 min, heat shock at $42^{\circ}C$ for 4 min., 30 min. of ice incubation and incubation at $37^{\circ}C$ for 100min. for gene expression in that order.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 1980

시판(市販)되고 있는 9종(種)의 유산균음료(乳酸菌飮料)로부터 Lactobacillus bulgaricus 3주(株), Lactobacillus plantarum 2주(株), Lactobacillus cellobiosus 2주(株) 및 Lactobacillus lactis, Lactobacillus casei subsp. casei, Lactobacillus casei subsp, tolerans를 각각(各各) 1주(株) 분리(分離)하여 streptomycin(SM), chloramphenicol(CP), tetracyline(TC), penicillin(PC), ampicillin(AP), kanamycin(KM), erythromycin(EM) 및 nalidixic acid(NA) 등(等) 8종(種)의 약제(藥劑)에 대(對)한 내성검사(耐性檢査)와 접합(接合)(conjugation)에 의(依)한 대장균(大腸菌)에로의 내성인자(耐性因子)의 전달여부(傳達與否) 및 그 빈도(頻度)를 검사(檢査)하여 아래와 같은 성적(成績)을 얻었다. 전분리균주(全分離菌株)가 TC, PC 및 EM에는 고도(高度)의 감수성(感受性)을 보였으나, SM, CP, AP, KM 및 NA에는 대부분(大部分)이 중도(中度) 또는 고도(高度)의 내성(耐性)을 보였다. 분리균주(分離菌株)의 약제내성유형(藥劑耐性類型)은 NA AP(1주(株)), NA CP(1주(株)), NA AP CP(1주(株)), NA AP CP KM(2주(株)), NA AP CP SM(1주(株)) 및 NA AP CP SM KM(5주(株)) 등(等) 6종(種)으로서 전분리균주(全分離菌株)가 2제(劑) 이상(以上) 다제내성(多劑耐性)을 보였다. 분리균주(分離菌株)의 내성인자전달유형(耐性因子傳達類型)은 R(AP)가 6주(株)로서 대부분(大部分)이 1제내성(劑耐性)을 전달(傳達)하였으며, R(AP SM)형(型)도 3주(株)를 점(占)하였다. 분리균주(分離菌株)의 내성인자전달빈도(耐性因子傳達頻度)는 분리균주(分離菌株) 또는 약제(藥劑)에 따른 차이(差異)는 없었으며, 그 범위(範圍)는 $2.8^{-5}-1.5{\times}10^{-1}%$였다. 이상(以上)의 결과(結果)로 세균(細菌)과 세균(細菌)의 접촉(接觸)에 의(依)해서 유산간균(乳酸桿菌)으로부터 대장균(大腸菌)에로 내성인자(耐性因子)가 감염적(感染的)으로 전달(傳達)됨을 알 수 있었으며 유산균제제(乳酸菌製劑) 및 발효유(醱酵乳)에 사용(使用)되는 유산균주(乳酸菌株)의 선택(選擇)에 신중(愼重)해야 하리라고 사료(思料)되었다.

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• 제4권
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• pp.132-140
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• 1986

시판(市販) 사료첨가제(飼料添加劑)에 대한 미생물학적(微生物學的) 오염정도(汚染程度)를 알아보기 위하여 국내(國內)에서 판매(販賣)되고 있는 비타민과 횡물질(鐄物質) 사료첨가제(飼料添加劑) 36개(個) 품목(品目) 총(總) 81례(例)의 시료(試料)를 시험(供試)하여 일반세균(一般細菌) 및 대장균군(大腸菌群)의 오염상태(汚染狀態)를 검사(檢査)하고 아울러 시료(試料)로부터 분리(分離)한 83주(株)의 대장균군(大腸菌群)에 대한 Am등(等) 8종(種)의 항균성낙제(抗菌性樂劑)에 대한 내성빈도(耐性頻度) 및 내성정도(耐性程道)를 파악하였으며 내성균(耐性菌)에 있어서는 내성양상(耐性樣相)과 R plasmid의 분포(分布)를 조사(調査)하여 다음과 같은 성적(成績)을 얻었다. 일반세균(一般細菌)은 시료(試料) 81례(例) 모두 양성(陽性)이었으며 대장균군(大腸菌群)은 81례중(例中) 14례(例)(17.3%) 에서만 양성(陽性)이었다. 일반세균수(一般細菌數)의 분포(分布)는 g당(當) 10미만에서부터 1,400,000까지 다양(多樣)하였으며 그 중(中) 100~1,000/g이 34례(例)(42%)로 가장 많았고 대장균군(大腸菌群)에 있어서는 일반세균(一般細菌)의 오염도(汚染度)가 높을수록 분리율(分離率)이 높았으며 총(總) 18개(個) 제조회사중(製造會社中) 6개사(個社)(33.3%)의 제품(製品)에서 양성(陽性)이었다. 공시균(供試菌) 83주중(株中) 41주(株)(49.4%)가 fecal coliform이었다. 공시균(供試菌)에 대한 약제별(藥劑別) 내성균출현율(耐性菌出現率)은 sulfadimethoxine (Sa)에 대해 92.8%로 가장 높았고 다음으로 streptomycin (Sm)에 67.5%, tetracycline (Tc)에 50.6%, kanamycin (Km)에 26.5%, chloramphenicol(Cm)에 18.1%, ampicillin(Am)에 15.7% 순(順)이었으며 nalidixic acid(Na)와 gentamicin (Gm)에는 전주(全株)가 감수성(感受性)이었고 각공시(各供試) 약제(藥劑)에 있어서 non-fecal coliform에 비하여 fecal coliform의 내성균출현율(耐性菌出現率)이 높았다. 공시균(供試菌)의 최소발육저지농도(最小發育沮止濃度)(minimum inhibitory concentration, MIC) 분포(分布)는 Am 및 Km에 대하여 MIC가 $3,200{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ 이상(以上)인 고도(高度)의 내성(耐性)을 가진 균(菌)이 각각(各各) 7주(株) 및 3주(株)이었으나 대부분의 내성균(耐性菌)은 그 MIC가 $25{\mu}g/m{\ell}$이었고, Cm, Sm 및 Tc에 대한 내성균(耐性菌)의 대부분은 $25{\mu}g/m{\ell}$에서 $400{\mu}g/m{\ell}$의 범위(範圍)이었다. 공시균(供試菌) 83주중(株中) 79주(株)(95.2%)가 공시(供試)한 약제(藥劑) 1종(種) 이상(以上)에 내성(耐性)을 가졌으며 내성형별(耐性型別)로는 SaSm 내성형(耐性型) 및 Sa 단제내성형(單劑耐性型)이 각각(各各) 12주(株)(14.5%)로 가장 많았고 다음으로 SaSmTc형(型) 10주(株)(12%), SaSmTcKm형(型) 7주(株)(8.4%), SaTc형(型) 7주(株)(8.4%) 및 SaSmKm형(型) 6주(株)(7.2%)의 순(順)이었으며 총(總) 19종(種)의 내성형(耐性型)이 관찰되었다. 내성전달시험(耐性傳達試驗) 결과(結果) 내성균(耐性菌) 79주중(株中) 32주(株)(40.5%)가 전달성(傳達性) R plasmid를 보유(保有)하고 있었으며 다제내성균(多劑耐性菌)일수록 내성전달률(耐性傳達率)이 높았다. 공시(供試) 약제별(藥劑別) 내성전달빈도(耐性傳達頻度)는 Am (100%) 및 Cm (80%)에서 매우 높고, 다음으로 Tc (38.1%), Sa (18.2%), Sm (17.9%) 및 Km (4.5%)의 순(順)이었다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.137-143
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• 1999

A novel chromosomal gene tagging technique using a specific fragment of the fatty acid desaturase-like open reading frame (des-like ORF) from the tox-argK gene cluster of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola was developed to identify Xanthomonas spp.released into the environment as biocontrol agents. X. campestris pv. convolvuli FB-635, a pathogen of Convolvulus arvensis L., (bindweed), was chosen as the organism in which to develop and test the system. A 0.52 kb DES fragment amplified from P. syringae pv. phaseolicola C-199 was inserted into pGX15, a cosmid clone containing a 10.3 kb Eco RI-HindIII fragment derived from the xanthomonadin biosynthetic gene cluster contained in plasmid pIG102, to create a pigG::DES insertion. The 10.8 kb EcoRI-BamHI fragment carrying the pigG:: DES insertion was cloned into pLAFR3 to generate pLXP22. pLXP22 was then conjugated into X. campestris pv. convolvuli FB-635 and the pigG::DES insertion integrated into the bacterial chromosome by marker exchange. Rifampicin resistant, tetracycline sensitive, starch hydrolyzing, white colonies were used to differentiate the marked strain from yellow pigmented wild-type ones. PCR primers specific for the unique DES fragment were used for direct detection of the marked strain. Result showed the marked strain could be detected at very low levels even in the presence of high levels of other closely related or competitive bacteria. This PCR-based DES-tagging system provides a rapid and specific tool for directly monitoring the dispersal and persistence of Xanthomonas spp.released into the environment.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.337-345
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• 2006

The shigellae are common etiological agents of bacillary dysentery in humans and primates. During four years from 2002 to 2005, 22 strains of Shigella spp. were isolated from the diarrheic patients in Seoul region. All of them were identified as S. flexneri by biochemical tests and serotyping. The prevalence of serotypes were variable by year, but the major serotypes were 2a and 3a. In an antimicrobial susceptibility test, all of the isolates were resistant to streptomycin and tetracycline, and susceptible to amikacin, kanamycin, cefoxitin, and gentamicin. All of the isolates showed the multi-resistant patterns over 3 drugs. By analysis of the plasmid profile the isolates were classified into 7 groups (P1~P7). Serotypes 2a and 2b were distributed to P1, P2, P3, and P4. Serotype 3a was differentiated to P5 and serotype 3b, to P6 and serotype 4a, to P7. PCR results showed that all isolates were positive for two virulence genes, ipaH and ial, but none of the strains had stx gene. The set1A and set1B genes were detected from 12 isolates (54.5%) that belonged to serotype 2a and 2b. The sen gene was detected from 19 isolates (86.4%). The 22 isolates showed 12 to 17 DNA fragments in the sizes ranging from 20.5 kb to 1135 kb, resulting in 13 patterns by the PFGE with Not I digestion. The PFGE patterns of the isolates showed the close relation with the serotypes, but no relations with year of isolation and antimicrobial resistance.