Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu et al.
Poor health and malnutrition in preschool children are longstanding problems in Bangladesh. Gut microbiota plays a tremendous role in nutrient absorption and determining the state of health. In this study, metagenomic tool was employed to assess the gut microbiota composition of healthy and malnouri...
Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu et al.
BACKGROUND: The diverse bacterial communities colonizing the gut (gastrointestinal tract) of infants as commensal flora, which play an important role in nutrient absorption and determining the state of health, are known to alter due to diarrhea. METHOD: Bacterial community dynamics in children suffe...
Chamali Das, Bimol C. Roy, Ichiro Oshima, Hideyuki Miyachi et al.
1. The results of a previous experiment indicated that chicks whose growth was severely restricted through under nutrition, had the larger than normal hind limb muscles relative to wing muscles at 21 days of age (Das et al., 2008). In this study, we investigated whether the large relative size of hi...
Jayedul Hassan, Atsushi Hinenoya, Noritoshi Hatanaka, Sharda Prasad Awasthi et al.
ABSTRACT We have recently described a clinical isolate of Providencia rustigianii strain JH-1 carrying the genes for cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) in a conjugative plasmid. A cdtB mutant of strain JH-1, which lost CDT activity, was still found to retain invasiveness and diarrheagenicity. The str...
María Eugenia Vázquez Manríquez, Akiko Makino, Motoko Tanaka, Yasuhisa Abe et al.
During the influenza pandemic of 2009, the number of viral pneumonia cases showed a marked increase in comparison with seasonal influenza viruses. Mutations at amino acid 222 (D222G mutations) in the virus hemagglutinin (HA) molecule, known to alter the receptor-recognition properties of the virus, ...