Microbiology and Immunology
Original Articles Bacteriology
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among veterinary staff and dogs in private veterinary clinics in Hokkaido, Japan 149 Kanako Ishihara, Mieko Saito, Natsumi Shimokubo, Yasukazu Muramatsu, Shigeki Maetani and Yutaka Tamura
Anti-hepatitis C virus compounds obtained from Glycyrrhiza uralensis and other Glycyrrhiza species 180 Myrna Adianti, Chie Aoki, Mari Komoto, Lin Deng, Ikuo Shoji, Tutik Sri Wahyuni, Maria Inge Lusida, Soetjipto, Hiroyuki Fuchino, Nobuo Kawahara and Hak Hotta
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Virology
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Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a novel tumor-targeting bacteria that emits natural near-infrared fluorescence 172 Seong Young Kwon, Sheng-Nan Jiang, Jin Hai Zheng, Hyon E. Choy and Jung-Joon Min
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The diversity of receptor recognition in cholesterol-dependent cytolysins 155 Atsushi Tabata, Kazuto Ohkura, Yukimasa Ohkubo, Toshifumi Tomoyasu, Hisashi Ohkuni, Robert A. Whiley and Hideaki Nagamune
Microbiology and Immunology
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Antiviral activity of extracts from Morinda citrifolia leaves and chlorophyll catabolites, pheophorbide a and pyropheophorbide a, against hepatitis C virus 188 Suratno Lulut Ratnoglik, Chie Aoki, Pratiwi Sudarmono, Mari Komoto, Lin Deng, Ikuo Shoji, Hiroyuki Fuchino, Nobuo Kawahara and Hak Hotta
Immunology
Truncated monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 can alleviate cardiac injury in mice with viral myocarditis via infiltration of mononuclear cells 195 Yan Shen, Feng-Qi Zhang and Xiao Wei Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization is associated with enhanced Th1 inflammatory gene expression in lungs of humans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 202 Meghan E. Fitzpatrick, John R. Tedrow, Maria E. Hillenbrand, Lorrie Lucht, Thomas Richards, Karen A. Norris, Yingze Zhang, Frank C. Sciurba, Naftali Kaminski and Alison Morris
Notes Bacteriology
Virology
Immunoblotting of soluble antigens in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis culture 212 Nilson de Jesus Carlos, Débora Alves Pinto, Mario Augusto Ono, Emerson Jose Venancio, Zoilo Pires de Camargo, Ayako Sano and Eiko Nakagawa Itano Characteristic systemic cytokine responses in children with human bocavirus-positive lower respiratory tract infection 215 Yosuke Hirose, Hiromichi Hamada, Taku Wakui, Tomoko Ogawa and Masaru Terai
Microbiology and Immunology Published for Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Japanese Society for Virology and Japanese Society for Host Defense Research 0385-5600 Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2014
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