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An unusual virus was isolated from a Japanese Cucumis melo cv. Prince melon plant showing mild mottling of the leaves. The virus had a broad experimental host range including at least 19 plant species in five families, with most infected plants showing no symptoms on inoculated and uninoculated systemically infected leaves. The virus particles were spherical, approximately 28 nm in diameter, and the coat protein (CP) had an apparent molecular mass of about 55 kDa. The virus possessed a bi-partite genome with two RNA species, of approximately 8,000 and 4,000 nucleotides. Both genome components for the new virus were sequenced. Amino acid sequence identities in CP between the new virus and previously characterized nepoviruses were found to be low (less than 27%); however, in phylogenetic reconstructions the closest relationship was revealed between the new virus and subgroup A nepoviruses. These results suggest that the new virus represents a novel member of the genus Nepovirus. A new name, Melon mild mottle virus, has been proposed for this new virus.
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Capsid Proteins/genetics , Cucumis melo/virology , Nepovirus/genetics , Plant Diseases/virology , RNA, Viral/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Base Sequence , Capsid Proteins/chemistry , Genome, Viral , Host Specificity , Japan , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission , Molecular Sequence Data , Nepovirus/classification , Nepovirus/isolation & purification , Phylogeny , RNA, Viral/analysis , RNA, Viral/chemistry , Virion/ultrastructureSubject(s)
Antirheumatic Agents/adverse effects , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/drug therapy , Immunoglobulin G/adverse effects , Tuberculosis/etiology , Adult , Aged , Etanercept , Female , Humans , Male , Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor , Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/etiology , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/etiologyABSTRACT
A 36 year-old female was pointed out of pulmonary abnormal shadows in the annual chest survey. Chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT) disclosed bilateral diffuse infiltrative shadows and tree-in-bud appearance in the right upper lung field and the left lingula. A sputum smear for acid-fast bacilli was negative. Histopathologically, the transbronchial lung biopsy specimen revealed non-caseous epithelioid granulomas with numerous giant cells. Acid-fast bacilli were cultured from her sputum, however, nontuberculous mycobacteria was not detected by DNA-DNA hybridization method. Mycobacterium mageritense was identified by 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing with 100% matching. The isolated colony of M. mageritense was resistant to nine anti-tuberculous drugs. Follow-up chest CT scan showed a gradual decrease of infiltrative shadows without therapy. To the best of our knowledge, M. mageritense infections are rare, and this is the first case report of pulmonary infection in the literature. We conclude that the pulmonary infection of M. mageritense is one of causes of granuloma formation, and in some case it is difficult to differentiate clinically from sarcoidosis.
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Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/diagnosis , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Granuloma , Humans , Lung Diseases , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/microbiology , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria/genetics , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria/isolation & purification , RNA, Ribosomal, 16S , Radiography, Thoracic , Remission, Spontaneous , Sequence Analysis, RNA , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiologyABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To determine the cause of outbreak mimicking food poisoning, we studied the toxic polyamine contents of the food and analyzed the clinical characteristics of the affected eight patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Eight cases of histamine poisoning which occurred in tuberculous patients after dinner in our hospital were analyzed by clinical and biochemical methods. We examined the contents of four representative toxic polyamines, histamine, putrescine, cadaverine and tyramine, of the each food of the dinner and their serum concentrations of the monoamine oxidase (MAO), one of histaminases, using radioimmunoassay. RESULTS: The allergy-like symptoms such as flushing, headache, palpitation, itching, wheezing, dyspnea and diarrhea appeared from 20 minutes to two hours after ingestion in those eight patients taking isoniazid (INH), although the other 378 inpatients had no symptom. The histamine content of the ground saury paste was increased to 32 mg/100 g of food, however, the toxic level of food poisoning is less than 50 mg/100 g of food. All eight patients were taking INH, and their serum concentrations of MAO were decreased. CONCLUSION: We concluded that this accident was the histamine fish poisoning. We speculated that those allergy-like symptoms were due to both the increased histamine in the food made with the saury under poor storage conditions and the patients' reduced histaminase activities due to INH. We should perceive possible adverse effects depending on the interactions between certain drugs and food.
