Mycoplasma spp, belongs to the class Mollicutes and is capable to produce alterations in cellular cultures causing damages to the biotechnological industry. Bioproducts generally require two essential inputs, bovine serum and cells. The study herein aims to evaluate the mycoplasma concentrations that affect the growing of BHK21 and Vero cells. The species used were: Mycoplasma orale, M. salivar...

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EVALUATION OF SEROPREVALENCE MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE SPECIFIC IGM AND IGG ANTIBODIES IN ASYMPTOMATIC PRESCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

A major surface antigenic lipoprotein of Mycoplasma agalactiae, promptly recognized by the host's immune system, was characterized. The mature product, P48, showed significant similarity and shared conserved amino acid motifs with lipoproteins or predicted lipoproteins from Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasma hyorhinis, relapsing fever Borrelia spp., Bacillus subtilis, and Treponema pallidum.

The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro antimycoplasmal activity of hydroxytyrosol. Twenty strains of Mycoplasma hominis, three strains of Mycoplasma fermentans, and one strain of Mycoplasma pneumoniae were used. For M. pneumoniae, M. hominis, and M. fermentans, the MICs were 0.5, 0.03 (for 90% of the strains tested), and 0.25 microg/ml, respectively.

Mycoplasma contaminants can be considered important not only for their roles as pathogens but also they may indicate that insufficient care has been taken during vaccine manufacture or quality control. The purpose of this study was to test the poliomyelitis vaccines for Mycoplasma by culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods. During 2008 to 2009, a total of 47 lots of oral poliomyelit...

A large number of piperidyl quinolinemethanols were investigated for antimalarial activity in avian infections because of close chemical similarity to quinine, as part of the wartime search for new and more effective antimalarial agents. In preliminary observations, SN-10,275,3 or 6,8-dichloro-2phenyl-a-2-piperidyl4-quinolinemethanol (Figure 1), gave greatest indication of promise. It is a comp...

This paper reports the preliminary finding that the unique surface morphologies of avian red blood cells (aRBCs) infected by the malaria parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum enables the cells to interact with the roughened surface and become immobilized inside the microfluidic channels. It is also found that a roughened glass substrate with ten-pointheight larger than the depth of surface lesions an...

A microfluidic platform is designed, fabricated, tested, and demonstrated that the unique surface morphologies of avian red blood cells (aRBCs) infected by the malaria parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum enables the cells to interact with the roughened surface and become immobilized inside the microfluidic channels. It is also found that a roughened glass substrate with ten-point-height larger than...