98 results about "Genus Campylobacter" patented technology

Antimicrobial compounds from Bacillus subtilis for use against animal and human pathogens. A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis was isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of poultry and was found to produce a factor or factors that have excellent inhibitory effects on Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium difficile, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The factor(s) retain full viability and antimicrobial activity after heat treatment. The invention provides a method of treatment of pathogenic microorganisms including C. perfringens.

Multiple strains and species of Campylobacter were found to share a common glycan moitie which is present in a plurality of surface-exposed glycoproteins. This glycan has the formula: GalNAc-a1,4-GalNAc-a1,4-[Glc-β1,3]GalNAc-a1,4-GalNAc-a1,4-GalNAc-a1,3-Bac, wherein Bac is 2,4-diacetamido-2,4,6-trideoxy-D-glucopyranose. This glycan and immunologically active fragments of it have use as vaccines against campylobacter infection in humans and animals. As well, antibodies which specifically bind these compounds may be provided. Such antibodies and vaccines may be used to prevent or neutralize campylobacter infections in livestock thereby preventing this pathogen from entering the human food chain. The glycan may be linked to one or more amino acids to form a glycopeptide. As well, a method for determining the glycan structure of an intact glycoprotein consists of subjecting a sample to high resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (HR-MAS-NMR) spectroscopy.

The present invention belongs to the field of microbe detecting technology. The oligonucleotide probe for detecting common intestinal tract pathogenic bacteria is designed on 16S rRNA and 23S rRNA of bacteria, ipaH of dysentery bacillus giant plasmid, VipR of Salmonella typhi and other gene sequence, has length of 25-50 bp, and relatively high sensitivity and specificity. The oligonucleotide probe is suitable for detection based on nucleic acid hybridization principle, especially detection based on gene chip principle. Under certain use condition, it can detect Listeria, parahemolutic vibrio, Campylobacter, etc. It may be used in many aspects, such as disease diagnosis, environment detection, food poisoning detection, etc.

The present inventors succeeded in cloning the CDT genes of C. coli and C. fetus, which were previously unknown, and in determining their sequences. In addition, the inventors also developed specific primers and primers common to the two species by comparing the CDTs of C. jejuni and C. fetus. Furthermore, the inventors demonstrated that these primers were applicable to multiplex PCR that simultaneously allows for the rapid and convenient determination of the presence of Campylobacter CDT and identification of species, and that they can also be used in PCR-RFLP-based typing.

Disclosed is a method for detecting the species of a bacterium in a simple manner. Specifically disclosed is a method for detecting the species of a bacterium, which can detect at least one bacterial species selected from Staphylococcus species, Streptococcus species, Klebsiella species, Escherichia species, Mycobacterium species, Legionella species, Vibrio species, Bacillus species, Neisseria species, Campylobacter species, Chlamydia species, Chlamydophila species, Mycoplasma species, Listeria species, Salmonella species and Yersinia species, and which comprises the steps of: a) contacting a sample suspected to contain a nucleic acid derived from the bacterium species to be detected with a nucleic acid molecule capable of hybridizing with at least a part of a DnaJ gene derived from the bacterial species; and b) detecting the presence or absence of the hybridization between the nucleic acid molecule and the nucleic acid contained in the sample.

Described herein are a plurality of primers which may be used in a multiplex PCR assay in a fast, accurate, reliable and specific fashion for detecting the presence of specific Campylobacter strains within a sample. These kits can be used on bacterial isolates and has the potential for use directly on foods and environmental samples.

The present invention provides a novel class of monoclonal antibodies which have a high affinity, broad spectrum neutralizing reactivity to flagellin from various Gram-negative bacteria including, but not limited to, E. coli, Salmonella, Serratia, Proteus, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Campylobacter and Pseudomonas. The present invention further provides methods of treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and methods of treating enterobacterial infections using anti-flagellin antibodies in humans, other animals and birds.

Low levels of quaternary ammonium compounds are effective antimicrobial agents in drinking water and potentiate the antimicrobial power of organic acids used as antimicrobials for such purposes. The method is effective against both Gram (−) and Gram (+) bacteria, including but not limited to, Salmonella sp., E. coli, Campylobacter sp. as Staphylococcus sp. and Listeria sp. The combination of quaternary ammonium compounds and one or more organic acids can also be effectively used as antimicrobial washes for fruits, vegetables, meat, and animal carcasses.

The present invention relates to the use of probiotic microorganism in the manufacture of a composition for the prevention or reduction of gastrointestinal Camplylobacter infection in a mammalian animal. It also relates to a method for the prevention or reduction of gastrointestinal Campylobacter infection in a mammalian animal, the method comprising administering to said animal, a probiotic microorganism. The invention also relates to a probiotic microorganism, for use in preventing or reducing gastrointestinal Campylobacter infection in a mammalian animal.

A method of treating or preventing a bacterial infection in an animal comprises administering to the animal an effective amount of an antibacterial peptide, the antibacterial peptide being derived from degraded date pits which are degraded by solid state degradation by a fungus, Trichoderma reesei. The antibacterial peptide has a molecular mass of less than 10 kDa and an amino acid sequence including (a) SEQ ID NO:4 or (b) SEQ ID NO:6. The bacterial infection is caused by a Gram-positive bacteria or a Gram-negative bacteria, for example, a Salmonella species, a Campylobacter species, a Shigella species, an Escherichia species, a Pseudomonas species, and a Staphylococcus species.

The present disclosure provides coding and amino acid sequences for a Campylobacter jejuni pilus protein (and from other species as well). This protein, when administered to a human or animal, elicits the expression of an immune response to Campylobacter jejuni, with the result that colonization and/or infection by this organism is reduced. Recombinant protein or biofilm material comprising the pilus protein is formulated into immunogenic compositions, especially for mucosal administration. Thus, the present invention provides methods for improvement of the microbial quality of food products including poultry, eggs, meat and dairy products, and indirectly of plant foods that may come in contact with agricultural waste, either from fertilization or from irrigation water.

The present invention provides immunogenic compositions against Campylobacter and methods for using the immunogenic composition to generate an immune response against Campylobacter and/or reduce intestinal colonization by Campylobacter.

The invention discloses a real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR detection method of campylobacter jejuni and a kit. In the invention, a primer and a Taqman probe are designed according to a conserved region of a campylobacter jejuni flagellin A (flaA) gene for qualitatively detecting the copy number of nucleic acid of the campylobacter jejuni in a fecal sample of a clinical patient, the fecal samples of a monkey and a dog, and the sample of ileocecal contents of a miniature swine, an upstream primer sequence SEQ ID NO:1, a downstream primer sequence SEQ ID NO:2 and a Taqman probe sequence SEQ ID NO:3. The invention has a great practical significance on quality control of relevant people and animal derived biological products and the inspection and quarantine field of import and export animals, and can ensure the quality of the relevant biological products. The detection method and the kit of the invention can be applied to diagnosis of campylobacter diseases and verification of the campylobacter jejuni in the biological products, thus having wide application prospect.

The invention discloses a loop-mediated isothermal amplication technology-based quick campylobacter jejunii detection kit and a using method thereof. The kit consists of (1) reaction solution, (2) a primer group, (3) sample pretreatment solution and (4) positive contrast solution, wherein the primer group is one of the following eight primer groups, and each primer group comprises a pair of primers, namely an internal primer and an external primer; and a calcein manganese complex is added in advance in the reaction, the manganese is combined with pyrophosphate radical ions separated by dNTP to release the calcein, the released calcein can be observed and identified by naked eyes, the positive result is yellow green, and the negative result is light yellow. The kit has the advantages of strong specificity, short reaction time, high sensitivity and the like.

The field of this invention is the development of therapeutic agents having immunogenic efficacy against Campylobacter. The present invention is directed to a method of producing monoclonal antibodies that are highly specific for epitopes of Campylobacter jejuni outer membrane proteins; to specific monoclonal antibodies made by using the epitopes; and to uses thereof. The invention is drawn further to immunogens comprising certain outer membrane proteins or portions thereof from C. jejuni.