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뽕나무 위축병에 관한 연구(접목전염 및 곤충전염) (Studies on the Dwarf Disease of the Mulberry Tree(Transmission by Grafting and Insects))

  • 장병호;김종진
    • 한국잠사곤충학회지
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.17-22
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    • 1971
  • 1968년부터 1970년까지 뽕나무위축병에 관하여 접목전염 및 곤충매개전염시험을 한바 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 병근에 건전수목을 절접하므로서 활착주수중 30%의 전염율을 나타냈다. 건전근에 병수목을 절접함에 있어서는 병수목을 월동전에 채취 저장하였다가 익춘 공시한 것은 활착주수중 14%가 전염되였는데 반하여 월동후에 채취한 병수목에 있어서는 전혀 발병되지 않았다. 건전대목에 병수목을 절접하여 불활착된 것 중 대아가 발조한 것은 전혀 발병되지 않았다. 2. 뽕나무위축병의 무병지대에서 채집한 마름무늬매 미충을 중증위축병주에서 7일, 14일, 21일 간식 각각흡즙시킨 성충을 무병실생묘에 방사접종한 결과 7일구는 전염되지 않았으며 14일구는 22%, 21일구는 61% 전염율을 나타냈다. 흡즙시간과 접종시간은 길수록 전염율이 높았다.

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A Locally Acquired Falciparum Malaria via Nosocomial Transmission in Korea

  • Kim, Jung-Yeon;Kim, Jeong-Su;Park, Mi-Hyun;Kang, Young-A;Kwon, Jun-Wook;Cho, Shin-Hyeong;Lee, Byeong-Chul;Kim, Tong-Soo;Lee, Jong-Koo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제47권3호
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    • pp.269-273
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    • 2009
  • A 57-year old man who was admitted to an emergency room of a tertiary hospital with hemoptysis developed malarial fever 19 days later and then died from severe falciparum malaria 2 days later. He had not traveled outside of Korea for over 30 years. Through intensive interviews and epidemiological surveys, we found that a foreign patient with a recent history of travel to Africa was transferred to the same hospital with severe falciparum malaria. We confirmed through molecular genotyping of the MSP-1 gene that Plasmodium falciparum genotypes of the 2 patients were identical. It is suggested that a breach of standard infection control precautions resulted in this P. falciparum transmission between 2 patients in a hospital environment. This is the first report of a nosocomial transmission of falciparum malaria in Korea.

국내외 공기감염 분야 연구동향 (Review of Recent Studies on the Airborne Infection)

  • 권순박;김창수
    • 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2010
  • Several studies have suggested the possibility of airborne transmission of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, pandemic influenza. because the number of patients increases explosively, if infectious disease had a high basic reproduction number, pharmaceutical interventions such as vaccination, chemoprophylaxis in the early stage of epidemic. Thus, non-pharmaceutical interventions such as mask-wearing, installing air cleaners, school closure are important to control and prevent the infectious diseases. However, the current technology on the mask, air cleaning, ventilation, and etc., seems to be not originated from the understanding of infection via airborne transmission. It is important to estimate the aerodynamic behavior of saliva droplets by coughing or speaking in order to understand the phenomena of airborne infection. In addition, the prediction of transmission of infectious diseases through the air is critical to prevent or minimize the damage of infection. In this review, we reviewed the recent studies on the airborne infection by focusing on the aerodynamic characteristics of saliva droplets and modeling of airborne transmission.

대추나무 미친병에 관한 연구 3 (Withes Broom of Jujube Tree, Zizyphus jujube Mill, Var. inermis Rehd.(Part.3))

  • 김종진
    • 미생물학회지
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 1965
  • Over a period of 1962-64, a transmission-experiment of witchess' broom of jujube tree by stem-grafting was conducted. When stem-grafting of sound scions upon diseased roots or diseased scions upon sound roots were carried out, disease transmission of high rate was witnessed; 99% in the former and, in the latter, 62% of the stocks which saw union by callussing and had new shoots. Even when the diseased scions by stem-grafting or the diseased buds by budding upon sound stock died away, the transmission rate was 21% in stem-grafting and 14% in budding which seems to show that, when tissues of diseased plants and stocks are kept contacted over a certain period, the disease transmission occurs. And when the recovered scions taken from once diseased tree were grafted upon diseased roots, the transmission rate was 100 % and therefore it is presumed that the immunity could not be acquired even under the assumption of complete recovery from the disease. In stem-grafting of the diseased scions upon sound roots, 98% of the scions which were stored in the cellar, overwintered and grafted in spring was diseased, whereas the disease rate of the scions which were cut and grafted in spring was only 33%. It was particularly noteworthy that 90% of the scions in the former case and only 3% in the latter case were diseased as of June 18th approximately 2 months after the actual grafting and then the latter advanced to 33% with the passage of time. It appears that the pathogen in branches and shoots of the diseased trees standing outdoors become inactivated or diminished during winter. Through its symptom, pathological change in tissue, and easy transmission of the disease via stem-grafting, it seems certain that the pathogen of the witches broom disease in jujube tree is a virus.

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Prions and Prion Diseases: Fundamentals and Mechanistic Details

  • Ryou, Chong-Suk
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제17권7호
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    • pp.1059-1070
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    • 2007
  • Prion diseases, often called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are infectious diseases that accompany neurological dysfunctions in many mammalian hosts. Prion diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, "mad cow disease") in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elks. The cause of these fatal diseases is a proteinaceous pathogen termed prion that lacks functional nucleic acids. As demonstrated in the BSE outbreak and its transmission to humans, the onset of disease is not limited to a certain species but can be transmissible from one host species to another. Such a striking nature of prions has generated huge concerns in public health and attracted serious attention in the scientific communities. To date, the potential transmission of prions to humans via foodborne infection and iatrogenic routes has not been alleviated. Rather, the possible transmission of human to human or cervids to human aggravates the terrifying situation across the globe. In this review, basic features about prion diseases including clinical and pathological characteristics, etiology, and transmission of diseases are described. Based on recently accumulated evidences, the molecular and biochemical aspects of prions, with an emphasis on the molecular interactions involved in prion conversion that is critical during prion replication and pathogenesis, are also addressed.

아까시나무모자이크병에 관한 연구 I. 병징 및 접목전염 (Mosaic disease of black locust(Robinia pseudoacacia L.) I. Symptom and transmission by grafting)

  • 김종진
    • 한국응용곤충학회지
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    • 제3권
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 1964
  • 한국 전역에 널리 발생하는 아까시나무의 모자이크병에 대해서, 그 병징을 관찰 기재하고 접목전염시험을 하였다. 본병은 전형적인 mosaic의 양상을 이루며, 접목에 의하여 용역하게 전염되는 것으로 미루어 일종의 virus병으로 생각된다. 접목전염시험에 있어서는 건묘에 병수를, 또는 병근에 건수를 접함으로써, 공히 용역하게 전염시킬 수 있었다. 건묘에 병수를 접한 것에서는, 접하고 일정기간 경과 후 (10-30일) 접수(병)를 박리한 것이, 박리않고 그대로 방치한 것에 비하여 훨씬 감염발병이 양호하였으며, 대목과 접수가 접착한 10-30일간에 있어서의 접착기간의 장단에 따르는 감염율의 증감은 인정할 수 없었다. 그리고 대목과 접수(병)의 유착이 안되었을 경우에도 전염이 되었다. 목병은 그 병징, 접목에 의한 전염, 그리고 즙액전염의 가능(미발표) 등으로 미루어 Atanasoff(1935), 그리고 Milinko등(1961)이 보고한 동남유럽에 분포하는 아까시나무 mosaic disease와 근연의 것이 아닌가 생각된다. 한편 김명오 등(1961)은 한국에 아까시나무 witches broom이 발생하는 것으로 기록했는데, 이는 본 모자이크병을 가리킴이 아닌가 생각된다.

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"황제내경(黃帝內經)"에 나타난 병(病)의 전변유형(傳變類型)에 관한 고찰(考察) (A Study on Transmission and Transmutation of Disease in "Hwangjenaegyeong(黃帝內經)")

  • 김종현;정창현;백유상
    • 대한한의학원전학회지
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    • 제23권2호
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    • pp.157-189
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    • 2010
  • Many chapters of the Hwangjenaegyeong[HN] explain the process of transmission and transmutation of disease. The transmission and transmutation process in the HN can be categorized into one between the viscera and bowels, and another of the external pathogenic gi itself. The process between the viscera and bowels indicates the transport of the pathologic burden between each viscera and bowel. This again is categorized into three types. Interpromoting, intercontrolling and that by Saeng-yang(生陽), Sa-eum(死陰). Next, the transport of the pathogenic gi can be categorized into one moving inwards from the exterior according to personal traits, and that according to the three Eum and three Yang. Although there are numerous types of transmission and transmutation, there are two main criteria in understanding the process. First, whether the process is in accordance with the physiological or natural flow of the body. Interpromoting and three Eum three Yang processes are such examples. To follow the physiological flow of the body means to correspond to either the Heaven and Earth or the original physiology of the human body. Therefore, the disease progresses according to a certain date or season. This indicates a partial malfunction in the circulation of the vital energy, which is relatively easy to recover. In contrast, there are processes that go against the physiological flow, for example, intercontrolling transmission and transmutation. This process focuses on the movement of the pathogenic gi rather than the vital gi. The disease progresses regardless of the flow of the vital energy, and sequential functional damage occurs accordingly. Consequently, as the transmission and transmutation continue, formerly passed organs are left damaged, and the whole process is headed towards death. The second criteria for understanding the process is whether it is cyclic or not. To have a cyclic pattern means that the occurrence of a disease and the time of death is not fixed. Transmission and transmutation processes that have a cyclic pattern mostly follow the physiological flow of the body. As a result, they rarely end in deaths, and the process is centered on vital energy. On the other hand, those with acyclic patterns have a fixed occurrence and death point in the course of the disease. They are mostly unnatural processes, found in fatal acute diseases or consumption diseases.

5-Hydroxytryptamine Inhibits Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission in Rat Corticostriatal Brain Slice

  • Cho, Hyeong-Seok;Choi, Se-Joon;Kim, Ki-Jung;Lee, Hyun-Ho;Kim, Seong-Yun;Cho, Young-Jin;Sung, Ki-Wug
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • 제9권5호
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    • pp.255-262
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    • 2005
  • Striatum is involved in the control of movement and habitual memory. It receives glutamatergic input from wide area of the cerebral cortex as well as an extensive serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) input from the raphe nuclei. In our study, the effects of 5-HT on synaptic transmission were studied in the rat corticostriatal brain slice using in vitro whole-cell recording technique. 5-HT inhibited the amplitude as well as frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSC) significantly, and neither ${\gamma}-aminobutyric$ acid (GABA)A receptor antagonist bicuculline (BIC), nor $N-methyl-_{D}-aspartate$ (NMDA) receptor antagonist, $_{DL}-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric$ acid (AP-V) could block the effect of 5-HT. In the presence non-NMDA receptor antagonist, 2,3-dioxo-6-nitro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrobenxo[f] quinoxaline-7-sulfonamide (NBQX), the inhibitory effect of 5-HT was blocked. We also figured out that 5-HT change the channel kinetics of the sEPSC. There was a significant increase in the rise time during the 5-HT application. Our results suggest that 5-HT has an effect on both pre- and postsynaptic site with decreasing neurotransmitter release probability of glutamate and decreasing the sensitivity to glutamate by increasing the rise time of non-NMDA receptor mediated synaptic transmission in the corticostriatal synapses.

생육 초기에 투광량 증가가 인삼생육 및 지상부 병 발생에 미치는 영향 (Effects of Enhanced Light Transmission Rate During the Early Growth Stage on Plant Growth, Photosynthetic Ability and Disease Incidence of Above Ground in Panax ginseng)

  • 모황성;장인배;유진;박홍우;박기춘
    • 한국약용작물학회지
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    • 제23권4호
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    • pp.284-291
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    • 2015
  • This study was performed to investigate the effects of enhanced light transmission on plant growth, photosynthetic ability, and disease tolerance to leaf blight, anthracnose in ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer, Araliacease family) during the early growth stage (April to June). The photosynthetic ratio, stomatal conductance, and stem diameter of plants grown under a shade net with 15% light transmission rate showed an increasing trend compared to the control plants (5% light transmission rate) although the growth of the aerial parts were not influenced significantly. Plant height, stem length, and leaf length of treated plants were not significantly different from those of the control plants. Root parameters, such as root length, diameter, and weight of treated plants increased significantly compared to the control. Yield performance ($187.4kg{\cdot}10a^{-1}$) of treated plants was 55.5% higher than that of the control ($150.4kg{\cdot}10a^{-1}$). Additionally, disease severity scores of treated plants were lower than those of the control plants, revealing higher survival rates. To retain high yield potential and enhance the level of disease tolerance in ginseng, we suggest the increase of light transmission rate during the early growth stage.

Mechanistic modelling for African swine fever transmission in the Republic of Korea

  • Eutteum Kim;Jun-Sik Lim;Son-Il Pak
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • 제24권2호
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    • pp.21.1-21.5
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    • 2023
  • Under the current African swine fever (ASF) epidemic situation, a science-based ASF-control strategy is required. An ASF transmission mechanistic model can be used to understand the disease transmission dynamics among susceptible epidemiological units and evaluate the effectiveness of an ASF-control strategy by simulating disease spread results with different control options. The force of infection, which is the probability that a susceptible epidemiological unit becomes infected, could be estimated by applying an ASF transmission mechanistic model. The government needs to plan an ASF-control strategy based on an ASF transmission mechanistic model.