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ArticleThe Journal of veterinary medical science2020

Serologic survey of Brucella infection in cetaceans inhabiting along the coast of Japan.

Kazue Ohishi, Masao Amano, Ken Nakamatsu, Nobuyuki Miyazaki, Yuko Tajima, Tadasu K Yamada, Ayaka Matsuda, Mari Ochiai, Takashi F Matsuishi, Hajime Taru and 2 more

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Article in The Journal of veterinary medical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Serological Diagnosis ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Kazue OhishiFaculty of Engineering, Tokyo Polytechnic University, 1583 Iiyama, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0297, Japan.
Masao AmanoGraduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
Ken NakamatsuAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8564, Japan.
Nobuyuki MiyazakiAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8564, Japan.
Yuko TajimaNational Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan.
Tadasu K YamadaNational Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan.
Ayaka MatsudaFaculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
Mari OchiaiCenter for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan.
Takashi F MatsuishiFaculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
Hajime TaruKanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa 250-0031, Japan.
Hajime IwaoNiigata City Aquarium, 5932-445 Nishifunami, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Niigata 951-8101, Japan.
Tadashi MaruyamaSchool of Marine Biosciences, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitazato, Minami, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0373, Japan.
Hokkaido University · JPNational Museum of Nature and Science · JPThe University of Tokyo · JPEhime University · JPKanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History · JPKitasato University · JPNagasaki University · JPTokyo Polytechnic University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A serologic investigation of Brucella infection was performed in 7 species of cetaceans inhabiting along the coast of Japan. A total of 32 serum samples were examined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using Brucella abortus and B. canis antigens. One serum sample from five melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) was positive for B. abortus. No serum sample showed positive for B. canis. The ELISA-positive melon-headed whale serum demonstrated a strong band appearance only against B. abortus antigens in Western blot analysis. Many detected bands were discrete, while some of them had a smeared appearance. The present results indicate that Brucella infection occurred in melon-headed whale population and the bacterial antigenicity is more similar to that of B. abortus than B. canis.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, BacterialBrucellaBrucella abortusBrucellosisCetaceaDolphinsEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleJapanSeroepidemiologic StudiesAntibodies, BacterialantibodyBrucellacetaceanwhale

Identifiers

PMID31748439
PMCPMC6983672
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