The residual amount of fumigant was measured over time after fumigation on pine wilt disease infected Pinus koraiensislogs in the forests of Yeoncheon and Pocheon. Dimethyldisulfide (DMDS, 99.6%) was treated in large scale fumigation(100m3) in Yeoncheon and measured after removing tarpaulin cover in the 2 weeks of fumigation. DMDS was detectedat the highest concentration of 77.9 mg/kg in the 2nd week of treatment and decreased to 0.6 mg/kg in the 24th week.Metam-sodium (25%) was treated in small scale fumigation (1m3) in Pocheon and the amount of methylisothiocyanate(MITC) was measured after removing tarpaulin cover at each time of investigation. MITC was detected at the highestconcentration of 72.0 mg/kg in the 2nd week of treatment and then decreased to 7.0 mg/kg in the 24th week. However,unlike DMDS, MITC in the 12th week was detected at high concentration similar to the 1st week, indicating that thecontinuity of the sealing with tarpaulin would have a decisive influence on the residual amount change in fumigated logs.

Steamed and freeze-dried mature silkworm powders (SMSP) have various health improvement effects. However, westill do not know which substances are reponsible for varius health improvement effect yet. In this study, we comparedcontents of phytochemicals in SMSP to mulberry leaves and other silkworm powders. We found that SMSP have certainlevels of phyttochemicals and silk proteins. Our data suggested that various substances in SMSP are responsible for healthimprovements effect. (Project title: Elucidation the health improvement effects of boiled silk worm larvae, Project No:PJ010828012017)

Beetles of the genus Monochamus Dejean (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) are the most important vectors of the pine woodnematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner & Buhrer) (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae). The most efficient wayto control pine wilt disease is to decrease the population levels of the vector Monochamus beetles. Specific and efficientnatural enemies would be an interesting and environmental-friendly option. From 2016 to 2017, we investigated on thelarval parasitoids associated with M. alternatus Hope and M. saltuarius Gebler using the sentinel logs (Pinus koraiensis)in South Korea. As results of this work, we report two larval ectoparasitoids, Spathius verustus Chao and Cyanopterusflavator (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from six survey sites. Each parasitoid was parasitized up to 58.2% and26.3% on 1st and 2nd instar larvae of Monochamus beetles, respectively. These parasitoids are likely to be highly efficientas bio-control agents. Morphological characters with illustration and some biological information of them are provided.

The lingzhi mushroom or reishi mushroom (traditional Chinese: 靈芝; pinyin: língzhī; Japanese: 霊芝; rōmaji: reishi; Vietnamese: linh chi; Korean: Yeong Ji; literally: "soul/spirit mushroom") is a species complex that encompasses several fungal species of the genus Ganoderma, most commonly the closely related species Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma tsugae, and Ganoderma lingzhi. G. lingzhi enjoys special veneration in East Asia, where it has been used as a medicinal mushroom in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2,000 years, making it one of the oldest mushrooms known to have been used medicinally. Yellow rot on Reish mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) has been the most destructive disease in the mushroom cultivation area in Korea. The causal pathogen was first reported as Xylogone sphaerospora (Anamorph Sporendonema purpurascens) by Lee et al in 1996 and some effective fungicides were selected to control the disease. A cultural method, vinyl cover method (VCM), in which wood logs are wrapped in two layers of polyethylene film and sterilized before spawning, was also developed by Oh et al. to control the disease by preventing soil inoculum. However, the control methods were not so effective in the farm that severe yield losses have occurred in the mushroom farm in which the disease have occurred. In order to prevent air-borne inoculum as well as soil-borne inoculum we used the 4-floor cultivation shelf and Soil contact barrier (crushed stone, reflective film, metal sound barrier). In the first year of the cultivation, none of the woods observed was infected with the pathogen.

Cladobotryum mycophilum is the causal agent of cobweb disease of commercial mushrooms. Symptoms were noticed as round, fleshy, yellowish brown lesions on mushroom caps and progressed when the parasitic fungus formed white cobweb circular colonies on dead or damaged pinheads, spread on the surface of the casing. Two gram-positive bacterium were isolated from mushroom media that markedly showed the antagonistic activity against C. mycophilum.. These isolates were identified as Bacillus altitudinis and Bacillus subtilis by analysis of the cultural, morphological and physiological characteristics, and analysis of the 16S rDNA. The isolated bacteria is saprophytic but not parasitic nor pathogenic to cultivation mushroom. The isolated bacteria cell was sufficient for inhibition in vitro for C. mycophilum. Control efficacy of browning disease of Bacillus altitudinis treatment was 78% on Agaricus bisporus. The optimal culture medium was determined as follows: 3% Soluble startch, 10% Soytone, 1% (NH4)2HPO4, 1 mmol KCl, and 0.5% L-asparagin at pH 6.0 at 30°C. Control efficacy of browning disease of Bacillus subtilis treatment was 71% on Agaricus bisporus. The optimal culture medium was determined as follows: 1.5% Xylose, 2% Soytone, 1% NH4H2PO4, 7 mmol CaCl2, and 0.5% Histidine at pH 6.0 at 25°C. Accordingly, the suppressive bacterium may be useful in future for the development of biocontrol system and the construction of genetically modified edible fungi resistant to the disease caused by C. mycophilum.

In this study, we used a choropleth map to explore the spatial variation of the risk of cattle herds being bovine tuberculosis (BTB) positive in Gangwon-do in 2015. The map shows that the risk of being BTB-positive was lower in provinces located in the middle of Gangwon-do (Wonju, Youngwol, Peongchang, and Kangneung) than in other provinces. In addition, one province located in the north (Goseong) had a low risk of BTB. The estimate for the intercept of the spatial lag model was 0.66, and the spatial autocorrelation coefficient (lambda) was 0.20 (Table 1). The Moran’s I was 0.33 with p-value of 0.02. In 2015, provinces located in the North West (Hwacheon) and East (Donghae) of Gangwon-do had a higher BTB risk. We identified some specific provinces at low BTB-positive risk, information that may prove useful for control of BTB in the study area.

구제역은 발생 시 전염이 쉽게 일어나며 심각한 경제적 피해를 일으키는 질병이다. 구제역의 방역정책은 발견 직 후 빠른 살처분이 최선책이나, 전파 속도나 상황 등에 따 라 타지역 백신 접종 등의 방법을 시행할 수도 있다. 이러 한 방법을 적용하기 위해서는 구제역을 빠르고 정확하게 진단할 필요성이 있다. 개발된 진단법들은 구제역의 확진, 혈청형의 동정, 백신 접종 후 항체의 생성 확인 등에 사용 된다. 많은 진단법들이 개발되었지만 아직은 빠른 시간 내 에 검출이 가능하며 동시에 정확성도 가진 방법이 드물다. 그렇기에 기존의 방법들을 개선시킨 새로운 진단법이 필 요하다. 현재는 대부분 혈청학적 진단법인 ELISA에 의존 하거나 분자 유전학적 기술인 PCR을 사용한다. 가장 최근 기술은 그 둘을 합치는 방법으로, 어떻게 하면 더 신속하 고 저비용이면서, 민감하고 정확한 방법이 될 수 있을지 연구가 진행되고 있다.

The button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, is one of the major economical crops cultivated in Korea. This mushroom showed the 5th production to 11,493 M/T in 2014. Several fungus are known as the causal agents of diseases of the cultivated button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). Trichoderma harzianum is the causal agent of green mould disease of commercial mushrooms. Early symptoms were noticed as round, fleshy, brown lesions on mushroom caps. Late symptoms spread on the surface of the casing, and covered entirely fruiting bodies. A Gram-positive bacterium was isolated from mushroom media that markedly showed the antagonistic activity against Trichoderma harzianum, the destructive pathogen of cultivated mushrooms. The CH518 strain was selected as antagonistic bacterium by inhibition zone method and it was identified as Bacillus methylotrophicus by the cultural, morphological and physiological characteristics, and analysis of the 16S rDNA. The isolated bacterium is saprophytic but not parasitic nor pathogenic to cultivation mushroom. The isolated bacterium for Trichoderma harzianum cell, was sufficient for inhibition in vitro. Inoculation of the isolated bacterium prevents the development of bacterial disease in Trichoderma harzianum. Control efficacy of browning disease of strain CH518 treatment was 77.7% on Agaricus bisporus. The optimal culture medium for the antagonistic bacteria growth was determined as follows: 3.0% saccharose, 1.5% Soytone, 1% NH4H2PO4, 10 mM MgSO4, and 2.0% glutamic acid at pH 6.0 at 25°C. The suppressive bacterium may be useful in future for the development of biocontrol system and the construction of genetically modified edible fungi resistant to the disease caused by Trichoderma harzianum.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experience of a main caregiver, in charge of a family member with a severe chronic disease. Methods: The participants of this study were 13 main caregivers, who have a family member with a severe chronic disease. The data were analyzed through the phenomenological research method. Results: This research concluded with: one core theme, five theme clusters and 13 themes. The one core theme was: ‘My Life is Not Mine.’ The five theme clusters include: ‘The Dark Days Ahead, of What We Do,’ ‘Serious Pressure,’ ‘My Body is Broken (caregivers),’ ‘Overcoming,’ and finally ‘Endless, Long and Long tunnel.’ Conclusion: We must emphasize to a main caregiver of a chronic disease patient, to the fact that their life should be theirs, not the patients. In addition, we need to be attentive of their well-being, as well as the chronic disease Patients, and sensitively responsive to their problems.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution of Candida species in patients with oral disease and clarify the distinction of Candida culture test according to its isolation technique. 75 samples was isolated from 42 patients who visited Chonnam National University Dental Hospital due to oral disease from December 2015 to August 2016. For isolating the candida sampling, saliva sampling and oral swabbing were used. Acquired sampling was cultured in CHROMagar Candida Culture Medium, which indicates the candida species as color. Of the 42 patients, C. albicans was the most frequently isolated species in 39 patients. For 17 patients out of 21 who underwent saliva sampling and oral swabbing simultaneously, oral swabbing was quantitatively underestimated comparing to saliva sampling. 12 samples in 21 samples having particular Candida species were not isolated by oral swabbing. Considering the possibility of fungal infection in various oral disease, it is recommended to perform not only oral swabbing but saliva sampling when isolating Candida.

As climate change and the increase of international trade, the possibility of infectious disease inflow is increasing into Republic of Korea (ROK). Nine of total 16 cases overseas travel related Zika virus disease and 140 of 314 cases in dengue fever occurred during mosquito season throughout ROK in 2016, which increase importance on the studies of disease vectors for effective control and monitoring. However, the vector resources for the studies are not enough to support the studies by private research institutes and universities. Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has secured and maintained the disease vectors, comprised of 5 genus and 15 species in an insectarium system. KCDC has supported the disease vector resources through the system wherever to request them. In this presentation, the insectarium systems will be introduced.

We developed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and are establishing diagnostic systems to distinguish disease resistance- and susceptible-strains of honey bees using the SNPs. For development of SNP markers, whole genome was sequenced each from 20 individuals of “disease resistance-strain” and “susceptible-strain” of Apis mellifera ligustica using the Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer. Approximately, 344 and 294 million sequence reads were mapped to the honeybee reference assembly (Amel_4.5) for each strain, respectively. Among the total 2,246,428 SNPs yielded, 33 were found to be fixed between the two strains with all homozygosity. Sixteen of them were casually amplified and sequenced from randomly selected each 10 individual of honey bees from each strain and presented strain specific SNPs. These ten SNPs were used to diagnose the two strains either by original size difference, caused by indel-accompanying SNP, typical PCR-RFLP, or AS PCR.

목 적 : 간 자기공명영상에서 Screening Dixon, Multi Echo Dixon, High-speed T2-corrected Multi Echo acquisition at 1H MR spectroscopy의 지방간 평가를 초음파 검사와 비교하여 간 자기공명상에서 지방간 평가의 유용성을 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 2014. 8월~2015. 8월까지 본원을 내원하여 간 자기공명영상 검사를 시행한 환자들 중 검사시행 3개월 전· 후에 초음파 검사를 동시에 시행한 138명(남: 101명, 여: 37명, 평균연령: 60.2세)의 환자를 대상으로 하였다. 연구에 사용 된 MRI 장비는 Magnetom Skyra 3.0T(Siemens Healthcare, Germany)였으며 18ch Body array coil을 이용하여 Screening Dixon, Multi Echo Dixon, High-speed T2-corrected Multi Echo acquisition at 1H MR spectroscopy(이하 HISTO) 기법의 검사를 시행하였다. 초음파 장비는 iu22(Philips healthcare, Netherlands), E9(GE healthcare, America)였으며 C3-5 convex probe를 사용 하였다. 지방간의 분석은 Screening Dixon에서 지방간의 유·무와 Multi Echo Dixon, HISTO 기 법간의 지방간 유무를 각각 비교하였으며 Multi Echo Dixon과 HISTO 기법에서는 지방 함유량에 따라 normal(5% 이하), mild(5~33%), moderate(33~66%), severe(66% 이상)로 나누어 두 기법 간 비교 및 초음파 검사와 비교하여 그 유의성을 SPSS21 통계프로그램을 이용하여 person χ2(카이제곱) 검증하였다. 결 과 : Screening Dixon과 Multi Echo Dixon, Screening Dixon과 HISTO 기법을 비교한 결과, Screening Dixon에서 지 방간을 가진 환자가 가장 많은 것으로 나타났지만 통계적인 차이는 없었으며(p>0.05), Multi Echo Dixon과 HISTO 기법을 normal, mild, moderate, severe 군으로 나누어 비교한 결과 두 기법에서의 유의한 차이는 없는 것으로 나타났다(p>0.05). 반면 Multi Echo Dixon과 초음파, HISTO와 초음파의 각각의 비교에서는 초음파 검사에서 지방간으로 평가되는 환자가 Multi Echo Dixon, HISTO에 비해 많은 것으로 나타났으며(p<0.05), normal 군의 환자가 많이 감소한 반면 moderate, severe군으로 평가되는 환자가 많이 증가하였다. 결 론 : Screening Dixon, Multi Echo Dixon, High-speed T2-corrected Multi Echo acquisition at 1H MR spectroscopy(HISTO)의 지방간 평가를 초음파 검사와 비교한 결과 자기공명영상을 이용한 평가에서는 기법 간에 유의한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났으나 초음파와 비교에서는 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 자기공명영상을 이용한 검사는 간 자기공명영상 검사에서 부가적인 검사로 짧은 시간에 지방간을 정량화 할 수 있다는 장점이 있었다.

This study investigated the changes in appetite and behavior of cattle and pigs after foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccination. This study involved ten calves and ten pigs, each divided into two groups of five animals. One group of each animal was vaccinated with an FMD vaccine (FMD-V), and the other group was used as a non-treated control (CON). Each animal’s appetite and behavior were observed before vaccination and for seven days post-vaccination. In the FMD-V groups, appetite and behavior scores during the seven days post-vaccination were significantly decreased compared to those in the CON groups. The only exception was the seventh day post-vaccination in the swine behavior scores.

Prion diseases are a class of transmissible fatal disorders. In order to identify alterations associated with the pathogenesis of prion diseases, several studies have been conducted involving differential gene expression analysis using cDNA libraries, mRNA differential displays, and gene microarrays. These genomic approaches may be useful for identifying genes that are differentially expressed in prion diseases and that may participate directly or indirectly in the pathogenesis of the disease. In this study, we compared the gene expression profiles of normal and CWD-infected TgElk mice using the GeneFishing differentially expressed gene (DEG) screening system and real-time PCR analysis. DEGs were screened using the ACP-based PCR method with GeneFishing synthesis. In order to validate candidate genes, we used quantitative PCR (qPCR), and eleven DEGs were identified. Five of these eleven DEGs were upregulated and two were downregulated in the CWD mice. The DEGs newly identified in this study may be useful for diagnosing and studying the pathogenesis of prion diseases.