Development of a new rapid bacterial identification using bacteriophage tail ligand molecule

控制感染对防止感染传播极为重要。在感染控制中进行快速细菌检查可使患者得到早期治疗，降低医疗费用并预防感染传播。因此，迫切需要开发更快速的细菌检测系统。主要研究了特定噬菌体（噬菌体；细菌病毒）结构蛋白对细菌-物种特异性结合能力的贡献，并研究了噬菌体分子在细菌检测系统中的适用性。结果表明，噬菌体尾部分子具有用于细菌快速检测系统的潜力。

Infection control is extremely important to prevent infection spread. Rapid bacterial examination in infection control enables early treatment of patients, reduction of medical costs and prevention of infection spread. Thus, the development of more rapid bacterial detection systems is urgently required. The principal Investigator focused on the specific bacteriophage(phage ; bacterial virus) structural proteins contributed to the bacteria-species-specific binding ability, and examined the applicability of the phage molecule to bacterial detection system. As a result, the phage tail molecule was revealed to be potentially used for the rapid bacteria detection system.