Laboratory of Clinical Research Infectious Diseases

Department of Special Pathogenes;

Subjects:

1. Acute respiratory infections.
2. Mucosal vaccines.
3. Dengue virus infections.
4. Diarrheal diseases.

Published Papers

1. Drug-resistant genes and serotypes of pneumococcal strains of community-acquired pneumonia among adults in Japan.

   Kazunori Oishi, Hiroyuki Yoshimine, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kiwao Watanabe, Susumu Tanimura, Kenji Kawakami, Akitaka Iwagaki, Hideaki Nagai, Hajime Goto, Shoji Kudoh, Takayuki Kuriyama, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, Toshiharu Matsushima, Kaoru Shimada, Keizo Matsumoto and Tsuyoshi Nagatake

   Respirology, 11 (4), 429-436, 2006.
2. Antimicrobial susceptibility and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from patients with community-acquired pneumonia and molecular analysis of multidrug-resistant serotype 19F and 23F strains in Japan.

   L Qin, H Watanabe, H Yoshimine, H Guio, K Watanabe, K Kawakami, A Iwagaki, H Nagai, H Goto, T Kuriyama, Y Fukuchi, T Matsushima, S Kudoh, K Shimada, K Matsumoto, T Nagatake, T Mizota and K Oishi

   Epidemiol Infect, 134 (6), 1188-1194, 2006.
3. Dynamics of dendritic cell migration and the subsequent induction of protective immunity in the lung after repeated airway challenges by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae outer membrane protein.

   Shin-ichi Kurita, Jun Koyama, Shozaburo Onizuka, Kazushi Motomura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kiwao Watanabe, Masachika Senba, Michael A Apicella, Timothy F Murphy, Horoyuki Yoneyama, Kouji Matsushima, Tsuyoshi Nagatake and Kazunori Oishi

   Vaccine, 24 (31-32), 5896-5903, 2006.
4. Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus diarrhea among children and adults in Nepal: detection of G12 strains with P[6] or P[8] and a G11P[25] strain.

   Ryuichi Uchida, Basu Dev Pandey, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand, Kamurddin Ahmed, Michiyo Yokoo, Toyoko Nakagomi, Luis E Cuevas, Nigel A Cunliffe, C A Hart and Osamu Nakagomi

   J Clin Microbiol, 44 (10), 3499-3505, 2006.
5. Dengue and other Febrile Illnesses among Children in the Philippines.

   Oishi, Mapua, Carlos, Cinco-Abanes, Saito, Inoue, Morita and Natividad

   WHO Dengue Bulletin, 30, 26-34, 2006.

Link

http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/