Laboratory for Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases

Department of Special Pathogenes;

Subjects:

1. Acute respiratory infections.
2. Pneumococcal vaccines.
3. Dengue virus infections.

Published Papers

1. Antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic characteristics of Haemophilus influenzae isolated from patients with respiratory tract infections between 1987 and 2000, including beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant strains.

   L Qin, H Watanabe, N Asoh, K Watanabe, K Oishi, T Mizota and T Nagatake

   Epidemiol Infect, 135 (4), 665-668, 2007.
2. Comparative immune responses of patients with chronic pulmonary diseases during the 2-year period after pneumococcal vaccination.

   Meng Chen, Yuki Hisatomi, Akitsugu Furumoto, Kenji Kawakami, Hironori Masaki, Tsuyoshi Nagatake, Yoshiko Sueyasu, Tomoaki Iwanaga, Hisamichi Aizawa and Kazunori Oishi

   Clin Vaccine Immunol, 14 (2), 139-145, 2007.
3. Strain-specific pulmonary defense achieved after repeated airway immunizations with non-typeable haemophilus influenzae in a mouse model.

   Jun Koyama, Kamruddin Ahmed, Jizi Zhao, Mariko Saito, Shozaburo Onizuka, Keita Oma, Kiwao Watanabe, Hiroshi Watanabe and Kazunori Oishi

   Tohoku J Exp Med, 211 (1), 63-74, 2007.
4. Cloning, expression, and characterization of the superantigen streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G from Streptococcus dysgalactiae.

   Jizi Zhao, Tomohito Hayashi, Susanna Saarinen, Anastassios C Papageorgiou, Hidehito Kato, Ken'ichi Imanishi, Teruo Kirikae, Ryo Abe, Takehiko Uchiyama and Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama

   Infect Immun, 75 (4), 1721-1729, 2007.
5. Dengue illness: clinical features and pathogenesis.

   Kazunori Oishi, Mariko Saito, Cynthia A Mapua and Filipinas F Natividad

   J Infect Chemother, 13 (3), 125-133, 2007.

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