Laboratory for Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases

Subjects

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

Published Papers

1. Identification and characterization of a type III secretion-associated chaperone in the type III secretion system 1 of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

   Yukihiro Akeda, Kanna Okayama, Tomomi Kimura, Rikard Dryselius, Toshio Kodama, Kazunori Oishi, Tetsuya Iida and Takeshi Honda

   FEMS Microbiol Lett, 296 (1), 18-25, 2009.
2. Increased phagocytosis of platelets from patients with secondary Dengue virus infection by human macrophages.

   Shoko Honda, Mariko Saito, Efren M Dimaano, Philip A Morales, Maria T G Alonzo, Lady-Anne C Suarez, Natsuki Koike, Shingo Inoue, Atsushi Kumatori, Ronald R Matias, Filipinas F Natividad and Kazunori Oishi

   Am J Trop Med Hyg, 80 (5), 841-845, 2009.
3. Intranasal immunization with a mixture of PspA and a Toll-like receptor agonist induces specific antibodies and enhances bacterial clearance in the airways of mice.

   Keita Oma, Jizi Zhao, Hirokazu Ezoe, Yukihiro Akeda, Shohei Koyama, Ken J Ishii, Kosuke Kataoka and Kazunori Oishi

   Vaccine, 27 (24), 3181-3188, 2009.

Link

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