Laboratory of Clinical Research Infectious Diseases

Subjects:

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

Published Papers

1. Evaluation of a dengue IgG indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and a Japanese encephalitis IgG indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for diagnosis of secondary dengue virus infection.

   Shingo Inoue, Maria T G Alonzo, Yae Kurosawa, Cynthia A Mapua, Joyce D Reyes, Efren M Dimaano, Maria Theresa P Alera, Mariko Saito, Kazunori Oishi, Futoshi Hasebe, Ronald R Matias, Filipinas F Natividad and Kouichi Morita

   Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, 10 (2), 143-150, 2010.
2. Development of triplex SYBR green real-time PCR for detecting Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Legionella spp. without extraction of DNA.

   Anusak Kerdsin, Ryuichi Uchida, Chris Verathamjamrus, Parichart Puangpatra, Kazuyoshi Kawakami, Pollert Puntanakul, Sorasak Lochindarat, Thanyanut Bunnag, Pathom Sawanpanyalert, Surang Dejsirilert and Kazunori Oishi

   Jpn J Infect Dis, 63 (3), 173-180, 2010.
3. Impact of pandemic influenza (H1N1) virus-associated community-acquired pneumonia among adults in a tertiary hospital in Thailand.

   Ratapum Champunot, Sansanee Tanjatham, Anusak Kerdsin, Parichart Puangpatra, Sunee Wangsai, Pornpit Treebuphachatsakul, Somboon Tasnsuphaswasdikul, Chavalit Kiatvitchukul, Harutaya Kasyanan, Jutharak Yimsabai, Yukihiro Akeda, Kazuyoshi Kawakami, Pathom Sawanpanyalert, Surang Dejsirilert and Kazunori Oishi

   Jpn J Infect Dis, 63 (4), 251-256, 2010.
4. Secretory-IgA antibodies play an important role in the immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae.

   Yoshiko Fukuyama, Janice D King, Kosuke Kataoka, Ryoki Kobayashi, Rebekah S Gilbert, Kazunori Oishi, Susan K Hollingshead, David E Briles and Kohtaro Fujihashi

   J Immunol, 185 (3), 1755-1762, 2010.
5. Effectiveness of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine against pneumonia and cost analysis for the elderly who receive seasonal influenza vaccine in Japan.

   Kenji Kawakami, Yasushi Ohkusa, Reiki Kuroki, Takeshi Tanaka, Kazuhiko Koyama, Yoshitaka Harada, Kouichi Iwanaga, Takeshi Yamaryo and Kazunori Oishi

   Vaccine, 28 (43), 7063-7069, 2010.

Link

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