Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit

Staff:

Specially Appointed Professor(SUP)

Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Toshio Kodama

Technical Staff

Junko Matsuyama

Subjects:

1. Isolation, collection, preservation and distribution of pathogenic microorganisms to facilitate research overseas as well as domestic.
2. Development of rapid detection methods of pathogenic factors produced by enteropathogenic bacteria.
3. Epidemiological and surveillance studies on enteropathogenic infection.

Papers published in 2013

1. Characterization of all RND-type multidrug efflux transporters in Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

   Taira Matsuo, Koji Nakamura, Toshio Kodama, Taro Mikami, Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Tomofusa Tsuchiya, Wakano Ogawa and Teruo Kuroda

   Microbiologyopen, 2 (5), 725-742, 2013.
2. Horizontal gene transfer of a genetic island encoding a type III secretion system distributed in Vibrio cholerae.

   Masatomo Morita, Shouji Yamamoto, Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Toshio Kodama, Masatoshi Okura, Eiji Arakawa, Munirul Alam, Makoto Ohnishi, Hidemasa Izumiya and Haruo Watanabe

   Microbiol Immunol, 57 (5), 334-339, 2013.
3. Fatal sepsis caused by an unusual Klebsiella species that was misidentified by an automated identification system.

   Masafumi Seki, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Yukihiro Akeda, Tadashi Yoshii, Shinichi Miyaguchi, Hidenori Inohara, Toshihiro Horii, Kazunori Oishi, Tetsuya Iida and Kazunori Tomono

   J Med Microbiol, 62 (Pt 5), 801-803, 2013.
4. Metagenomic analysis of healthy and white plague-affected Mussismilia braziliensis corals.

   Gizele D Garcia, Gustavo B Gregoracci, Eidy de O Santos, Pedro M Meirelles, Genivaldo G Z Silva, Rob Edwards, Tomoo Sawabe, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Tetsuya Iida, Rodrigo L de Moura and Fabiano L Thompson

   Microb Ecol, 65 (4), 1076-1086, 2013.
5. Metagenomic profile of gut microbiota in children during cholera and recovery.

   Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu, Haruo Watanabe, Nur Haque Alam, Takaaki Nakaya, Toshihiro Horii, Sk Imran Ali, Tetsuya Iida and Munirul Alam

   Gut Pathog, 5 (1), 1, 2013.
6. Vibrio parahaemolyticus effector proteins suppress inflammasome activation by interfering with host autophagy signaling.

   Naomi Higa, Claudia Toma, Yukiko Koizumi, Noboru Nakasone, Toshitsugu Nohara, Junya Masumoto, Toshio Kodama, Tetsuya Iida and Toshihiko Suzuki

   PLoS Pathog, 9 (1), e1003142, 2013.

Link

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