Section of Bacterial Infections

RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER ON EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS:

Staff:

Specially Appointed Professor

Shigeyuki Hamada, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Kazuhisa Okada, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Kentaro Inoue, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Molecular epidemiological studies on Vibrio cholerae infections in Thailand
2. Characterization of virulence factors in Vibrio cholerae and related species
3. Epidemiological studies on Streptococcus suis infections in Thailand
4. Molecular epidemiology of group A streptococcal isolates in Thailand

Papers published in 2013

1. Vibrio cholerae O1 isolate with novel genetic background, Thailand-Myanmar.

   Kazuhisa Okada, Amonrattana Roobthaisong, Witaya Swaddiwudhipong, Shigeyuki Hamada and Siriporn Chantaroj

   Emerg Infect Dis, 19 (6), 1015-1017, 2013.
2. Applicability of in-house loop-mediated isothermal amplification for rapid identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex grown on solid media.

   Benjawan Phetsuksiri, Janisara Rudeeaneksin, Sopa Srisungngam, Supranee Bunchoo, Dhanida Roienthong, Tetsu Mukai, Chie Nakajima, Shigeyuki Hamada and Yasuhiko Suzuki

   Jpn J Infect Dis, 66 (3), 249-251, 2013.
3. Development of a 5-minute rapid test for detecting Vibrio cholerae O139.

   A Thattiyaphong, K Okada, S Khangrang, W Nispa, P Sawanpanyalert and T Honda

   Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health, 44 (3), 448-455, 2013.
4. Genetic analysis of capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene clusters from all serotypes of Streptococcus suis: potential mechanisms for generation of capsular variation.

   Masatoshi Okura, Daisuke Takamatsu, Fumito Maruyama, Takashi Nozawa, Ichiro Nakagawa, Makoto Osaki, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Marcelo Gottschalk, Yumi Kumagai and Shigeyuki Hamada

   Appl Environ Microbiol, 79 (8), 2796-2806, 2013.

Link

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