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.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mathukorn Na-Ubol, Ph.D.

Warawan Wongboot, 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

Papers published in 2014

1. Streptococcus suis serotyping by a new multiplex PCR.

   Anusak Kerdsin, Yukihiro Akeda, Rujirat Hatrongjit, Unchaya Detchawna, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Shigeyuki Hamada, Marcelo Gottschalk and Kazunori Oishi

   J Med Microbiol, 63 (Pt 6), 824-830, 2014.
2. Comparative Genomic Characterization of a Thailand-Myanmar Isolate, MS6, of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Which Is Phylogenetically Related to a "US Gulf Coast" Clone.

   Kazuhisa Okada, Mathukorn Na-Ubol, Wirongrong Natakuathung, Amonrattana Roobthaisong, Fumito Maruyama, Ichiro Nakagawa, Siriporn Chantaroj and Shigeyuki Hamada

   PLoS One, 9 (6), e98120, 2014.
3. Development of a two-step multiplex PCR assay for typing of capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene clusters of Streptococcus suis.

   Masatoshi Okura, Claude Lachance, Makoto Osaki, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Fumito Maruyama, Takashi Nozawa, Ichiro Nakagawa, Shigeyuki Hamada, Céline Rossignol, Marcelo Gottschalk and Daisuke Takamatsu

   J Clin Microbiol, 52 (5), 1714-1719, 2014.
4. The contribution of suilysin to the pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis meningitis.

   Dan Takeuchi, Yukihiro Akeda, Tatsuya Nakayama, Anusak Kerdsin, Yasuteru Sano, Takashi Kanda, Shigeyuki Hamada, Surang Dejsirilert and Kazunori Oishi

   J Infect Dis, 209 (10), 1509-1519, 2014.

Link

Section of Bacterial Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University

http://rcc-eri.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/e/bacterial_infections.html