Section of Viral Infections

RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER ON EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS:

Staff:

Specially Appointed Professor

Naokazu Takeda, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Kazushi Motomura, M.D., Ph.D.

Atsushi Tanaka, D.V.M, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nitchakarn Noranate, Ph.D.

Assistant Researcher

Chris Verathamjamras, M.Sc.

Uranan Tumkosit, M.Sc.

Michittra Boonchan, M.Sc.

Subjects:

1. Epidemiological study on hepatitis E virus infection in Thai population.
2. Production of monoclonal antibodies against chikungunya virus proteins and its application.
3. Determination of cellular factors involved in chikungunya virus infection.
4. Construction of norovirus virus-like particle and development of ELISA system.
5. Epidemiological studies on water-borne viral infections in Thailand.
6. HIV-1 drug resistance test by using ultra deep sequencing.

Papers published in 2014

1. Japan-Thailand Collaboration Research on Infectious Diseases: Promotion and Hurdles

   Shigeyuki Hamada, Naokazu Takeda and Taroh Kinoshita

   Journal of Disaster Research, 9 (5), 784-792, 2014.
2. A national reference for inactivated polio vaccine derived from Sabin strains in Japan.

   Haruko Shirato, Yuichi Someya, Masaki Ochiai, Yoshinobu Horiuchi, Motohide Takahashi, Naokazu Takeda, Kengo Wakabayashi, Yasumitsu Ouchi, Yoshihiro Ota, Yoshio Tano, Shinobu Abe, Shudo Yamazaki and Takaji Wakita et al.

   Vaccine, 32 (40), 5163-5169, 2014.
3. Characterization of chikungunya virus-like particles.

   Nitchakarn Noranate, Naokazu Takeda, Prukswan Chetanachan, Pathompong Sittisaman, Atchareeya A-Nuegoonpipat and Surapee Anantapreecha

   PLoS One, 9 (9), e108169, 2014.
4. Characterization of human bocavirus-like particles generated by recombinant baculoviruses.

   Ling Fang, Zejun Wang, Shili Song, Michiyo Kataoka, Changwen Ke, Tetsuro Suzuki, Takaji Wakita, Naokazu Takeda and Tian-Cheng Li

   J Virol Methods, 207, 38-44, 2014.
5. Occurrence of hepatitis E virus infection in acute hepatitis in Thailand.

   U Siripanyaphinyo, J Boon-Long, S Louisirirotchanakul, N Takeda, T Chanmanee, B Srimee, A Namsai, P Pounsawat and K Khupulsap

   J Med Virol, 86 (10), 1730-1735, 2014.
6. Complete genome of hepatitis E virus from laboratory ferrets.

   Tian-Cheng Li, Tingting Yang, Yasushi Ami, Yuriko Suzaki, Masayuki Shirakura, Noriko Kishida, Hideki Asanuma, Naokazu Takeda and Wakita Takaji

   Emerg Infect Dis, 20 (4), 709-712, 2014.
7. Impact of amino acid substitutions in the V2 and C2 regions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 CRF01_AE envelope glycoprotein gp120 on viral neutralization susceptibility to broadly neutralizing antibodies specific for the CD4 binding site.

   Piraporn Utachee, Panasda Isarangkura-na-ayuthaya, Kenzo Tokunaga, Kazuyoshi Ikuta, Naokazu Takeda and Masanori Kameoka

   Retrovirology, 11, 32, 2014.

Link

Section of Viral Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University

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