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 Associate Professor

Kazuhisa Okada, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Amonrattana Roobthaisong, Ph.D.

Warawan Wongboot, Ph.D.

Watcharaporn Kamjumphol, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Microbiological/Genomic Diagnosis of Enteric Infectious Diseases in Thailand
2. Molecular epidemiology of Cholera
3. Characterization of virulence factors in Vibrio cholerae and related species
4. Epidemiological studies on Streptococcus suis infections in Thailand

Papers published in 2015

1. Molecular and genomic characterization of pathogenic traits of group A Streptococcus pyogenes.

   Shigeyuki Hamada, Shigetada Kawabata and Ichiro Nakagawa

   Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci, 91 (10), 539-559, 2015.
2. Emergence of Streptococcus suis serotype 9 infection in humans.

   Anusak Kerdsin, Rujirat Hatrongjit, Marcelo Gottschalk, Dan Takeuchi, Shigeyuki Hamada, Yukihiro Akeda and Kazunori Oishi

   J Microbiol Immunol Infect, , , 2015.
3. First human case report of sepsis due to infection with Streptococcus suis serotype 31 in Thailand.

   Rujirat Hatrongjit, Anusak Kerdsin, Marcelo Gottschalk, Dan Takeuchi, Shigeyuki Hamada, Kazunori Oishi and Yukihiro Akeda

   BMC Infect Dis, 15, 392, 2015.
4. Characterization of 3 Megabase-Sized Circular Replicons from Vibrio cholerae.

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

   Emerg Infect Dis, 21 (7), 1262-1263, 2015.
5. Cholera in yangon, myanmar, 2012-2013.

   Wah Wah Aung, Kazuhisa Okada, Mathukorn Na-Ubol, Wirongrong Natakuathung, Toe Sandar, Nan Aye Thidar Oo, Mya Mya Aye and Shigeyuki Hamada

   Emerg Infect Dis, 21 (3), 543-544, 2015.

Link

Section of Bacterial Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University

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