Section of Bacterial Infections

THAILAND-JAPAN 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 2016

1. Development of a Multiplex PCR Assay to Detect the Major Clonal Complexes of Streptococcus suis Relevant to Human Infection.

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

   J Med Microbiol, 65 (5), 392-396, 2016.
2. Prevalent emm types and superantigen gene patterns of group A Streptococcus in Thailand.

   W Paveenkittiporn, T Nozawa, S Dejsirilert, I Nakagawa and S Hamada

   Epidemiol Infect, 144 (4), 864-869, 2016.

Link

Section of Bacterial Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University