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.

Watcharaporn Kamjumphol, Ph.D.

Namfon Suebwongsa, Ph.D.

Warawan Wongboot, 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

Papers published in 2017

1. Genetic characterization of blaNDM-harboring plasmids in carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli from Myanmar.

   Yo Sugawara, Yukihiro Akeda, Noriko Sakamoto, Dan Takeuchi, Daisuke Motooka, Shota Nakamura, Hideharu Hagiya, Norihisa Yamamoto, Isao Nishi, Hisao Yoshida, Kazuhisa Okada, Khwar Nyo Zin, Mya Mya Aye, Kazunori Tomono and Shigeyuki Hamada

   PLoS One, 12 (9), e0184720, 2017.
2. Molecular Epidemiology of Cholera Outbreaks during the Rainy Season in Mandalay, Myanmar.

   Amonrattana Roobthaisong, Kazuhisa Okada, Nilar Htun, Wah Wah Aung, Warawan Wongboot, Watcharaporn Kamjumphol, Aye Aye Han, Yi Yi and Shigeyuki Hamada

   Am J Trop Med Hyg, 97 (5), 1323-1328, 2017.

Link

Section of Bacterial Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University