Section of Viral Infections

THAILAND-JAPAN RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER ON EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS:

Staff:

Specially Appointed Professor

Masashi Tatsumi, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

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

Hiroto Mizushima, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Nutthawan Nonthabenjawan, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Benjarat Phattanawiboon, Ph.D.

Postmasteral Fellow

Uranan Tumkosit, MSc.

Subjects:

1. Production of monoclonal antibodies against chikungunya virus proteins and its application.
2. Determination of cellular factors involved in chikungunya virus infection.
3. Molecular epidemiological study on norovirus in Thailand.
4. Isolation and characterization of zika virus in Thailand.

Papers published in 2017

1. Evolutionary Constraints on the Norovirus Pandemic Variant GII.4_2006b over the Five-Year Persistence in Japan.

   Hironori Sato, Masaru Yokoyama, Hiromi Nakamura, Tomoichiro Oka, Kazuhiko Katayama, Naokazu Takeda, Mamoru Noda, Tomoyuki Tanaka and Kazushi Motomura

   Front Microbiol, 8, 410, 2017.
2. Distribution of norovirus genotypes and subtypes in river water by ultra-deep sequencing-based analysis.

   M Boonchan, K Motomura, K Inoue, H Ode, P Y Chu, M Lin, Y Iwatani, K Ruchusatsawat, R Guntapong, R Tacharoenmuang, S Chantaroj, M Tatsumi, N Takeda and S Sangkitporn

   Lett Appl Microbiol, 65 (1), 98-104, 2017.
3. Genome-Wide Screening Uncovers the Significance of N-Sulfation of Heparan Sulfate as a Host Cell Factor for Chikungunya Virus Infection.

   Atsushi Tanaka, Uranan Tumkosit, Shota Nakamura, Daisuke Motooka, Natsuko Kishishita, Thongkoon Priengprom, Areerat Sa-Ngasang, Taroh Kinoshita, Naokazu Takeda and Yusuke Maeda

   J Virol, 91 (13), e00432- 17, 2017.
4. Antiviral Activity of Acid beta-Glucosidase 1 on Enterovirus 71, a Causative Agent of Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease.

   Keiko Nakata, Satoshi Takeda, Atsushi Tanaka, Jimmy Kwang and Jun Komano

   J Gen Virol, 98 (4), 643-651, 2017.
5. Genomic analysis of the evolutionary lineage of Norovirus GII.4 from archival specimens during 1975-1987 in Tokyo.

   Kohji Mori, Pei-Yu Chu, Kazushi Motomura, Yoshiko Somura, Miyuki Nagano, Kana Kimoto, Tetsuya Akiba, Akemi Kai and Kenji Sadamasu

   J Med Virol, 89 (2), 363-367, 2017.

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Section of Viral Infections

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University