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• Molecular Detection and Characterization of Rickettsia asembonensis in Human Blood, Zambia.

  Authors:Lavel C. Moonga, Kyoko Hayashida, Namwiinga R. Mulunda, Yukiko Nakamura, James Chipeta, Hawela B. Moonga, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 27, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20211,402 words Report 1330LRickettsia asembonensis is a flea-related Rickettsia with unknown pathogenicity to humans. We detected R. asembonensis DNA in 2 of 1,153 human blood samples in Zambia. Our findings suggest the possibility of R....

• Evidence of Yersinia pestis DNA from fleas in an endemic plague area of Zambia

  Authors:Bernard M. Hang'ombe, Ichiro Nakamura, Kenny L. Samui, Davy Kaile, Aaron S. Mweene, Bukheti S. Kilonzo, et al.From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 26, 20122,740 words Report 1380LBackground Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that causes plague which infects a variety of mammals throughout the world. The disease is usually transmitted among wild rodents through a flea vector. The sources and...

• Microbial Population Analysis of the Salivary Glands of Ticks; A Possible Strategy for the Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens

  Authors:Yongjin Qiu, Ryo Nakao, Aiko Ohnuma, Fumihiko Kawamori, and Chihiro SugimotoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 4, 20146,128 words Article 1430LTicks are one of the most important blood-sucking vectors for infectious microorganisms in humans and animals. When feeding they inject saliva, containing microbes, into the host to facilitate the uptake of blood. An...

• Protochlamydia Induces Apoptosis of Human HEp-2 Cells through Mitochondrial Dysfunction Mediated by Chlamydial Protease-Like Activity Factor

  Authors:Junji Matsuo, Shinji Nakamura, Atsushi Ito, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Kasumi Ishida, Yasuhiro Hayashi, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 11, 20135,709 words Article 1490LObligate amoebal endosymbiotic bacterium Protochlamydia with ancestral pathogenic chlamydial features evolved to survive within protist hosts, such as Acanthamoba, 0.7-1.4 billion years ago, but not within vertebrates...

• Cloning and characterization of the casein kinase II alpha subunit gene from the lymphocyte-transforming intracellular protozoan parasite Theileria parva

  Authors:Onesmo K. ole-Moi Yoi, Chihiro Sugimoto, Patricia A. Conrad, and Michael D. MacklinFrom:Biochemistry (Vol. 31, Issue 27) Peer-Reviewed

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• Interactive transcriptome analysis of malaria patients and infecting Plasmodium falciparum

  Authors:Junya Yamagishi, Anna Natori, Mohammed E.M. Tolba, Arthur E. Mongan, Chihiro Sugimoto, Toshiaki Katayama, et al.From:Genome Research (Vol. 24, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2014 Report

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• Common inheritance of chromosome Ia associated with clonal expansion of Toxoplasma gondii

  Authors:Asis Khan, Ulrike Bohme, Krystyna A. Kelly, Ellen Adlem, Karen Brooks, Mark Simmonds, et al.From:Genome Research (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2006 Report

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• Horizontally Transferred Genetic Elements in the Tsetse Fly Genome: An Alignment-Free Clustering Approach Using Batch Learning Self-Organising Map (BLSOM)

  Authors:Ryo Nakao, Takashi Abe, Shunsuke Funayama, and Chihiro SugimotoFrom:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20165,147 words Article 1500LTsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are the primary vectors of trypanosomes, which can cause human and animal African trypanosomiasis in Sub-Saharan African countries. The objective of this study was to explore the genome of...

• Seroepidemiological prevalence of multiple species of filoviruses in fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) migrating in Africa

  Authors:Hirohito Ogawa, Hiroko Miyamoto, Eri Nakayama, Reiko Yoshida, Ichiro Nakamura, Hirofumi Sawa, et al.From:Journal of Infectious Diseases (Vol. 212, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 1, 2015 Report

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• Emulsified Phosphatidylserine, Simple and Effective Peptide Carrier for Induction of Potent Epitope-Specific T Cell Responses

  Authors:Toru Ichihashi, Toshifumi Satoh, Chihiro Sugimoto, and Kiichi KajinoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 22, 20136,602 words Article 1470LAuthor(s): Toru Ichihashi 1 , Toshifumi Satoh 2 , Chihiro Sugimoto 1 , Kiichi Kajino 1 , * Introduction The immune system generates antibody-based humoral and T cell-based cellular immune responses to viruses,...

• Amoebal endosymbiont Neochlamydia genome sequence illuminates the bacterial role in the defense of the host amoebae against Legionella pneumophila

  Authors:Kasumi Ishida, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Kyoko Hayashida, Junji Matsuo, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Makoto Kuroda, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20145,520 words Report 1480LPrevious work has shown that the obligate intracellular amoebal endosymbiont Neochlamydia S13, an environmental chlamydia strain, has an amoebal infection rate of 100%, but does not cause amoebal lysis and lacks...

• Cross-Protective Peptide Vaccine against Influenza A Viruses Developed in HLA-A*2402 Human Immunity Model

  Authors:Toru Ichihashi, Reiko Yoshida, Chihiro Sugimoto, Ayato Takada, and Kiichi KajinoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 19, 20117,014 words Article 1580LBackground The virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) induction is an important target for the development of a broadly protective human influenza vaccine, since most CTL epitopes are found on internal viral...