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01/03/2023: Members were updated.
01/03/2023: Publications were updated.
01/01/2023: Publications were updated.
01/11/2022: Publications were updated.
01/10/2022: Members were updated.
01/10/2022: Publications were updated.
01/10/2022: Events were updated.
01/09/2022: Publications were updated.
01/09/2022: Members were updated.
01/08/2022: Publications were updated.
01/05/2022: Members were updated.
01/05/2022: Publications were updated.
01/04/2022: Research were updated.
01/04/2022: Members were updated.
01/04/2022: Publications were updated.
01/04/2022: Events were updated.
01/03/2022: Publications were updated.
01/02/2022: Publications were updated.
01/01/2022: Publications were updated.
01/01/2022: Links were updated.
01/12/2021: Publications were updated.
01/12/2021: Links were updated.
01/11/2021: Publications were updated.
01/11/2021: We welcomed a new member.
01/11/2021: Events were updated.
01/10/2021: Events were updated.
01/10/2021: Publications were updated.
25/08/2021: Publications were updated.
20/08/2021: Our paper was announced in a press release.
11/08/2021: Publications were updated.
06/08/2021: Publications were updated.
14/07/2021: Our paper was announced in a press release.
09/07/2021: Prof. Oshitani’s opinions were updated.
09/07/2021: Publications were updated.
09/07/2021: Events were updated.
07/05/2021: Prof. Oshitani’s opinions were updated.
07/05/2021: We welcomed a new member.
05/04/2021: Publications were updated.
05/04/2021: We welcomed a new member.
28/12/2020: Publications were updated.
24/11/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinions were updated.
24/11/2020: We welcomed a new member.
24/11/2020: Publications were updated.
05/15/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
05/15/2020: Publications were updated.
05/10/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
05/10/2020: Publications were updated.
05/10/2020: We welcomed a new member.
05/10/2020: Events were updated.
14/07/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
14/07/2020: Publications were updated.
05/06/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
01/06/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
19/05/2020: Prof. Oshitani’s opinion was updated.
28/04/2020: Research was updated.
27/04/2020: Publications were updated.
17/12/2019: Publications were updated.
17/12/2019: Publications were updated.
9/11/2019: Events were updated.
10-11/10/2019: 3rd International seminar for research on childhood acute respiratory infections in Asia and Africa was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
3/9/2019: A commentary on an article about frequency and clinical presentation of influenza virus infection in infants has been published in Lancet Child Adolesc Health.
2/9/2019: Events were updated.
18/7/2019: An article about antibiotic use among children aged under 5 years in the Indonesian community by ALKAFF (PhD Student) has been published in Trop Med Health.
3/7/2019: An article about increased physiological activities of recently circulating strains of enterovirus D68 has been published in Viruses.
25/6/2019: An article regarding T cell-monocyte complexes observed in humans with infection of M. tuberculosis or other pathogens, in collaboration with the team of Cayetano Univ. and La Jolla Institution for Allergy and Immunology was published in Elife.
3/6/2019: An article about molecular characterization of enterovirus-A71 in children with acute flaccied paralysis collaborated with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the Philippines has been published in BMC Infectious Diseases.
3/6/2019: Events were updated.
15/4/2019: We welcomed new members.
15/4/2019: An article about etiology and risk factors associated with fatal outcomes of childhood pneumonia in hospitalized children by DEMBELE (PhD Student) has been published in BMJ Open.
27/3/2019: Events were updated.
20/3/2019: An article about RS virus infection in Filipino cohort children by UENO (PhD Student) has been published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
20/3/2019: An article about RS virus infection in the Philippines by OTOMARU(PhD Student) has been published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
20/3/2019: An article about norovirus infection among adult patients by KOBAYASHI (PhD Student) has been published in Journal of Medical Virology.
2/28-3/2/2019: 2nd International seminar for research on childhood acute respiratory infections in Asia and Africa was held in Sendai and Yamagata, Japan.
21/12/2018: An article about etiology of adult pneumonia in the Philippines collaborated with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the Philippines has been published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
21/12/2018: An article about complete genome sequence of Respiratory syncytial virus by Okamoto (Assistant Professor) collaborated with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in thePhilippines has been published in Microbiology Resource Announcement.
13/11/2018: Events were updated.
04/10/2018: We welcomed new members.
04/10/2018: Events were updated.
05/09/2018: An article about the association between preceding viral infection and subsequent respiratory illness by Furuse (Currently, Kyoto Univ.) collaborated with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the Philippines has been published in Journal of Infectious Diseases.
18/08/2018: Hiroshi Kita, a 6th year medical student who carried out a research at our department last year, presented his results at the Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Bacteriology Tohoku Branch.
04/07/2018: We have updated the List of Short-term International Researchers.
11/05/2018: An article about repeated infection of respiratory syncytial virus in children by OKAMOTO (Assistant Professor) collaborated with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the Philippines has been published in Journal of Infectious Diseases.
11/05/2018: An article about genetic analysis of human sapovirus in Americas collaborated with Mayuko SAITO (Associate Professor) has been published in Journal of Clinical Virology.
11/05/2018: An article about human metapneumovirus in long-term care facilities for the elderly collaborated with OKAMOTO (Assistant Professor) and Otani (PhD student) has been published in Journal of Infectious Diseases.
24/04/2018: An article about Respiratory syncytial virus in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection in Vietnam collaborated with OSHITANI (Professor) and OKAMOTO (Assistant Professor) has been published in Scientific Reports.
24/04/2018: An article about the retrospective surveillance for EV-D68 in 2015 collaborated with OSHITANI (Professor) and OKAMOTO (Assistant Professor) has been published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
24/04/2018: Sequence of an uncommon norovirus identified in diarrhea samples collected from Peruvian children collaborated with Mayuko SAITO (Associate Professor) has been reported to Genome Announcements.
24/04/2018: An article about transcriptomic analysis for immune response to M. tuberculosis infection by La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology et al., collaborated with Mayuko SAITO (Associate Professor) has been published in Journal of Immunology.
3/10/2018: An article about whole genome sequence of RSV in the Philippines written by Malasao (former PhD student) has been published in Genome Announcements.
2/20/2018: The research forum for 10th Anniversary of RITM-Tohoku Collaborating Research Center in the Philippines
12/22/2017: An original research paper regarding epidemiology of sapovirus infection in a birth cohort, written by Dr. Saito, Dr. Oshitani and other coauthors at Universidad Cayetano Heredia (Peru), Johns Hopkins University (USA) and other institutions, has been published in Clinical Infectious Disease.
12/22/2017: An article about isolation of human metapneumovirus using MNT-1, a human malignant melanoma cell line collaborated with OKAMOTO (Assistant Professor) has been published in Microbiology and Immunology.
10/30/2017: 1^st International seminar for research on childhood acute respiratory infections in Asia and Africa was held in the Philippines
10/30/2017: Result of analysis of sequence of an uncommon sapovirus identified in diarrhea samples collected from Peruvian children by TSINDA (PhD student) has been reported to Genome Announcements.
10/30/2017: An article about epidemiological characteristics of an ebola outbreak in Liberia revealed using a novel dataset by FURUSE (assistant professor) has been published in PLOS neglected Tropical Diseases.
10/05/2017: Training of basic medicine has started (Events).
10/02/2017: We welcomed new members.
8/28/2017: Site of “Core-to-Core Program　B. Asia-Africa sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)”opened on Aug 28.
6/21/2017: An article about genetic reassortant of Rotavirus in the Philippines by YAMAMOTO (former assistant professor) has been published in New Microbes and New Infections.
5/1/2017: We welcomed new members.
4/19/2017: Group photo of the lab has been updated (Events).
4/7/2017: We welcomed new members.
4/6/2017: An article about estimation of incidence of influenza and RSV infection in the Philippines at a community level by KAMIGAKI (assistant professor) has been published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
3/24/2017: MANAKA, XU (MMed students), MALASAO, and CHAIMONGKOL (PhD students) received their degrees and graduated (Events).
3/21/2017: An article of systematic review and meta-analysis of effectiveness of influenza vaccine by University of Nottingham, collaborated with OSHITANI (professor), has been published in Vaccine.
3/21/2017: An article about detection of epidemics of norovirus using environmental samples by New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, collaborated with TOHMA (assistant professor) has been published in Applied Environmental Microbiology.
1/24/2017: An article about clinical characteristics of whooping cough in the Philippines by SAITO-OBATA (Mariko, assistant professor) has been published in Vaccine.
1/13/2017: We are having SUPADEJ as a visiting trainee (Events).
12/24/2016: An article about association between seasonal distribution of respiratory infections and meteological factors in the tropics by KAMIGAKI (assistant professor) has been published in PLoS One.

Introduction

Cross-border Researches on Infectious Diseases

It was once thought that humankind could conquer the infectious diseases. However, even in the 21st century, we have been experiencing newly emerging infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, pandemic influenza A(H1N1) with swine origin etc. These emerging diseases remind us of continuous threats posed by infectious diseases. With rapidly progressing globalization, the risk of global spread of infectious diseases is higher than ever.

We, at the Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, are conducting laboratory-based and clinical researches on various infectious diseases, not only in Asia but also in Africa and South America. We are also investigating infectious disease control in collaboration with public health officials and clinicians.

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