Yuhko Gotanda

Sporadic acute or fulminant hepatitis E in Hokkaido, Japan, may be food-borne, as suggested by the presence of hepatitis E virus in pig liver as food

Yasuyuki Yazaki, Hitoshi Mizuo, Masaharu Takahashi et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2003 · 595 citations

Polyphyletic Strains of Hepatitis E Virus Are Responsible for Sporadic Cases of Acute Hepatitis in Japan

Hitoshi Mizuo, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Yasuhiro Takikawa et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2002 · 294 citations · Full text

Pathology, Genotype Iv, Hepatic Disorders +18

Swine hepatitis E virus strains in Japan form four phylogenetic clusters comparable with those of Japanese isolates of human hepatitis E virus

Masaharu Takahashi, Tsutomu Nishizawa, Haruko Miyajima et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2003 · 241 citations

Characterization of Japanese swine and human hepatitis E virus isolates of genotype IV with 99 % identity over the entire genome

Tsutomu Nishizawa, Masaharu Takahashi, Hitoshi Mizuo et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2003 · 166 citations

Genetics, Immunology, Pathology +17

High Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis A and E Viruses and Viremia of Hepatitis B, C, and D Viruses among Apparently Healthy Populations in Mongolia

Masaharu Takahashi, Tsutomu Nishizawa, Yuhko Gotanda et al. · Clinical and Vaccine Immunology · 2004 · 102 citations · Full text

Virus Epidemiology, Viral Diagnostics, Hepatitis Virus Markers +20