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 · 599 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +17

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 · 296 citations · Full text

Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +14

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 · 242 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology +12

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 · 167 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology +14

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

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Hepatology +13