Masaharu Takahashi

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

Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Strains in Serum Samples Can Replicate Efficiently in Cultured Cells Despite the Coexistence of HEV Antibodies: Characterization of HEV Virions in Blood Circulation

Masaharu Takahashi, Toshinori Tanaka, Hideyuki Takahashi et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2010 · 263 citations · Full text

Diagnostic Virology, Viral Replication, Hepatitis E Virus +15

Development and evaluation of an efficient cell-culture system for Hepatitis E virus

Toshinori Tanaka, Masaharu Takahashi, Eiji Kusano et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2007 · 245 citations

Diagnostic Virology, Viral Replication, Hepatitis E Virus +15

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