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 · 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

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 · 277 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +12

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 · 248 citations

Life Sciences, 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