Detection of<i>mecA, femA</i>, and<i>femB</i>genes in clinical strains of staphylococci using polymerase chain reaction

Nobumichi Kobayashi, Haotian Wu, Kazunobu Kojima, +7

Epidemiology and Infection

Pathogen DetectionStaphylococcus AureusPathologyAntibiotic ResistanceBacterial Pathogens +18

Emergence of Novel Human Group A Rotavirus G12 Strains in India

Soma Das, Vici Varghese, Sanjeev Chaudhury, +10

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Molecular characterization of a human rotavirus reveals porcine characteristics in most of the genes including VP6 and NSP4

Vici Varghese, Santasabuj Das, Ng Brajachand Singh, +5

Archives of Virology

BiologyMolecular CharacterizationMolecular VirologyGeneticsPathogenesis +8

Nondefective rotavirus mutants with an NSP1 gene which has a deletion of 500 nucleotides, including a cysteine-rich zinc finger motif-encoding region (nucleotides 156 to 248), or which has a nonsense codon at nucleotides 153-155

K. Taniguchi, Kazunobu Kojima, Shozo Urasawa

Journal of Virology

Gene 5-Specific Nsp1Viral ReplicationReverse GeneticsGeneticsMolecular Biology +17

Development and Evaluation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Diagnosis of <i>Bordetella pertussis</i> Infection

Kazunari Kamachi, Hiromi Toyoizumi‐Ajisaka, Kohei Toda, +7

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Species-specific and interspecies relatedness of NSP1 sequences in human, porcine, bovine, feline, and equine rotavirus strains

Kazunobu Kojima, K. Taniguchi, Nobumichi Kobayashi

Archives of Virology

BiologyRotavirus StrainsViral EvolutionAnimal ScienceNsp1 Sequences +12

Sequence Analysis of Normal and Rearranged NSP5 Genes from Human Rotavirus Strains Isolated in Nature: Implications for the Occurrence of the Rearrangement at the Step of Plus Strand Synthesis

Kazunobu Kojima, Koki Taniguchi, Tomoko Urasawa, +1

Virology

Viral ReplicationViral EvolutionPlus Strand SynthesisNatural SciencesGenetics +10

Genetic analysis of group B human rotaviruses detected in Bangladesh in 2000 and 2001

Muzahed Uddin Ahmed, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Mitsutaka Wakuda, +9

Journal of Medical Virology

Role of a sentinel surveillance system in the context of global surveillance of infectious diseases

Isao Arita, Miyuki Nakane, Kazunobu Kojima, +3

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Epidemic IntelligenceGlobal HealthMalariaSentinel Surveillance SystemInternational Health +11

Rearrangement generated in double genes, NSP1 and NSP3, of viable progenies from a human rotavirus strain

Kazunobu Kojima, Koki Taniguchi, Makiko Kawagishi-Kobayashi, +2

Virus Research

BiologyViral EvolutionReverse GeneticsGeneticsPathogenesis +10