The efficacy, safety, and feasibility of inhaled amikacin for the treatment of difficult-to-treat non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases

Kazuma Yagi, Makoto Ishii, Ho Namkoong, +14

BMC Infectious Diseases

SARS-CoV-2 and Legionella co-infection in a person returning from a Nile cruise

Takeshi Arashiro, Satoshi Nakamura, Takahiro Asami, +9

Journal of Travel Medicine

Respiratory DiseasesDifferential DiagnosisLegionella Co-infection ManifestingCovid-19 PandemicGastroenterology +12

Modulation of Murine Macrophage TLR7/8-Mediated Cytokine Expression by Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Conditioned Medium

Takahiro Asami, Makoto Ishii, Hideki Fujii, +9

Mediators of Inflammation

Health-related quality of life is inversely correlated with C-reactive protein and age in Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease: a cross-sectional analysis of 235 patients

Takanori Asakura, Yohei Funatsu, Makoto Ishii, +11

Respiratory Research

CRTH2 Is A Critical Regulator of Neutrophil Migration and Resistance to Polymicrobial Sepsis

Makoto Ishii, Koichiro Asano, Ho Namkoong, +16

The Journal of Immunology

Acute Lung InjurySevere SepsisInflammatory Lung DiseaseMicrobial PathogensLung Inflammation +27

Serum (1 → 3) β-d-glucan assay for discrimination between Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and colonization

Sadatomo Tasaka, Seiki Kobayashi, Kazuma Yagi, +6

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Medical MicrobiologyPneumocystis Jirovecii PneumoniaMedicineβ-D-glucan AssayPathology +5

Clarithromycin expands CD11b+Gr-1+ cells via the STAT3/Bv8 axis to ameliorate lethal endotoxic shock and post-influenza bacterial pneumonia

Ho Namkoong, Makoto Ishii, Hideki Fujii, +15

PLoS Pathogens

Microbial PathogensLung InflammationInnate Immune SystemImmunologyImmune Regulation +25

Anti-inflammatory roles of mesenchymal stromal cells during acute Streptococcus pneumoniae pulmonary infection in mice

Takahiro Asami, Makoto Ishii, Ho Namkoong, +11

Cytotherapy

InflammationCytokineInflammatory Lung DiseaseLung InflammationImmunology +6

Genome-wide association study in patients with pulmonary<i>Mycobacterium avium</i>complex disease

Ho Namkoong, Yosuke Omae, Takanori Asakura, +36

European Respiratory Journal

Clinico-microbiological analysis of 121 patients with pulmonary Mycobacteroides abscessus complex disease in Japan – An NTM-JRC study with RIT

Kozo Morimoto, Taku Nakagawa, Takahiro Asami, +21

Respiratory Medicine

Medical MicrobiologyPathogenic MicrobiologyMicrobial DiseaseMedicineMicrobiology +6