Yasuyuki Yazaki

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

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

Possible risk factors for the transmission of hepatitis E virus and for the severe form of hepatitis E acquired locally in Hokkaido, Japan

Hitoshi Mizuo, Yasuyuki Yazaki, Kenji Sugawara et al. · Journal of Medical Virology · 2005 · 204 citations

Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine +16

Development and validation of an improved RT-PCR assay with nested universal primers for detection of hepatitis E virus strains with significant sequence divergence

Jun Inoue, Masaharu Takahashi, Yasuyuki Yazaki et al. · Journal of Virological Methods · 2006 · 108 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology +16

Prolonged Fecal Shedding of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) during Sporadic Acute Hepatitis E: Evaluation of Infectivity of HEV in Fecal Specimens in a Cell Culture System

Masaharu Takahashi, Toshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Azuma et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2007 · 100 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +12