Tetsu Yamashiro
- Center for Infectious Disease Research in Asia and Africa, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Professor
- Tropical Microbiology, infectious diseases
- epidemiology and pathogenesis of Diarrheal diseases, Epidemiology of Avian Influenza, Synthesis of human monoclonal antibodies with Combinatorial Biology technique
NEKKEN and National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam (NIHE) jointly conducted a project from 2005 on clinical and epidemiological research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (ERID) granted by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Consequently, Vietnam Research Station was established and a number of research activities conducted by investigators from both NEKKEN and NIHE. In the framework of the collaborative project conducted by two institutes, researches on the environmental and social factors influencing outbreaks of zoonosis, vector-borne infectious diseases, diarrhoea, and childhood pneumonia have been carried out. Having achieved goals of aforementioned researches in the first phase project (2005-2009), the next research objectives was underlined, which is, clarifying the factors and their mechanisms in causation of infectious diseases including ERID. In the second phase, therefore, we aim to attain aforementioned objectives and consequently seek for medically and socially significant achievements by carrying out research activities. To conduct a worldwide study of infectious diseases, we have a scope to network research centers which were established in eight countries in tropical zone, under the framework of the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID).
▼Recommended books
Diarrhea and Cholera: Their Nature, Origin, and Treatment, Through the Agency of the Nervous system. Kessinger Publishing
▼Homepage
http://www.tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/vietnam/index.html
personal history
1992 Assistant Professor, Research Center of Comprehensive Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
2000 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University
2010 Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
2012 Professor, Graduate school of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University (Ph.D. course)
works/thesis
1. Nguyen Van Trang, Tetsu Yamashiro, Le Thi Kim Anh, Vu Thi Bich Hau, Le Thi Luan and Dang Duc Anh. Genetic variation in the VP7 gene of rotavirus G1P[8] strains isolated in Vietnam, 1998-2009. Virus Research. 165: 190-196.
2. Kozue Hotta, Hiroki Takakuwa, Le Thi Quynh Mai, Phuong Song Lien, Toshiyuki Murase, Etsuro Ono, Toshihiro Ito, Koichi Otsuki, and Tetsu Yamashiro. Isolation and characterization of H6N1 and H9N2 avian influenza viruses from Ducks in Hanoi, Vietnam. Virus Research. 163: 448-453, 2012.
3. Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Tetsu Yamashiro, et. al. Discrimination of influenza A subtype by antibodies recognizing host-specific amino acids in the viral nucleoprotein. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00335.x
4. Hiroki Takakuwa, Tetsu Yamashiro, et. al/. Molecular epidemiology of avian influenza viruses circulating among healthy poultry flocks in farms in northern Vietnam. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 103: 192-200, 2012.
5. Rie Isozumi, Kumiko Yoshimatsu, Tetsu Yamashiro, et. al. blaNDM-1-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae from Environment, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis, 18: 1383-1385, 2012.