Kayo Okumura
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Nakamura K, Okamoto M, Mada T, Harada M, Okumura K, Takamatsu D
Virulence
. 2025 Feb;
16(1):2451170.
PMID: 39954288
Honey bees are important pollinators in both agriculture and ecosystems, and their health is essential for sustainable human development. Although only two bacteria, and , have been identified as bacterial...
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Ishikawa K, Otake M, Tsumura K, Arai S, Okumura K, Mori N
Am J Case Rep
. 2024 Nov;
25:e945992.
PMID: 39548668
BACKGROUND Mycobacterium marinum is a slow-growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium that is known to cause skin and soft tissue infections, even in healthy patients, and is commonly associated with fish and aquatic...
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Yamamoto K, Torigoe S, Tsujimura Y, Asaka M, Okumura K, Ato M
Sci Rep
. 2024 Oct;
14(1):24343.
PMID: 39420066
Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) is the most common causative bacteria of cutaneous non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections, including fish tank granuloma. Treating M. marinum-caused infection takes longer than other NTM diseases...
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Okumura K, Kaido M, Muratani T, Yamasaki E, Akai Y, Kurazono H, et al.
Int J Urol
. 2023 Dec;
31(3):295-300.
PMID: 38041251
Objectives: Antibiotic treatment is extremely stressful for bacteria and has profound effects on their viability. Such administration induces physiological changes in bacterial cells, with considerable impact on their genome structure...
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Okumura K, Okamoto M, Takamatsu D
Microbiol Resour Announc
. 2022 Oct;
11(11):e0084222.
PMID: 36301092
Knowledge about bacterial species in bee environments is essential for maintaining healthy honeybee colonies. Therefore, we performed whole-genome sequence analysis on bacteria isolated from honey harvested in Japan. This study...
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Nakamura K, Okumura K, Harada M, Okamoto M, Okura M, Takamatsu D
Sci Rep
. 2021 Apr;
11(1):8798.
PMID: 33888837
European foulbrood (EFB) caused by Melissococcus plutonius is a major bacterial disease of honey bees. Strains of the causative agent exhibit genetic heterogeneity, and the degree of virulence varies among...
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Yamasaki E, Matsuzawa S, Takeuchi K, Morimoto Y, Ikeda T, Okumura K, et al.
Foodborne Pathog Dis
. 2020 Oct;
18(1):31-40.
PMID: 33103921
Although serotyping is the most important method of identification of taxonomy in , conventional serotype determination with a complete set of antisera is time consuming and laborious. Recently, rapid serotyping...
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Okumura K, Kaido M, Yamasaki E, Akai Y, Kurazono H, Yamamoto S
Microbiol Resour Announc
. 2020 Sep;
9(38).
PMID: 32943553
The emergence of drug-resistant uropathogenic (UPEC) has hampered antibiotic therapy for urinary tract infections. To elucidate the resistance mechanisms of UPEC, we performed whole-genome sequencing of eight UPEC strains with...
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Takamatsu D, Okumura K, Tabata A, Okamoto M, Okura M
Environ Microbiol
. 2020 Jun;
22(7):2736-2755.
PMID: 32519428
Royal jelly (RJ), a brood food of honey bees, has strong antimicrobial activity. Melissococcus plutonius, the causative agent of European foulbrood of honey bees, exhibits resistance to this antimicrobial activity...
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Nakamura K, Okumura K, Harada M, Okamoto M, Okura M, Takamatsu D
Environ Microbiol
. 2020 Mar;
22(7):2756-2770.
PMID: 32219986
Virulence factors responsible for bacterial pathogenicity are often encoded by plasmids. In Melissococcus plutonius, the causative agent of European foulbrood of honey bees, a putative virulence plasmid (pMP19) possessing mtxA,...