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Toshiyuki Masuzawa

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Akaba Y, Kudo Y, Ket V, Ket V, Rin E, Masuzawa T
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis . 2023 Mar; 23(5):291-297. PMID: 36927062
Leptospirosis represents a major public health threat in Cambodia. To help establish preventive strategies for leptospirosis, we isolated and identified from soil collected in Phnom Penh and its neighboring province...
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Xu J, Koizumi N, Morimoto Y, Ozuru R, Masuzawa T, Nakamura S
Sci Rep . 2022 Apr; 12(1):6825. PMID: 35474318
Nucleotide second messengers are universally crucial factors for the signal transduction of various organisms. In prokaryotes, cyclic nucleotide messengers are involved in the bacterial life cycle and in functions such...
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Yanagihara Y, Villanueva S, Nomura N, Ohno M, Sekiya T, Handabile C, et al.
Microbiol Spectr . 2022 Mar; 10(2):e0215721. PMID: 35289672
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by infection with pathogenic leptospires. Consistent with recent studies by other groups, leptospires were isolated from 89 out of 110 (80.9%) soil or water...
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Nakao R, Masuzawa T, Nakamura S, Koizumi N
Microbiol Resour Announc . 2021 Dec; 10(50):e0116921. PMID: 34913721
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Oyamada Y, Ozuru R, Masuzawa T, Miyahara S, Nikaido Y, Obata F, et al.
PLoS One . 2021 Nov; 16(11):e0259907. PMID: 34784387
Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by the pathogenic bacterium Leptospira. The Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT) is widely used as the gold standard for diagnosis of leptospirosis. In this method, diluted...
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Nakao R, Masuzawa T, Nakamura S, Koizumi N
Microbiol Resour Announc . 2021 Nov; 10(45):e0090721. PMID: 34761960
The spirochete bacterium Leptospira kobayashii is a recently designated species of the genus . Here, we report the complete genome sequence of L. kobayashii strain E30, consisting of two circular...
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Masuzawa T, Sakakibara K, Suzuki K, Sato H, Yasuda S
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis . 2020 Aug; 20(12):921-923. PMID: 32762621
, a hard tick-borne relapsing fever agent, was sampled in and ticks from the Tver province in Russia (a sympatric region of both tick species) and examined by TaqMan-PCR targeting...
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Masuzawa T, Uno R, Matsuhashi N, Yamaguchi M, Xu J, Nakamura S
Microbiol Immunol . 2019 Aug; 63(11):469-473. PMID: 31444810
Leptospira was isolated from environmental water in central Japan using selective medium comprising five antibiotics, namely sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, amphotericin B, fosfomycin, and 5-fluorouracil. Of 100 water samples 57 (57%) were...
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Vincent A, Schiettekatte O, Goarant C, Neela V, Bernet E, Thibeaux R, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2019 May; 13(5):e0007270. PMID: 31120895
The causative agents of leptospirosis are responsible for an emerging zoonotic disease worldwide. One of the major routes of transmission for leptospirosis is the natural environment contaminated with the urine...
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Masuzawa T, Saito M, Nakao R, Nikaido Y, Matsumoto M, Ogawa M, et al.
Microbiol Immunol . 2019 Mar; 63(3-4):89-99. PMID: 30817029
In a previous study, 50 of 132 soil samples collected throughout Japan were found to be Leptospira-positive. In the present study, three strains identified in the collected specimens, three, E8,...