INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 44 106-113 2016年10月 [査読有り]
Porcine rotavirus C (RVC) is distributed throughout the world and is thought to be a pathogenic agent of diarrhea in piglets. Although, the VP7, VP4, and VP6 gene sequences of Japanese porcine RVCs are currently available, there is no whole-genome...
ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY 161(6) 1685-1690 2016年6月 [査読有り]
During an investigation of porcine fecal viruses using a metagenomics approach, a novel picornavirus was identified from the feces of a healthy two-month-old pig. This virus, named porcine picornavirus Japan (PPVJ), had a standard picornavirus gen...
Mika Ito   Shinobu Tsuchiaka   Yuki Naoi   Konosuke Otomaru   Mitsuo Sato   Tsuneyuki Masuda   Kei Haga   Tomoichiro Oka   Hiroshi Yamasato   Tsutomu Omatsu   Satoshi Sugimura   Hiroshi Aoki   Tetsuya Furuya   Yukie Katayama   Mami Oba   Junsuke Shirai   Kazuhiko Katayama   Tetsuya Mizutani   Makoto Nagai   
INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 38 90-95 2016年3月 [査読有り]
Bovine toroviruses (BToVs), belong to the subfamily Toroviridae within the family Coronaviridae, and are pathogens, causing enteric disease in cattle. In Japan, BToVs are distributed throughout the country and cause gastrointestinal infection of c...
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH 64(1) 91-94 2016年2月 [査読有り]
We investigated the seroprevalence of antibodies against Erysipelothrix in wild animals in Japan. Serum samples were collected from 48 wild boar, 26 Yezo deer and 26 Japanese deer in Japan. Growth agglutination (GA) test was performed to estimate ...
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 78(2) 321-324 2016年2月 [査読有り]
During surveillance for bovine diarrhea of unknown causes in Japanese black cattle in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, we found two types of novel kobu-like viruses in fecal samples of calves. Sequence analyses revealed that they had L protein and 2A ...