Takashi Sasaki   Sae Tsubakishita   Kyoko Kuwahara-Arai   Miki Matsuo   Yu Jie Lu   Yoshikazu Tanaka   Keiichi Hiramatsu   
Genome Announcements 3(5) 2015年 [査読有り]
We report a complete genome sequence of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus schleiferi strain TSCC54, isolated from the skin of a dog in Tokyo, Japan.
Yoshikazu Tanaka   Yuka Sato   Takashi Sasaki   
VIRUSES-BASEL 5(5) 1250-1260 2013年5月 [査読有り]
Coronaviruses infect a variety of mammalian and avian species and cause serious diseases in humans, cats, mice, and birds in the form of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), mouse hepatitis, and avian infe...
JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY 93(Pt 9) 1930-1934 2012年9月 [査読有り]
In this study, the Japanese strain of type I feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), C3663, was found to have a large deletion of 735 bp within the gene encoding the spike (S) protein, with a deduced loss of 245 aa of the N-terminal region of ...
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 50(6) 2152-2155 2012年6月 [査読有り]
We determined the population genetic structures of feline and canine Staphylococcus aureus strains in Japan by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Ecological analyses suggested that multiple feline-related S. aureus clones, including ST133, natural...
The feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) is a member of the feline coronavirus family that causes FIP, which is incurable and fatal in cats. Cyclosporin A (CsA), an immunosuppressive agent that targets the nuclear factor pathway of activated...