List of articles on infectious diseases

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology warns students studying in China to ensure safety including temporary return

 The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has temporarily returned to Japan for Japanese students studying in China as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus infection confirmed in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. […]

Discover a new infectious disease spread strategy that temporarily attenuates and evades vigilance

 Assistant Professor Kensaku Maejima of the University of Tokyo and others have learned that temporary attenuation was involved in the invasion and spread of plum pox virus (PPV) from overseas […]

What if Santa had an infectious disease?Analyzing the state of propagation expansion with a mathematical model Kyoto University 

 Yuki Furuse, Assistant Professor of the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, said that Santa Claus felt influenza and measles on Christmas Eve […]

Identify sensor proteins that detect influenza virus infection in the airway epithelium

 Influenza virus first infects airway epithelial cells.In contrast, airway epithelial cells serve as a physical barrier that separates the body from the body […].

Elucidation of the maintenance mechanism of T cells responsible for influenza virus infection protection in the lungs

 According to a research group at Kinki University, "stay-type memory CD8T cells", which are responsible for protecting against influenza virus infection, are continuously supplied to the pulmonary airway epithelium […].

Confirmed a sustained influenza virus growth inhibitory effect on the Japanese herb "Kuromoji"

 A joint research group of Shinshu University and Yomeishu Seizo Co., Ltd. has put a persistent influenza on the hot water extract (Kuromoji extract) of "Kuromoji" […]

Tokai University and Fujifilm Environmental Disinfection Controls Influenza Outbreaks in Schools

 Associate Professor Kazuo Umezawa of FUJIFILM Corporation and Tokai University School of Medicine have announced that FUJIFILM's unique antibacterial technology "Hydro Ag […]"

Nagasaki University and Shizuoka University surveyed the number of sexual contacts according to the "power distribution"

 The research teams of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University and Shizuoka University have found that the number of sexual contacts per person is the nature of the sexual contact network in Japan […].

Eradication of malaria across humanities and sciences, adopted for international cooperation program

 Joint research on the eradication of malaria on behalf of Professor Akira Kaneko of the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University is the site of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development […]

Isolation and culture of seasonal influenza virus without mutation The University of Tokyo

 A cultured cell line that can be efficiently isolated and cultured without mutating the seasonal influenza virus, is a river in the field of virus infection at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo […]