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Tetsuya Tetsuya, Professor
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The Bacterial Infection Division studies enteric infections and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that occur in Thailand through pathogen detection and epidemiological investigation. It is a division of the Japan–Thailand Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, and works with the Department of Medical Sciences of the Ministry of Public Health of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Division of Epidemiology of the Ministry's Department of Disease Control. Targeting patients with severe diarrheal diseases, including cholera, the division is working on early detection of the causative pathogens and on developing testing methods and preventive measures. It aims for its research results to be useful not only within Thailand but also for infectious disease control in neighboring Asian countries and Japan.

Takeshi Kobayashi, Professor (Concurrent)
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The lab studies viral intestinal infections and mosquito-borne infections that recur in Asian countries, including Thailand and Japan. As a division of the Japan-Thailand Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, the lab carries out its research together with researchers at the Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health of the Kingdom of Thailand. Among mosquito-borne viruses, the lab focuses on antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of dengue virus infection. For intestinal infections, the lab studies norovirus, a cause of acute gastroenteritis, aiming to track changes in circulating strains and to clarify its life cycle.

Tetsuya Tetsuya, Professor
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As a division of the Japan-Thailand Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, the lab studies resistant bacteria that antibiotics cannot kill. Its central focus is carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which are resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, regarded as last-resort drugs for intractable infections. With the cooperation of core hospitals in Thailand and Myanmar, the lab collects clinical isolates of CRE and sequences their genomes. Using the resulting information, the lab aims to clarify how CRE acquire drug resistance genes and how they spread.

Takeshi Kobayashi, Center Director and Professor
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The Osaka-Mahidol Infectious Diseases Center conducts research toward developing point-of-care diagnostics for mosquito-borne viral diseases. Dengue fever and chikungunya fever are mosquito-borne viral infections that are epidemic mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, including the Kingdom of Thailand. Analyses of clinical specimens are carried out jointly with the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, and research has begun to clarify the relationship between viruses and the factors that make disease severe. Through this joint research, the center also puts effort into training infectious disease researchers at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, and in Japan.
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