Tomoki Kuge, Kiyoharu Fukushima, Yuki Matsumoto, Haruko Saito, Yuko Abe, Eri Akiba, Kako Haduki, Tadayoshi Nitta, Akira Kawano, Michio Tanaka, Yumi Hattori, Takahiro Kawasaki, Takanori Matsuki, Takayuki Shiroyama, Daisuke Motooka, Kazuyuki Tsujino, Keisuke Miki, Masahide Mori, Seigo Kitada, Shota Nakamura, Tetsuya Iida, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Hiroshi Kida,
Unidentified Mycobacterium species are sometimes detected in respiratory specimens. We identified a novel Tsukamurella species (Tsukamurella sp. TY48, RIMD 2001001, CIP 111916<sup>T</sup>), Tsukamurella toyonakaense, from a patient given a misdiagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease caused by unidentified mycobacteria. Genomic identification of this Tsukamurella species helped clarify its clinical characteristics ... Read more >>
Emerg Infect Dis (Emerging infectious diseases)
[2022, 28(7):1437-1441]
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Nariko Ikemura, Shunta Taminishi, Tohru Inaba, Takao Arimori, Daisuke Motooka, Kazutaka Katoh, Yuhei Kirita, Yusuke Higuchi, Songling Li, Tatsuya Suzuki, Yumi Itoh, Yuki Ozaki, Shota Nakamura, Satoaki Matoba, Daron M Standley, Toru Okamoto, Junichi Takagi, Atsushi Hoshino,
The Omicron (B.1.1.529) SARS-CoV-2 variant contains an unusually high number of mutations in the spike protein, raising concerns of escape from vaccines, convalescent serum, and therapeutic drugs. Here, we analyzed the degree to which Omicron pseudo-virus evades neutralization by serum or therapeutic antibodies. Serum samples obtained 3 months after two ... Read more >>
Sci Transl Med (Science translational medicine)
[2022, 14(650):eabn7737]
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