Ken Katakura

TL;DR: A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method for detection of Leishmania minicircle DNA within individual sand flies, which will be a powerful tool for the rapid identification of prevalent sand fly and Leishmaniasis species as well as monitoring the infection rate in sand fly populations in endemic areas.

TL;DR: The robustness, superior sensitivity, and ability to produce better visual discriminatory reaction products than existing LAMP fluorescence and turbidity assays indicated the field potential usefulness of this new method for surveillance and epidemiological studies of leishmaniasis in developing countries.

TL;DR: The nucleotide sequences of the Cyt b gene from 13 human-infecting Leishmania species (14 strains) from the New and Old Worlds were determined, and they showed good agreement with the classification of Lainson & Shaw (1987) except for the inclusion of L. (L.) major in the L.

TL;DR: The kinetics of blood eosinophilia, worm burden after primary infection, and resistance to secondary infection in SJA/9 mice were the same in both infections as those in congenic SJL/J mice used as an IgE-producing control, indicating that the host responses examined here operate under IgE

TL;DR: Bioassay-guided fractionation of the fruit extract of Br.