Kenshiro Oshima

TL;DR: Investigation of many newly identified gene products, including the 70 putative virulence factors, will greatly improve the understanding of the biology of staphylococci and the processes of infectious diseases caused by S aureus.

TL;DR: This finding explains clinical features of V parahaemolyticus infections, which commonly include inflammatory diarrhoea and in some cases systemic manifestations such as septicaemia, distinct from those of V cholerae infections,Which are generally associated with non-inflammatory diarrhoeA.

TL;DR: A conjugative transposon family explosively amplified in human gut microbiomes is discovered, which strongly suggests that the intestine is a ‘hot spot’ for horizontal gene transfer between microbes.

TL;DR: This article performed a large-scale comparative metagenomic analysis of fecal samples from 13 healthy individuals of various ages, including unweaned infants, to identify the genomic features common to all human gut microbiomes as well as those variable among them.

TL;DR: The complete annotated genome of Wigglesworthia glossinidia brevipalpis is presented, and surprisingly, this obligate's genome bears hallmarks of both parasitic and free-living microbes, and the gene encoding the important regulatory protein DnaA is absent.