Nobuhiko Okabe

TL;DR: The time-scale phylogeny suggested that the common ancestors of the 2016 strains VP1 gene and RdRp region diverged in 2006 and 1999, respectively, and that the 2016 strain was the progeny of a pre-2016 GII.2.2 strains.

TL;DR: F influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy progressed rapidly and was associated with poor outcomes, and thrombocytopenia and severely elevated transaminase levels were factors associated with a poor prognosis.

TL;DR: Typical clinical signs and symptoms of HFMD cases caused by CVA6 were fever, mild vesicles in oral mucosa, and skin blisters on hands, arms, feet, legs, buttocks, and nail matrixes (Figure).

TL;DR: A novel GII.P17-GII.17 variant norov virus emerged as a major cause of norovirus outbreaks from December 2014 to March 2015 in Japan and has a newly identified GII-P17 type RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, while the capsid sequence displays amino acid substitutions around histo-blood group antigen (HBGA) binding sites.

TL;DR: The nucleotide sequences of each EV71 isolate were determined and compared by phylogenetical analysis, and the severity of the HFMD did not link directly to certain genotypes of EV71, including genotype A-2.