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Nobuhiko Okabe
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 228
Citations - 6243
Nobuhiko Okabe is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outbreak & Vaccination. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 227 publications receiving 5697 citations.
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Detection of Rotavirus Strains in Freshwater Clams in Japan
Sheikh Ariful Hoque,A. Wakana,Hideaki Shimizu,Sayaka Takanashi,Shoko Okitsu,Kazi Selim Anwar,Satoshi Hayakawa,Niwat Maneekarn,Nobuhiko Okabe,Hiroshi Ushijima +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the wild-type RVs and Rotarix/RotaTeq vaccine strains were detected in freshwater clams collected on the riverside, Kawasaki city, from July 2019 to January 2020 and correlated the detected genotypes with that of gastroenteritis cases of nearby clinics to understand the transmission of RVs in the environment.
Laboratory and Epidemiology Communications Clinical Manifestations of Coxsackievirus A6 Infection Associated with a Major Outbreak of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Japan
Masaaki Kobayashi,Tomohiko Makino,Nozomu Hanaoka,Hiroyuki Shimizu,Miki Enomoto,Nobuhiko Okabe,Kazuhiko Kanou,Masami Konagaya,Kazunori Oishi,Tsuguto Fujimoto +9 more
TL;DR: crust formation was observed within several days of dis-ease onset in all 28 cases of CA6-associated HFMD, and pediatricians should be alert while making diagnosis because the rashes caused by CA6 aresimilar to those caused by chickenpox.
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A method for detecting rash and fever illness-associated viruses using multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
Yuki Matsushima,Tomomi Shimizu,Ikuko Doi,Fuminori Mizukoshi,Koo Nagasawa,Akihide Ryo,Hideaki Shimizu,Masae Kobayashi,Keiji Funatogawa,Noriko Nagata,Mariko Ishikawa,Ayako Komane,Nobuhiko Okabe,Yoshio Mori,Makoto Takeda,Hirokazu Kimura,Hirokazu Kimura +16 more
TL;DR: This method can detect various RFI‐associated viruses in clinical specimens with high sensitivity and specificity, and eliminate non‐specific PCR products with no influence on sensitivity.
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Preliminary trial of syndromic surveillance to early detection of nosocomial infection outbreak
TL;DR: In this paper, a system was proposed to detect the outbreak of the nosocomial Noro virus in a hospital using electronic medical records (EMR) from 1999 to 2005.
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[Outpatient antimicrobial drug use and antimicrobial resistance frequency in Suwa area, Nagano, Japan].
TL;DR: A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine antimicrobial use and to analyze the correlation to resistant bacteria in Suwa area, Nagano prefecture, collecting data from a national health insurance database system.