Lab. of Environmental Hygiene (Sei Lab.), Kitasato Univ.

New article on the surveillance of malaria parasite in wild macaques feacal DNA for monitoring zoonotic transmission in Southeast and South Asia has been accepted in " The Journal of Infectious Diseases ", as a result of international collaboration research. Dhammika Leshan Wannigama, Mohan Amarasiri, Phatthranit Phattharapornjaroen, Cameron Hurst, Charin Modchang, Bernadina Cynthia, Kazuhiko Miyanaga, Longzhu Cui, Stefan Fernandez, Nada M. Melhem, Sirirat Luk-in, Andrew C. S

New article on the inactivation of viruses in aerosol by pulsed electric field application has been published in " Environmental Pollution ". Takashi Furukawa, Takahisa Ueno, Suzuha Moroishi, Yuki Hoshiko, Shotaro Maehana, Mohan Amarasiri, and Kazunari Sei (2026) Inactivation of bio-aerosolized viruses by applying pulsed electric field. Environmental Pollution , 395,  127841. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2026.127841 .

New article on genetic analysis of the tigecycline-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from hospital wastewater has been published in " Environmental Microbiology Reports ". Shotaro Maehana, Masato Suzuki, Naoko Ishimura, Hiroki Izawa, Ryotaro Eda, Masaki Nakamura, Mohan Amarasiri, Takashi Furukawa, Fumiaki Kojima, Kazunari Sei, Makoto Kubo (2026) Emergence of tigecycline-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa  harboring tmexC6D6-toprJ1b  from hospital sewage in Japan. Enviro

New article on the surveillance of the environmental source of tapeworm infection in rural Japan has been published in " Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics ", as a result of international collaboration research. Dhammika Leshan Wannigama, Mohan Amarasiri, Phatthranit Phattharapornjaroen, Cameron Hurst, Yu Suzuki, Daisuke Akaneya, Mika Moriya, Taichi Adachi, Yoshikazu Okuma, Daisuke Ishizawa, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Miyanaga, Longzhu Cui, Kazunori Moriya, Hirotake Mori, Naveen

New article on the waswater based surveillance on Mpox diversity in war and conflict-affected countries has been accepted in " Journal of...

New article on the passive sampling of urban runoff solids for environmental DNA analysis to detect rodents has been accepted in "Water...

New article on the Streptococcus pyogenes  surveillance in rural Japan has been accepted in " The Journal of Infectious Diseases ", as...

New article on the inactivation of plant pathogens in hydroponic nutrient solution by pulsed electric field application technology has...

New article on the monitoring of avian influenza in remote regions of the global south using bird guano has been published in " Nature...

New article on the inactivation of extracellular antibiotic resistance genes by peracetic acid (PAA) and performic acid (PFA) has been...

New article on the evaluation of antiviral activity to enveloped viruses by cell-extracts derived from cedar and Japanese cypress has...

New article on the Mpox surveillance in 16 countries from South-East Asia and Africa using discarded condoms has been accepted in " The...

New article on genome analysis of Enterobacter spp. harboring mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes, isolated from hospital wastewater,...

New article on wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants BA.2.86 and offspring JN.1 in South and Southeast...

New article on the finding that increase faecal shedding in SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 and offspring JN.1 has been accepted in " The...

New article on the usability of indoor and outdoor dust as a tool for detection and monitoring COVID-19 transmission has been published...

New article on the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 based on the wastewater epidemiology survey in Bangkok has been accepted in "...

New article on the monitoring of mpox based on the wastewater epidemiology survey in 6 Southeast Asian countries has been published in...

New article on the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 based on the wastewater epidemiology survey in urban and rural area of Thailand has been...

New article on the monitoring of monkeypox based on the wastewater epidemiology survey in Bangkok, Thailand has been published in "...