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Hiroyuki Shimizu is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has a research portfolio predominantly focused on Medicine, with an emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's work spans several related topics, including:

  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Whipple's Disease and Interleukins
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods

Shimizu's publication record is diverse, featuring research across multiple journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bioanalysis
  • Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Vaccine
  • Viruses
  • BMC Infectious Diseases

Several collaborations are notable in Shimizu's research history, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Yen Hai Doan
  • Kazuhiko Katayama
  • Masamichi Muramatsu
  • Takako Utsumi
  • Maria Inge Lusida

Recent papers provide insight into the focus areas and scope of Shimizu's investigations. Key publications include:

  • Molecular epidemiology and genetic diversity of norovirus infection in children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in East Java, Indonesia in 2015-2019 (2021) published in Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Genetic characterization of VP1 of coxsackieviruses A2, A4, and A10 associated with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam in 2012-2017: endemic circulation and emergence of new HFMD-causing lineages (2020) published in Archives of Virology
  • Coxsackieviruses A6 and A16 associated with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam, 2008-2017: Essential information for rational vaccine design (2020) published in Vaccine
  • Prediction of hand, foot, and mouth disease epidemics in Japan using a long short-term memory approach (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • Analytical Method Validation for Biomarkers As a Drug Development Tool: Points to Consider (2021) published in Bioanalysis

Best Publications

  • Outbreak of Poliomyelitis in Hispaniola Associated with Circulating Type 1 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus

    Olen Kew;Victoria Morris-Glasgow;Mauricio Landaverde;Cara Burns

  • Human P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 is a functional receptor for enterovirus 71

    Yorihiro Nishimura;Masayuki Shimojima;Yoshio Tano;Tatsuo Miyamura

  • Hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus A6, Japan, 2011.

    Tsuguto Fujimoto;Setsuko Iizuka;Miki Enomoto;Katsuhiko Abe

  • Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses: current state of knowledge

    Olen M. Kew;Peter F. Wright;Vadim I. Agol;Francis Delpeyroux

  • Circulation of Endemic Type 2 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Egypt from 1983 to 1993

    Chen-Fu Yang;Tary Naguib;Su-Ju Yang;Eman Nasr

  • Molecular epidemiology of enterovirus 71 infection in the Western Pacific Region

    Hiroyuki Shimizu;Andi Utama;Napa Onnimala;Chen Li;Chen Li

  • Temperature-sensitive mutants of enterovirus 71 show attenuation in cynomolgus monkeys.

    Minetaro Arita;Hiroyuki Shimizu;Noriyo Nagata;Yasushi Ami

  • Enterovirus 71 from Fatal and Nonfatal Cases of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemics in Malaysia, Japan and Taiwan in 1997-1998

    Shimizu H;Utama A;Yoshii K;Yoshida H

  • Coxsackievirus B3 Is an Oncolytic Virus with Immunostimulatory Properties that Is Active Against Lung Adenocarcinoma

    Shohei Miyamoto;Hiroyuki Inoue;Takafumi Nakamura;Meiko Yamada

  • An Attenuated Strain of Enterovirus 71 Belonging to Genotype A Showed a Broad Spectrum of Antigenicity with Attenuated Neurovirulence in Cynomolgus Monkeys

    Minetaro Arita;Noriyo Nagata;Naoko Iwata;Yasushi Ami

  • Circulation of Type 1 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in the Philippines in 2001

    Hiroyuki Shimizu;Bruce Thorley;Fem Julia Paladin;Kerri Anne Brussen

  • Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase III Beta Is a Target of Enviroxime-Like Compounds for Antipoliovirus Activity

    Minetaro Arita;Hirotatsu Kojima;Tetsuo Nagano;Takayoshi Okabe

  • Multiple Independent Emergences of Type 2 Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses during a Large Outbreak in northern Nigeria

    C. C. Burns;J. Shaw;J. Jorba;D. Bukbuk

  • Cooperative Effect of the Attenuation Determinants Derived from Poliovirus Sabin 1 Strain Is Essential for Attenuation of Enterovirus 71 in the NOD/SCID Mouse Infection Model

    Minetaro Arita;Yasushi Ami;Takaji Wakita;Hiroyuki Shimizu

  • Pyramidal and extrapyramidal involvement in experimental infection of cynomolgus monkeys with enterovirus 71.

    Noriyo Nagata;Hiroyuki Shimizu;Yasushi Ami;Yoshio Tano

  • Clinical Features of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Temporally Associated With an Enterovirus D68 Outbreak: Results of a Nationwide Survey of Acute Flaccid Paralysis in Japan, August-December 2015.

    Pin Fee Chong;Ryutaro Kira;Harushi Mori;Akihisa Okumura

  • Differential localization of neurons susceptible to enterovirus 71 and poliovirus type 1 in the central nervous system of cynomolgus monkeys after intravenous inoculation

    Noriyo Nagata;Takuya Iwasaki;Takuya Iwasaki;Yasushi Ami;Yoshio Tano

  • Cross-antigenicity among EV71 strains from different genogroups isolated in Yamagata, Japan, between 1990 and 2007

    K. Mizuta;Y. Aoki;A. Suto;K. Ootani

  • Enterovirus 71 Binding to PSGL-1 on Leukocytes: VP1-145 Acts as a Molecular Switch to Control Receptor Interaction

    Yorihiro Nishimura;Hyunwook Lee;Susan Hafenstein;Chikako Kataoka

  • Oxysterol-Binding Protein Family I Is the Target of Minor Enviroxime-Like Compounds

    Minetaro Arita;Hirotatsu Kojima;Tetsuo Nagano;Takayoshi Okabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuo Miyamura
Tatsuo Miyamura National Institutes of Health
Hiroshi Ushijima
Hiroshi Ushijima Nihon University
Takaji Wakita
Takaji Wakita National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Shoko Okitsu
Shoko Okitsu Nihon University
Noriyo Nagata
Noriyo Nagata National Institutes of Health
Niwat Maneekarn
Niwat Maneekarn Chiang Mai University
Mark A. Pallansch
Mark A. Pallansch National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Shigeru Morikawa
Shigeru Morikawa National Institutes of Health
Tadaki Suzuki
Tadaki Suzuki National Institutes of Health
Olen M. Kew
Olen M. Kew Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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