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Koki Taniguchi is a researcher affiliated with Fujita Health University in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on virology, infectious diseases, and related biomedical fields, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach spanning medicine and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's research contributions have been published across multiple academic journals, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Journal of General Virology
  • Microbiology and Immunology
  • Virus Genes
  • PLoS ONE

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these areas, Taniguchi has developed expertise in several subfields such as:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Hepatology

The principal research topics covered in their body of work are:

  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
  • Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Taniguchi has collaborated extensively with several researchers, frequently co-authoring publications with:

  • Satoshi Komoto
  • Saori Fukuda
  • Takayuki Murata
  • Riona Hatazawa
  • Yoshiki Kawamura

A selection of recent papers highlights the focus on rotavirus genomics and zoonotic transmission events, with specific works including:

  • Full genome-based characterization of G4P[6] rotavirus strains from diarrheic patients in Thailand: Evidence for independent porcine-to-human interspecies transmission events (2021, Virus Genes)
  • Full genome characterization of novel DS-1-like G9P[8] rotavirus strains that have emerged in Thailand (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Genomic characterization of an African G4P[6] human rotavirus strain identified in a diarrheic child in Kenya: Evidence for porcine-to-human interspecies transmission and reassortment (2021, Infection Genetics and Evolution)
  • Genomic characterization of a novel G3P[10] rotavirus strain from a diarrheic child in Thailand: Evidence for bat-to-human zoonotic transmission (2020, Infection Genetics and Evolution)
  • Reverse genetics system for human rotaviruses (2020, Microbiology and Immunology)

Best Publications

  • Polymerase chain reaction amplification and typing of rotavirus nucleic acid from stool specimens.

    V. Gouvea;R. I. Glass;P. Woods;K. Taniguchi

  • Uniformity of rotavirus strain nomenclature proposed by the Rotavirus Classification Working Group (RCWG).

    Jelle Matthijnssens;Max Ciarlet;Sarah M. McDonald;Houssam Attoui

  • Recommendations for the classification of group A rotaviruses using all 11 genomic RNA segments.

    Jelle Matthijnssens;Max Ciarlet;Mustafizur Rahman;Mustafizur Rahman;Houssam Attoui

  • Evolutionary History and Global Spread of the Emerging G12 Human Rotaviruses

    Mustafizur Rahman;Mustafizur Rahman;Jelle Matthijnssens;Xuelei Yang;Thomas Delbeke

  • Direct serotyping of human rotavirus in stools by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using serotype 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-specific monoclonal antibodies to VP7.

    Koki Taniguchi;Tomoko Urasawa;Yasuyuki Morita;Harry B. Greenberg

  • Protective effect of naturally acquired homotypic and heterotypic rotavirus antibodies.

    Shunzo Chiba;Shuji Nakata;Tomoko Urasawa;Shozo Urasawa

  • Detection and characterization of novel rotavirus strains in the United States.

    M. Ramachandran;J. R. Gentsch;U. D. Parashar;S. Jin

  • Analysis of anti-rotavirus activity of extract from Stevia rebaudiana.

    Kazuo Takahashi;Masahiro Matsuda;Kazutaka Ohashi;Koki Taniguchi

  • Detection of mecA, femA , and femB genes in clinical strains of staphylococci using polymerase chain reaction

    N. Kobayashi;H. Wu;K. Kojima;K. Taniguchi

  • Entirely plasmid-based reverse genetics system for rotaviruses

    Yuta Kanai;Satoshi Komoto;Takahiro Kawagishi;Ryotaro Nouda

  • Sequential passages of human rotavirus in MA-104 cells.

    Tomoko Urasawa;Shozo Urasawa;Koki Taniguchi

  • Nucleotide sequence of VP4 and VP7 genes of human rotaviruses with subgroup I specificity and long RNA pattern: implication for new G serotype specificity.

    K Taniguchi;T Urasawa;N Kobayashi;M Gorziglia

  • Sequence of the fourth gene of human rotaviruses recovered from asymptomatic or symptomatic infections.

    M Gorziglia;K Green;K Nishikawa;K Taniguchi

  • ACBD3‐mediated recruitment of PI4KB to picornavirus RNA replication sites

    Jun Sasaki;Kumiko Ishikawa;Minetaro Arita;Koki Taniguchi

  • Preparation and Characterization of Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies with Different Reactivity Patterns to Human Rotaviruses

    Koki Taniguchi;Shozo Urasawa;Tomoko Urasawa

  • Rotavirus VP7 neutralization epitopes of serotype 3 strains.

    Kazuo Nishikawa;Yasutaka Hoshino;Koki Taniguchi;Kim Y. Green

  • Identification of human and bovine rotavirus serotypes by polymerase chain reaction.

    K. Taniguchi;F. Wakasugi;Y. Pongsuwanna;T. Urasawa

  • Cross-reactive neutralization epitopes on VP3 of human rotavirus: analysis with monoclonal antibodies and antigenic variants.

    K Taniguchi;Y Morita;T Urasawa;S Urasawa

  • Homotypic and Heterotypic Epitope-Specific Antibody Responses in Adult and Infant Rotavirus Vaccinees: Implications for Vaccine Development

    Kim Y. Green;Koki Taniguchi;Erich R. Mackow;Albert Z. Kapikian

  • Reverse genetics system for introduction of site-specific mutations into the double-stranded RNA genome of infectious rotavirus.

    Satoshi Komoto;Jun Sasaki;Koki Taniguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobumichi Kobayashi
Nobumichi Kobayashi Sapporo Medical University
Tetsushi Yoshikawa
Tetsushi Yoshikawa Fujita Health University
AlbertZ Kapikian
AlbertZ Kapikian National Institutes of Health
Kim Y. Green
Kim Y. Green National Institutes of Health
Shunzo Chiba
Shunzo Chiba Sapporo Medical University
Harry B. Greenberg
Harry B. Greenberg Stanford University
Mustafizur Rahman
Mustafizur Rahman International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Kazuhiko Katayama
Kazuhiko Katayama Kitasato University
R M Chanock
R M Chanock National Institutes of Health
Keiji Oguma
Keiji Oguma Okayama University

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