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Makoto Ohnishi is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology, with a notable emphasis on microbiology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and food science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including bacterial infections and vaccines, reproductive tract infections research, Escherichia coli research studies, pneumonia and respiratory infections, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Frequent co-authors in Ohnishi's research collaborations include Masatomo Morita, Yukihiro Akeda, Sunao Iyoda, Kenichi Lee, and Ken Shimuta.

Several publication venues have featured Ohnishi's contributions repeatedly, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Ohnishi include:

  • "Temporal maturation of neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent individuals improves potency and breadth to circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants," 2021, published in Immunity
  • "Treponema pallidum genome sequencing from six continents reveals variability in vaccine candidate genes and dominance of Nichols clade strains in Madagascar," 2021, published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Environmental Sampling for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 During a COVID-19 Outbreak on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship," 2020, published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Galectin-9 restricts hepatitis B virus replication via p62/SQSTM1-mediated selective autophagy of viral core proteins," 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • "Two-year intermittent exposure of a multiwalled carbon nanotube by intratracheal instillation induces lung tumors and pleural mesotheliomas in F344 rats," 2022, published in Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Best Publications

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Enterohemorrhagic Eschelichia coli O157:H7 and Genomic Comparison with a Laboratory Strain K-12

    Tetsuya Hayashi;Kozo Makino;Makoto Ohnishi;Ken Kurokawa

  • Is Neisseria gonorrhoeae Initiating a Future Era of Untreatable Gonorrhea?: Detailed Characterization of the First Strain with High-Level Resistance to Ceftriaxone

    Makoto Ohnishi;Daniel Golparian;Ken Shimuta;Takeshi Saika

  • High-level cefixime- and ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in France: novel penA mosaic allele in a successful international clone causes treatment failure.

    Magnus Unemo;Daniel Golparian;Robert Nicholas;Makoto Ohnishi

  • The R‐type pyocin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is related to P2 phage, and the F‐type is related to lambda phage

    Keisuke Nakayama;Kayoko Takashima;Hiroshi Ishihara;Tomoyuki Shinomiya

  • The novel 2016 WHO Neisseria gonorrhoeae reference strains for global quality assurance of laboratory investigations: phenotypic, genetic and reference genome characterization.

    Magnus Unemo;Daniel Golparian;Leonor Sánchez-Busó;Yonatan Grad;Yonatan Grad

  • Diversification of Escherichia coli genomes: are bacteriophages the major contributors?

    Makoto Ohnishi;Ken Kurokawa;Tetsuya Hayashi

  • Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Japan

    Makoto Ohnishi;Takeshi Saika;Shinji Hoshina;Kazuhiro Iwasaku

  • Lung carcinogenicity of inhaled multi-walled carbon nanotube in rats

    Tatsuya Kasai;Yumi Umeda;Makoto Ohnishi;Takashi Mine

  • Genomic diversity of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 revealed by whole genome PCR scanning

    Makoto Ohnishi;Jun Terajima;Ken Kurokawa;Keisuke Nakayama

  • Cooperative Recognition of Internationally Disseminated Ceftriaxone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae Strain.

    Monica M. Lahra;Irene Martin;Walter Demczuk;Amy V. Jennison

  • The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

    Keisuke Nakayama;Atsushi Yamashita;Ken Kurokawa;Takuya Morimoto

  • New ceftriaxone- and multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain with a novel mosaic penA gene isolated in Japan

    Shu-ichi Nakayama;Ken Shimuta;Kei-ichi Furubayashi;Takuya Kawahata

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of φCTX, a cytotoxin‐converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: implications for phage evolution and horizontal gene transfer via bacteriophages

    Keisuke Nakayama;Shigehiko Kanaya;Makoto Ohnishi;Yoshiro Terawaki

  • Phage conversion of exfoliative toxin A production in Staphylococcus aureus.

    Takayuki Yamaguchi;Tetsuya Hayashi;Hideto Takami;Kaoru Nakasone

  • A complete view of the genetic diversity of the Escherichia coli O-antigen biosynthesis gene cluster

    Atsushi Iguchi;Sunao Iyoda;Taisei Kikuchi;Yoshitoshi Ogura

  • The genome sequence of Clostridium botulinum type C neurotoxin-converting phage and the molecular mechanisms of unstable lysogeny

    Yoshihiko Sakaguchi;Tetsuya Hayashi;Ken Kurokawa;Keisuke Nakayama

  • Escherichia coli O-Genotyping PCR: a Comprehensive and Practical Platform for Molecular O Serogrouping

    Atsushi Iguchi;Sunao Iyoda;Kazuko Seto;Tomoko Morita-Ishihara

  • Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Staphylococcus aureus Exfoliative Toxin B Plasmid and Identification of a Novel ADP-Ribosyltransferase, EDIN-C

    Takayuki Yamaguchi;Tetsuya Hayashi;Hideto Takami;Makoto Ohnishi

  • Human infections with Borrelia miyamotoi, Japan.

    Kozue Sato;Ai Takano;Satoru Konnai;Minoru Nakao

  • Temporal maturation of neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent individuals improves potency and breadth to circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants.

    Saya Moriyama;Yu Adachi;Takashi Sato;Keisuke Tonouchi

  • Diagnosis of acute leptospirosis.

    Takao Toyokawa;Makoto Ohnishi;Nobuo Koizumi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Hayashi
Tetsuya Hayashi Kyushu University
Haruo Watanabe
Haruo Watanabe National Institutes of Health
Magnus Unemo
Magnus Unemo Örebro University
Kazunori Oishi
Kazunori Oishi National Institutes of Health
Daniel Golparian
Daniel Golparian Örebro University
Yoshitoshi Ogura
Yoshitoshi Ogura Kurume University
Makoto Kuroda
Makoto Kuroda National Institutes of Health
Yonatan H. Grad
Yonatan H. Grad Harvard University
Takaji Wakita
Takaji Wakita National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo

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