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Overview

Marcello Otake Sato is affiliated with Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences in Japan. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, prominently including Medicine, Environmental Science, and Immunology and Microbiology.

Their work extensively covers several subfields such as Parasitology, Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. These subfields reflect an interdisciplinary approach to understanding diseases and their interactions with the environment and hosts.

Key research topics addressed by Marcello Otake Sato include:

  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Their publication record includes contributions to a variety of scientific journals. Some of the most frequent venues are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • Tropical Medicine and Health
  • Parasitology International
  • Pathogens

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them demonstrate a focus on ticks, tick-borne diseases, and parasitological diagnostics. Selected publications include:

  • "Diversity and distribution of ticks in Niigata prefecture, Japan (2016-2018): Changes since 1950" (2021), published in Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • "Spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) detection in ticks following reported human case of Japanese spotted fever in Niigata Prefecture, Japan" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Transmission of Leishmania infantum from cats to dogs" (2020), published in Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária/Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology
  • "Circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA fragment: A possible marker for early detection of Schistosoma japonicum" (2020), published in Infection Genetics and Evolution
  • "Diagnostic Performance of Parasitological, Immunological, Molecular, and Ultrasonographic Tests in Diagnosing Intestinal Schistosomiasis in Fieldworkers From Endemic Municipalities in the Philippines" (2022), published in Frontiers in Immunology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Megumi Sato
  • Reiko Arai
  • Kozo Watanabe
  • Tsutomu Tamura
  • Sumire Ikeda

Best Publications

  • DNA differential diagnosis of taeniasis and cysticercosis by multiplex PCR

    Hiroshi Yamasaki;James C. Allan;Marcello Otake Sato;Minoru Nakao

  • Taeniasis/cysticercosis in a Tibetan population in Sichuan Province, China.

    Tiaoying Li;Philip S. Craig;Akira Ito;Xingwang Chen

  • Evaluation of tongue inspection and serology for diagnosis of Taenia solium cysticercosis in swine: usefulness of ELISA using purified glycoproteins and recombinant antigen

    Mo Sato;H Yamasaki;Y Sako;M Nakao

  • Sympatric Occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica, Thailand

    Malinee T. Anantaphruti;Hiroshi Yamasaki;Minoru Nakao;Jitra Waikagul

  • Multiple genotypes of Taenia solium--ramifications for diagnosis, treatment and control.

    Akira Ito;Hiroshi Yamasaki;Minoru Nakao;Yasuhito Sako

  • Dogs as alternative intermediate hosts of Taenia solium in Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia confirmed by highly specific ELISA and immunoblot using native and recombinant antigens and mitochondrial DNA analysis

    A. Ito;M.I. Putra;R. Subahar;M.O. Sato

  • DNA Differential Diagnosis of Human Taeniid Cestodes by Base Excision Sequence Scanning Thymine-Base Reader Analysis with Mitochondrial Genes

    Hiroshi Yamasaki;Minoru Nakao;Yasuhito Sako;Kazuhiro Nakaya

  • Evaluation of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) with Affinity-Purified Em18 and an ELISA with Recombinant Em18 for Differential Diagnosis of Alveolar Echinococcosis: Results of a Blind Test

    Akira Ito;Ning Xiao;Martine Liance;Marcello O. Sato

  • Evaluation of Purified Taenia solium Glycoproteins and Recombinant Antigens in the Serologic Detection of Human and Swine Cysticercosis

    Marcello Otake Sato;Yasuhito Sako;Minoru Nakao;Hiroshi Yamasaki

  • Intraspecific variation of Spirometra erinaceieuropaei and phylogenetic relationship between Spirometra and Diphyllobothrium inferred from mitochondrial CO1 gene sequences.

    M. Okamoto;C. Iseto;T. Shibahara;M.O. Sato

  • Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis in Papua, Indonesia in 2001: detection of human worm carriers.

    S. S. Margono;A. Ito;M. O. Sato;M. Okamoto

  • Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Taenia asiatica, their hybrids and other helminthic infections occurring in a neglected tropical diseases' highly endemic area in Lao PDR.

    Marcello Otake Sato;Megumi Sato;Tetsuya Yanagida;Jitra Waikagul

  • Usefulness of environmental DNA for detecting Schistosoma mansoni occurrence sites in Madagascar.

    Marcello Otake Sato;Armand Rafalimanantsoa;Charles Ramarokoto;Alain Marcel Rahetilahy

  • Neurocysticercosis: clinical manifestation, neuroimaging, serology and molecular confirmation of histopathologic specimens.

    Akira Ito;Osvaldo M Takayanagui;Yasuhito Sako;Marcello O Sato

  • Application of environmental DNA analysis for the detection of Opisthorchis viverrini DNA in water samples.

    Hiroki Hashizume;Megumi Sato;Marcello Otake Sato;Sumire Ikeda

  • Detection of Schistosoma japonicum and Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi environmental DNA and its potential utility to schistosomiasis japonica surveillance in the Philippines.

    Raffy Jay C. Fornillos;Marcello Otake Sato;Ian Kim B. Tabios;Megumi Sato

  • Neurocysticercosis and epilepsy in Cameroon.

    André P. Zoli;Nguekam;Oliver Shey-Njila;Denis Nsame Nforninwe

  • Usefulness of severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) and inbred mice for studies of cysticercosis and echinococcosis.

    Kazuhiro Nakaya;Wulamu Mamuti;Wulamu Mamuti;Ning Xiao;Ning Xiao;Marcello O. Sato;Marcello O. Sato

  • Molecular and serological survey on taeniasis and cysticercosis in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.

    Malinee T. Anantaphruti;Malinee T. Anantaphruti;Munehiro Okamoto;Tippayarat Yoonuan;Surapol Saguankiat

  • Mitochondrial DNA diagnosis for taeniasis and cysticercosis

    Hiroshi Yamasaki;Minoru Nakao;Yasuhito Sako;Kazuhiro Nakaya

  • Specific status of Echinococcus canadensis (Cestoda Taeniidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences

    Tetsuya Yanagida;Antti Lavikainen;Eric P. Hoberg;Sergey Konyaev

  • Evaluation of clinical and serological data from Taenia solium cysticercosis patients in eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.

    T. Ikejima;Z.-X. Piao;Y. Sako;M.O. Sato

  • TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR DETECTION, SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL OF TAENIASIS/ CYSTICERCOSIS AND ECHINOCOCCOSIS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

    Akira Ito;Toni Wandra;Marcello O Sato;Wulamu Mamuti

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Ito
Akira Ito Asahikawa Medical University
Minoru Nakao
Minoru Nakao Asahikawa Medical University
Philip S. Craig
Philip S. Craig University of Salford
Toni Wandra
Toni Wandra Universitas Sari Mutiara Indonesia - (USM-Indonesia)
Munehiro Okamoto
Munehiro Okamoto Kyoto University
Toshifumi Minamoto
Toshifumi Minamoto Kobe University
Tetsuya Yanagida
Tetsuya Yanagida Yamaguchi University
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Takashi Ikejima
Takashi Ikejima Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
Christine M. Budke
Christine M. Budke Texas A&M University

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