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Mitsuaki Nishibuchi

Mitsuaki Nishibuchi

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Microbiology

D-Index
65
Citations
14793
World Ranking
2512
National Ranking
87

Overview

Mitsuaki Nishibuchi was affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and contributed to multiple research areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spanned various subfields, notably food science, endocrinology, immunology, molecular medicine, and pollution.

The scientist's research focused on several main topics related to bacterial epidemiology and food safety. These included:

  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Identification and quantification in food

Mitsuaki Nishibuchi's recent publications covered diverse subjects within microbiology and food quality. Notable papers included:

  • Prevalence and antibiotic resistance patterns of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from different types of seafood in Selangor, Malaysia, 2020, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
  • Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli in chicken meat and edible poultry organs collected from retail shops and supermarkets of North Western Province in Sri Lanka, 2022, Journal of Food Quality
  • Corrigendum: Development and improvement of methods to disinfect raw beef using calcium hydroxide-ethanol-lactate-based food disinfectant for safe consumption, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbial quality of satays served on different commercial flight sectors, 2025, Letters in Food Research

The scientist frequently collaborated with colleagues including Yaya Rukayadi, Tze Young Thung, Ahmad Yaman Kayali, Son Radu, and C.W. Tan. These collaborations appeared across multiple studies and publications.

Publication venues where Mitsuaki Nishibuchi's work appeared were:

  • Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Food Quality
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Letters in Food Research

This body of work highlighted interdisciplinary approaches, covering foodborne pathogens, antibiotic resistance, and microbial contamination in food products. The integration of microbiological analysis with food quality and safety contributed to scientific understanding in these domains.

Best Publications

  • In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Green Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles Against Selected Gram-negative Foodborne Pathogens.

    Yuet Ying Loo;Yaya Rukayadi;Mahmud Ab Rashid Nor-Khaizura;Chee Hao Kuan

  • Identification of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains at the Species Level by PCR Targeted to the toxR Gene

    Yung Bu Kim;Jun Okuda;Chiho Matsumoto;Naoki Takahashi

  • Thermostable direct hemolysin gene of Vibrio parahaemolyticus : a virulence gene acquired by a marine bacterium

    M Nishibuchi;J B Kaper

  • Emergence of a unique O3:K6 clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Calcutta, India, and isolation of strains from the same clonal group from Southeast Asian travelers arriving in Japan.

    J Okuda;M Ishibashi;E Hayakawa;T Nishino

  • Pandemic Spread of an O3:K6 Clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Emergence of Related Strains Evidenced by Arbitrarily Primed PCR and toxRS Sequence Analyses

    Chiho Matsumoto;Jun Okuda;Masanori Ishibashi;Masaaki Iwanaga

  • Molecular epidemiologic evidence for association of thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and TDH-related hemolysin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus with gastroenteritis.

    H Shirai;H Ito;T Hirayama;Y Nakamoto

  • Detection of the thermostable direct hemolysin gene (tdh) and the thermostable direct hemolysin-related hemolysin gene (trh) of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by polymerase chain reaction.

    Jun Tada;Tetsuo Ohashi;Naoyuki Nishimura;Yoshinari Shirasaki

  • Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 2: new biogroup pathogenic for eels.

    D L Tison;M Nishibuchi;J D Greenwood;R J Seidler

  • Synthesis of silver nanoparticles by using tea leaf extract from Camellia Sinensis

    Yuet Ying Loo;Buong Woei Chieng;Mitsuaki Nishibuchi;Son Radu

  • Enterotoxigenicity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus with and without genes encoding thermostable direct hemolysin.

    M Nishibuchi;A Fasano;R G Russell;J B Kaper

  • Molecular evidence of clonal Vibrio parahaemolyticus pandemic strains.

    Nandini Roy Chowdhury;Soumen Chakraborty;Thandavarayan Ramamurthy;Mitsuaki Nishibuchi

  • Cloning and nucleotide sequencing of Vero toxin 2 variant genes from Escherichia coli O91:H21 isolated from a patient with the hemolytic uremic syndrome.

    Hideaki Ito;Akito Terai;Hisao Kurazono;Yoshifumi Takeda

  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus has a homolog of the Vibrio cholerae toxRS operon that mediates environmentally induced regulation of the thermostable direct hemolysin gene.

    Zaw Lin;K. Kumagai;K. Baba;J. J. Mekalanos

  • Nucleotide sequence of the thermostable direct hemolysin gene of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

    M Nishibuchi;J B Kaper

  • Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6, Europe.

    Jaime Martinez-Urtaza;Lourdes Simental;David Velasco;Angelo DePaola

  • Polymerase chain reaction for detection of the cholera enterotoxin operon of Vibrio cholerae.

    H Shirai;M Nishibuchi;T Ramamurthy;S K Bhattacharya

  • Characterization of Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates from Clinical Sources in Spain and Comparison with Asian and North American Pandemic Isolates

    Jaime Martinez-Urtaza;Antonio Lozano-Leon;Angelo DePaola;Masanori Ishibashi

  • Characteristics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 from Asia

    Hin-Chung Wong;Shu-Hui Liu;Tien-Kuei Wang;Chih-Lung Lee

  • Analysis of the thermostable direct hemolysin (tdh) gene and the tdh-related hemolysin (trh) genes in urease-positive strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated on the West Coast of the United States.

    J Okuda;M Ishibashi;S L Abbott;J M Janda

  • Prevalence of Pandemic Thermostable Direct Hemolysin-Producing Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 in Seafood and the Coastal Environment in Japan

    Yukiko Hara-Kudo;Kanji Sugiyama;Mitsuaki Nishibuchi;Ashrafuzzaman Chowdhury

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Miwatani
Toshio Miwatani Osaka University
G. Balakrish Nair
G. Balakrish Nair National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
James B. Kaper
James B. Kaper University of Maryland, Baltimore
Yoshifumi Takeda
Yoshifumi Takeda Okayama University
Yoshifumi Takeda
Yoshifumi Takeda Okayama University
Shinji Yamasaki
Shinji Yamasaki Osaka Metropolitan University
David A. Sack
David A. Sack Johns Hopkins University
Angelo DePaola
Angelo DePaola Angelo DePaola's Consulting, LLC
Gopinath Balakrish Nair
Gopinath Balakrish Nair Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
Toshihiro Nakai
Toshihiro Nakai Hiroshima University

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