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Munehiro Okamoto

Munehiro Okamoto

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Animal Science and Veterinary
Japan
2025

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
34
Citations
4286
World Ranking
1876
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Munehiro Okamoto is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine with a particular focus on parasitology and primate ecology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including ecology, social psychology, pathology and forensic medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, and reproductive medicine.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics: primate behavior and ecology, parasite biology and host interactions, parasitic infections in humans and animals, sperm and testicular function, parasitic infections and diagnostics, zoonotic diseases and public health, as well as veterinary pharmacology and anesthesia.

Okamoto has published numerous papers in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Parasitology International with five publications, International Journal for Parasitology (three publications), Primates (three publications), Scientific Reports (two publications), and iScience (one publication).

Some notable recent papers by Okamoto are:

  • Origin of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium in Bali and Papua, Indonesia, 2021, Parasitology International
  • Mitogenomic exploration supports the historical hypothesis of anthropogenic diffusion of a zoonotic parasite Echinococcus multilocularis, 2023, iScience
  • Parasite community structure in sympatric Bornean primates, 2021, International Journal for Parasitology
  • Risk factors and prevalence of taeniasis among the Karen people of Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province, Thailand, 2021, Parasite
  • Semen collection by urethral catheterization and electro-ejaculation with different voltages, and the effect of holding temperature and cooling rate before cryopreservation on semen quality in the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), 2022, Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Okamoto collaborates frequently with several researchers in related fields. Frequent co-authors include Akihisa Kaneko (6 publications), Symphorosa Sipangkui (4 publications), Benoît Goossens (4 publications), Andrew J. J. MacIntosh (4 publications), and Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki (4 publications).

Best Publications

  • A phylogenetic hypothesis for the distribution of two genotypes of the pig tapeworm Taenia solium worldwide.

    M. Nakao;M. Okamoto;Y. Sako;H. Yamasaki

  • Geographic pattern of genetic variation in the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis.

    Minoru Nakao;Ning Xiao;Munehiro Okamoto;Tetsuya Yanagida

  • State-of-the-art Echinococcus and Taenia: phylogenetic taxonomy of human-pathogenic tapeworms and its application to molecular diagnosis.

    Minoru Nakao;Tetsuya Yanagida;Munehiro Okamoto;Jenny Knapp

  • Molecular phylogeny of the genus Taenia (Cestoda: Taeniidae): proposals for the resurrection of Hydatigera Lamarck, 1816 and the creation of a new genus Versteria.

    Minoru Nakao;Antti Lavikainen;Takashi Iwaki;Voitto Haukisalmi;Voitto Haukisalmi

  • Phylogenetic relationships within Echinococcus and Taenia tapeworms (Cestoda: Taeniidae): An inference from nuclear protein-coding genes

    Jenny Knapp;Minoru Nakao;Tetsuya Yanagida;Munehiro Okamoto

  • Genetic polymorphisms of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto in the Middle East.

    Tetsuya Yanagida;Tahereh Mohammadzadeh;Shaden Kamhawi;Minoru Nakao

  • Taeniasis/cysticercosis in Indonesia as an emerging disease

    G.M. Simanjuntak;S.S. Margono;M. Okamoto;A. Ito

  • Evidence of hybridization between Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica.

    Munehiro Okamoto;Minoru Nakao;David Blair;Malinee T. Anantaphruti

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

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

  • Resurgence of cases of epileptic seizures and burns associated with cysticercosis in Assologaima, Jayawijaya, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 1991-95.

    T. Wandra;Rizal Subahar;G.M. Simanjuntak;S.S. Margono

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

    Akira Ito;Hiroshi Yamasaki;Minoru Nakao;Yasuhito Sako

  • Usefulness of pumpkin seeds combined with areca nut extract in community-based treatment of human taeniasis in northwest Sichuan Province, China.

    Tiaoying Li;Akira Ito;Xingwang Chen;Changping Long

  • 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

  • Taeniasis and cysticercosis in Bali and North Sumatra, Indonesia

    Toni Wandra;A.A. Depary;Putu Sutisna;Sri S. Margono

  • Chromosomal differentiation of the Schistosoma japonicum complex.

    H Hirai;T Taguchi;Y Saitoh;M Kawanaka

  • Phylogenetic identification of Sparganum proliferum as a pseudophyllidean cestode by the sequence analyses on mitochondrial COI and nuclear sdhB genes

    Hiroko Miyadera;Akatsuki Kokaze;Toshiaki Kuramochi;Kiyoshi Kita

  • Recent hybridization between Taenia asiatica and Taenia saginata.

    Kanako Yamane;Yumi Suzuki;Eiko Tachi;Tiaoying Li

  • 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

  • Taeniasis and cysticercosis in Asia and the Pacific: present state of knowledge and perspectives

    Akira Ito;Minoru Nakao;Toni Wandra;Thomas Suroso

  • Molecular identification of unilocular hydatid cysts from domestic ungulates in Ethiopia: implications for human infections.

    Zerihun Hailemariam;Minoru Nakao;Sissay Menkir;Antti Lavikainen

  • 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

  • Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene and nuclear rDNA regions of Enterobius vermicularis parasitic in captive chimpanzees with special reference to its relationship with pinworms in humans

    Tadao Nakano;Munehiro Okamoto;Yatsukaho Ikeda;Hideo Hasegawa

  • Phylogenetic characterisation of Taenia tapeworms in spotted hyenas and reconsideration of the “Out of Africa” hypothesis of Taenia in humans

    Yitagele Terefe;Zerihun Hailemariam;Sissay Menkir;Minoru Nakao

  • The present situation and towards the prevention and control of neurocysticercosis on the tropical island, Bali, Indonesia

    Toni Wandra;Kadek Swastika;Kadek Swastika;Nyoman S Dharmawan;Ivan Elisabeth Purba

  • A loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for a differential identification of Taenia tapeworms from human: application to a field survey.

    Agathe Nkouawa;Yasuhito Sako;Tiaoying Li;Xingwang Chen

  • An ocular cysticercosis in Bali, Indonesia caused by Taenia solium Asian genotype.

    Kadek Swastika;Cokorda I. Dewiyani;Tetsuya Yanagida;Yasuhiko Sako

  • Taeniases and cysticercosis in Indonesia: past and present situations.

    Toni Wandra;Akira Ito;Kadek Swastika;Nyoman S Dharmawan

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Ito
Akira Ito Asahikawa Medical University
Minoru Nakao
Minoru Nakao Asahikawa Medical University
Tetsuya Yanagida
Tetsuya Yanagida Yamaguchi University
Toni Wandra
Toni Wandra Universitas Sari Mutiara Indonesia - (USM-Indonesia)
Philip S. Craig
Philip S. Craig University of Salford
Yuzaburo Oku
Yuzaburo Oku Tottori University
Patrick Giraudoux
Patrick Giraudoux University of Franche-Comté
Marcello Otake Sato
Marcello Otake Sato Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
Syozo Osawa
Syozo Osawa Nagoya University
Antti Lavikainen
Antti Lavikainen University of Helsinki

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