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Shigeru Kohno

Shigeru Kohno

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Citations
45311
World Ranking
7279
National Ranking
173

Overview

Shigeru Kohno is affiliated with Nagasaki University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on infectious diseases and related subfields. Their research scope spans epidemiology, pharmacology, critical care and intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine.

Kohno's work encompasses several main topics, notably in the areas of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, COVID-19 clinical research studies, fungal infections and studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, pneumonia and respiratory infections, and respiratory viral infections research.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Detection of significant antiviral drug effects on COVID-19 with reasonable sample sizes in randomized controlled trials: A modeling study," 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • "Virulence assessment of six major pathogenic Candida species in the mouse model of invasive candidiasis caused by fungal translocation," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "One-Year Quality of Life Post-Pneumonia Diagnosis in Japanese Adults," 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Novel and potent antimicrobial effects of caspofungin on drug-resistant Candida and bacteria," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 using qRT-PCR in saliva obtained from asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients, comparative analysis with matched nasopharyngeal samples," 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kohno include:

  • Taiga Miyazaki
  • Hiroshi Mukae
  • Koichi Izumikawa
  • Katsunori Yanagihara
  • Tatsuro Hirayama

Shigeru Kohno's research has been published primarily in venues such as:

  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • ChemMedChem

Best Publications

  • The first identification and retrospective study of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in Japan

    Toru Takahashi;Ken Maeda;Tadaki Suzuki;Aki Ishido

  • Plasma (1→3)-β-D-glucan measurement in diagnosis of invasive deep mycosis and fungal febrile episodes

    T Obayashi;T Kawai;M Yoshida;T Mori

  • The Case for Adopting the "Species Complex" Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis.

    Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;John E. Bennett;Brian L. Wickes;Wieland Meyer

  • Usefulness of oral prednisolone in the treatment of esophageal stricture after endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Naoyuki Yamaguchi;Hajime Isomoto;Toshiyuki Nakayama;Tomayoshi Hayashi

  • The diagnostic utility of anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody testing for predicting the prognosis of Japanese patients with DM.

    Tomohiro Koga;Keita Fujikawa;Yoshiro Horai;Akitomo Okada

  • Fatty liver in non-alcoholic non-overweight Japanese adults: incidence and clinical characteristics.

    Katsuhisa Omagari;Yoshiko Kadokawa;Jun-Ichi Masuda;Jun-Ichi Masuda;Ichiei Egawa

  • Multidrug Efflux Systems Play an Important Role in the Invasiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Yoichi Hirakata;Ramakrishnan Srikumar;Keith Poole;Naomasa Gotoh

  • Abscopal regression of hepatocellular carcinoma after radiotherapy for bone metastasis

    K Ohba;K Omagari;T Nakamura;N Ikuno

  • Palmitoleate attenuates palmitate-induced Bim and PUMA up-regulation and hepatocyte lipoapoptosis.

    Yuko Akazawa;Sophie Cazanave;Justin L. Mott;Nafisa Elmi

  • The effects of reactive nitrogen intermediates on gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Hideaki Ohno;Guofeng Zhu;Vellore P. Mohan;Darien Chu

  • Interleukin 1β, Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha, and Interleukin 8 in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Patients with Diffuse Panbronchiolitis: A Potential Mechanism of Macrolide Therapy

    Osamu Sakito;Jun-ichi Kadota;Shigeru Kohno;Koh Abe

  • Transport of 7-Ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38) by Breast Cancer Resistance Protein ABCG2 in Human Lung Cancer Cells

    Katsumi Nakatomi;Megumi Yoshikawa;Mikio Oka;Yoji Ikegami

  • Clinicopathological factors associated with clinical outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal epithelial neoplasms

    H. Isomoto;H. Nishiyama;N. Yamaguchi;E. Fukuda

  • MicroRNA signatures in Helicobacter pylori-infected gastric mucosa.

    Kayoko Matsushima;Hajime Isomoto;Naoki Inoue;Toshiyuki Nakayama

  • Clinical Differences Between Interstitial Lung Disease Associated With Clinically Amyopathic Dermatomyositis and Classic Dermatomyositis

    Hiroshi Mukae;Hiroshi Ishimoto;Noriho Sakamoto;Shintaro Hara

  • Regional variation in the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing clinical isolates in the Asia-Pacific region (SENTRY 1998-2002).

    Yoichi Hirakata;Junichi Matsuda;Yoshitsugu Miyazaki;Shimeru Kamihira

  • Expression of endothelial and inducible nitric oxide synthase in human glomerulonephritis

    Akira Furusu;Masanobu Miyazaki;Katsushige Abe;Shoko Tsukasaki

  • Pirfenidone inhibits the expression of HSP47 in TGF-beta1-stimulated human lung fibroblasts.

    Seiko Nakayama;Hiroshi Mukae;Noriho Sakamoto;Tomoyuki Kakugawa

  • A Multicenter, Open-Label Clinical Study of Micafungin (FK463) in the Treatment of Deep-seated Mycosis in Japan

    Shigeru Kohno;Toru Masaoka;Hideyo Yamaguchi;Takeshi Mori

  • The Japanese Respiratory Society guidelines for management of cough.

    Shigeru Kohno;Tadashi Ishida;Yoshyuki Uchida

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Mukae
Hiroshi Mukae Nagasaki University
Yoshitsugu Miyazaki
Yoshitsugu Miyazaki National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Katsunori Yanagihara
Katsunori Yanagihara Nagasaki University
Shimeru Kamihira
Shimeru Kamihira Nagasaki University
Takehiko Koji
Takehiko Koji Nagasaki University
Keizo Yamaguchi
Keizo Yamaguchi Kurume University

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