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Teruo Kirikae

Teruo Kirikae

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Microbiology

D-Index
60
Citations
12469
World Ranking
3141
National Ranking
120

Overview

Teruo Kirikae is affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses extensively on Molecular Medicine and covers related subfields including Endocrinology, Pollution, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics in Kirikae's research include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Vibrio bacteria research studies, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Escherichia coli research studies, Infections and bacterial resistance, and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies.

Kirikae has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Emergence of clinical isolates of highly carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae co-harboring blaNDM-5 and blaOXA-181 or -232 in Nepal" (2020, International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • "Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from hospitals in Myanmar" (2020, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance)
  • "Molecular characterisation of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in Nepal" (2021, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance)
  • "Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Tertiary Care Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal" (2024, Journal of Institute of Medicine Nepal)
  • "Highly multidrug-resistant Morganella morganii clinical isolates from Nepal co-producing NDM-type metallo-β-lactamases and the 16S rRNA methylase ArmA" (2020, Journal of Medical Microbiology)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tatsuya Tada
  • Tomomi Hishinuma
  • Mari Tohya
  • Jatan Bahadur Sherchan
  • Shovita Shrestha

Kirikae has published numerous articles in a variety of venues, with a notable presence in:

  • Journal of Medical Microbiology
  • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Institute of Medicine Nepal
  • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Best Publications

  • Bacterial endotoxin: molecular relationships of structure to activity and function.

    E T Rietschel;T Kirikae;F U Schade;U Mamat

  • Not lipoteichoic acid but lipoproteins appear to be the dominant immunobiologically active compounds in Staphylococcus aureus.

    Masahito Hashimoto;Kazuki Tawaratsumida;Hiroyuki Kariya;Ai Kiyohara

  • The chemical structure of bacterial endotoxin in relation to bioactivity.

    Ernst Th. Rietschel;Teruo Kirikae;F. Ulrich Schade;Artur J. Ulmer

  • Detection of Multidrug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi;Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama;Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć;Zofia Zwolska

  • Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for characterization of Enterobacter cloacae.

    Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama;Kayoko Hayakawa;Norio Ohmagari;Masahiro Shimojima

  • Regulatory Roles for CD14 and Phosphatidylinositol in the Signaling via Toll-like Receptor 4-MD-2 ☆ ☆☆

    Sachiko Akashi;Hirotaka Ogata;Fumiko Kirikae;Teruo Kirikae

  • A Bacterial Effector Targets Mad2L2, an APC Inhibitor, to Modulate Host Cell Cycling

    Hiroki Iwai;Minsoo Kim;Yuko Yoshikawa;Hiroshi Ashida

  • Protective effects of a human 18-kilodalton cationic antimicrobial protein (CAP18)-derived peptide against murine endotoxemia.

    Teruo Kirikae;Michimasa Hirata;Hiromi Yamasu;Fumiko Kirikae

  • Polymorphisms of interferon-inducible genes OAS-1 and MxA associated with SARS in the Vietnamese population.

    Emi Hamano;Minako Hijikata;Satoru Itoyama;Tran Quy

  • Outbreaks of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Community Hospitals in Japan

    Jun Ichiro Sekiguchi;Tsukasa Asagi;Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama;Atsushi Kasai

  • Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of Oral Black-Pigmented Bacteria Induce Tumor Necrosis Factor Production by LPS-Refractory C3H/HeJ Macrophages in a Way Different from That of Salmonella LPS

    Teruo Kirikae;Toshimasa Nitta;Fumiko Kirikae;Yasuo Suda

  • Bacteroidetes Species Are Correlated with Disease Activity in Ulcerative Colitis.

    Kei Nomura;Dai Ishikawa;Koki Okahara;Shoko Ito

  • Complete genome sequencing and analysis of a Lancefield group G Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis strain causing streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS)

    Yumi Shimomura;Kayo Okumura;Kayo Okumura;Somay Yamagata Murayama;Junji Yagi

  • Targeting FtsZ for antituberculosis drug discovery: noncytotoxic taxanes as novel antituberculosis agents.

    Qing Huang;Fumiko Kirikae;Teruo Kirikae;Antonella Pepe

  • Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain That Caused an Outbreak in a Neurosurgery Ward and Its aac(6′)-Iae Gene Cassette Encoding a Novel Aminoglycoside Acetyltransferase

    Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi;Tsukasa Asagi;Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama;Tomoko Fujino

  • ACE1 polymorphism and progression of SARS.

    Satoru Itoyama;Naoto Keicho;Tran Quy;Nguyen Chi Phi

  • Emergence and Spread of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama;Tatsuya Tada;Norio Ohmagari;Nguyen Viet Hung

  • KHM-1, a novel plasmid-mediated metallo-beta-lactamase from a Citrobacter freundii clinical isolate.

    Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi;Koji Morita;Tomoe Kitao;Noboru Watanabe

  • Serial Histopathological Examination of the Lungs of Mice Infected with Influenza A Virus PR8 Strain

    Masaya Fukushi;Tateki Ito;Teruaki Oka;Toshio Kitazawa

  • Identification of katG Mutations Associated with High-Level Isoniazid Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Hiroki Ando;Yuji Kondo;Toshinori Suetake;Emiko Toyota

Frequent Co-Authors

Takehiko Sasazuki
Takehiko Sasazuki Kyushu University
Shoichi Kusumoto
Shoichi Kusumoto Osaka University
Keiichi Hiramatsu
Keiichi Hiramatsu Juntendo University
Satoshi Kimura
Satoshi Kimura University of Tokyo
Shiro Maeda
Shiro Maeda University of the Ryukyus
Ernst Th. Rietschel
Ernst Th. Rietschel Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Iwao Ojima
Iwao Ojima Stony Brook University
Helmut Brade
Helmut Brade BOKU University
Thira Sirisanthana
Thira Sirisanthana Chiang Mai University

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