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Animal Science and Veterinary
USA
2023

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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82
Citations
39138
World Ranking
63
National Ranking
22

Microbiology

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82
Citations
40000
World Ranking
1033
National Ranking
473

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yasuko Rikihisa is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine, with a focus on parasitology, infectious diseases, and immunology among other subfields.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, vector-borne animal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases and control, antimicrobial peptides and their activities, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Iron robbery by intracellular pathogen via bacterial effector-induced ferritinophagy", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "An intracellular nanobody targeting T4SS effector inhibits Ehrlichia infection", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The "Biological Weapons" of Ehrlichia chaffeensis: Novel Molecules and Mechanisms to Subjugate Host Cells", 2022, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • "Host membrane lipids are trafficked to membranes of intravacuolar bacteriumEhrlichia chaffeensis", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Comparative Analysis of Genome of Ehrlichia sp. HF, a Model Bacterium to Study Fatal Human Ehrlichiosis", 2021, BMC Genomics

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Rikihisa include:

  • Mingqun Lin
  • Khemraj Budachetri
  • Qi Yan
  • Wenqing Zhang
  • Omid Teymournejad

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals, most notably:

  • mBio
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • BMC Genomics

Yasuko Rikihisa's contributions to the scientific community have been recognized through several honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and designation as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • The tribe Ehrlichieae and ehrlichial diseases.

    Y Rikihisa

  • Comparative Genomics of Emerging Human Ehrlichiosis Agents

    Julie C Dunning Hotopp;Mingqun Lin;Ramana Madupu;Jonathan Crabtree

  • Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human ehrlichiosis.

    R S Buller;M Arens;S P Hmiel;C D Paddock

  • Proposal to transfer some members of the genera Haemobartonella and Eperythrozoon to the genus Mycoplasma with descriptions of 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemofelis', 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemomuris', 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemosuis' and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma wenyonii'.

    Harold Neimark;Karl-Erik Johansson;Yasuko Rikihisa;Joseph G. Tully

  • Human infection with Ehrlichia canis accompanied by clinical signs in Venezuela.

    Miriam Perez;Mairim Bodor;Chunbin Zhang;Qingmin Xiong

  • Novel genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Anaplasma bovis, Anaplasma centrale, and a novel Ehrlichia sp. in wild deer and ticks on two major islands in Japan.

    Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Quan Lin;Emiko Isogai

  • Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum Lack Genes for Lipid A Biosynthesis and Incorporate Cholesterol for Their Survival

    Mingqun Lin;Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Ehrlichia canis-like agent isolated from a man in Venezuela: antigenic and genetic characterization.

    M Perez;Y Rikihisa;B Wen

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mechanisms of Obligatory Intracellular Infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum

    Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis : subversive manipulators of host cells

    Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Ultrastructure and phylogenetic analysis of 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis' in the family Anaplasmataceae, isolated from wild rats and found in Ixodes ovatus ticks.

    Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Emiko Isogai;Mamoru Takahashi

  • Comparison of nested PCR with immunofluorescent-antibody assay for detection of Ehrlichia canis infection in dogs treated with doxycycline.

    Bohai Wen;Yasuko Rikihisa;Jason M. Mott;Russell Greene

  • Immunodominant major outer membrane proteins of Ehrlichia chaffeensis are encoded by a polymorphic multigene family

    Norio Ohashi;Ning Zhi;Yilan Zhang;Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Revision of haemotrophic Mycoplasma species names.

    Harold Neimark;Karl Erik Johansson;Yasuko Rikihisa;Joseph G. Tully

  • Western immunoblot analysis of Haemobartonella muris and comparison of 16S rRNA gene sequences of H. muris, H. felis, and Eperythrozoon suis.

    Y Rikihisa;M Kawahara;B Wen;G Kociba

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum AnkA secreted by type IV secretion system is tyrosine phosphorylated by Abl-1 to facilitate infection.

    Mingqun Lin;Amke den Dulk-Ras;Paul J J Hooykaas;Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Intracellular infection by the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent inhibits human neutrophil apoptosis.

    Kiyotaka Yoshiie;Hyung-Yong Kim;Jason Mott;Yasuko Rikihisa

  • Cloning and Characterization of Multigenes Encoding the Immunodominant 30-Kilodalton Major Outer Membrane Proteins of Ehrlichia canis and Application of the Recombinant Protein for Serodiagnosis

    Norio Ohashi;Ahmet Unver;Ning Zhi;Yasuko Rikihisa

  • New Ehrlichia species closely related to Ehrlichia chaffeensis isolated from Ixodes ovatus ticks in Japan.

    Shin Ichiro Shibata;Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Hiromi Fujita

Frequent Co-Authors

Sidney A. Ewing
Sidney A. Ewing Oklahoma State University
Paul A. Fuerst
Paul A. Fuerst The Ohio State University
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Sean C. Daugherty
Sean C. Daugherty University of Maryland, Baltimore
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Christopher D. Paddock
Christopher D. Paddock Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore

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