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Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

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Animal Science and Veterinary
Japan
2025

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
36
Citations
4503
World Ranking
1627
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Yoshihisa Hashiguchi is affiliated with Kōchi University in Japan, contributing to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Parasitology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology.

Several main topics characterize their research portfolio:

  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Helminth infection and control
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • High Altitude and Hypoxia
  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Frequent co-authors of Yoshihisa Hashiguchi include:

  • Carlos Bastidas-Caldes
  • Esteban Ortíz-Prado
  • Jorge Vásconez-González
  • William Cevallos
  • Katherine Simbaña-Rivera

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Pathogens
  • Biomédica

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Yoshihisa Hashiguchi include:

  • "Worldwide Prevalence of mcr-mediated Colistin-Resistance Escherichia coli in Isolates of Clinical Samples, Healthy Humans, and Livestock-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," 2022, Pathogens
  • "Analysis of Excess Mortality Data at Different Altitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Ecuador," 2021, High Altitude Medicine & Biology
  • "Human myiasis in Ecuador," 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Systematics and geographical distribution of Galba species, a group of cryptic and worldwide freshwater snails," 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "A comparative analysis of lung function and spirometry parameters in genotype-controlled natives living at low and high altitude," 2022, BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Best Publications

  • Epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Ecuador: current status of knowledge - A review

    Manuel Calvopina;Rodrigo X Armijos;Rodrigo X Armijos;Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

  • DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF LEISHMANIA SPECIES WITHIN NATURALLY INFECTED SAND FLIES IN THE ANDEAN AREAS OF ECUADOR BY A POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION

    Hirotomo Kato;Hiroshi Uezato;Ken Katakura;Manuel Calvopina

  • Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for rapid mass-screening of sand flies for Leishmania infection

    Chukwunonso O. Nzelu;Eduardo A. Gomez;Abraham G. Cáceres;Tatsuya Sakurai

  • Sequence variation of the cytochrome b gene of various human infecting members of the genus Leishmania and their phylogeny.

    G. E. Luyo-Acero;H. Uezato;M. Oshiro;K. Takei

  • Phylogenic analysis of the genus Leishmania by cytochrome b gene sequencing.

    Yutaka Asato;Minoru Oshiro;Chomar Kaung Myint;Yu ichi Yamamoto

  • Evaluation of tongue inspection and serology for diagnosis of Taenia solium cysticercosis in swine: usefulness of ELISA using purified glycoproteins and recombinant antigen

    Mo Sato;H Yamasaki;Y Sako;M Nakao

  • Andean leishmaniasis in Ecuador caused by infection with Leishmania mexicana and L. major-like parasites.

    Y. Hashiguchi;E. A. Gomez;V. V. De Coronel;T. Mimori

  • Molecular epidemiology for vector research on leishmaniasis

    Hirotomo Kato;Eduardo A Gomez;Abraham G Cáceres;Hiroshi Uezato

  • DNA barcoding for identification of sand fly species (Diptera: Psychodidae) from leishmaniasis-endemic areas of Peru.

    Chukwunonso O. Nzelu;Abraham G. Cáceres;Martín J. Arrunátegui-Jiménez;Máximo F. Lañas-Rosas

  • Diffuse and disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis: clinical cases experienced in Ecuador and a brief review.

    Yoshihisa Hashiguchi;Eduardo L. Gomez;Hirotomo Kato;Luiggi R. Martini

  • Usefulness of sampling with cotton swab for PCR-diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the New World.

    T. Mimori;T. Matsumoto;M. H. Calvopiña;E. A. Gomez

  • Use of FTA Cards for Direct Sampling of Patients' Lesions in the Ecological Study of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

    Hirotomo Kato;Abraham G. Cáceres;Tatsuyuki Mimori;Yuka Ishimaru

  • Species assignation of Leishmania from human and canine American tegumentary leishmaniasis cases by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis in North Argentina.

    Jorge D. Marco;Paola A. Barroso;Manuel Calvopiña;Hideo Kumazawa

  • A rapid molecular diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis by colorimetric malachite green-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with an FTA card as a direct sampling tool

    Chukwunonso O. Nzelu;Abraham G. Cáceres;Silvia Guerrero-Quincho;Edwin Tineo-Villafuerte

  • RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF LEISHMANIA SPECIES FROM FORMALIN-FIXED BIOPSY SAMPLES BY POLYMORPHISM-SPECIFIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION

    Tatsuyuki Mimori;Ji ichiro Sasaki;Motomi Nakata;Eduardo A. Gomez

  • Description of Leishmania equatorensis sp. n. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a new parasite infecting arboreal mammals in Ecuador

    Gabriel Grimaldi Júnior;Richard D. Kreutzer;Yoshihisa Hashiguchi;Eduardo A. Gomez

  • RELAPSE OF NEW WORLD DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS CAUSED BY LEISHMANIA (LEISHMANIA) MEXICANA AFTER MILTEFOSINE TREATMENT

    Manuel Calvopina;Eduardo A. Gomez;Herbert Sindermann;Philip J. Cooper

  • MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS AND CYTOCHROME B GENE SEQUENCING-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF LEISHMANIA ISOLATES FROM DIFFERENT FOCI OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN PAKISTAN

    Jorge D. Marco;Abdul M. Bhutto;Farooq R. Soomro;Javed H. Baloch

  • Direct agglutination test with urine samples for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis.

    Mohammad Zahidul Islam;Makoto Itoh;Rusella Mirza;Iftikhar Ahmed

  • Molecular mass screening to incriminate sand fly vectors of Andean-type cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ecuador and Peru.

    Hirotomo Kato;Abraham G. Cáceres;Eduardo A. Gomez;Tatsuyuki Mimori

  • Cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (L.) major infection in Sindh province, Pakistan

    Abdul Manan Bhutto;Farooq Rahman Soomro;Javed Hassain Baloch;Jun Matsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideyuki Saya
Hideyuki Saya Fujita Health University
Hiroyuki Takaoka
Hiroyuki Takaoka University of Malaya
Jesus G. Valenzuela
Jesus G. Valenzuela National Institutes of Health
Philip J. Cooper
Philip J. Cooper St George's, University of London
Munehiro Okamoto
Munehiro Okamoto Kyoto University
Robert B. Tesh
Robert B. Tesh Yale University
Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato Yamaguchi University
Minoru Nakao
Minoru Nakao Asahikawa Medical University
Akira Ito
Akira Ito Asahikawa Medical University
Pierre Dorny
Pierre Dorny Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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