Osamu Nakagomi

Organization・Title
Professor, Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Special field
Hygiene, Molecular Epidemiology
Research themes
Molecular epidemiology of gastroenteritis viruses

scientia potentia est.(Knowledge is power.)

Course List

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Recommended books

Mims' Medical Microbiology

personal history

Graduated from Akita University Medical School in 1977, got his PhD in Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in 1981, and dis post doc in the Nationl Institutes of Health, USA (1983-1985). Appointed as Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Hospital in 1986, Professor and Chair of Microbiology, Akita University in 1992, and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of Nagasaki University in 2003. The founding director of Master Course in Tropical Medicine (2006-2011). Also Honorary Professor of the University of Liverpool.

works/thesis

1. Nakagomi T, Nakagomi O, Takahashi Y, Enoki M, Suzuki T, Kilgore PE. Incidence and burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in Japan as estimated from a prospective sentinel hospital study. J Infect Dis 192 [Suppl 1]: S106-S110, 2005

2. Pun SB, Nakagomi T, Sherchand JB, Pandey BD, Cuevas LE, Cunliffe NA, Hart CA, Nakagomi O. Detection of G12 human rotaviruses in Nepal. Emerg Infect Dis 13:482-484,2007

3. Sherchand JB, Nakagomi O, Dove W, Nakagomi T, Yokoo M, Pandey BD, Cuevas L, Hart CA, Cunliffe NA. Molecular Epidemiology of Rotavirus Diarrhea among Children Aged<5 Years in Nepal: Predominance of Emergent G12 Strains during 2 Years. J Infect Dis 200 (Suppl): 182-197, 2009

4. Correia JB, Patel MM, Nakagomi O, Montenegro FM, Germano EM, Correia NB, Cuevas LE, Parashar UD, Cunliffe NA, Nakagomi T: Effectiveness of monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) against severe diarrhea caused by serotypically unrelated G2P[4] strains in Brazil. J Infect Dis 201: 363-369, 2010

5. Doan YH, Nakagomi T, Nakagomi O: Repeated circulation over 6 years of intergenogroup mono-reassortant G2P[4] rotavirus strains with genotype N1 of the NSP2 gene. Infect Genet Evol 12(6): 1202-1212, 2012