Kosuke Takada
University of Tokyo
8 Papers
Kosuke Takada is an academic researcher from University of Tokyo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Biology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Syrian hamsters as a small animal model for SARS-CoV-2 infection and countermeasure development.
Masaki Imai,Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto,Masato Hatta,Samantha Loeber,Peter Halfmann,Noriko Nakajima,Tokiko Watanabe,Michiko Ujie,Kenta Takahashi,Mutsumi Ito,Shinya Yamada,Shufang Fan,Shiho Chiba,Makoto Kuroda,Lizheng Guan,Kosuke Takada,Tammy Armbrust,Aaron Balogh,Yuri Furusawa,Moe Okuda,Hiroshi Ueki,Atsuhiro Yasuhara,Yuko Sakai-Tagawa,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Maki Kiso,Seiya Yamayoshi,Noriko Kinoshita,Norio Ohmagari,Shin-ichiro Hattori,Makoto Takeda,Hiroaki Mitsuya,Florian Krammer,Tadaki Suzuki,Yoshihiro Kawaoka,Yoshihiro Kawaoka +35 more
TL;DR: It is found that SARS-CoV-2 isolates replicate efficiently in the lungs of Syrian hamsters and cause severe pathological lesions in the lung of these animals similar to commonly reported imaging features of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia.
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A Highly Pathogenic Avian H7N9 Influenza Virus Isolated from A Human Is Lethal in Some Ferrets Infected via Respiratory Droplets
Masaki Imai,Tokiko Watanabe,Maki Kiso,Noriko Nakajima,Seiya Yamayoshi,Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto,Masato Hatta,Shinya Yamada,Mutsumi Ito,Yuko Sakai-Tagawa,Masayuki Shirakura,Emi Takashita,Seiichiro Fujisaki,Ryan McBride,Andrew J. Thompson,Kenta Takahashi,Tadashi Maemura,Hiromichi Mitake,Shiho Chiba,Gongxun Zhong,Shufang Fan,Kohei Oishi,Atsuhiro Yasuhara,Kosuke Takada,Tomomi Nakao,Satoshi Fukuyama,Makoto Yamashita,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Gabriele Neumann,Takato Odagiri,Shinji Watanabe,Yuelong Shu,James C. Paulson,Hideki Hasegawa,Yoshihiro Kawaoka,Yoshihiro Kawaoka +36 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the highly pathogenic H7N9 virus has pandemic potential and should be closely monitored.
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Influenza A variants with reduced susceptibility to baloxavir isolated from Japanese patients are fit and transmit through respiratory droplets.
Masaki Imai,Makoto Yamashita,Yuko Sakai-Tagawa,Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto,Maki Kiso,Jurika Murakami,Atsuhiro Yasuhara,Kosuke Takada,Mutsumi Ito,Noriko Nakajima,Kenta Takahashi,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Jayeeta Dutta,Zenab Khan,Divya Kriti,Harm van Bakel,Akifumi Tokita,Haruhisa Hagiwara,Naomi Izumida,Haruo Kuroki,Tamon Nishino,Noriyuki Wada,Michiko Koga,Eisuke Adachi,Daisuke Jubishi,Hideki Hasegawa,Yoshihiro Kawaoka,Yoshihiro Kawaoka +28 more
TL;DR: It is reported that resistant viruses isolated from Japanese patients have normal replicative abilities and pathogenicity in animal models and thus might spread in humans.
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A humanized MDCK cell line for the efficient isolation and propagation of human influenza viruses
Kosuke Takada,Chiharu Kawakami,Shufang Fan,Shiho Chiba,Gongxun Zhong,Chunyang Gu,Kohei Shimizu,Sara Takasaki,Yuko Sakai-Tagawa,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Jayeeta Dutta,Zenab Khan,Divya Kriti,Harm van Bakel,Shinya Yamada,Tokiko Watanabe,Masaki Imai,Yoshihiro Kawaoka,Yoshihiro Kawaoka +19 more
TL;DR: The authors report the development of a Madin-Darby canine kidney cell line that is more suitable than conventional MDCK or human virus receptor-overexpressing cells for the isolation and propagation of human influenza viruses without cell culture-adaptive mutations.
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Plasticity of the Influenza Virus H5 HA Protein
Huihui Kong,David F. Burke,Tiago J. S. Lopes,Kosuke Takada,Masaki Imai,Gongxun Zhong,Masato Hatta,Shufang Fan,Shiho Chiba,Derek J. Smith,Gabriele Neumann,Yoshihiro Kawaoka,Yoshihiro Kawaoka +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, mutations at 17 amino acid positions of an influenza virus H5 HA protein are introduced, which may facilitate the emergence of novel antigenic variants of influenza A viruses.
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