Leptospirosis, an Overlooked Global Infectious Disease International collaborative team including Nagasaki University publishes a state-of-the-art clinical review in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Co-authors from Nagasaki University included Professor Takeshi Tanaka, Professor Koya Ariyoshi, and Professor Chris Smith from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) and the Tropical Medicine and Global Health (TMGH).
Associate Professor Nobuo Saito of the Kenya Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, has received the 8th Tsutomu Takeuchi Memorial International Award from the Ohyama Health Foundation.
An international research team led by Dr. Daniel Ken Inaoka has uncovered a unique biochemical mechanism that enables the parasitic worm Schistosoma mansoni to survive in sulfide-rich environments within the human body.
An international research team led by Nagasaki University has elucidated, at the atomic level, the three-dimensional structure and reaction mechanism of the key energy-metabolism enzyme acetate: succinate CoA-transferase (ASCT) present in the mitochondria of Trypanosoma brucei (T. brucei), the protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness (Human African trypanosomiasis).