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    Factors impacting antibody kinetics, including fever and vaccination intervals, in SARS-CoV-2-naïve adults receiving the first four mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses

    To evaluate the antibody response following the initial four doses of mRNA vaccines (BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273) in SARS-CoV-2-naïve healthy adults and investigate factors influencing antibody titer increases, this...

    Tomoka Matsuura, Wakaba Fukushima, Yu Nakagama, Yasutoshi Kido in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Malaria infection among adults residing in a highly endemic region from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Adults infected with Plasmodium spp. in endemic areas need to be re-evaluated in light of global malaria elimination goals. They potentially undermine malaria interventions but remain an overlooked aspect of publ...

    Nadine Kalenda Kayiba, Yuko Nitahara, Evariste Tshibangu-Kabamba in Malaria Journal (2024)

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    Differential cardiomyocyte transcriptomic remodeling during in vitro Trypanosoma cruzi infection using laboratory strains provides implications on pathogenic host responses

    Chagas disease can lead to life-threatening cardiac manifestations. Regional factors, including genetic characteristics of circulating Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), have attracted attention as likely determinants...

    Katherine-Sofia Candray-Medina, Yu Nakagama, Masamichi Ito in Tropical Medicine and Health (2023)

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    Re-emerging threat of Trypanosoma cruzi vector transmission in El Salvador, update from 2018 to 2020

    Since the late twentieth century, Chagas disease gained global attention to suppress the vector burden as a main control strategy in endemic countries. In Central America, multi-national initiative successfull...

    Marvin Stanley Rodríguez, Yuko Nitahara, Michelle Cornejo in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2022)

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    Longitudinal ventilatory ratio monitoring for COVID-19: its potential in predicting severity and assessing treatment response

    Natsuko Kaku, Yu Nakagama, Michinori Shirano, Sari Shinomiya in Critical Care (2021)