Junko AMEMURA-MAEKAWA

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Affiliation: Chief Researcher, National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Degree: 農学博士

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901099161976061
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Life sciences / Bacteriology /

Papers

Complete Genomic Sequence of the Clinical Isolate Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Strain 80-045 from Japan.

Masatomo Morita, Nanno Harada, Yuna Shinohara, Miyo Murai, Naoko Ishii, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Yukihiro Akeda

Microbiology resource announcements, 10(44) e0082221, Nov 4, 2021
Development of a Multiplex-PCR Serotyping Assay for Characterizing Legionella pneumophila Serogroups Based on the Diversity of Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthetic Loci.

Ryota Nakaue, Tian Qin, Masatomo Morita, Hongyu Ren, Bin Chang, Miyo Murai, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Makoto Ohnishi

Journal of clinical microbiology, 59(11) e0015721, Oct 19, 2021
水の衛生管理貯水槽水道で滞留した水道水からのレジオネラ属菌および関連微生物の検出状況

大河内由美子, 泉山信司, 前川純子

日本防菌防黴学会誌, 48(8) 377-382, Aug, 2020
Persistent Legionella contamination of water faucets in a tertiary hospital in Japan.

Itaru Nakamura, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, Takehito Kobayashi, Akihiro Sato, Hidehiro Watanabe, Tetsuya Matsumoto

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 93 300-304, Apr, 2020 Peer-reviewed
若年健常者の保菌調査で得られたMRSAクローンの多様性

村井美代, 岸井こずゑ, 前川純子

日本細菌学雑誌, 75(1) 112-112, Jan, 2020
黄色ブドウ球菌は鼻腔より咽頭で入れ替わりやすい

村井美代, 田野ルミ, 岸井こずゑ, 前川純子

日本細菌学雑誌, 74(1) 129-129, Mar, 2019
Distribution of lag-1 Alleles, ORF7, and ORF8 Genes of Lipopolysaccharide and Sequence-Based Types Among Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Isolates in Japan and China.

Luxi Jiang, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Hongyu Ren, Yinan Li, Miho Sakata, Haijian Zhou, Miyo Murai, Bin Chang, Makoto Ohnishi, Tian Qin

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 9 274-274, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Legionella pneumophila and Other Legionella Species Isolated from Legionellosis Patients in Japan between 2008 and 2016.

Amemura-Maekawa J, Kura F, Chida K, Ohya H, Kanatani JI, Isobe J, Tanaka S, Nakajima H, Hiratsuka T, Yoshino S …

Applied and environmental microbiology, 84(18), Sep, 2018 Peer-reviewed
A Case of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Due to Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 9 Wherein Initial Treatment with Single-Dose Oral Azithromycin Appeared Useful

Akihiro Ito, Tadashi Ishida, Hiromasa Tachibana, Yuhei Ito, Takuya Takaiwa, Hiroyuki Fujii, Toni Hashimoto, Hiroshi Nakajima, Junko Amemura-Maekawa

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 70(6) 660-662, Nov, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Legionella prevalence and risk of legionellosis in Japanese households

T. Kuroki, Y. Watanabe, H. Teranishi, S. Izumiyama, J. Amemura-Maekawa, F. Kura

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION, 145(7) 1398-1408, May, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Prevalence of Legionella species isolated from shower water in public bath facilities in Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Jun-ichi Kanatani, Junko Isobe, Shiho Norimoto, Keiko Kimata, Chieko Mitsui, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, Tetsutaro Sata, Masanori Watahiki

JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 23(5-6) 265-270, May, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease Caused by Legionella pneumophila Serogroups 1 and 13

Toshiro Kuroki, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Hitorhi Ohya, Ichiro Furukawa, Miyuki Suzuki, Tomoka Masaoka, Kastuhiro Aikawa, Kazumi Hibi, Masatomo Morita, Ken-ichi Lee …

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 23(2) 349-351, Feb, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Variation and association of fibronectin-binding protein genes fnbA and fnbB in Staphylococcus aureus Japanese isolates

Miyo Murai, Hideaki Moriyama, Eiji Hata, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Junko Amemura-Maekawa

MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, 60(5) 312-325, May, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Diagnostic Utility of Splenial Lesions in a Case of Legionnaires' Disease due to Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 2

Yuji Tomizawa, Yasunobu Hoshino, Fuyuko Sasaki, Naohide Kurita, Sumihiro Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Noda, Nobutaka Hattori, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, Yasuyuki Okuma

INTERNAL MEDICINE, 54(23) 3079-3082, 2015 Peer-reviewed
A case of pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 12 and treated successfully with imipenem

Midori Nishizuka, Hiroki Suzuki, Tomoka Ara, Mari Watanabe, Mami Morita, Chisa Sato, Fumihiro Tsuchida, Junji Seto, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura …

JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 20(5-6) 390-393, May, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Distribution of Monoclonal Antibody Subgroups and Sequence-Based Types among Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Isolates Derived from Cooling Tower Water, Bathwater, and Soil in Japan

Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Kiyomi Kikukawa, Juergen H. Helbig, Satoko Kaneko, Atsuko Suzuki-Hashimoto, Katsunori Furuhata, Bin Chang, Miyo Murai, Masayuki Ichinose, Makoto Ohnishi …

APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 78(12) 4263-4270, Jun, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Isolation of Legionella rubrilucens from a pneumonia patient co-infected with Legionella pneumophila

Mikio Matsui, Shin-ichiro Fujii, Rieko Shiroiwa, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Bin Chang, Fumiaki Kura, Kohei Yamauchi

JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 59(10) 1242-1246, Oct, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Characterization of Legionella pneumophila isolates from patients in Japan according to serogroups, monoclonal antibody subgroups and sequence types

Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, Juergen H. Helbig, Bin Chang, Akiko Kaneko, Yuko Watanabe, Junko Isobe, Masafumi Nukina, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kimiko Kawano …

JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 59(6) 653-659, Jun, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Comparison of Ethidium Monoazide and Propidium Monoazide for the Selective Detection of Viable Legionella Cells

Bin Chang, Toshitsugu Taguri, Kanji Sugiyama, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Fumiaki Kura, Haruo Watanabe

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 63(2) 119-123, Mar, 2010 Peer-reviewed
An Improved Protocol for the Preparation and Restriction Enzyme Digestion of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Agarose Plugs for the Analysis of Legionella Isolates

Bin Chang, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Haruo Watanabe

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 62(1) 54-56, Jan, 2009 Peer-reviewed

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グラム陰性菌のリポ多糖の構造と合成経路の多様性 Legionella pneumophilaの遺伝子検査による血清群別に向けて

中植竜大, 前川純子, 村井美代

保健医療福祉科学, 8 40-47, Mar, 2019
医療機関の給水設備におけるレジオネラ属菌の汚染実態

大屋日登美, 鈴木美雪, 政岡智佳, 中嶋直樹, 古川一郎, 前川純子, 倉文明, 泉山信司, 黒木俊郎

感染症学雑誌, 92(5) 678-685, Sep, 2018
Legionella pneumophilaの血清群別を目的とした塩基配列の解析

中植竜大, 村井美代, 前川純子

臨床検査学教育, 10(1) 124-125, Mar, 2018
モノクロラミン消毒による掛け流し式温泉のレジオネラ対策

杉山寛治, 長岡宏美, 佐原啓二, 神田隆, 久保田明, 縣邦雄, 小坂浩司, 前川純子, 遠藤卓郎, 倉文明 …

日本防菌防黴学会誌, 45(6) 295-300, Jun, 2017
Four Cases of Respiratory Infections Caused by Legionella Pneumophila Serogroup 3

NISHIYAMA Akihiro, ISHIDA Tadashi, KOUROGI Youhei, KONISHI Satoshi, THUBOUCHI Kazuya, IGA Chiya, KUNIMASA Kei, IWASAKU Masahiro, HUKUYAMA Hajime, NAKAGAWA Hiroaki …

85(4) 373-379, Jul 20, 2011
Legionella Contamination Risk Factors in Non-circulating Hot Spring Water

KARASUDANI Tatsuya, KUROKI Toshiro, OTANI Katsumi, YAMAGUCHI Seiichi, SASAKI Mie, SAITO Shioko, FUJITA Masahiro, SUGIYAMA Kanji, NAKAJIMA Hiroshi, MURAKAMI Koichi …

Kansenshogaku Zasshi, 83(1) 36-44, Jan 20, 2009
Legionella pneumophila のモノクローナル抗体を用いたドレスデンパネルによる分類

前川純子, 倉文明, 常彬, 渡辺治雄

日本細菌学雑誌, 62(1) 74-74, Feb 25, 2007
高度な多型を示す黄色ブドウ球菌ファイブロネクチン結合タンパクA領域におけるアミノ酸配列の比較

村井美代, 前川純子, 渡辺治雄

日本細菌学雑誌, 62(1) 133-133, Feb 25, 2007
The Largest Outbreak of Legionellosis in Japan Associated with Spa Baths : Epidemic Curve and Environmental Investigation

OKADA Mika, KAWANO Kimiko, KURA Fumiaki, AMEMURA MAEKAWA Junko, WATANABE Haruo, YAGITA Kenji, ENDO Takuro, SUZUKI Sen

Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, 79(6) 365-374, Jun 20, 2005
基礎から臨床へレジオネラ症

前川純子, 渡辺治雄

診断と治療, 90(12) 2219-2225, Dec, 2002
Cloning and sequencing of the dnaK and grpE genes of Legionella pneumophila.

AMEMURA-MAEKAWA J.

Gene, 197 165-168, 1997

Research Projects

Sequence-based typing of Legionella pneumophila isolates in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013

AMEMURA-MAEKAWA Junko
New protective factors expressed in phagocytes against infection

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000 - 2001

KURA Fumiaki, AMEMURA-MAEKAWA Junko, TSUKANO Hiroko
レジオネラの新規病原因子の解析

科学研究費助成事業, 奨励研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 1997 - 1998

前川純子
レジオネラのSODが病原因子として機能するには分泌されることが必要か。

科学研究費助成事業, 奨励研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 1996 - 1996

前川純子
レジオネラの病原因子の1つであるスーパーオキサイドディスムターゼの研究

科学研究費助成事業, 奨励研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 1995 - 1995

前川純子
レジオネラの細菌学
Investigation of Legionella

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