XUAN Xuenan Professor
ThemeDevelopment of dignostic, therapeutic, and preventive measures against canine babesiosis
| Field | Veterinary medicine, Parasitology, Protozoology |
| Keyword | Protozoa, Tick-borne disease, Dignosis, Treatment, Vaccine, Epidemiology |
Introduction
Babesia is intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite causes severe anemic disease both in humans and animals.The parasite is mostly transmitted by ticks, but sometimes also can be trasmitted by blood transfusion and during fightings. Our lab is mainly focusing on canine babesiosis caused by Babesia gibsoni which is endemic widely in Japan. Currently we have established whole genome database, and we are trying to develop effective control (diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive) measures against canine babesiosis based on the genome database.
List of current research topics
- Analysis of the host protective imunity against babesiosis
- Analysis of the mechanism of lytic anemia
- Development of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive measures against babesiosis
- Analysis of the lifecycle of Babesia in ticks and development of transmission blocking vaccines
- Molecular epidemiology of tick-borne prtozoan diseases
| Academic degree | DVM, PhD |
| License | Veterinarian |
| Self introduction |
I came to Japan in 1987, and spent for 10 years for studying virology in Tokyo. Then I moved to Obihiro in 1997, and changed the research direction to protozoan diseases, especially focused on tick-borne protozoan diseases. |
| Room address | General Research Building No. 4 |
| Room number | 109 |
| Mail address | gen 
obihiro.ac.jp |
Belongs
National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases/Department of Global Cooperation/Research Unit for Global Infection ControlResearch Center for Global Agromedicine/Department of Veterinary Medicine| Related industries | Veterinary medicine, Diagnostic kit, Drug, Vaccine |
| Affiliated academic society | The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, The Japanese Society of Parasitology, Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitologists |
| Academic background | 1978-1982 Under Graduate Program, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Yanbian University, China 1984-1997 Master Course, Graduate School,Yanbian University 1988-1991 Doctoral Course, Graduate School, The University of Tokyo 1991-1994 Researcher, Nippon Institute for Biological Science 1994-1997 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agricuture, The University of Tokyo 1997-2000 Assistant Professor, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agryculture and Veterinary Medicine 2000-2005 Associate Professor, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agryculture and Veterinary Medicine 2005- Professor, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agryculture and Veterinary Medicine |
