Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

• 伴侶動物におけるノミ媒介性病原体の浸潤状況調査
• アライグマとその寄生マダニのマダニ媒介性病原体保有状況調査

身の回りにはマダニやノミといった吸血節足動物がたくさんいて、犬猫といった伴侶動物、エゾリスやアライグマといった野生動物、そして人にも寄生し、リケッチアやバルトネラ、ボレリアといった病原体を媒介します。これら吸血節足動物、その媒介する病原体、宿主動物に興味を持ってくれる学生さんと研究を進めていければと思っています。
また、動物医療センターで伴侶動物の内科診療を週に3日担当しています。小動物臨床に興味のある学生さんはぜひお越しください。

When I was a Post-doc, I mainly worked for detection and/or isolation of pathogens, including Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and Bartonella, in blood-sucking arthropods such as ticks, fleas, and keds, and their host animals. In Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, I am studying the detection of tick-borne pathogens from dogs and ticks (Fig. 1) on them, the detection and separation of rickettsia and bartonella from Hokkaido squirrels and its parasitic flea (Fig. 2 and 3). Recently, I am collecting blood-sucking arthropods on raccoons, and searching for pathogens in raccoons and these arthropods.
These surveys show what kind of / how much pathogens exist in the living environment of dogs, cats, and humans, and risks of infection of these pathogens to dogs, cats and humans, which can contribute to protecting animal and human health.

• Studies on animal, ticks and ticks-borne pathogens in Hokkaido
• Studies on companion and wild animals and fleas, flea-borne pathogens