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XUAN Xuenan

Professor

Theme

Development of dignostic, therapeutic, and preventive measures against canine babesiosis

My Dream

My dream is to establish an effctive control measures againt canine babesiosis

Belongs

National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Department of Global Cooperation, Research Unit for Global Infection Control

Research Center for Global Agromedicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty (Unit)

Veterinary Medicine Program

Grad school (Course)

Doctoral Program of Veterinary Science

Field of research 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
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 degree DVM, PhD
License Veterinarian
Room address General Research Building No. 4
Room number 109
Mail address gen atmark obihiro.ac.jp

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