Staff

MATSUMOTO Kotaro

Professor

Theme

To reveal the relationship among animals, blood-sucking arthropods including ticks and fleas, and pathogens in blood-sucking arthropods

My Dream

Search for blood-sucking arthropod-borne pathogens
  • Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine
  • Researchmap

Belongs

Research Department, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Division of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Section of Small Animal Clinical Sciences

Veterinary Medical Center, Small Animal Clinic

Office for International Accreditation of Veterinary Education, Staff

Faculty (Unit)

Veterinary Medicine Program

Grad school (Course)

Doctoral Program of Veterinary Science

Field of research Veterinary Medicine, Blood-sucking arthropods, Blood-sucking arthropods-borne diseases
Keyword Tick, Tick-borne pathogen, Flea, Flea-borne pathogen, Companion animal, Wild animal

Introduction

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.

Fig. 1. Almost engorged tick collected from dog
Fig. 2. Flea collected from Hokkaido squirrel
Fig. 3. Red stained bacteria which belongs to genus Rickettsia

List of current research topics

  • Studies on animal, ticks and ticks-borne pathogens in Hokkaido
  • Studies on companion and wild animals and fleas, flea-borne pathogens
Related industries Veterinary medicine, Zoonosis
Affiliated academic society The Japanese Society of Veterinary Medicine, The Japanese Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, The Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitologists, Japanese Society of Veterinary Dermatology
Academic degree Doctor of Veterinary Science
License Veterinarian
Room address Diagnostic Center for Animal Health and Food Safety
Room number 2-205
Mail address kmatsumoto atmark obihiro.ac.jp

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