I am developing the diagnostic methods of bacterial infection and genotyping methods of bacteria for the utilization of epidemiological study to clarify the spread route. In addition I am analyzing the acquisition mechanism of drug resistance in bacteria to get the basic data for the development of rapid drug susceptibility test and design new therapeutic agents. In this program would like to holster "Zoonosis Control Expert" with the wide knowledge on zoonosis control and property to contribute to outbreak control.

1. Promotion of fostering Zoonosis Control Expert
2. Global surveillance for infectious diseases／Support for the international activity in the field of zoonosis
3. Activities as a member of the steering committee of the leading program
4. Publicity activity for the program

1. Ito, K., Igarashi, M., Miyazaki, Y., Murakami, T., Iida, S., Kida, H., Takada, A., 2011. Gnarled-trunk evolutionary model of influenza A virus hemagglutinin. PloS one, 6(10): e25953.
2. Ito, K., Zeugmann, T., Zhu, Y., 2010. Clustering the Normalized Compression Distance for Influenza Virus Data. Lect. Notes Comput. Sc., 6060:130-146.
3. Igarashi, M., Ito, K., Yoshida, R., Tomabechi, D., Kida, H., Takada, A., 2010. Predicting the antigenic structure of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus hemagglutinin. PloS one, 5(1): e8553-e8553.
4. Sata, K., Hirata, K., Ito, K., Kuboyama, T., 2009. Discovering Networks for Global Propagation of Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses by Clustering. Lect. Notes Comput. Sc., 5712:490-497.
5. Igarashi, M., Ito, K., Kida, H., Takada, A., 2008. Genetically destined potentials for N-linked glycosylation of influenza virus hemagglutinin. Virology, 376(2): 323-329.