Academic papers
  1. Target virus log10 reduction values determined for two reclaimed wastewater irrigation scenarios in Japan based on tolerable annual disease burden
    Toshihiro Ito, Masaaki Kitajima, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoshi Ishii, Takahiro Segawa, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    Water Research, November 2017, 125, 438-448.
  2. Identification of the inactivating factors and mechanisms exerted on MS2 coliphage in concentrated synthetic urine
    Wakana Oishi, Daisuke Sano, Loic Decrey, Syunsuke Kadoya, Tamar Kohn, Naoyuki Funamizu
    Science of the Total Environment, November 2017, 598, 213-219.
  3. Bacteriophage removal efficiency as a monitoring tool for virus log reduction in the operation of wastewater reclamation: Review
    Mohan Amarasiri, Masaaki Kitajima, Thanh Huang Nguyen, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    Water Research, September 2017, 121, 258-269.
  4. Removal of human pathogenic viruses in a down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor treating municipal wastewater and health risks associated with utilization of the effluent for agricultural irrigation
    Naohiro Kobayashi, Mamoru Oshiki, Toshihiro Ito, Takahiro Segawa, Masashi Hatamoto, Tsuyoshi Kato, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kengo Kubota, Masanobu Takahashi, Akinori Iguchi, Tadashi Tagawa, Tsutomu Okubo, Shigeki Uemura, Hideki Harada, Toshiki Motoyama, Nobuo Araki, Daisuke Sano
    Water Research, March 2017, 110, 389-398.
Books/Book Chapters
  1. Aptamer: Potential application to norovirus research, diagnosis, and therapeutics
    Seiya Hirano, Daisuke Sano, Satoshi Okabe, Masaaki Kitajima
    Noroviruses: Outbreaks, Control and Prevention Strategies. 2017. Nova Science Publishers Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y.
Conference Presentations
  1. A genetic factor of norovirus for resistance to free chlorine disinfection
    Andri Taruna Rachmadi, Arata Nakamura, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    Water and Environment Technology Conference 2017
    July 22-23, 2017. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  2. Genetic factors of rotavirus determining free chlorine-tolerance
    Syunsuke Kadoya, Syunichi Urayama, Takuro Nunoura, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    Water and Environment Technology Conference 2017
    July 22-23, 2017. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  3. Histo-blood group antigen (HBGA) positive bacteria in the mixed liquor reduces the human rotavirus concentration in membrane filtration effluent
    Mohan Amarasiri, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    Water and Environment Technology Conference 2017
    July 22-23, 2017. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  4. Performance target of virus reduction efficiency in wastewater reclamation: Effect of tolerable health risk, dose-response, and reliability
    Toshihiro Ito, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoshi Ishii, Takahiro Segawa, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
    The 19th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology
    May 15-19, 2017. University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, NC, USA
  5. Electrochemical and colorimetric DNA aptasensor technologies for rapid norovirus detection
    Masaaki Kitajima, Seiya Hirano, Akihiro Okamoto, Daisuke Sano, Hisashi Satoh, Satoshi Okabe
    The 19th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology
    May 15-19, 2017. University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, NC, USA