Toshihiro Mita

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Toshihiro Mita is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Toshihiro Mita has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 14 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Toshihiro Mita's work include Malaria Research and Control (62 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (35 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (11 papers). Toshihiro Mita is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (62 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (35 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (11 papers). Toshihiro Mita collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Sweden and Uganda. Toshihiro Mita's co-authors include Kazuyuki Tanabe, Kiyoshi Kita, Akira Kaneko, Takatoshi Kobayakawa, Toshihiro Horii, Takahiro Tsukahara, Nirianne Palacpac, Shin‐Ichiro Tachibana, Anders Björkman and Masato Yamauchi and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Toshihiro Mita

82 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Evidence of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria in Africa

2021 432 citations Betty Balikagala, Naoyuki Fukuda et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toshihiro Mita Japan	22	1.6k	405	303	273	263	87	2.0k
Standwell C. Nkhoma United Kingdom	20	1.5k 0.9×	382 0.9×	343 1.1×	222 0.8×	261 1.0×	32	1.8k
Rachel Hallett United Kingdom	24	1.6k 1.0×	409 1.0×	338 1.1×	137 0.5×	275 1.0×	45	2.1k
Jason D. Maguire United States	28	1.5k 1.0×	242 0.6×	375 1.2×	215 0.8×	435 1.7×	67	2.2k
Seila Suon Cambodia	14	1.6k 1.1×	695 1.7×	304 1.0×	154 0.6×	170 0.6×	21	1.8k
Zhaoqing Yang China	26	1.6k 1.0×	245 0.6×	379 1.3×	145 0.5×	159 0.6×	82	1.8k
Sokunthea Sreng Cambodia	13	1.6k 1.0×	642 1.6×	287 0.9×	141 0.5×	161 0.6×	19	1.7k
Saorin Kim Cambodia	27	2.1k 1.3×	512 1.3×	433 1.4×	168 0.6×	225 0.9×	56	2.4k
Sébastien Briolant France	26	1.7k 1.1×	206 0.5×	273 0.9×	179 0.7×	185 0.7×	105	2.0k
Samuel L. Nsobya Uganda	28	1.8k 1.2×	550 1.4×	332 1.1×	125 0.5×	171 0.7×	72	2.1k
Sandra Incardona Switzerland	21	1.5k 1.0×	240 0.6×	361 1.2×	124 0.5×	120 0.5×	35	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toshihiro Mita

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Fukuda, Naoyuki, Naoko Yoshida, Betty Balikagala, et al.. (2024). Detection of drug-resistant malaria in resource-limited settings: efficient and high-throughput surveillance of artemisinin and partner drug resistance. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 79(6). 1418–1422. 2 indexed citations

Nundu, Sabin S., Hiroaki Arima, Osamu Kaneko, et al.. (2023). The diversity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from asymptomatic and symptomatic school-age children in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Malaria Journal. 22(1). 102–102. 6 indexed citations

Yamauchi, Masato, Naoko Yoshida, Toshihiro Mita, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of immunization activities on measles and rubella immunity among individuals in East Sepik, Papua New Guinea: A cross-sectional study. IJID Regions. 3. 84–88. 3 indexed citations

Nundu, Sabin S., Hiroaki Arima, Jean‐Jacques Muyembe, et al.. (2022). Low prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites lacking pfhrp2/3 genes among asymptomatic and symptomatic school-age children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Malaria Journal. 21(1). 126–126. 6 indexed citations

Tomiki, Yuichi, Kazuyuki Saito, Eri Arikawa‐Hirasawa, et al.. (2019). Club Activities of Medical Students at Juntendo University - Changes of Membership over the 30-year Heisei Era -. Juntendo Medical Journal. 65(2). 172–178.

Hashimoto, Muneaki, Mika Bando, Jun‐ichi Kido, et al.. (2019). Nucleic acid purification from dried blood spot on FTA Elute Card provides template for polymerase chain reaction for highly sensitive Plasmodium detection. Parasitology International. 73. 101941–101941. 19 indexed citations

Sekihara, Makoto, Shin‐Ichiro Tachibana, Masato Yamauchi, et al.. (2018). Lack of significant recovery of chloroquine sensitivity in Plasmodium falciparum parasites following discontinuance of chloroquine use in Papua New Guinea. Malaria Journal. 17(1). 434–434. 9 indexed citations

Balikagala, Betty, Toshihiro Mita, Mie Ikeda, et al.. (2017). Absence of in vivo selection for K13 mutations after artemether–lumefantrine treatment in Uganda. Malaria Journal. 16(1). 23–23. 19 indexed citations

Takamiya, Shinzaburo & Toshihiro Mita. (2016). Large-scale purification of active liquid-cultured Caenorhabditis elegans using a modified Baermann apparatus. Parasitology International. 65(5). 580–583. 5 indexed citations

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Takamiya, Shinzaburo, Muneaki Hashimoto, Toshihiro Mita, et al.. (2015). Bioinformatic identification of cytochrome b5 homologues from the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum and the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans highlights the crucial role of A. suum adult-specific secretory cytochrome b5 in parasitic adaptation. Parasitology International. 65(2). 113–120. 3 indexed citations

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Honma, Hajime, Makoto Hirai, Shota Nakamura, et al.. (2014). Generation of Rodent Malaria Parasites with a High Mutation Rate by Destructing Proofreading Activity of DNA Polymerase δ. DNA Research. 21(4). 439–446. 9 indexed citations

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Tanabe, Kazuyuki, Toshihiro Mita, Nirianne Palacpac, et al.. (2013). Within-population genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate antigens reveals geographic distance from a Central sub-Saharan African origin. Vaccine. 31(9). 1334–1339. 24 indexed citations

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Saito‐Nakano, Yumiko, Kazuyuki Tanabe, & Toshihiro Mita. (2011). Identification of pyrimethamine- and chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 1984 and 1998: genotyping of archive blood samples. Malaria Journal. 10(1). 388–388. 6 indexed citations

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Honma, Hajime, Jung‐Yeon Kim, Nirianne Palacpac, et al.. (2011). Recent increase of genetic diversity in Plasmodium vivax population in the Republic of Korea. Malaria Journal. 10(1). 257–257. 14 indexed citations

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Doi, Masanori, Kazuyuki Tanabe, Shin‐Ichiro Tachibana, et al.. (2011). Worldwide sequence conservation of transmission-blocking vaccine candidate Pvs230 in Plasmodium vivax. Vaccine. 29(26). 4308–4315. 31 indexed citations

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Mita, Toshihiro, Kazuyuki Tanabe, & Kiyoshi Kita. (2009). Spread and evolution of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance. Parasitology International. 58(3). 201–209. 173 indexed citations

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Lek, Dysoley, Akira Kaneko, Hideaki Eto, et al.. (2008). Changing patterns of forest malaria among the mobile adult male population in Chumkiri District, Cambodia. Acta Tropica. 106(3). 207–212. 58 indexed citations

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Mita, Toshihiro, Akira Kaneko, Ilomo Hwaihwanje, et al.. (2006). Rapid selection of dhfr mutant allele in Plasmodium falciparum isolates after the introduction of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine in combination with 4-aminoquinolines in Papua New Guinea. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 6(6). 447–452. 19 indexed citations

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Mita, Toshihiro, Akira Kaneko, Lindiwe Zungu, et al.. (2004). Expansion of wild type allele rather than back mutation in pfcrt explains the recent recovery of chloroquine sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum in Malawi. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 135(1). 159–163. 46 indexed citations

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Kaneko, Akira, Miho Takechi, Lindiwe Zungu, et al.. (2003). High prevalence of quintuple mutant dhps/dhfr genes in Plasmodium falciparum infections seven years after introduction of sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine as first line treatment in Malawi. Acta Tropica. 85(3). 363–373. 72 indexed citations

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