Kentaro Tohma

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

22h-index1.5kcitations57works3.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology(40), Virus-based gene therapy research(19), Animal Virus Infections Studies(16), Viral Infections and Immunology Research(15), Respiratory viral infections research(8)

Publications57 total

Variable and conserved B cell epitopes of GII.4 human noroviruses
Journal of Virology·2026Open Access
Intra-host GI.1 norovirus evolution is shaped by genetic drift and purifying selection: source data
Figshare·2026Open Access
Intra-host GI.1 norovirus evolution is shaped by genetic drift and purifying selection: source data
Figshare·2026Open Access
Intra-host GI.1 norovirus evolution is shaped by genetic drift and purifying selection
Virus Evolution·2025Open Access
GII.17 norovirus re-emerged in the 2020s as a result of dynamic and adaptive evolutionary processes
Nature Communications·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
The saga to monitor and control norovirus: the rise of GII.17
Journal of General Virology·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Highly variable antigenic site located at the apex of GII.4 norovirus capsid protein induces cross-reactive blocking antibodies in a variant-specific manner
Journal of Virology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Manipulation of immunodominant variable epitopes of norovirus capsid protein elicited cross-blocking antibodies to different GII.4 variants despite the low potency of the polyclonal sera
Journal of Virology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
GII.17 norovirus re-emerged in the 2020s as a result of dynamic and adaptive evolutionary processes
Figshare·2025Open Access
GII.17 norovirus re-emerged in the 2020s as a result of dynamic and adaptive evolutionary processes
Figshare·2025Open Access
Characterization of cross-reactive, non-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against a pandemic GII.4 norovirus variant
Microbiology Spectrum·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Antigenic Characterization of Novel Human Norovirus GII.4 Variants San Francisco 2017 and Hong Kong 2019
Emerging infectious diseases·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Analysis of Archival Sera From Norovirus-Infected Individuals Demonstrates That Cross-Blocking of Emerging Viruses Is Genotype-Specific
The Journal of Infectious Diseases·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Norovirus evolves as one or more distinct clonal populations in immunocompromised hosts
mBio·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Minimal Antigenic Evolution after a Decade of Norovirus GII.4 Sydney_2012 Circulation in Humans
Journal of Virology·2023· 46 citedOpen Access
Molecular epidemiology and evolution of human noroviruses
Uirusu·2023Open Access
Cross-reactive neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies mapping to variable antigenic sites on the norovirus major capsid protein
Frontiers in Immunology·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
Genetic characteristics of archival noroviruses detected from the 1970s to the 1990s
Archives of Virology·2022· 2 cited
Global and regional circulation trends of norovirus genotypes and recombinants, 1995–2019: A comprehensive review of sequences from public databases
Reviews in Medical Virology·2022· 106 citedOpen Access
Dynamic immunodominance hierarchy of neutralizing antibody responses to evolving GII.4 noroviruses
Cell Reports·2022· 40 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Gabriel I. Parra(30), Lauren A. Ford-Siltz(26), Hitoshi Oshitani(16), Mayuko Saito(14), Joseph A. Kendra(14), Cara J. Lepore(11), Akira Suzuki(9), Kelsey A. Pilewski(9), Taro Kamigaki(8), Holger Mayta(7), Robert H. Gilman(7), Yamei Gao(6), Michael Landivar(6), Yoshifumi Masago(5), Tatsuo Omura(5), Mariko Saito(5), Mirko Zimic(5), Shinobu Kazama(4), Michiko Okamoto(4), Clyde Dapat(4)