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Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India Yoshifumi Takeda Director and Professor Collaborative Research Center of OkayamaUniversity for Infectious Diseases

History of Our Collaboration 1982 Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University 1983 Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 1985 Research Institute, National Children’s Medical Center 1988 Sapporo Medical University 1989 Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University 1994 Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan 1998 Osaka Prefecture University 1999 National Institute of Infectious Diseases 2001 Jissen Women’s College 2004 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University 2005 Okayama Prefectural College 2005 Cine-Science Laboratory, Co. 2007 Yakult Central Research Institute 2007 Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases

JICA-NICED Project on Emerging Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Phase 1 1998-2002 4.9 billion yen (US$ 4.5 million) Phase 2 2004-2008 2.5 billion yen (US$ 2.3 million)

Grant in Aid, Japanese Government FY 2005-2006 Building: 16.07 billion yen (US$ 14.6 million) Equipment: 5.27 billion yen (US$ 4.8 million)

Okayama University Project Institutional Projects: 3 ・ Surveillance of diarrhoeal diseases in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata ・ Development of a new RT-PCR method for the direct identification of enteric pathogens from stool specimens ・ Development of a new serotyping scheme for Vibrio cholerae Individual Projects: 13